The IRSC26 program is live! www.researchsoft.org/irsc/program/ Keynotes by @rivaquiroga.bsky.social & Stefano Zacchiroli, BoFs, talks, lightning talks, plenary discussions & community reflections, and more! Join us 7–8 Sept 2026 in Sheffield, UK or online. #IRSC26 #ResearchSoftware

We listened. We reflected. We evolved. Meet RLadies+. A more inclusive identity for our global community. Because belonging matters. 🔗 Read more about the rebrand: rladies.org/news/2026/re...

After the British museum theft and now the Louvre heist, the premise of Euro-custodianship of global south heritage is more than debatable. Return the possessions to their community custodians.

Jah@fistfuloffries.blacksky.app · 10mo ago

Much like colonizing museums claim about African artifacts held in European and American collections, if the Louvre cannot properly take care of its possessions, perhaps another nation can. I heard the Benin Royal Museum in Nigeria may have a space.

📣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...

Interested in a rainbowR Conference?

rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...

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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

One of the best short papers I've read in a long time, by @jonathanzong.com: "Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility" This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.

Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility

In accessibility research involving human subjects, researchers conventionally anonymize their research participants to protect privacy. However, a lack of intentionality about who to publicly acknowl...

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We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨ TL;DR 🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia 👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... ⏰ Approx 20 mins. 📅 Closes 30 September 🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)

🌈 🌐 rainbowR conference: online, early 2026 🌐 🌈 Are you LGBTQIA+, do you code in R, and would you like to get involved in rainbowR’s first-ever conference? We are looking for people to join our conference organising committee! ➡️ rainbowr.org/conference 🗓️ 1st meeting: July 9, 4pm UTC

Conference – rainbowR

Join our conference organising committee! See our conference page for more info.

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🔥 Save the date 🔥 "What does Governance mean to us in Research and Open Science?" 📅 30 June 2025, 15 - 16:30 UTC+1 (UK time) Featuring @npch.bsky.social, @simonhettrick.bsky.social, @rivaquiroga.bsky.social, @oscarseip.bsky.social & @malvikasharan.bsky.social Sign-up: forms.gle/d2vuQcpoXJpD

In order to better align with our mission to support all underrepresented genders in the R community, R-Ladies is re-branding to R-Ladies+! 💜 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ ✨ R-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ rladies.org/news/rebrand... ✨ Rebranding Call For Proposal rladies.org/news/rebrand... #rstats #rladies

R-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ - R-Ladies Global

R-Ladies is a world-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community

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🔍 2+ years after publishing, have the FAIR principles for Research Software been useful & usable? What is your experience? Survey closes Fri 7 Mar, and results will come week of Apr 7th. Thanks to all those who have already responded to this community review. https://forms.gle/sRhRQD4gWBQWzcGS7

I set up a starter pack with #PyLadies on Bluesky - if you're also here and want to be included, let me know! I'm hoping to find more PyLadies over here ✨ bsky.app/starter-pack... @pyladies-bot.bsky.social

Check out the new `pastum` extension for Positron (and VS Code I guess)—it's {datapasta} for Positron! It works with both R (base R, tibble, and data.frame) and Python (pandas and polars) github.com/atsyplenkov/... #rstats #python

Super excited to announce the lauch of the Journal of Electronic Publishing's new special issue on Multilingual Publishing & Scholarship, co-edited by Janneke Adema Alyssa Arbuckle and yours truly. Out today journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/26...

Less is more in your presentation slides, illustrated in an eye tracking study. Shown only one bullet point, students consistently read the whole bullet. Shown lots of bullet points, students skimmed and inconsistently read. 1 min video summary: youtube.com/shorts/z--JA...

More new work! "Data Feminism for AI," with @kanarinka.bsky.social, which reflects our current thinking about how and why data feminism remains deeply relevant for AI research: arxiv.org/abs/2405.01286

Data Feminism for AI

This paper presents a set of intersectional feminist principles for conducting equitable, ethical, and sustainable AI research. In Data Feminism (2020), we offered seven principles for examining...

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There is still time left to nominate a work you ❤️ for the 2024 Deswarte Prize in Digital History (anything published since Jan 2023 is eligible). ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...

The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar

Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, an advocate for the value and importa...

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The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites proposals for #ACH2024, our virtual annual conference being held Nov 6-8, 2024. Proposals are due May 20. Learn more at ach2024.ach.org.

We are pleased to share that ADHO bursaries are now open for DH2024! Students and early career scholars who have submissions accepted for presentation at DH2024 are eligible to apply. dh2024.adho.org/adho-bursari...

CFP - Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/culture...

Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

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Hi #rstats and #python #datascience friends! Once again #Posit will provide opportunity scholarships to individuals worldwide who are members of an underrepresented group so they can attend posit::conf(2024). Apply by March 22nd! More info in the conf announcement here posit.co/blog/posit-c...

hi this is a humble reminder that if you are a humanities graduate student or early career scholar with questions like "do I belong here" or "what am I doing with my life" or "why am I so sad" I have a workbook that might help. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

Finding Your Purpose

Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate t...

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It should not go unnoticed that the very same billionaires conducting the Plagiarism Crusade against non-white, female university presidents have their entire life savings tied up in a Plagiarism Machine.

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products

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Hi everyone - you asked and we listened! The CFP deadline will be extended until Sunday, December 10th at 11:59PM EST so you have a few more weekdays and one more weekend to get everything polished up. We look forward to seeing all your amazing proposals via www.conftool.pro/dh2024/ #dh2024

Check it out! Stochastic Parrots is now available in audiopaper form, read by Timnit Gebru, @mmitchell.bsky.social Angelina McMillan-Major & me and produced by @ctaylsaurus.bsky.social If you've never read the original and appreciate this format for reading, this is for you!

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜

Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜. In Proceedings of FAccT 2021, pp.6...

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We've got more than 50 submissions for this year's lists--get yours (or your colleague's) in by Sunday!

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians

Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has assembled lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in that calendar year, and we’re doing the same this year for 2023 pu...

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The Programming Historian’s English edition are recruiting editors, and are keen to engage editors with knowledge of French, Spanish and/or Portuguese: programminghistorian.org/en/vacancies