The tutorial was brilliant! Thank you for making it easy to follow. The recording will be a resource that I will revisit again and again. I learned so much even though I've played around with Positron previously! @libbyheeren.bsky.social @ivelasq3.bsky.social @rladiesmelb.bsky.social

Libby Heeren@libbyheeren.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A huge thank you from @ivelasq3.bsky.social and I to @kylieainslie.bsky.social for inviting us to visit the R-Ladie's Melbourne chapter for an hour tonight 😍 We had sooo much fun meeting everyone and answering all the questions we could about #rstats in Positron! (Which we're always here to answer)

📢 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻: 𝗔 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 📅 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 30th July, 2026 ⏰ 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 11 AM 📍 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: Online - www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...
 Join @libbyheeren.bsky.social and Isabella Velásquez to explore the next generation of data science development in a relaxed, beginner-friendly environment!

How do you find an R package when you don't know its name? Kylie Ainslie's The Warehouse lets you search 23,000+ CRAN, Bioconductor & GitHub packages by task — with AI-assisted discovery. r-consortium.org/posts/the-wa... #RStats @kylieainslie.bsky.social #opensource

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

My 3 month old post on LinkedIn was removed for violating their Professional Community Policies. The post was about being quoted for an educational BBC article on infectious disease superspreading. www.bbc.com/future/artic... A dangerous consequence of replacing humans with #AI? #IDSky #EpiSky

⏳ IDD Connect - Africa | 1 day to go | 13 May 2026 | 12:00–13:00 East Africa Time 📢 Join us tomorrow for our next IDD Connect event! 💪 Theme: “Strengthening Infectious Disease Modelling in Africa” 🔗 Zoom link | Time zone guide: www.gsidd.org/events #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #OneHealth 🧪

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Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD)@gs-idd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ 📢 Join us for our next IDD Connect event, in partnership with the Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA)! 🌏 Region: Africa 💪 Theme: “Strengthening Infectious Disease Modelling in Africa”. #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #OneHealth 🧪

So this happened... Is it bad that I feel like a badass? 😎 *no abuse occurred and I have been reinstated.

New pre-pre-print:

I was recently asked to comment on superspreading for a BBC article. Little did I know, my quote would become the title! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

'Some people have 10 million times more virus than others': Are you a flu superspreader?

A growing body of research suggests that everything from the shape of your lungs to how you enunciate your Ts and Ks could make you a flu superspreader.

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Join us on Tuesday at the Data Science Lab 🧪 We are joined by @sara-altman.bsky.social, who will show us how to explore and analyze data using AI assistants in #RStats or #Python! Feb 3 @ 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab

It took me an embarrassingly long time to understand why this was called the warehouse. A really cool project with I think some great potential for making packages more discoverable/ surfacing user feedback.

Kylie Ainslie, PhD@kylieainslie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’ve been thinking about how to find R packages by functionality when you don’t already know the package name. So over the holidays, Claude Code and I built The Warehouse: a functionality-first R package directory that helps you find packages by what they do. rwarehouse.netlify.app #rstats

I’ve been thinking about how to find R packages by functionality when you don’t already know the package name. So over the holidays, Claude Code and I built The Warehouse: a functionality-first R package directory that helps you find packages by what they do. rwarehouse.netlify.app #rstats

This is in 12 minutes!! Come see how to structure your R projects so that Future You doesn't hate Past You 😂 #rstats #databs Also, be nice to me, my eye is all messed up and I can't see well today 🙈 See you there!!

Kylie Ainslie, PhD@kylieainslie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join me, @libbyheeren.bsky.social, and @ivelasq3.bsky.social for @posit.co's Data Science Lab @ 12PM ET TODAY! I'll be walking through how I use the R package structure to work more efficiently and the tools I use to do it! events.zoom.us/ev/ApTgbXfay... #rstats #databs

So excited to hear from @kylieainslie.bsky.social about Project Folder Structures in #RStats at the Data Science Lab, happening today at 12 pm ET! Come join us if the situation below feels familiar to you... pos.it/dslab

Kylie Ainslie, PhD@kylieainslie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join me, @libbyheeren.bsky.social, and @ivelasq3.bsky.social for @posit.co's Data Science Lab @ 12PM ET TODAY! I'll be walking through how I use the R package structure to work more efficiently and the tools I use to do it! events.zoom.us/ev/ApTgbXfay... #rstats #databs

