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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025.

Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
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connect – Openscapes

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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · 6d

Come work with me and the best team!! We work openly, together, with kindness. We care about onboarding, and have the best team culture I've ever experienced.

Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025.

Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
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connect – Openscapes

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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 16d

📣 Save the date!!

Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀
📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau
👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/

#rstats

R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages · Community Call

Community Call about R-multiverse

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 16d

📣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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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · Aug 25

Come along to OceaniaR in Canberra! Why? Because we'll talk about fun things you can do with #rstats all day, and work on fun projects. It's an inclusive space, with a great mix of those newer to R, as well as experienced users, too!

Some examples from last year:

Dean Marchiori @deanmarchiori.bsky.social · Aug 12

Register today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra

This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming.

Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac...

#rstats #datascience

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 19

There are 20 crab facts advent calendars left from @franzanth.bsky.social’s 2023 run. Idk if I’ll restock these (I’m low on stickering time this year bc I’m running so many events).

So! If you are planning to get multiple types of advent calendars, clock’s ticking on crabs.

SquidFacts.Net

A sparkly advent calendar with hot pink crabs all over it with a teal background with intricate and beautiful invertebrates and patterns

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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · Aug 19

Coolest thing. @bffo.bsky.social, Ryan Brinkman & I started this cross-YVR bioinformatics seminar & networking series when you were lucky to see a sequence alignment in someone's talk. Ppl found collaborators, jobs, grad school supervisors, made friends, learned stuff. Still going after 23 years.

BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · Aug 18

From the past: #VanBUG Nov 2002: Lincoln Stein (LS) is the invited speaker. In pic (L2R): @bffo.bsky.social, Roger Foxall (then @ @genomebc.bsky.social ), Steven Jones (@bcgsc.ca), LS, Ryan Brinkman & @stefaniebutland.bsky.social. 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 🇨🇦 #OpenEducationalResources
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www.vanbug.org/archive/2002...

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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · Aug 19

✍🏼 Building a Culture of Reproducible Science: Reflections from the 2025 NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Summer Workshop.
🐾 Puppies + GitHub governance + examples of work from NOAA Fisheries Openscapes Mentors in "co-creation" sessions.

nmfs-openscapes.github.io/blog/2025-08...

a slide titled ‘Early adopters - take a wild idea, relentless drive to turn it into a workable product’. Left side photo of a black and white sheepdog puppy titled ‘take a puppy’. Right side photo of a mature sheepdog herding sheep titled ‘Patience and skill actually obsession, to do this’.

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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · Aug 18

From the past: #VanBUG Nov 2002: Lincoln Stein (LS) is the invited speaker. In pic (L2R): @bffo.bsky.social, Roger Foxall (then @ @genomebc.bsky.social ), Steven Jones (@bcgsc.ca), LS, Ryan Brinkman & @stefaniebutland.bsky.social. 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 🇨🇦 #OpenEducationalResources
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www.vanbug.org/archive/2002...

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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · Aug 19

Best memories Francis ❤️

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · Aug 15

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

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 13

Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover

Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto

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Dean Marchiori @deanmarchiori.bsky.social · Aug 12

Register today for your spot in the 2025 OceaniaR Hackathon in Canberra

This event is a great opportunity to learn and participate in a range of projects around data analysis, statistics, data science and R programming.

Register here: statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac...

#rstats #datascience

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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thank you Nick!
I’d say Ask, Listen, Reflect, Deliver, Iterate always. So much of @openscapes.bsky.social success comes from helping ppl get what they need, not what we think they need.

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · Jul 31

What are the attributes of a welcoming and sustainable online community? Asking for ideas 💡

a brown and white dog is laying on a person 's arm and looking at the camera

ALT: a brown and white dog is laying on a person 's arm and looking at the camera

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · Aug 2

Here's your Philly bug of the day (well, in this case, night)

The Broadheaded Sharpshooter!

Why are they called sharpshooters? Because uh. They're just like. Constantly peeing lol.

While I was taking pictures it peed like. idek. 10 times? Nonstop.

A turquoise but with a yellow belly and black speckles all over. The face has like, a washboard face. A face... that looks like a washboard.

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · Jul 30

If you attend *ONE* Data Science Hangout this year, make it this week's hangout with JENNY BRYAN. Trust me ✨

Thursday, July 31st at 9AM PT / 12PM ET - a casual conversation with Jenny powered by YOUR questions. Feel free to lurk or hop in the chat. #rstats #databs

pos.it/dsh 👈🏼 👀 (register here!)

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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · Jul 22

Openscapes Community Call Tues July 29: earthaccess — helping users leverage the awesomeness of NASA Earthdata.

A story of building a game-changing bridge between a data system and its open communities, plus new tech features.

Details & register (free) nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-07...

Community Call: earthaccess — helping users leverage the awesomeness of NASA Earthdata – NASA-Openscapes

The story of building a game-changing bridge between a data system and its open communities, plus new technical features including VirtualiZarr integration. And how we collaborate to further enhance N...

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · Jul 1

I have a weekly #tidytuesday #pydytuesday calendar event where my buddies and I get together on zoom to work together for an hour. I set timers to keep us on track and we check in after each, so it's ~30 mins of coding.

5 mins - get data loaded in
10 mins - explore data
15 mins - flesh out one idea

Jonathan Kitt @jonathankitt.bsky.social · Apr 16

Questions for the #TidyTuesday and #PydyTuesday folks, how do you participate? All by yourself, or with team/lab members? If so, do you work together remotely or do you get together in person?
Thinking about starting something in my lab, so I'm looking for ideas!
#code #Rstats #Python #datavis

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Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · Jul 1

The @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social interview with Mike Myers on the eve of Canada Day is sooo good. And yes, we need more Mike Myers always 🇨🇦: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_x...

Does Canada need more Mike Myers?

YouTube video by CBC News: The National

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · Jun 23

A bit of an update thread: I resigned from my academic position at UNSW a few months ago now and have been taking a break to rest, reflect, and work out what I want the next half of my career to look like.

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · May 23

You get real, practical, doable, tangible tasks you 100% can do.

If you're feeling "helpless" Andrea's advice will eradicate that feeling.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · May 23

If you want to understand how we'll survive this mess, check out Next Comes What by Andrea Pitzer. I help produce this weekly podcast about how now fits into the history of authoritarianism and what we can do to fight back. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-comes-what/id1779885475

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · May 16

Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.

VIDO - USask @vido.org · May 16

VIDO is hiring a Research Technician to join Dr. @angierasmussen.bsky.social's lab studying emerging viruses (avian flu, Ebola, mpox, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2). Help advance pandemic preparedness!

📍 Saskatoon, SK
🔗 vido.applytojobs.ca/research/38682

#Virology #WorkAtVIDO

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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · May 1

📣 Openscapes Reflections starts Monday!
5 hrs over 4 weeks to get unstuck in your data science workflows and learn GitHub for publishing & project management. Openscapes Reflections is an open data science coaching program for researchers and those who support research.
openscapes.github.io/booklet/

Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · Apr 28

Registration is open for our Reflections Program - a light-weight way to reflect on your workflows and make goals going into summer. May 5-30, 2025: 1 hr/week for 3 weeks, plus our 2-hr GitHub Clinic in week 4.
Details, open source materials & registration: openscapes.github.io/booklet/

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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · May 1

Sending love to you two awesome folks.

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