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Yani Bellini Saibene
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I share my experience teaching computational skills and building welcoming communities of practice for programming scientists | rOpenSci Community Manager | 
R-Ladies Project Lead | 30 Years in Education | 24 Years as Researcher | Spanglish | #RStats
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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · Aug 12
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I had the honor of giving a keynote at #useR2025 🎉 at Duke University: “We R Together – How to learn, use, and improve a programming language as a community” 💜

Slides here 👉 docs.google.com/presentation...

Video here: www.youtube.com/live/CTTvTQ-...

#rstats #useR2025
WeRTogether-useR!2025Keynote
We R Together Yanina Bellini Saibene useR! 2025 Duke University How to learn, use and improve a programming language as a community
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grimalkina.bsky.social
This feels like, well yeah to me. The state of the literature is so poor.
numcog.bsky.social Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · 3h
New: "Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Learning: A Meta-Meta-Analysis" by Wagenmakers and colleagues revealing evidence for "severe publication bias and extreme between-study heterogeneity" in existing meta-analyses of the effects of AI on learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
February 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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ethanlandes.bsky.social
@lastpositivist.bsky.social

One of these fundamentally flawed papers showing AI "improving" educational outcome just surfaced today

x.com/desimonemart...
The study analyzes the effects of an after-school program in which students interacted with a large language model twice per week to improve their English skills, following the national curriculum. The intervention was implemented in Benin City, Nigeria, us- ing Copilot, an LLM powered by the GPT-4 model at the time of implementation. Once the period to express interest closed, the randomization was carried out using sim- ple random sampling without replacement6 among interested students to assign them either to the treatment group, which participated in the program, or to the control group, which did not receive any intervention but continued their regular learning in the class- room.
May 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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tiffanytimbers.bsky.social
"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874

A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!
Ten simple rules for teaching data science
Teaching data science presents unique challenges and opportunities that cannot be fully addressed by simply borrowing pedagogical strategies from its parent disciplines of statistics and computer scie...
arxiv.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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beesm.bsky.social
Any #rstats folks interested in testing out a package for SQL linting in R workflows?

I made a package that wraps SQLFluff into R with reticulate. I've tried it on a few machines I own but would appreciate some experimentation before I try to send it to CRAN.

github.com/brendensm/sq...
GitHub - brendensm/sqlfluffr: R Wrapper to the SQL Linter and Formatter 'sqlfluff'
R Wrapper to the SQL Linter and Formatter 'sqlfluff' - brendensm/sqlfluffr
github.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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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
yabellini.bsky.social
Programa de campeon(a|e)s de @ropensci.org
Erik comparte su experiencia y cómo el programa le permitió mejorar su paquete y sus habilidades como programador
vimeo.com/1160231637

📅 Aplica antes del 20 de febrero: ropensci.org/es/blog/2026...
👉 Evento completo: ropensci.org/es/commcalls...

#RStats
Erik Navarro Delgado — Experiencia como Campeón
Erik comparte su experiencia en el programa y cómo le permitió llevar su proyecto a una nueva etapa dentro del ecosistema de ciencia abierta. 👉 Mira…
vimeo.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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ropensci.org
[blog] Throw-back Thursday!

We get to celebrate another 5-year anniversary!

Five years ago the targets package cleared rOpenSci Peer Review and was introduced by @landau 🎉

A successor to Will's equally popular drake package, targets quickly became a mainstream tool for reproducible pipelines […]
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hachyderm.io
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
yabellini.bsky.social
Hoy: Clínica de Aplicación para el Programa Campeon(e|a)s🧉
ropensci.org/events/clini...

Podés quedarte las 2 horas o solo el tiempo que necesites y podés sumarte en cualquier momento.

Vení a charlar sobre las dudas que tengas, sobre tu aplicación, tanto para mentor/a como para campeón/a.

#RStats
Clinica de Aplicación para el Programa de Campeon(e|a)s de rOpenSci
Espacio para preguntas sobre el programa de Campeon(e|a)s de rOpenSci y para trabajar en tu aplicación para ser parte del programa.
ropensci.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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sebkrantz.bsky.social
I'm excited to share the release and rOpenSci publication of dfms 1.0 (docs.ropensci.org/dfms), a high-performance, feature-rich implementation of Dynamics Factor Models for R, supporting mixed-frequency estimation and news decomposition for nowcasting. See also blog post: sebkrantz.github.io/Rblog/
Dynamic Factor Models for R
Efficient estimation of Dynamic Factor Models using the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm or Two-Step (2S) estimation, supporting datasets with missing data and mixed-frequency nowcasting applic...
docs.ropensci.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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frunobulax.bsky.social
🖍️ Quino, 1994
February 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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ropensci.org
🎉 ¡Se abrió el nuevo llamado al Programa de Campeones de rOpenSci!

