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Staff scientists / RSE @LCBC_UiO & @LifebrainEU. She/Her.

PhD Cognitive Neurosciences 🧠

@rladies.org Global Team.

#Rstats #Nerd 🌈🏳️‍🌈

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · Nov 10
One thing I am proud of creating is the #ggseg-universe.
A suite of #rstats packages to plot #brain atlas data.

Its mainly made for inflated cortical surfaces, and contains three main packages:
- ggseg, ggseg3d, ggsegExtra
+ 23 different atlases

ggseg.r-universe.dev/packages
Example of plotted ggseg atlas data ggseg hexagon logo ggseg3d hexagon logo ggsegExtra hexagon logo
drmowinckels.io
The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! 🧠

For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains.

#rstats #neuroimaging #openscience
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February 9, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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weare.rladies.org
We’re back! Our 2026 curation schedule is live, and we’re looking for people to be the voice of the account 📣👩‍💻💜

📝 Sign up to curate: airtable.com/appjkZZgtF0i...
📖 What curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/
💌 Nominate someone you admire: airtable.com/appFIBzsk2Ax...
February 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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masalmon.eu
Frivolous post: "Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming" 🧶

masalmon.eu/2026/01/26/a...
Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming · Maëlle's R Blog
masalmon.eu
January 26, 2026 at 10:07 AM
drmowinckels.io
Stop playing "diagnostics ping-pong" with your users 🏓

Wrote about why every R package wrapping external tools needs a sitrep() function — with real examples from meetupr and freesurfer.

#RStats

https://drmo.site/F5gVjR
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February 3, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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rainbowr.org
📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉

The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend.

pretix.eu/rainbowr/con...

#RStats #LGBTQ
rainbowR Conference 2026
Feb. 25 – 26, 2026
pretix.eu
February 2, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
On my way to #fosdem. Any #rstats or #rseeng folks going?
Me in the waiting area at London St Pancras
January 30, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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rpodcast.bsky.social
Episode 219 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📊 LLM Plot Interpretations @sara-altman.bsky.social @simonpcouch.com
🌎 Soil flux @phytobio.me & John Zobitz
🏎 futurize @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social @jonathankitt.bsky.social 🙏

#rstats #databs
Issue 2026-W05 Highlights
The way LLMs can be a little stubborn when interpreting data visualizations, bringing new meaning to digging for your data and learning along the way, and…
serve.podhome.fm
January 28, 2026 at 12:12 PM
drmowinckels.io
I discovered last week that Claude Code is now included with Claude Pro/Max subscriptions! Game changer for my R package development workflow 🧵

#ClaudeAI #ClaudeCode #AIAssisted #RStats #Programming #DevTools #Coding
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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flaviaerius.bsky.social
Creating a package to organize my work, instead of just reloading functions from scripts, was the best thing I did so far this year.

#rstats
January 26, 2026 at 2:47 AM
drmowinckels.io
15 years together, and going strong. Growing, learning, supporting, laughing, crying, loving.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:55 PM
drmowinckels.io
My 2025 Year in Review is out! 📝 A year of deliberate work amidst post-COVID recovery. Highlights: deep dives into #RStats APIs w/ #httr2, the R Package Dev Advent Calendar, & `ggseg` improvements. Focus on sustainable, impactful work. Read more & share your 2025! 👇 https://drmo.site/8NNsxa
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January 19, 2026 at 12:20 PM
drmowinckels.io
Managing a Hugo site gets complex fast - builds, dev servers, and getting dependencies where Hugo expects them. Here's how npm scripts solved our R-Ladies website workflow 🧵

#Hugo #NPM #WebDev #BuildTools #OpenSource #Automation
NPM json setup. ```json { "name": "hugo-rladies-theme-js", "private": true, "version": "0.1.0", "scripts": { "clean": "rm -rf assets/js/vendor assets/scss/vendor", "setup": "mkdir -p assets/js/vendor assets/scss/vendor", "build": "npm run clean && npm run setup && npm run sync:bootstrap && npm run sync:jquery", "sync:bootstrap": "cp node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js* assets/js/vendor/ 2>/dev/null || true && cp -r node_modules/bootstrap/scss assets/scss/vendor/bootstrap", "sync:jquery": "cp node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js* assets/js/vendor/ 2>/dev/null || true", "update": "npm update && npm run build", "postinstall": "npm run build" }, "dependencies": { "bootstrap": "^5.3.8", "jquery": "^3.7.0" } } ```
January 16, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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rstats.blaze.email
Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026!

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/01/12/programchamps2026/

#rstats #datascience
Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026!
Summary: Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026! Spanish program focused on Latin America with mentors and champions, January–February 2026.
ropensci.org
January 15, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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brittanysbarker.bsky.social
📣Corvallis is a forming a new R-Ladies group and hosing their first event on Jan 22 at 5:30 pm at Common Fields. Details and an RSVP for the event are here: www.meetup.com/rladies-corv...

