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Happy International Women's Day! 💜

R-Ladies is for you. Here's how to join:

→ Find a chapter near you
→ Join Community Slack
→ Curate on Bluesky
→ Write for our blog
→ Volunteer with the global team

Start here: rladies.org

#RLadiesIWD2026 #IWD2026

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R-Ladies is more than meetups. Our programs:

🤝 Mentoring — pairing new organizers with experienced ones
📣 RoCur — rotating curation on Bluesky
📝 Abstract Review — 80+ reviewers for conference submissions
💬 Community Slack
📖 Blog & YouTube

rladies.org

#RLadiesIWD2026

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What drives R-Ladies?

Our values:
→ Diversity & Inclusivity
→ Empowerment
→ Community
→ Accessibility
→ Advocacy
→ Transparency

These aren't just words — they shape everything we do.

rladies.org

#RLadiesIWD2026 #IWD2026

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We Are R-Ladies

200+ chapters. 60+ countries. 100,000+ members.

Since 2012, we've been promoting gender diversity in the R community — building a global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers.

This is who we are.

rladies.org

#RLadiesIWD2026 #IWD2026

💬Beatriz Milz: Translating R for Data Science into Portuguese: A Community-Led Initiative
⏰ 2:40 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
📍Centennial I

(7/7)

💬Jenna Wraith: Breaking Barriers: Making Ecological Modelling Accessible with EcoCommons
⏰ 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM EDT
📍Regency V

(6/7)

💬 Nic Crane: Hacking Productivity with LLMs: What Works (and What Doesn’t)
⏰ 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM EDT
📍Centennial I

(5/7)

💬 Julia Silge: How I got unstuck with Python
⏰ 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM EDT
📍Centennial I

(4/7)

💬 Simisani Ndaba: History repeats itself: What the Du Bois Challenge taught me about reproducing visualisations
⏰ 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM EDT
📍Regency VII

(3/7)

💬 Shannon Pileggi: Practical {renv}
⏰ 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM EDT
📍Regency V

(2/7)

✨ Happy Thursday! ✨
Ready for some exciting talks by our R-Ladies at #PositConf2025?

💬 Kylie Ainslie: Elevating Public Health Decision-Making with R Packages
⏰ 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM EDT
📍 Centennial I

(1/7)

Link to the Posit Conf schedule: reg.rainfocus.com/flow/posit/p...

Ella Kaye: Birthing the pregnancy package
⏰ 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM EDT
📍 Regency VI

(6/6)

Sharon Machlis: Use Your Data Skills for Good: Ideas for Community Service
⏰ 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM EDT
📍 Regency VI

(5/6)

💬 Allissa Dillman: From Solo to Social: Making Coding a Collaborative Adventure
⏰ 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM EDT
📍 Regency V

(4/6)

💬 Maya Gans: Design of Everyday Shiny Apps
⏰ 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM EDT
📍 Regency VII

(3/6)

💬 Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel: Leveraging LLMs for student feedback in introductory data science courses
⏰ 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM EDT
📍 Regency V

(2/6)

✨ Morning ✨
Ready for some exciting talks by our R-Ladies at #PositConf2025?

Here is the schedule for today's session:

💬 Rebecca Barter: AI Coding Assistants: Hype, Help, or Hindrance?
⏰ 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM EDT
📍 Regency VI

(1/6)

“Smiling group of 14 R-Ladies at R Dev Day, posing together in a meeting room with a whiteboard and chairs in the background.

R Developer Day at University of Warwick brought together R-Ladies from around the world 🌎.

Spaces like this remind us how powerful our global community is when we learn, collaborate and build together.

Thanks to Heather Turner for making this possible 💜

#RDevDay
#rladies

A group of people sitting in an auditorium, many making a heart shape with their hands and smiling at the camera, during an R-Ladies meetup at the useR! conference.

During useR! 2025, we had a special moment to gather at the R-Ladies meetup. It was a great opportunity to connect, share experiences, and keep strengthening our global community. 💜

Find your local chapter and get involved: rladies.org/about-us/inv...

#useR2025

WeRTogether-useR!2025Keynote We R Together Yanina Bellini Saibene useR! 2025 Duke University How to learn, use and improve a programming language as a community

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I had the honor of giving a keynote at #useR2025 🎉 at Duke University: “We R Together – How to learn, use, and improve a programming language as a community” 💜

Slides here 👉 docs.google.com/presentation...

Video here: www.youtube.com/live/CTTvTQ-...

