We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.
💫 ¡Llamado Abierto!
Hoy @goandre.bsky.social cuenta cómo su participación en el programa fortaleció su proyecto y la conectó con una comunidad internacional de software científico abierto.
📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta febrero 20
Info: ropensci.org/es/blog/2026...
vimeo.com/1160229509
#RStats
Promotional poster for the useR! 2026 Conference in Warsaw, scheduled for July 6–9 at the Warsaw School of Economics and online. The right side features a portrait of keynote speaker Kari Jordan, a Black woman with bright teal curly hair and a warm smile, wearing a pink blazer. The left side displays the conference title and four colorful squares—blue, yellow, orange, and purple—each containing a black geometric pattern representing iterations of a Sierpinski carpet fractal.
We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan (@drkariljordan.carpentries.org) as a Keynote Speaker for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! Dr. Jordan will from her knowledge and experience deliver her talk: "The Work Behind the Work: Sustaining R Through Community"
user2026.r-project.org
#rstats #useR2026
🚀 Convocatoria abierta para el programa de Campeon(a|e)s de rOpenSci 2026-2027.
🌎 Cohorte en español centrada en Latinoamérica.
Un viaje de 12 meses por la ciencia abierta, software de investigación y creación de comunidades.
📅 Fechas clave.
La convocatoria abre: 12 de enero de 2026 […]
New Year, New Colour Tool
for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer
obumbratta.com/colour
🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉
🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026
📣 Call for submissions is open
👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members
conference.rainbowr.org
I'm looking forward to this talk! Thanks for the invite for this great conference
Imagen promocional del evento LatinR 2025. Fondo violeta con texto que dice: “Keynote – Stephanie Zimmer, Senior Research Statistician at RTI International & R-Ladies RTP”. Aparece la fotografía de Stephanie Zimmer y el logo de LatinR. En la parte inferior se lee: “1 al 5 de diciembre de 2025 – Gratuito online” y “latInR.org”.
Anunciamos nuestra segunda keynote para #LatinR2025: @statsteph.bsky.social, Senior Research Statistician en RTI International & R-Ladies RTP, será una de las ponentes principales de esta edicióna
🗓️ Agenda del 1 al 5 de diciembre de 2025 – online y gratuito
🚀 Pronto abriremos inscripciones
Banner LatinR 2025. Se anuncia la conferencia principal con la foto de Heather Turner, RSE Fellow y profesora asociada en la Universidad de Warwick. El texto informa que el evento será gratuito y online del 1 al 5 de diciembre de 2025. A la derecha se ve el logo hexagonal de LatinR con un mapa estilizado de América Latina y la dirección web latinr.org.
¡Anunciamos nuestra primera Keynote para #LatinR2025!
Nos emociona contar con Heather Turner, RSE Fellow y Associate Professor en la University of Warwick, como conferencista principal.
🗓️ Del 1 al 5 de diciembre de 2025 – online y gratuito
📢 Pronto abriremos inscripciones
If you haven't got a website and want to give #quarto a go, the first video in my "Quarto Websites" series with @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social could be a good place to start:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7r2...
More resources in 🧵
Hi everyone! NumFOCUS is calling for nominations to join its Board of Directors — self-nominations are welcome! 🌎
🗓️ Deadline: Oct 19, 2025
numfocus.medium.com/call-for-nom...
@numfocus.bsky.social
The group photo from RSECon25 - a drone shot of about 400 people standing together in front of The Oculus at the University of Warwick
Today is International RSE Day, where we celebrate the Research Software Engineers making vital contributions to research all over the world.
Join the celebration by sharing your stories and successes.
#InternationalRSEDay #RSEDay2025
Thank u @simisani.bsky.social @ellakaye.co.uk @rivaquiroga.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @patriloto.bsky.social @liomys.mx @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 💜
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
Este jueves!
Este evento sobre Ingeniería de Software de Investigación está hosteado por R en Buenos Aires, RLadies Rcia-Ctes, RLadies Chile y RSE Chile. Podes inscribirte en el meetup de cualquiera de los capítulos. Esperamos verte allí!
Link: www.meetup.com/rladies-resi...
Nos unimos varias comunidades para hablar sobre RSE en español, y de su relación con R en el marco del Día Internacional de la Ingeniería de Software de Investigación #IntlRSEday
Les esperamos:
📅 9 de octubre | ⏰ 14hrs (UTC-3) | 💻 Online
www.meetup.com/rbuenosaires...
🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE?
This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)
#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies
Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT
www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...
I’m so excited to be your curator this week! Be sure to follow @weare.rladies.org and see you on Monday 😎
✨ 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)
Want to have a built-in circle of data buddies at the next conference you attend?! Go to community events online!! @jonthegeek.com & I were talking about how our circles online, like the DSLC book clubs & the DS Hangout, let us get to know lots of folks online before seeing them in person <3 #databs
The Art of Data Visualization with ggplot2: A free online book by @nrennie.bsky.social that guides us through the entire process of creating plots, including why certain decisions were made, using real datasets that have been part of #TidyTuesday. Very excited to get stuck into this one. #rstats
Aww, so sweet Fonti 💜 such lovely words. Hope to see you soon!
At #RSECon25 at the University of Warwick!
I got to connect with three communities that mean so much to me:
💜 #RLadies
💻 Society of Research Software Engineering
📚 #TheCarpentries
And the countdown is on: #RSECon26 in Sheffield 🎉
Who else is planning to be there?
#Community
Lovely to see u 💜
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...
“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
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R dev day Satellite Event will start in 5 minutes at 9:00:00 in Space 11, Scarman Conference Centre
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From open science goals to technical implementation: Enabling sustainable data sharing for a research team with Riva Quiroga will start in 5 minutes at 14:00:00 in OC1.05
