So check out this PR from @gordonwoodhull.bsky.social over at Quarto 2. Is that import/export from Word preserving comments? Why yes, yes it is indeed 😮 github.com/quarto-dev/q...

I'm talking about what I'm working on right now. This is not a retrospective. Sign up through the link below! #Rstats #Tidyverse #Rshiny

Fonti Kar@fontikar.bsky.social · 6d ago

Two more weeks until we sync with @shikokuchuo.net (see what I did there?) and learn about the parallel computing stack he has been working on! Still plenty of room folks to join ☺️ 🗓️ THU 22 Oct ⌚️18:00 AEDT | 07:00 UTC 📌 Register statsoc.org.au/event-6817896

💡 Are you a current Australian student or recent graduate? 💡 Are you working on an open source software? Consider submitting your software for The Statistical Computing And Visualisation Open Source Statistical Software Award! 🏆 🗓️ Applications closes soon 31 Oct 📌 statsoc.org.au/Statistical-...

🌏 OceaniaR 2026 is fast approaching! 🌏 Join fellow #Rstats nerds in Naarm, Melbourne, Australia and work on meaningful projects. Learn skills, wrangle interesting data and solve problems! 🗓️ Sun 29 Nov 0900 - 1600 📌 Register statsoc.org.au/event-6818002

Hex sticker gingerbread by @visnut.bsky.social and other baked treats 🥰 It’s a good day in the office!

Two more weeks until we sync with @shikokuchuo.net (see what I did there?) and learn about the parallel computing stack he has been working on! Still plenty of room folks to join ☺️ 🗓️ THU 22 Oct ⌚️18:00 AEDT | 07:00 UTC 📌 Register statsoc.org.au/event-6817896

Fonti Kar@fontikar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Level up R workflows with @shikokuchuo.net 🚀 Charlie will give us a practical tour of the open source stack he created to improve parallel computing 📦 Join our Stats Computing + Data Vis Webinar and learn from the best💡 🗓️ THU 22 Oct ⌚️18:00 AEDT | 07:00 UTC 📌 Register statsoc.org.au/event-6817896

Level up R workflows with @shikokuchuo.net 🚀 Charlie will give us a practical tour of the open source stack he created to improve parallel computing 📦 Join our Stats Computing + Data Vis Webinar and learn from the best💡 🗓️ THU 22 Oct ⌚️18:00 AEDT | 07:00 UTC 📌 Register statsoc.org.au/event-6817896

At @rainbowr.org, we organise monthly meet-ups for rainbow folks and allies to catch up and discuss their going-ons and latest #R projects! 🌍 The Europe/London meeting is on last Wed of every month 🌏 The APAC one is on the last Friday of every month More info here: rainbowr.org/meetups.html 🌈

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

aiddata.org

my fellow #Rstats friends - would any multilingual folks have any tips on changing the language for R/RStudio (including the menus) for a given session without changing the system settings? The goal is find a frictionless workflow to facilitate teaching 😊🍎 (1/2)

See you folks very soon! Excited to end the afternoon chatting with fellow R nerds!

Fonti Kar@fontikar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📮You've got mail! 💌 We are thrilled to invite you to "Where do R packages live?" a discussion with folks from the #R foundation, #CRAN #Bioconductor #R-universe and @posit.co. Let's learn from our panel about the ins-and-outs of where you might want to create a home for your R software 📦 1/n

📮You've got mail! 💌 We are thrilled to invite you to "Where do R packages live?" a discussion with folks from the #R foundation, #CRAN #Bioconductor #R-universe and @posit.co. Let's learn from our panel about the ins-and-outs of where you might want to create a home for your R software 📦 1/n

Just over 1 week until our panel discussion! 💬👏 The event is ✨free✨ and ✨open✨ to all! Register today! 📆 Wed 20 May 2026 ⏰ 5:00 PM AEST | 7:00 AM UTC 🔗 statsoc.org.au/event-6653060 Looking forward to nerdy chats with @visnut.bsky.social @smped.bsky.social @jeroenooms.bsky.social

Fonti Kar@fontikar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📮You've got mail! 💌 We are thrilled to invite you to "Where do R packages live?" a discussion with folks from the #R foundation, #CRAN #Bioconductor #R-universe and @posit.co. Let's learn from our panel about the ins-and-outs of where you might want to create a home for your R software 📦 1/n

📮You've got mail! 💌 We are thrilled to invite you to "Where do R packages live?" a discussion with folks from the #R foundation, #CRAN #Bioconductor #R-universe and @posit.co. Let's learn from our panel about the ins-and-outs of where you might want to create a home for your R software 📦 1/n

Had a wonderful time tuning in to the speakers 👏 Super awesome to see such a diverse line up! I particularly loved Harriet's doodle of @hadley.nz. The earrings are on point 🤌 #dataviz #ggplot2 #opensource

Dr Di Cook@visnut.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Slides for these talks are at: harriet-mason.github.io/talk-dicook2... , cynthiahqy.github.io/talk_SSA-202... , danyangdai.github.io/SSA-Di-Cook-... . The video will be posted soon.

📊 2025 Di Cook Award webinar: hear the winner and two highly commended applicants present innovative open-source statistical software, methods, and ideas. 💡 ⌚ TODAY Wed 8 Apr 2026, 7–8pm AEST, online. 🎟️ Register: www.statsoc.org.au/event-6618285 @visnut.bsky.social @deanmarchiori.bsky.social

Good 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

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Share your Positron setup! with cohost @noamross Tuesday February 3rd 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC) https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-02 #RStats @rstats@a.gup.pe

Social Coworking and Office Hours - Share your Positron setup!

Cowork or discuss the perfect Positron setup with our cohost or other participants.

ropensci.org

I'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

📣 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

rainbowR Conference 2026

Feb. 25 – 26, 2026

pretix.eu

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 ☺️

International Biometric Society Australasian Region@biometricsociety.org.au · 11mo ago

It’s our priority to create a safe and welcoming space at #BIBC2025, especially for new comers. Keep in mind the pacman rule when chatting in groups 🙂 leave room for folks to naturally join you!

#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...

Coming to the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting & need a little R&R? 🌿 🚨 Our social activity sign-ups closes this Friday! 🚨 Whether you want to get out and see the wildlife 🦘, enjoy fine wines 🍷or stretch your legs 🚶, we hope you will enjoy your time in Canberra. 🔗: bit.ly/4oSSMwL

Issue 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...

Registration for the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting is closing in just over one week! We have an incredible line up of workshops and talks and hope to see you in Canberra soon!! Register here! membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

@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 🙏