The deadline has been extended to October 15 for your CAA2025 papers! Since the proceedings will go through our free and transparent process, do not forget that you *must* share data and scripts if you have some.
Everything is explained here: 2025.caaconference.org/proceedings/
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The virtual useR! 2025 event is happening tomorrow (August 1). There's still time to register. Claim your spot, for free, before time runs out!

The program: user2025.r-project.org/program/virt...
Registration: user2025.r-project.org/register

#useR2025 #rstats

ICYMI: In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal for 1.5 million USD to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program, and were extremely pleased to learn that the proposal was recommended for funding.

However...

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday June 25th, 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

If I started using the term "Gosset's t-test", would that cause confusion?

📢 Attention researchers from @unileiden.bsky.social and @TUDelft, register for the next Data Carpentry for Social Sciences!!
📅 Dates: Tuesday 1 & Wednesday 2 July (09:00 - 17:00 hrs)
📌 Location: TU Delft Library - @tudelftlibrary.bsky.social
📝 Registrations: edu.nl/mpf4f
Register before 23 June!

Every scientific institute should follow this path. There is no moral stance for spending so much public money on bad software that sacrifices your sovereignty. Word/Excel are not the worst of it. e.g. The Max Planck Society spends millions of Euros annually for shitty MS calendar/email.

You can’t learn #rstats just by reading books or watching videos of other people writing R code. You will learn faster if you find some data that you are curious about and use your new coding skills to answer a question about it.

How to find fun data to play with....

I couldn't resist this week's #TidyTuesday dataset.

Here's the top 10 pokemon with the most hit points (HP) from the first generation (the only one that matters). I tried to make it look like health bars by layering `geom_segment`s.

Code here: github.com/bbartholdy/t...

🦄SPOTLIGHT ON #datastewards w @angelicamaineri.bsky.social @odissei.bsky.social: FAIR, RDM & Open Science are no checkboxes, but practices that are meant to accelerate scientific discovery & impact, for which we need their active contribution." tdcc.nl/spotlight-on... Series: tdcc.nl/category/spo...

The call to move away from Bug Tech solutions is growing.

Here's an open letter from staff @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

www.uu.nl/en/opinion/o...

Has anyone else noticed that GitHub add-ons and file storage have disappeared from existing OSF project pages? What's going on @cos.io?

i’ve been wanting to play more with quarto’s closeread recently. it’s such an interesting storytelling technique and fairly simple to get started with 👀

closeread.dev

1/3 New recommendation: Lasse van den Dikkenberg and @alexbrandsen.nl (2025). Using Text Mining to Search for Neolithic Vlaardingen Culture Sites in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Delta. v2 peer-reviewed and recommended by @pciarchaeology.bsky.social doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #Archaeology 🏺🧪

Reminder: we're hiring! Join our team at
@4turesearchdata.bsky.social as a Training Coordinator (Research Data Netherlands) and help develop a national training platform for data professionals. Application deadline extended to 21 February: careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-Tr... #FAIRdata #OpenScience

Actually, I believe that's the dolphins warning us about the end of the world

I finally got around to writing up a summary of the unconference I organised in November.

Thanks to co-authors Esther Plomp, Alex Brandsen, Ronald Visser, Pascal Flohr, and Andrea Titolo!
#OpenScience #Archaeology

openworking.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/o...

📢 New blog post available on The Bioarchaeologist's Guide!

Title: (To) Plotting Dental Inventory with ggplot2

bioarch.guide/posts/blog
#Rstats #dentalanth

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.