📢 Researchers from @unileiden.bsky.social, @rsmerasmus.bsky.social, @EUR, @vuamsterdam.bsky.social & @TUDelft — join the Data Carpentry for SSH workshop!
📅 25–26 March 2026 (09:00–17:00)
📍 TU Delft Library (@tudelftlibrary.bsky.social)
📝 Register: edu.nl/r69p6
⏳ Registration closes Mon 16 March!
This took me far too long, but here is the result of the barcamp session I hosted in Groningen: codeberg.org/bbartholdy/o...
Thanks to everyone who participated!
And keep an eye on the repository as the project evolves into whatever form it takes (I have a few ideas).
#OpenScience
So far for the #DigiArchMaintainathon I have worked on transferring projects from GitHub to Codeberg, because my values are more closely aligned with Codeberg, and GitHub's recent move to Microsoft's AI division (no way that ends well).
First repo transferred: codeberg.org/bbartholdy/b...
Today is the last day to submit proposals to speak at the rainbowR conference 🌈 Deadline is midnight, Anywhere on Earth time.
#RStats #QueerData
I basically just went eyes closed, head first into Positron (and some experience with VS Code), and I haven't turned back!
The deadline has been extended to October 15 for your CAA2025 papers! Since the proceedings will go through our free and transparent process, do not forget that you *must* share data and scripts if you have some.
Everything is explained here: 2025.caaconference.org/proceedings/
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The virtual useR! 2025 event is happening tomorrow (August 1). There's still time to register. Claim your spot, for free, before time runs out!
The program: user2025.r-project.org/program/virt...
Registration: user2025.r-project.org/register
#useR2025 #rstats
ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding.
However...
Flyer for the event: meet-up details on rainbow-striped background. All text in image is included in the post.
🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday June 25th, 4pm UTC 🌈
- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻
➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
If I started using the term "Gosset's t-test", would that cause confusion?
📢 Attention researchers from @unileiden.bsky.social and @TUDelft, register for the next Data Carpentry for Social Sciences!!
📅 Dates: Tuesday 1 & Wednesday 2 July (09:00 - 17:00 hrs)
📌 Location: TU Delft Library - @tudelftlibrary.bsky.social
📝 Registrations: edu.nl/mpf4f
Register before 23 June!
Completely agree. I think universities should not only be more supportive of open source software, but encourage and reward contributions to them
Every scientific institute should follow this path. There is no moral stance for spending so much public money on bad software that sacrifices your sovereignty. Word/Excel are not the worst of it. e.g. The Max Planck Society spends millions of Euros annually for shitty MS calendar/email.
You can’t learn #rstats just by reading books or watching videos of other people writing R code. You will learn faster if you find some data that you are curious about and use your new coding skills to answer a question about it.
How to find fun data to play with....
Gitlens, Typist, LaTeX workshop, HTML CSS
It's open source (and not Microsoft), and the extensions make it more powerful than RStudio.
Positron! I used to jump between RStudio and VSCode (for its extensions), but now I'm 100% on positron
A plot of the top 10 pokemon with the highest hit points. Chansey, Snorlax, Wigglytuff, Vaporeon, Lapras, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Rhydon, Muk, and Kangaskhan, respectively. The bars in the plot look like health bars with a maximum of 250 and a minimum of 0 HP, with each individual bar coloured in up to the amount of HP for that pokemon.
I couldn't resist this week's #TidyTuesday dataset.
Here's the top 10 pokemon with the most hit points (HP) from the first generation (the only one that matters). I tried to make it look like health bars by layering `geom_segment`s.
Code here: github.com/bbartholdy/t...
🦄SPOTLIGHT ON #datastewards w @angelicamaineri.bsky.social @odissei.bsky.social: FAIR, RDM & Open Science are no checkboxes, but practices that are meant to accelerate scientific discovery & impact, for which we need their active contribution." tdcc.nl/spotlight-on... Series: tdcc.nl/category/spo...
Now there's a pun that sucks...
The call to move away from Bug Tech solutions is growing.
Here's an open letter from staff @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
www.uu.nl/en/opinion/o...
Same thing for me. I'm assuming it's temporary...
Has anyone else noticed that GitHub add-ons and file storage have disappeared from existing OSF project pages? What's going on @cos.io?
i’ve been wanting to play more with quarto’s closeread recently. it’s such an interesting storytelling technique and fairly simple to get started with 👀
closeread.dev
Librivox is great for books that are in the public domain. The audiobooks are all read by volunteers!
librivox.org/pages/about-...
Figure 3 from the manuscript: Network representation; two-mode network visualising irrelevance types (blue) for different queries (grey), Nodes are scaled according to their centrality degree (std), links are ranked by weight, visualized in stress minimization layout (graph made in Visone).
1/3 New recommendation: Lasse van den Dikkenberg and @alexbrandsen.nl (2025). Using Text Mining to Search for Neolithic Vlaardingen Culture Sites in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Delta. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #Archaeology 🏺🧪
Reminder: we're hiring! Join our team at
@4turesearchdata.bsky.social as a Training Coordinator (Research Data Netherlands) and help develop a national training platform for data professionals. Application deadline extended to 21 February: careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Tr... #FAIRdata #OpenScience
Actually, I believe that's the dolphins warning us about the end of the world
I finally got around to writing up a summary of the unconference I organised in November.
Thanks to co-authors Esther Plomp, Alex Brandsen, Ronald Visser, Pascal Flohr, and Andrea Titolo!
#OpenScience #Archaeology
openworking.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/o...
I removed all shortcuts to social media apps (and others I don't really 'need') from the home screen, so now I have to go to the app drawer to find them.
It definitely cut down on my time using those apps! (Apparently I'm too lazy to scroll 😆)
