🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

✍️ [blog] Eleven Latin American Voices for Open Science: The New Cohort of Champions rOpenSci 2026 Find out more about this Champions Program cohort in this new blog post by all the new cohort participants: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/06/09/champions-2026/ #RStats #FOSS

Today, meet Haydée Svab 🇧🇷! She is the Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brasil, R-Ladies São Paulo Co-organizer, and a Data Scientist at ASK-AR. Haydée also worked on urban mobility, and as a participant of the rOpenSci Champions Program, she developed the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#MaintainerMonth Highlight: Bilikisu Wunmi Olatunji 🇳🇬! Bilikisu is a Data Scientist and an R Shiny developer. She is a RUG and a RLadies+ chapter organizer. As an rOpenSci Champions she developed and maintains chartkickR, an htmlwidget that seamlessly […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Meet Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo 🇳🇬 #MaintainerMonth Ezekiel is a data scientist with 10+ years of experience in interpreting and analyzing data in a fast-paced environment. As a rOpenSci Champion, Ezekiel worked on bulkreadr, an #RStats package to simplify and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

¡Meet Guada Pascal 🇦🇷! #MaintainerMonth #RStats She is a Data Science Researcher based in Argentina. As an rOpenSci Champion, she developed matildaNLP, a package that includes a corpus of Spanish text from the Matilda initiative. Find her at: 🌐 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

💻️ Thank you to the 37 maintainers from 15 countries who agreed to participate in this #MaintainerMonth spotlights 👏 👏 These people maintain more than 50 packages that collectively serve thousands of researchers and data practitioners worldwide. 📦 🔬 And thanks […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

💡 Tip para tu envío a #LatinR2026: PDF, sin autores ni filiación Máximo 2 páginas Fuente 11, espacio simple Hay plantilla en RMarkdown (paquete latinr 💜) y en Google Docs. Lo que prefieras. latinr.org/blog/es/2026... Lo tenes listo, mandalo por aqui: openreview.net/group?id=LAT... #RStats

During a conference in Rio, and then 4 days of birding to/in/from Itatiaia Nacional Park in Brazil, I photographed 188 bird species, of which 67 were new for me. I'll post some of my favorites here in a thread, starting with Channel-billed Toucan (1/x) #Birds #BirdPhotography #Brazil

🟢 As part of our new series on Green Computing, we are pleased to announce the Introduction to Green Computing guide, written by Jyoti Bhogal and Caterina Doglioni. Find out more about the guide and how to access it at www.software.ac.uk/news/new-gui...

Lo prometido es deuda. Tras publicar la app hecha con R y Shiny, arranca la serie de artículos sobre datos de panel con R y EPH del INDEC: lo conceptual, lo metodológico y código libre para replicar. Primero de cuatro 📖 estacion-r.com/blog/b2b6462... Shiny: estacionr.shinyapps.io/shiny_eph_pa...

👋 Meet Sehrish Kanwal! 🇦🇺 Bioinformatics scientist at the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research. As part of the Champions program, she maintains {RNAsum} for rOpenSci: a package for summarising and visualising RNA-seq data analysis results […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Extendimos el envío de resúmenes para #RSLA26 I Conferencia internacional de software de investigación en Latinoamérica (virtual, agosto 2026) 🗓️ Nueva fecha límite: 31 de mayo 💻 Para todas las personas que desarrollan, utilizan, y sostienen software de investigación. rs-latam.org

I'm back to working on the @pyladies-bot.bsky.social and @rladies-bot.bsky.social bots 🥰 Do you have a blog or a YouTube channel and want it featured? Let me know or learn more about it here: cosimameyer.github.io/community-bo... #pyladies #rladies

El miércoles compartimos un taller práctico en R con ARcenso 🇦🇷. Mucha gente se acercó para aprender a usarlo, explorar qué se puede hacer con datos censales y compartir preguntas e ideas en comunidad. Gracias @ropensci.org por acompañar desde el inicio 💜

RLadies is evolving 🌈 We’re excited to introduce RLadies+, a new identity that better reflects our community. The “+” doesn’t change our mission — it makes it visible. 🔗 Learn more about RLadies+: rladies.org/news/2026/re...

#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Andrea Gómez Vargas Andrea is a sociologist and data analyst focused on population statistics and official data, developing R tools for the public sector. She is part of rOpenSci's Champions Program and maintains {ARcenso}. This […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#MaintainerMonth highlight #RStats Meet Pao Corrales 🇦🇷 🇦🇺 Pao works as a Research Software Engineer to support research in climate and weather. She is an educator and maintains {agroclimatico}. This R package is a set of functions for calculating climate and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Francesca Palmeira She is a biologist working on conservation conflicts and ecological modeling. Francesca participated on rOpenSci Champions Program, developing {pcir}, a package to calculate, compare, and visualize the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

👋 Meet Carolina Pradier 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 She researches gender inequalities in science through bibliometrics. Maintainer of {eph}, Argentina's Permanent Household Survey Data and Manipulation Utilities. Carolina is a participant in the rOpenSci's Champions Program. Find […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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...

👋 Meet Steffi Lazerte! 🇨🇦 Independent R Consultant and Teacher, Behavioural Ecologist, Citizen Science Enthusiast, and rOpenSci Community Assistant. She maintains {weathercan} that makes it easier to search for and download multiple months/years of historical […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Today we’re featuring Julia Silge! 🇺🇸 Data scientist and MLOps practitioner with #rstats, specializing in text mining. She maintains {qualtRics} that implements the retrieval of survey data using the Qualtrics API and aims to reduce the pre-processing steps […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Today we’re featuring Maëlle Salmon! 🇫🇷 R(esearch) Software Engineer and Blogger. She maintains {saperlipopette}, {babelquarto}, and {babeldown} for rOpenSci. 🐘 @maelle 💻 github.com/maelle 🌐 masalmon.eu #MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats

May is #MaintainerMonth! Meet the humans behind your favorite #RStats packages All month, we will spotlight the maintainers behind rOpenSci's software ecosystem. Stay tuned to meet them!

🗒️ [blog] New Mentoring Team with Experienced Mentors and New Voices Meet the new team of mentors who will accompany our Champions in their projects for a year, sharing experience, guidance, and enthusiasm. https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/05/06/mentors-2026/ #RStats #Mentoring #RSE #FOSS

📢 Contributor Office Hour (AMER) 📅 May 12, 09:00 - 10:00 PDT Join us online to - discuss how to get started contributing to R - get help/feedback on contributions you are working on - look at open bugs/work on translations together https://www.meetup.com/r-contributors/events/314420463

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We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

💫 ¡Llamado Abierto! Hoy @goandre.bsky.social cuenta cómo su participación en el programa fortaleció su proyecto y la conectó con una comunidad internacional de software científico abierto. 📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta febrero 20 Info: ropensci.org/es/blog/2026... vimeo.com/1160229509 #RStats

Andrea Gomez Vargas - su experiencia

Hoy Andrea Gomez Vargas cuenta cómo su participación en el programa fortaleció su proyecto y la conectó con una comunidad internacional…

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We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan (@drkariljordan.carpentries.org) as a Keynote Speaker for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! Dr. Jordan will from her knowledge and experience deliver her talk: "The Work Behind the Work: Sustaining R Through Community" user2026.r-project.org #rstats #useR2026