There are only a few spots left in our Missing Data Summer School, so be quick if you want to participate!

Feel free to reach out if you want any additional information on the content or the programme. If you want to sign up, you can do so here: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

PhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology - Universität Bern Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student in Meta-Science and Clinical Psychology

I’m hiring a PhD student!

The candidate will work alongside @zefreeman.bsky.social, who is joining our research group as postdoc.

jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Screen shot of section 1.1 of the report "vision for a new publication culture"

The governing body for 14 Dutch universities (UNL) has published a "Vision on Publication Culture" that is so inspiring and forward thinking. Worth a read for those trying to changes publishing and research assessment practices.

Take a read:

www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/public...

How Silent Disco Is Going to Save Science & other insights I brought home from the Open Science Retreat “I wanted to create an event that I actually wanted to go to.” Those were the opening words of Heidi Seibold at the start of the Op…

What do silent disco 💃🕺 and peer review 🧐 have in common? Both were featured at the Open Science Retreat in Schoorl! I wrote a blog about my experiences - and argue that community building through silent disco and washing dishes is how we will save science.

#openscience

tinyurl.com/osretreat

COLLABORATIVE WRITING

So you're telling me Claude functions by screaming at itself "WRITE GOOD CODE NO BUGS SECURE VERY STABLE", mashes compile button, reads back the error and yells ONLY GOOD CODE NO BUGS at itself again while crying and copying random things from Stack Overflow until it compiles?

it just like me fr fr

Cleaning data may not be sexy... or exciting... or enjoyable... or lucrative... or respected... or rewarded... or recognized... but at least it's... sorry, what were we talking about?

Me and my data

Screenshot of course page 'Data Science: Solving Missing Data Problems in R' URL: https://utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data-science/data-science-solving-missing-data-problems-in-r

Meet Mr. MICE himself!

This summer, Stef van Buuren teaches 'Solving Missing Data Problems in R' at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Learn cutting-edge techniques for addressing missing data problems in statistics and modern machine learning workflows.

utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

Daring you to come get a full blown migraine bsky.app/profile/amic...

We did it. We defeated Mandelbrot

event flyer, same info as in post text rainbow-striped background with rainbowR logo and dark text box with rainbow colored text: rainbowR EMEA / AMER meet-up Weds Mar 25th, 4:30pm UTC - connect with community members - rainbowR updates - R chat and informal ‘show and tell’ More info and sign-up details at rainbowr.org/meetups

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday March 25th, 4:30pm 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 & APAC times via rainbowr.org/meetups

My annual March 14 suggestion to move π Day to July 22 since 22/7 is closer to π than is 3.14.

Do you struggle with missing data in your statistical analyses? Come join our Summer School "Solving Missing Data Problems in R"! We will tell you when you can safely use complete case analysis, and when more dedicated strategies are required!

utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data...

Woohoo! Congrats!

The Academic Wheel of Privilege showing the 24 socio-cultural identities. The 24 socio-cultural identity types span six sectors: health and wellbeing, society, culture and communication, gender and sexuality, education and career, living arrangements and lastly childhood and development. These identity types are shown as circles connected to three concentric rings (outer, middle and inner) of “identity” circles with increasing privilege as you go towards the centre.

Out now!

The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡

We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions.

@saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...

What happens if the explanatory and response variables are sorted independently before regression? Suppose we have data set $(X_i,Y_i)$ with $n$ points. We want to perform a linear regression, but first we sort the $X_i$ values and the $Y_i$ values independently of each other, forming data set $...

For those who haven't yet seen this classic: stats.stackexchange.com/q/185507/2126 (someone whose manager was insisting that they do this ...)

Any rainbowR folks planning on submitting a proposal for useR!2026? It would be great to have a strong community presence there, and an in-person meet-up 🌈

#RStats #useR2026

rainbowR 2026 thanks for attending [on rainbow striped background]

🌈 rainbowR conference is over, but we're still glowing!

Massive thank you to all the organisers, speakers, & attendees (incl. pets shown off via the Discord server!). Wanna keep it going? ➡️ conference.rainbowr.org/after & keep an eye out for the recordings 👀 #rainbowRconf

Only 2 weeks left to apply to a 3-day hackathon to build tools to improve the visibility of replications!
Apply by 16 March: indico.uni-muenster.de/e/marco2

Wow #rainbowR conference was a blast! Even in these dark times, we have our community. Hoping this would be annual event!

#rstats

An automated sessionInfo() --> renv would be such a nice tool indeed!! #RStats

With Python, it's as easy as

`pip install -r /path/to/requirements.txt`

See also: mlarpis.github.io/markup/week%...

Use {renv} rstudio.github.io/renv/index.h...

SO excited for the rainbowR conference today and tomorrow! conference.rainbowr.org 🌈

rainbowR Conference 2026 Feb. 25 – 26, 2026

🌈 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

How would you go about evaluating the impact? @annemscheel.bsky.social and I are currently supervising a thesis project simulating different types and degrees of deviations