#rstats #useR2025

Promotional graphic for the useR! 2025 keynote titled “We R Together: How to learn, use and improve a programming language as a community,” presented by Yanina Bellini Saibene from rOpenSci, R-Ladies, and Universidad Austral. The event takes place Saturday, August 9 at 5:00 PM (ET) at Penn Pavilion - Penn 1, Duke University campus. The banner features logos of R-Ladies and useR! 2025, a portrait of Yanina, and a note that the talk will be streamed live on the Duke Center for Computational Thinking YouTube channel.

Join Yanina Bellini Saibene, part of the R-Ladies Global Leadership Team, for her keynote at useR! 2025.

Watch it live via the Duke Center for Computational Thinking YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/CTTvTQ-...

Saturday, August 9 at 5:00 PM (ET)
Penn Pavilion - Duke University

Promotional banner for the R-Ladies Networking Event at useR! 2025. The event is scheduled for Friday, August 8 at 6:30 PM in Gross Hall Room 103 on the Duke University campus. The image features the useR! 2025 logo with a blue bull, the R-Ladies hex sticker, and a purple background showing tree branches and Duke Chapel in the distance.

Join us for the R-Ladies Networking Event at useR! 2025

Friday, August 8 at 6:30 PM | Gross Hall Room 103, Duke University.
Come say hi, meet members, discover local chapters, and explore how to get involved.
More details here: user2025.r-project.org/additional/r...

#useR2025 #rladies

R-Ladies Networking Event – useR! 2025 Registration is now closed, see you at useR! 2025 in Durham, NC, USA, Aug 8-10!

At useR! 2025? Join us at the R-Ladies networking event today, Friday, Aug 8! 💜

Thank you to R-Ladies RTP for organizing! 🤗

#rstats #rladies

user2025.r-project.org/additional/r...

The Turing Way Fireside Chat Series: Governance A joint event by The Turing Way and Software Sustainability Institute

Tomorrow I will be sharing about @rladies.org at the @turingway.bsky.social Fireside Chat Series.

Register here, to learn about other great communities and organizations: the-turing-way-fireside-chats.start.page

Jesica Formoso, Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) | MetaDocencia. They say, "I’m currently using R in my research on reading comprehension at CONICET and for survey analysis as Impact Measurement Lead at MetaDocencia, while also participating in the Forwards R Package Development Workshop summer school because I am starting to develop a package for Spanish readability assessment and this is new for me."

This week's #RLadies curator is @jformoso.bsky.social 🥳

R-Ladies Amsterdam event flyer for "From Code to Crisis Response: Using R for Real-World Public Health Impact at the CDC" presented by Kelly Charniga, PhD. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, July 1, 2025 from 16:00-17:00 CET. The flyer features the R-Ladies Amsterdam logo with illustrated Dutch buildings and a bicycle, and includes a photo of the smiling presenter wearing a light blue hoodie outdoors with a small dark dog.

🚨 New Event 🚨
From Code to Crisis Response: Using #rstats for Public Health Impact at the CDC w/ @kcharniga.bsky.social

📅 July 1, 2025
⏰ 16:00-17:00 CET
🔗 www.meetup.com/rladies-amst...

Join us to learn practical R applications in crisis response and beyond!

#rladies #EpiSky #IDSky @rladies.org

Organizer tips for inviting speakers - R-Ladies Global Considerations for conference and event organizers, to facilitate the participation of invited speakers.

A joint post with @frick.ws @pipinghotdata.com @yabellini.bsky.social on the @rladies.org blog

🎤 "Organizer tips for inviting speakers" 💜

We hope our tips can facilitate the collaboration between conference organizers and invited speakers.

rladies.org/blog/2025/in...

A diagram showing how the abstract review works: submit a draft, we send you feedback, and we you can then submit it to a conference (such as LatinR)

Thinking about submitting a talk to LatinR this year?
✨ R-Ladies offers abstract reviews for women and gender minorities in the R community.
Whether it’s your first abstract or your fifth, we’re here to help!
📅 Submit a draft: rladies.org/form/abstrac...
#rladies #rstats #LatinR2025

A chic lady (in a French outfit) shows off her gallery: a plot, a hex sticker of a group she loves, and a how to guide with an homage to the penguin dataset. It says "Volunteer to be an R-Ladies curator" with the subtitle "Showcase what you love about R" as well as the link to it! All in dashing purple.

We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should?
📝 Sign up to curate: airtable.com/appjkZZgtF0i...
📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/
💌 Nominate someone you admire: airtable.com/appFIBzsk2Ax...