Join me, @libbyheeren.bsky.social, and @ivelasq3.bsky.social for @posit.co's Data Science Lab @ 12PM ET TODAY! I'll be walking through how I use the R package structure to work more efficiently and the tools I use to do it! events.zoom.us/ev/ApTgbXfay... #rstats #databs

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Leon looking ever so chic 🧣

Can you see me? 🐾 🐶 #dogsofbluesky

All of the tools created as part of the @ec.europa.eu funded ESCAPE project on pandemic preparedness in one place (including {mitey}) 😁 www.escapepandemics.com/digitaltoolkit #EpiSky #IDSky #rstats #AcademicSky

Digital toolkit | Escape Pandemics

Discover the tools created within the ESCAPE team for pathogen archetypes, estimation of key epidemiological variables, reference models for comparison and projecting epidemic outcomes and tools to re...

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rainbowR has grown massively over the last three years - we're now over 250 members. We're getting to be a well-established community, full of lovely, friendly LGBTQ+ folks, who enjoy hanging out and sharing our love of R. If that sounds like you, join us! rainbowr.org/join

rainbowR community registration

Welcome! Please complete this form to join rainbowR. rainbowR is a community that supports, promotes and connects LGBTQ+ people who code in the R language. We use LGBTQ+ people as a term to cover: ...

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Our paper is out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧵 We estimated key epidemiological parameters for scabies, a disease affecting 400M people globally that's been rising across Europe. These are the first estimates of serial interval, R0 and Rt. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AcademicSky #EpiSky #IDSky

Estimation of the epidemiological characteristics of scabies - Nature Communications

Scabies is a common cause of skin disease in many low- and middle-income countries and incidence is increasing in Europe, but key epidemiological parameters are not well defined. Here, the authors use...

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Non academic (Bilthoven / Utrecht, the Netherlands) Senior infectious disease modeller to lead and coordinate complex modelling projects with Jacco Wallinga at RIVM More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2380

Enjoying spring in Melbourne 🇦🇺

That's a wrap on my first #TidyDevDay, complete with ringing the gong! I was intimidated going into it, but everyone was super supportive. I had a great time and learned a lot. Thanks to all the folks @posit.co for organizing, especially @jennybryan.bsky.social - everyone's favorite Git therapist 😂

One week to go until #positconf2025! Tired of scattered analysis files and "which version is final?" anxiety? I'll be speaking about how R package structure can enhance ANY data project. A simple framework for data scientists that turns messy folders into transparent, reproducible work. #RStats

🎉 Excited to announce that {mitey} is now on CRAN (my very first CRAN submission)! 📦 A lightweight #rstats package for estimating infectious disease parameters: ✅ Serial intervals ✅ Time-varying case reproduction numbers ✅ Synthetic epidemic generation cran.r-project.org/package=mitey

Instead of doing what I should be doing, I procrastinated by updating the "About" page of my website with a scrollytelling career timeline, some fun stats, and a card grid of hobbies! It's amazing what you can do with @quarto.org! kylieainslie.github.io/about.html #rstats #AcademicSky

Hello #dataBS (& especially #TidyTuesday) fam! I'm trying to organize a thing to help me keep TidyTuesday running smoothly, but first I need to get a bit of a runway. Every week I curate a TT dataset, and it's wearing me down. Please see github.com/rfordatascie... for some ways you can help! #RStats

Come join me at @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social 💜

R-Ladies Amsterdam@rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social · last yr.

WE WANT YOU! 🫵 Our organiser @kylieainslie.bsky.social is leaving us to go Down Under. 🦘 We're looking for new organisers to continue with @josefina-bernardo.bsky.social to keep @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social the wonderful community it is. If you're in NL and interested, please get in touch! 💜

@rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social is looking for new organisers! I have loved being an organiser! The @rladies.org community is wonderful. I highly recommend organising. 💜 Please reach out if you have any questions about getting involved. #rladies

R-Ladies Amsterdam@rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social · last yr.

WE WANT YOU! 🫵 Our organiser @kylieainslie.bsky.social is leaving us to go Down Under. 🦘 We're looking for new organisers to continue with @josefina-bernardo.bsky.social to keep @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social the wonderful community it is. If you're in NL and interested, please get in touch! 💜

Last week marked the end of my time at @rivm-nl.bsky.social. I'm excited to be joining @thedohertyinst.bsky.social and The University of Melbourne as Modelling for Policy Lead!