César comparte qué significó ser parte del Programa de Campeones y cómo esta experiencia impulsó su desarrollo profesional y su proyecto.

https://vimeo.com/1160233787

📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta el 20 de febrero

Toda la […]
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hachyderm.io
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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rladiesmelb.bsky.social
We’re back for 2026! 💜
R-Ladies+ Melbourne is gearing up for a big year of events, learning, and community.
Stay tuned and see you soon! 👩‍💻📊 #RLadies #RStats #WomeninSTEM
February 3, 2026 at 10:02 PM
yabellini.bsky.social
I'm a GitHub Star again in 2026 ⭐
5 years now😎!

This recognition reflects the awesome communities I work with every day: generous and talented people who share knowledge, build in the open, and support each other’s growth.

Thanks to @github.com and to the communities I learn from & contribute to.
We’re thrilled to let you know that you have been chosen to be a GitHub Star for 2026. Thank you for all your continued work and dedication to supporting and influencing the entire GitHub community over the past 12 months! You are one of 80+ amazing GitHub Stars selected from the community of over 180+ million developers on GitHub! From creating content to giving us feedback to educating and sharing with your communities as they grow, you've played a tremendous role in helping users keep up with the rapid pace of change, and you’ve continued to be a shining light for many. Thank you for your passion to inspire, educate, and grow the community.
February 3, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
Excited to work more closely with rOpenSci! #rstats
February 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
yabellini.bsky.social
🎉 We’re excited to welcome Natalia da Silva and @andrew.heiss.phd as new editors for @ropensci.org’s Statistical Software Peer Review program!

Learn more about our new editors and the program 👉 ropensci.org/blog/2026/02...

#RStats #RSE #OpenScience #OpenData
Announcing New Statistical Software Peer Review Editors: Natalia Da Silvia and Andrew Heiss
Introducing two new editors for rOpenSci statistical software peer review
ropensci.org
February 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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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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mikemelton.bsky.social
Velvet-purple Coronet at @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia

#birds #hummingbirds #nature
A close-up of a dark hummingbird with iridescent green-blue feathers and a purple crown perched on a branch against a blurred background.
February 1, 2026 at 9:33 PM
yabellini.bsky.social
Todavía podés postular al programa de campeon(a|e)s #RStats

Hoy Diana cuenta cómo el programa la ayudó a consolidar su trabajo y a construir nuevas redes de colaboración.

vimeo.com/1160230339

Fecha límite, febrero 20: ropensci.org/es/blog/2026...
Evento completo: ropensci.org/es/commcalls...
Diana Garcia Cortes - Experiencia como campeona
Diana relata cómo el programa la ayudó a consolidar su trabajo en software científico abierto y a construir nuevas redes de colaboración. 👉…
vimeo.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:05 PM
yabellini.bsky.social
Programa de Campeon(a|e)s #RStats

@liomys.mx Comparte su experiencia como mentor y cómo el programa impulsa el crecimiento de proyectos y personas en investigación.
vimeo.com/1160232952

📅 Postula antes de febrero 20: ropensci.org/es/blog/2026...
Evento completo: ropensci.org/es/commcalls...
vimeo.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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norabar.bsky.social
El Programa de Referencia y Biobanco Genómico de la Población Argentina (PoblAr) pone en marcha la primera colecta de muestras en la Patagonia, en el Hospital
SAMIC de El Calafate.
👇
January 31, 2026 at 12:52 PM
yabellini.bsky.social
💫 ¡Llamado Abierto!

Hoy @goandre.bsky.social cuenta cómo su participación en el programa fortaleció su proyecto y la conectó con una comunidad internacional de software científico abierto.

📅 Postulaciones abiertas hasta febrero 20

Info: ropensci.org/es/blog/2026...

vimeo.com/1160229509

#RStats
Andrea Gomez Vargas - su experiencia
Hoy Andrea Gomez Vargas cuenta cómo su participación en el programa fortaleció su proyecto y la conectó con una comunidad internacional…
vimeo.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
yabellini.bsky.social
Porque es buena idea participar del programa de rOpenSci, por Francisco Cardozo, uno de nuestros mentores que ya ha participado dos veces.

📅Postulaciones abiertas hasta el 20 de febrero: ropensci.org/es/blog/2026...
👉 Mira el evento completo: ropensci.org/es/commcalls...
January 28, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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ropensci.org
Coworking and Office Hours next week!

Theme: Share your Positron setup!

Tuesday February 3rd 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC)

Join @noamross and @steffilazerte

- General coworking
- Setup Positron and explore extensions and custom settings
- Cowork independently on something related to R […]
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hachyderm.io
January 27, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
This is an important paper on social class barriers among faculty in academia.

First-generation college grads earn less and are placed at lower prestige institutions despite being just as productive as other faculty.

Faculty from upper class backgrounds are overplaced for their research records.
January 27, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
Oddly specific hallucinations: www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:43 PM