RLadies+

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Promoting diversity in the #RStats community via meetups, mentorship and global collaboration! 200+ groups worldwide. #RLadies

R-Ladies is more than meetups. Our programs: 🤝 Mentoring — pairing new organizers with experienced ones 📣 RoCur — rotating curation on Bluesky 📝 Abstract Review — 80+ reviewers for conference submissions 💬 Community Slack 📖 Blog & YouTube rladies.org #RLadiesIWD2026

R-Ladies branded graphic with purple-to-blue gradient background. The heading reads "Our Programs" in white. Six program cards are arranged in a 2-by-3 grid: Mentoring (connecting new chapter organizers with experienced leaders), RoCur (rotating curation on Bluesky spotlighting community voices), Abstract Review (80+ reviewers helping members submit to conferences), Community Slack (a safe space for connecting, learning, and sharing), Blog (tutorials, stories, and career journeys from our community), and YouTube (event recordings and learning materials).

✨ Happy Thursday! ✨ Ready for some exciting talks by our R-Ladies at #PositConf2025? 💬 Kylie Ainslie: Elevating Public Health Decision-Making with R Packages ⏰ 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM EDT 📍 Centennial I (1/7)

✨ Morning ✨ Ready for some exciting talks by our R-Ladies at #PositConf2025? Here is the schedule for today's session: 💬 Rebecca Barter: AI Coding Assistants: Hype, Help, or Hindrance? ⏰ 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM EDT 📍 Regency VI (1/6)

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

“Smiling group of 14 R-Ladies at R Dev Day, posing together in a meeting room with a whiteboard and chairs in the background.

Join Yanina Bellini Saibene, part of the R-Ladies Global Leadership Team, for her keynote at useR! 2025. Watch it live via the Duke Center for Computational Thinking YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/CTTvTQ-... Saturday, August 9 at 5:00 PM (ET) Penn Pavilion - Duke University

Promotional graphic for the useR! 2025 keynote titled “We R Together: How to learn, use and improve a programming language as a community,” presented by Yanina Bellini Saibene from rOpenSci, R-Ladies, and Universidad Austral. The event takes place Saturday, August 9 at 5:00 PM (ET) at Penn Pavilion - Penn 1, Duke University campus. The banner features logos of R-Ladies and useR! 2025, a portrait of Yanina, and a note that the talk will be streamed live on the Duke Center for Computational Thinking YouTube channel.

We are saddened to hear of the recent passing of Lorena Abad Crespo. We were fortunate to know Lorena through her active participation in various R and R-Ladies communities.

Lorena is sitting at a table in front her laptop looking intently at the screen. She has two collaborators peering over her shoulder and one sitting beside working in parallel.

🚀 R-Ladies+ Rebranding CFP – Your Creativity Needed! 🎨 We are rebranding to R-Ladies+ and need a visionary branding guide to help us build an inclusive identity for our global community. ✅ Logo redesign ✅ Brand book & templates ✅ Inclusive visuals