▶️ Videos from the rainbowR conference are now on YouTube 🎉
Catch-up with talks on wide-ranging subjects in R, Shiny, and working with LGBTQ+data, from our fabulous speakers (listed in next post)
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
R version 4.5.3 (Reassured Reassurer) #rstats
Announcing localtime, a #QuartoPub extension for displaying times in the reader's local timezone e.g.
{{< localtime 2026-03-09 20:30 UTC >}} will render as 2026-03-09 21:30 for someone in CET.
Has nice formatting options, and automatically accounts for daylight saving.
github.com/EllaKaye/loc...
"I just love programming so much that I don’t want to hand it off to a machine"
A photo of a laptop screen with a thank you banner on a rainbow background. The upper right corner shows a picture of a person in a red shirt.
It’s a wrap! 🌈 The @rainbowr.org conference closed with a keynote by @hadley.nz on Claude 💻
Thank you to @ellakaye.co.uk @damiepak.bsky.social Katlyn, Lea @tinarozsos.bsky.social @northernmaps.bsky.social @oberman.bsky.social @ddsjoberg.bsky.social @statsrhian.bsky.social for organizing 🫶
Wow #rainbowR conference was a blast! Even in these dark times, we have our community. Hoping this would be annual event!
#rstats
🌈 Due to popular demand, we have RE-OPENED registration for the rainbowR conference until 15:45 UTC today (Feb 26th) (15 minutes before the program starts - when Zoom links will be sent) 🎉
pretix.eu/rainbowr/con...
Inspired by Tidy Tuesday & LGBTQ+ History Month myself and @nrennie.bsky.social are challenging people to produce visualisations using UK census data on LGBTQ+ people.
Share your visualisations and code via GitHub or on here using #VisLGBTQ
github.com/nrennie/rain...
Beeswarm chart showing distribution of percentage of people in each local authority in England and Wales who reported bad or very bad health, by sexual orientation. Gay or Lesbian / Straight or Heterosexual are similar and lowest groups. Highest and highest variability is "all other sexual orientations".
Inspired by #TidyTuesday & LGBTQ+ History Month myself and @kenglish.bsky.social are challenging people to produce visualisations using UK census data on LGBTQ+ people 📊
Share your #DataViz and code via GitHub or on here using #VisLGBTQ
Here's one we made in today's @rainbowr.org workshop 🐝
event banner with rainbow colors rainbowR 2026, online Feb 25-26th
🚀 ...and we're off!!
The rainbowR conference kicks off with the parallel workshops 'Introduction to R' & 'If You Can Write a Function, You Can Build an R Package' conference.rainbowr.org/workshops.html
#rainbowRconf #RStats
At 7 myself and @nrennie.bsky.social are running a workshop for visualising the UK’s LGBTQ+ population for the @rainbowr.org conference. The workshop will introduce participants to the LGBTQ+ data produced by the UK 2021/22 censuses and them participants create visualisations with it.
🌈 rainbowR is next week!
⏳ Registration closes this Sunday at 23:59 UTC.
If you’re planning to join us, now’s the time to sign up 💜
🔗 pretix.eu/rainbowr/con...
#RStats #LGBTQ #QueerInTech #DataScience
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
📣 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
🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project
"Enabling the next generation of R contributors"
has received £500k over 2 years.
- mentoring expert contributors
- modernising infrastructure
- improving governance
- strengthen communication and outreach
www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...
Hello! I'm back to talk about R community. This is a thread about @rainbowr.org, a community for LGBTQ+ folks who code in R 🌈
I know previous RoCurs have talked about rainbowR, but as the co-founder and co-lead of the community, I can't not write this thread!
rainbowr.org
Would you like to present at the inaugural rainbowR conference?
If you're LGBTQ+, we'd love you to tell us
🦄💻 How you use R
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ How you work with LGBTQ+ data
Call for submissions extended to December 8th.
conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts
#RStats #QueerData
Call for abstracts for the first ever @rainbowr.org conference is still open! We're looking for talks that either
🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats
🏳️🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data
Get in your abstracts before December 1st.
conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html
#queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
Conference announcement for rainbowR 2026 featuring a colorful rainbow striped border. The main text reads 'Conference Keynote: Hadley Wickham - What's new with LLMs for data science' with event details 'February 25-26th, 2026, online' and website 'conference.rainbowr.org'. A professional headshot of Hadley Wickham appears on the right side of the dark blue text panel.
We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz as a keynote speaker for the rainbowR conference!
To find out more about the conference, including how to submit a proposal, and to sign-up for updates, see conference.rainbowr.org
I've done a lot of work in Python this fall, and it hasn't endeared me to the language at all. Why does stuff have to be so complicated when you're doing it in Python?
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
🌈 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 was recently interviewed by @coreecon.bsky.social. We talk about the partnership between CORE Econ and @ourworldindata.org, new OWiD features, and the challenges of collecting and maintaining up-to-date data in a rapidly changing world.
www.core-econ.org/from-global-...
We need to have a conversation about random seeds. Don't use 42.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...
I'm not one for emoti(c)on-filled LinkedIn blurbs, but I still wanted to share some news about how the first year of my PhD went. So here's an accidentally-essay-length recap instead: tinarozsos.github.io/news/251014_...
I wrote a paper about "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" 📝
TL;DR to follow in future 😊
arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382
probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
“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