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For Open Source Stories I loved talking with @juliasilge.com about her journey in open source, from solving problems she had to now working on large general purpose solutions & her perspective on what it means to build open source and be a human being on the internet. #RStats #Python #OpenSource

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As access to scientific communications remains crucial, I'm excited to share I've joined openRxiv as Interim Chief Operations Officer to help launch the organization. It's already been amazing working with @richardsever.bsky.social & John Inglis & team & I'm grateful to be part of this next phase. 💚

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If you want to #StandUpForScience2025, and in person isn’t accessible or an option for you, this is another great way to participate.

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If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

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NumFOCUS is seeking its next Executive Director. To guide this process, the Board of Directors has established an Executive Director Hiring Committee. Learn more about the hiring process & progress at bit.ly/4ij7n1g We also want to hear from you! Learn more and share your input at bit.ly/41wbAZL

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

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When I was a sysadmin, we would say that anyone who asked for root shouldn’t have it.

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And here's a direct cryptpad link to report a dataset that you think may be at risk and need saving. These guys have already saved a lot of data. If you want to help out, there some great guidance on the forum. cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

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I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...

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Wired magazine has done an exceptional job as journalists covering these digital crimes & destructive behaviors by the administration’s lackeys. They’re offering an annual subscription of digital & print for a year for $6 (not a typo); I have taken them up on it www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

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We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)! These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs. If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025 #DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata

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Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...

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Heads up if you're into data and passionate about the science of science! @crossref.bsky.social seeks TWO Data Scientists for this new team. You'll collaborate to glean insights from and detect gaps in scholarly metadata and help build the research nexus. Join us! www.crossref.org/jobs/2025-01...

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The tidymodels group has an #rstats summer internship position this year. The focus is on feature selection tools. All of the information is in the blog post below. We look forward to seeing your applications! www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...

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What are some of the examples of mutual aid, solidarity and self-organizing, improvised community support you've seen in the L.A. fires? Thanks!

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For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla

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Learning of fast-moving fire near Runyon Canyon in Hollywood Hills from @weatherwest.bsky.social #PalisadesFire #EatonFire

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We have a new role open dedicated to funders. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with research funding experience to make an impact by extending and growing the Crossref Grant Linking System (GLS), which bridges award info with research outcomes. www.crossref.org/jobs/2024-12...

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Excited and grateful that R-Universe is R Consortium's newest top-level project! This means sustained support for @rOpenSci.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy's platform for discovery and publishing of #rstats packages. Hats off to @jeroenooms.bsky.social for his leadership! ropensci.org/blog/2024/12...

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Holy 🐮, TIL that Nixtla has R version - nixtlar! nixtla.github.io/nixtlar/inde... #rstats #machinelearning #timeseries

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If you're interested in trying out LLMs in #rstats but don't know where to begin, I've added a few two vignettes to elmer: elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/elm... and elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/pro...

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Julia’s zines are amazing! A great opportunity to get one if you haven’t yet, or more if you have some already. Currently re-reading “Hell Yes! CSS!” “Help! I have a manager!” is really nice too.

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I'm writing up a brief history of the tidyverse? What do you want to know about it? #rstats

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New to @bsky.app? We’ve got some etiquette just for you! Turn on the little feature that reminds you to post alt text with your images. Alt text allows blind and partially sighted people to understand what's in your images using screen readers. Without alt text, it just says "image".

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Here’s one of the things I’ve got, and it’s the only thing right now: we are going to have to take of each other, because we can’t count on anyone else to do so.

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Come join us to work on exceptionally long-term data and ecological forecasting. Leave advanced quantitative and computational skills while getting to do field work somewhere beautiful and amazing.

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I'm looking for a postdoc (to start Spring or Summer 2025) to work with me & others at the Santa Fe Institute on AI models of visual and multimodal reasoning. See santafe.edu/about/jobs/p... for more info & application instructions.

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I'm looking for a PhD student to join @weecology.bsky.social to study ecological forecasting using wading birds in the Everglades. The position will be focused on data science, time-series modeling, and forecasting. There will also be opportunities for field, drone, and computer vision work. 🌎

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Join me! Do you like working with collaborative and interdisciplinary colleagues? Do you love watching the "light bulb" turn on in students? Want freedom to do the research you're most interested in? Hiring at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, Apply by Oct 7 apply.interfolio.com/151230

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Kids are losing 'huge chunks' of their childhood to long COVID. Too many are being told it's 'all in their head.'

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In my newsletter, I wrote about The Spoonbill Club--a series of birding trips that I started for Bay Area folks with long-COVID and related energy-limiting illnesses. We've done 2 small pilots that I think worked well. Here's more on the intention & planning: buttondown.email/edyong209/ar...

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you know how we like to jump on journos for not asking hardball followup questions often enough? i think when Raichik says “we do it in person or no interview” you can ask back some of those right there. “are you trying to get me onto a fork where i either give you Content or you cry defamation?”

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The R4DS Online Learning Community welcomes you to week 4 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Educational attainment of young people in English towns! 📁 tinyurl.com/tidytuesday2... 🗞️ tinyurl.com/tidytuesday2... Can you reproduce the plots or find new things in the data? #RStats #PyData @r4ds.io

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If you appreciated any of your time in or around institutions of higher education, now might be a good time to reach out and tell someone who still works there why the work they did mattered to you.

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The R4DataScience community welcomes you to week 49 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Life Expectancy! tidytues.day/2023/2023-12... ourworldindata.org/life-expecta... Life expectancy analyses have been making the rounds. Now you can create your own! @r4ds.io #RStats #PyData #tidyverse #r4ds

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Perfection

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On this #GivingTuesday, we're asking for your help prioritizing our backlog! Visit r4ds.io/donate.html to read about our upcoming projects, and vote with your tax-deductible donation! #GivingSeason #TidyTuesday #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang

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The @R4DSCommunity welcomes you to week 46 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Diwali Sales Data! tidytues.day/2023/2023-11... www.kaggle.com/datasets/saa... #RStats #DataViz #PyData #tidyverse #r4ds

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