Please share widely!

@weare.rladies.org #Rstats #Rlang #R #oregon
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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rstats.blaze.email
Contributing to base R with Coding Equity and Joy - Inside the R Contributors Project

https://r-consortium.org/posts/contributing-to-base-r-with-coding-equity-and-joy-inside-the-r-contributors-project/index.html

#rstats #datascience
Contributing to base R with Coding Equity and Joy - Inside the R Contributors Project
Summary: Ella Kaye discusses contributing to base R via the R Contributors project, Dev Days, and inclusive community-building with rainbowR and EDI.
r-consortium.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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dariia.bsky.social
I am very happy to announce that I will be a keynote speaker at useR!2026 in Warsaw!
Hope to see many incredible members of #RStats community in person there 😀
user-conf.bsky.social useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · Jan 10
We are honored to announce Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social) as a Keynote for useR! 2026 in Warsaw!

A postdoctoral researcher at the Kyiv School of Economics and a recent PhD graduate from the University of Bologna, Dariia has been an avid R user for seven years.
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A poster for the "USER! 2026 CONFERENCE WARSAW," which is scheduled for "6th-9th JULY 2026" at "WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS & ONLINE." The poster announces "Keynote Speaker Dariia Mykhailyshyna." On the right is a photo of Dariia Mykhailyshyna, a woman with brown hair wearing glasses and a white t-shirt with "KYIV" text and an illustration of a building. Below the conference details are four colored squares (blue, yellow, orange, purple) showing a progression of a fractal geometric pattern, starting from a single square.
January 10, 2026 at 7:11 PM
drmowinckels.io
Spent last week debugging Hugo issues in our R-Ladies website - I wanted to add one page per Chapter. However, we have chapter data as Hugo site data, which doesn't render into pages, I needed to setup a content adapter, which I had never done before. Here's how I used Claude to solve it 🧵
January 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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rorylawless.com
Hello and Happy New Year friends. I've just published a new blog post that briefly outlines how to use @1password.bsky.social secrete references in your R code. I hope you find it useful.

"Using 1Password Secret References in R" rorylawless.com/posts/using-...

#databs #rstats
Using 1Password Secret References in R – Rory Lawless
rorylawless.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:57 AM
drmowinckels.io
Of all the things that exist on the internet. Right now, this clip from #grahamNorton is by far my favourite thing right now.

youtube.com/shorts/cV_tA...

❤️ Alexander Skarsgård ❤️ Miriam Margolyes
Alexander Skarsgård and Miriam Margolyes have history 🏠
#GrahamNortonShow #GrahamNorton #TheGNShow #miriammargolyes #alexanderskarsgard #nicolacoughlan Follow us here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegrahamnortonshow/ Instagram:…
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December 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
drmowinckels.io
My #RPackageAdvent2025 recap is live! 📦✨ Get the complete guide to modern R package development: setup, docs, testing, CI/CD, and CRAN submission. All 25 days of tips, tools, and best practices in one place! Dive in! #RStats #RPackageDevelopment
Link: https://drmo.site/8ny3eU
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December 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
drmowinckels.io
Excited to share my R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025 summary! 🎁 All 25 days of modern R pkg dev in one guide. Master `usethis`, GitHub Actions, `pkgdown`, `testthat`, & CRAN prep. Level up your R packages! 🚀 #RStats #RPackageAdvent2025 #Rpkg https://drmo.site/8ny3eU
A festive digital illustration features the blue R logo wearing a red Santa hat with white trim on the left. To its right stands a green Christmas tree made entirely of curly braces arranged in a triangular shape. White and light-blue %>% pipe symbols float across a dark blue, starry background like snowflakes. A speech bubble above the R logo says “Ho Ho Ho! 📦” in red text. At the bottom, white text reads: “R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025” and below it, “25 Days of Coding Magic • Dec 1–25.
December 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
drmowinckels.io
We Made It! 🎉

25 days. Complete modern R package development workflow. From usethis automation to CRAN submission. You have everything you need!

#rstats #CRAN #RPackageAdvent2025 #ThatsAWrap
December 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
drmowinckels.io
Day 25: CRAN Submission Checklist and cran-comments.md

Final steps for successful CRAN submission.

Pro Tip: Be proactive about communicating any unusual aspects of your package to CRAN reviewers.

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025
December 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
drmowinckels.io
Happy Christmas to all who celebrate, and to those who don't I hope you get to enjoy the end of the year.

We celebrated just the three of us, with a quiet and lovely celebration. After two Christmases that have been quite difficult, it was nice to have a semblance of normality.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM