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Hanne Oberman
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PhD candidate in Utrecht @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social | they/them | rstats | missing data | dataviz | open science @opensciutrecht.bsky.social | @rainbowr.org 🌈 | hanneoberman.github.io
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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · Oct 29
(re-)introducing myself!
- open scientist
- (missing) data nerd
- #rstats developer
- rainbowR.org organizer
- activist
- teacher
banner image with an avatar, and some logos. the avatar has short blond hair and a happy expression. the logos include the R packages mice and GG mice, the open science community utrecht, climate stripes, and the dutch activist group higher education in action
oberman.bsky.social
Scientists often don't think about communication goals: "I want to make a podcast", and then make a podcast. But what is the goal of your #SciComm?
- @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
Presentation by Ionica Smeets: communication goals
October 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
rainbowr.org
🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday July 23rd, 4pm UTC 🌈

- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻

➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
rainbowR zoom meet-up: Wednesday July 23rd, 4 pm UTC. Sign up via rainbowR.org/meetups
July 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
cameronpat.bsky.social
my supervisors whenever they get a draft from me:
pengzell.bsky.social Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Jul 18
i'm sorry my review is late
i meant to read it weeks ago
but the writing
was actively hostile to comprehension
each paragraph
a slow erosion
of my will to live
July 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
nowherelab.bsky.social
We are Nowhere Lab 👋

nowherelab.com

Anyone from any field is welcome to join who doesn't have a lab but would like the lab meeting experience!

🍃 July-September meetings
📆 Every week on WEDNESDAY
⏰ 3.30-4.30pm (UK)
🌐 Remote (email priyasilverstein at gmail dot com to join)
nowherelab.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
rainbowr.org
🌈 🌐 rainbowR conference: online, early 2026 🌐 🌈

Are you LGBTQIA+, do you code in R, and would you like to get involved in rainbowR’s first-ever conference? We are looking for people to join our conference organising committee!

➡️ rainbowr.org/conference
🗓️ 1st meeting: July 9, 4pm UTC
Conference – rainbowR
Join our conference organising committee! See our conference page for more info.
rainbowr.org
July 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
youngmetascience.bsky.social
We had a great time at our session at #metascience2025 on Monday! We got a lot of new members and connections that joined our community over the last days.

Missed our talk, and want to join PYMS or learn more? Find one of our board members at the last day of the conference!
July 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
penders.bsky.social
If it weren't for Andy Sterling and @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, today's #metascience2025 plenaries would have centred on Ioannidis' zombie numbers and Google's PR (which when challenged was protected by one of the most elitist voices on stage). Thanks you bringing something worth thinking about.
July 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
debruine.bsky.social
It was all just vibes! But what shocked me even more was promoting the lab leak theory 🤯

(The podcast “If Books Could Kill” has a recent very good discussion of the evidence around this theory and the political forces pushing it)
A panel with John Ioannides speaking in fromt of a slide that reads: "Is science currently overall more beneficial or harmful to humans?" In 2005 "Undoubtedly yes!" In 2025 "I hope so, but I am not so sure" See conflicts of interest (?), SARS-CoV-2 from a lab (?), lockdowns (?), loss of trust, challenge to Mertonian values (disinterestedness, communality, universalism, organized skepticism)
July 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
drbeth.bsky.social
I'm sorry but you can't come to a #metascience2025 conference and do slide after slide comparing 2005 and 2025 without a single source.

Also, I can think of positive reasons for some of the things he's promoting as bad e.g. retractions.

Is it just me that's sitting here spectacularly unimpressed?
July 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
oberman.bsky.social
What is ‘Open Science’? Or, how is Open Science operationalised in survey research? Come talk to me at the #metascience2025 poster session!
Academic poster. Available as PDF via https://hanneoberman.github.io/presentations/2025/METASCIENCE/Metascience.pdf
July 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
debruine.bsky.social
I'll be giving an unconference session at #MetaScience today at 14:00 on Papercheck. It will be a workshop on using and creating modules to detect (and correct) scientific practice and reporting. Come along if you're interested in how to use or contribute. No coding expertise required beyond using R
July 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
jbakcoleman.bsky.social
The intense embrace of LLMs at metascience 2025 is a recipe for handing over the reigns of scientific decision making to private interests and governments.
June 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
oberman.bsky.social
"We should talk about 'opening science' as opposed to 'open science'" - Henriikka Mustajoki #metascience
June 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
oberman.bsky.social
"we need more scientists to start doing politics" #metascience
METASCIENCE panel in lecture hall
June 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
oberman.bsky.social
Who else is sceptic about the UK's use of AI to assess research grant proposals? #metascience
lecture hall full of people listening to the UK minister of science at METASCIENCE
June 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
thomvolker.bsky.social
After two weeks, I'm finally done!

In this post, I explain different approaches for solving linear regression in R: directly, using QR, singular value and Cholesky decompositions, and do some benchmarking for comparison with in-built approaches.

thomvolker.github.io/blog/2506_re...
June 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
rainbowr.org
Sign-up for the next round of the rainbowR buddies scheme is open until Mar 2nd! Pairs will be introduced on Mar 3rd 🌈👯‍♂️

If you're LGBTQ+ and code in #RStats, and want an opportunity to connect with someone else in the community (through a random pairing), this is for you 😃

rainbowr.org/buddies
A promotional image for 'rainbowR buddies' program with a vibrant rainbow striped background. The main text is displayed on a navy blue rectangle in the centre. The word 'rainbowR' appears at the top in multi-colored letters, followed by 'Buddies!' in yellow. Three bullet points explain: buddy pairs are randomly assigned, opportunity to forge connection, and chat about R or anything else! The bottom shows 'Sign-up by Mon Jun 2nd’ in green text, followed by website information 'rainbowr.org/buddies' in blue.
May 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
weare.rladies.org
One of the warmest and most empowering communities I’ve found in the R world is @rainbowr.org 💜

✨ Their mission?

To connect, support, and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community and to spread awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism. 🌈📊

#RStats #RLadies
rainbowR
rainbowr.org
May 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
weare.rladies.org
This week’s #RLadies curator is @njokinjuki.bsky.social 🎉
Njoki Njuki, Data Analyst at University of Oxford. They say, “Using R for comparing resource use between source data and a common data model to assess differences in healthcare utilisation and costs. Also, learning Quarto and REDCap to improve my reporting and data management skills."
May 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
rainbowr.org
🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday April 23th, 4pm UTC 🌈

- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻

➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
Flyer for the event: meet-up details on rainbow-striped background. rainbowR Zoom meet-up Weds April 23th, 4pm UTC - connect with community members - rainbowR updates - R chat and informal 'show and tell' More info and sign-up details at rainbowr.org/meetups
April 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
oberman.bsky.social
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kastor.sh Kastor @kastor.sh · Apr 16
software developers are so full of shit

you can’t “merge” my “branch” to “upstream” because it hasn’t been “linted”?

you just made all of those words up
April 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
oberman.bsky.social
⌛ just 3 more hours until this amazing event! 🌈📚
rainbowr.org rainbowR @rainbowr.org · Apr 9
Very excited for the final session of our book club tomorrow, where we'll be joined by @kevinguyan.bsky.social to discuss the conclusion of Queer Data, and for a Q&A.

Thursday April 10th, 4pm UTC.

See rainbowr.org/book-club for more details and Zoom link.
A colorful promotional graphic for the "rainbowR QUEER DATA BOOK CLUB" with a rainbow background. The top of the image features the "rainbowR" logo in multicolored letters inside a white rectangle. Below this, on a dark blue/navy background, large text reads "QUEER DATA BOOK CLUB" with "QUEER DATA" in pink and "BOOK CLUB" in yellow. On the right side is the book cover for "Queer Data" by Kevin Guyan, which has a pink title and subtitle "Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action" on a design with torn paper elements in various colors. Additional information includes "Author Q&A: Apr 10, 4pm UTC" in green text and a website URL "rainbowr.org/book-club" in blue text at the bottom.
April 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Reposted by Hanne Oberman
rainbowr.org
Very excited for the final session of our book club tomorrow, where we'll be joined by @kevinguyan.bsky.social to discuss the conclusion of Queer Data, and for a Q&A.

Thursday April 10th, 4pm UTC.

See rainbowr.org/book-club for more details and Zoom link.
A colorful promotional graphic for the "rainbowR QUEER DATA BOOK CLUB" with a rainbow background. The top of the image features the "rainbowR" logo in multicolored letters inside a white rectangle. Below this, on a dark blue/navy background, large text reads "QUEER DATA BOOK CLUB" with "QUEER DATA" in pink and "BOOK CLUB" in yellow. On the right side is the book cover for "Queer Data" by Kevin Guyan, which has a pink title and subtitle "Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action" on a design with torn paper elements in various colors. Additional information includes "Author Q&A: Apr 10, 4pm UTC" in green text and a website URL "rainbowr.org/book-club" in blue text at the bottom.
April 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM