Had a wonderful time tuning in to the speakers 👏 Super awesome to see such a diverse line up! I particularly loved Harriet's doodle of @hadley.nz. The earrings are on point 🤌
#dataviz #ggplot2 #opensource
📊 2025 Di Cook Award webinar: hear the winner and two highly commended applicants present innovative open-source statistical software, methods, and ideas. 💡
⌚ TODAY Wed 8 Apr 2026, 7–8pm AEST, online.
🎟️ Register: www.statsoc.org.au/event-6618285
@visnut.bsky.social @deanmarchiori.bsky.social
Good news: The posit::conf(2026) Call for Talks has been extended to Friday, February 20!
Join us in Houston to share your work with the R & Python community.
🎤 Speakers receive: Professional coaching, free conference pass, travel assistance
Submit your 20-min talk proposal: pos.it/conf-talk-2026
rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour!
Today's Theme: Share your Positron setup! with cohost @noamross
Tuesday February 3rd 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC)
https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-02
#RStats
@rstats@a.gup.pe
I'm excited to inform you:
@hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀
I regret to inform you:
I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻
#rstats #databs
📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉
The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend.
pretix.eu/rainbowr/con...
#RStats #LGBTQ
For the past couple of months I have been working the `heritable` R package with @emitanaka.org 🧬📦
A one-stop shop for calculating heritability from mixed models!
Read more: anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...
A simple but lovely idea borrowed from the R user community ☺️
#OceaniaR2025 has kicked off! We have wonderful attendees from the UK, South America and the South Pacific 🌎
We are thrilled to welcome fellow R nerds to the OceaniaR hackathon this Sunday on ANU campus. A few more tickets left if you would like to join us! @deanmarchiori.bsky.social @njtierney.aus.social.ap.brid.gy @visnut.bsky.social statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac...
Coming to the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting & need a little R&R? 🌿
🚨 Our social activity sign-ups closes this Friday! 🚨
Whether you want to get out and see the wildlife 🦘, enjoy fine wines 🍷or stretch your legs 🚶, we hope you will enjoy your time in Canberra.
🔗: bit.ly/4oSSMwL
Issue 19 of RDM Weekly is out! 🎃
- Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies @forrt.bsky.social
- A Crowdsourced Effort to Develop a Lab Manual Template @improvingpsych.org
- So, What’s the Deal with rlang, Anyway? @veerle.hypebright.nl
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
Registration for the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting is closing in just over one week!
We have an incredible line up of workshops and talks and hope to see you in Canberra soon!!
Register here!
membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046
@emitanaka.org talks about key design principles from #tidyverse and how we can improve plant breeding software 😎
Have an open-source project that needs a bit of TLC? Want to meet cool R folks and build capacity within the community? Why not propose a project at the upcoming OceaniaR hackathon held in Canberra Nov 23! github.com/StatSocAus/o...
@deanmarchiori.bsky.social
🌾 We had a great time talking about initial data analysis, chi-square goodness of fit and glms with @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social @emitanaka.org 📊🍫👩💻 Thanks for having us @futurecropsau.bsky.social 🙏
Thank you to everyone who joined in with their hex photo. It was a pleasure to be part of R Dev Day and to have presented R in Buenos Aires 💜.
#RStats #RDevDay
Was wonderful to reconnect with @goandre.bsky.social again after meeting at #posit::conf(2024). Check out her incredible leadership in kick starting R en Buenos Aires community👏
r-consortium.org/posts/r-en-b...
It makes my heart so warm to see our shared love for R bring us together 🫶
Very excited to be reunited with @ellakaye.co.uk + Heather Turner to help out in the #RDevDay! Lots of small wins with @emitanaka.org and others on making R manuals pretty, a continuing project I worked on at last years R Dev Day in Austria 🫶
😍 the best crossover!
Re-sharing my starter pack so I can update my pinned post
If you're a statistician, data scientist, or someone doing statsy or data sciencey things in Australia or Aotearoa (New Zealand) and want to be on the list, just let me know!
go.bsky.app/3wERdAo
Join us folks, we are a lovely bunch 💜
Come along to OceaniaR in Canberra! Why? Because we'll talk about fun things you can do with #rstats all day, and work on fun projects. It's an inclusive space, with a great mix of those newer to R, as well as experienced users, too!
Some examples from last year:
Thank. YOU. so much Yani!! I can really feel your emotion and passion throughout the talk. So grateful to hear all stories from members of the impact of being part of a CoP 🫶
Openscapes is definitely one of inspos! I love that you all lead with community needs in the forefront! 💜
Totes! I can second that!!!!
📊 Go beyond linear!
Learn to model complex relationships with generalized nonlinear models in R using the gnm package with @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
🗓️ Monday 24 Nov
🕙 9am – 5pm
🔗 Register now: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20...
#BIBC2025
