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- Reposted by Fonti KarGood 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
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- Reposted by Fonti KarI'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
- Reposted by Fonti Kar📣 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...
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- Reposted by Fonti KarIssue 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...
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- @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 🙏
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- 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 🫶
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- Join us folks, we are a lovely bunch 💜
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- What are the attributes of a welcoming and sustainable online community? Asking for ideas 💡

- Reposted by Fonti Kar🎉 Join us for the first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you're new or a regular, come connect, unwind, and build community. #Rstats #Rladies 📍 Father’s Office 🕕 August 14, 6pm 🍻 Arrive on time for happy hour! www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...
- Prefer to enjoy nature with wine and cheese, then the Clonkilla wine tasting tour might be the one for you 🍇💜 See you there! #BIB2025 membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

- There is one *spot* at Tidbinbilla where everyone says there is a good chance to spot these cuties. In my own experience, I've had a hit rate of 2/3 times 😉 🎯 See you there! (Bring binoculars if you have em!) membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046
- Calling all stats nerds to the heart of Australia to discuss all things #Biometrics! 🐨 at the upcoming Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting #BIB25 ⚡ Abstract submission has been extended! We'll see you there!
- @emitanaka.org has been upskilling our team on all things plant breeding. Design, stats, math and cake
- The cake was grains themed!!!! 🌾 brains, belly and heart full. Thank you so much @emitanaka.org 🫶
- Do my residuals look okay? @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social showed off his R package / Shiny app {autovi} for making visual inferences on residual plots! We also had rainbow cake to make us happy, it also made the slides rainbow. Thank you Elle!! 📈🌈 #BDSI #dataviz 🔗 tengmcing.github.io/autovi/
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- 🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
- 🌱 Our app leverages biodiversity data from ALA + GBIF using {galah} 🦜 🌱 Customisable for any taxon and location you want 🌱 Upload a .KML file or use our buffer tool with your current location to discover taxa you may not have seen! ✨ 🔗 unsw.shinyapps.io/infinitylists/ 📍 Learn more bit.ly/3FYfB0Z
- Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳 @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social
- infinitylists: A Shiny application & R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists In #AppsPlantSci by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @unswbees.bsky.social
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- Super excited to join forces with to solve crop breeding problems!!! Let’s go! 🌾🐝😎
- Bittersweet feelings finishing a postdoc and starting a new one 🌦️ I wrote a little blog reflecting on some highlights from the past four years 😌 fontikar.github.io/blog/farewel...
- This is the way. Join us R friends 🦾
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- Our #TidyTuesday event is next week! We hope yo see you there! 💜📊🧑💻
- My #rstats friends - R-Ladies Canberra x Melbourne x Sydney are thrilled to bring you a #TidyTuesday event! 🎨📊 Come along, connect with the community + stretch your data muscles 😊 All coding experience levels are welcome! 📆: Tue May 6 ⏰: 1:00 PM AEST ℹ️: bit.ly/42rFX2D
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- My #rstats friends - R-Ladies Canberra x Melbourne x Sydney are thrilled to bring you a #TidyTuesday event! 🎨📊 Come along, connect with the community + stretch your data muscles 😊 All coding experience levels are welcome! 📆: Tue May 6 ⏰: 1:00 PM AEST ℹ️: bit.ly/42rFX2D
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- Our #pizza watch party for the Di Cook Award webinar is about to begin! Register and join us! DM me if you on UNSW Sydney campus and want a slice 🍕 #SSA @visnut.bsky.social
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- If any folks are keen to go to #positconf2025 but resources are limited, I highly recommend applying to be an Opportunity Scholar! Read more about the program here: posit.co/blog/discove...
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- #Rstats hive mind, would anyone have some advice for me? I am scratching my head over this 🥲 TIA forum.posit.co/t/cran-incom...
- Come hear from Xiaolei (Adam) Wang, winner of 2024's Di Cook Award about their R package {bsvarSIGNs} #SSA #rstats #StatsSocAus 🏆 📆 When: 12pm AEDT 25 Feb 🎟️ Register: www.statsoc.org.au/event-6018948 🍎 Learn: bsvars.org/bsvarSIGNs/
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- Embracing new code workflows is hard but @daxkellie.bsky.social has made this easier for ecologists in his talk. Check out his tips on how make your code more reproducible here daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... #ESAus2024
- Come chat with us about AusTraits and other ecology open source software while you wait for your coffee order #ESA2024
- Wow! Look at all these new faces! Hi 😄 I'm Fonti, I am a Biologist at heart, but have been making #Rstats tools for a while now I ❤️ learning new data science things and sharing this with others on Fossodon/Bluesky/my website I'm so happy to see our once-lost communities thrive here on Bluesky 🌱
- Grrr I came across someone's clever blog post in my LinkedIn Feed about making an interactive hex sticker image to embed on a website/QMD/RMD, but I've seem to misplace it. #Rstats hive mind, can you help me find it again? 🙏
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- How very timely of the #WOMBAT workshop 💜
- I had such a wonderful time at WOMBAT (wombat2024.numbat.space), I managed to lose my voice! I think that is a testament of all the lovely conversations we had about open source tools the past few days! 💜 Thank you @visnut.bsky.social for inviting me to come along!