Thank you everyone to joined us last night at our event with @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 💜

We learned so much about the conception & growth of R Dev Days and how #RLadies have contributed!

Sign up for R Dev Day in Melb now!
🔗 www.meetup.com/r-contributo...

#rstats #WomeninSTEM

Excited to host Dr Heather Turner, leading #RStats developer & statistician! 🎉

She’ll share insights from #RDevDays: collaborative events where contributors, including women & gender minorities, work on base #R, dashboards & more.

🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/F2qikpO
📆 12 Nov, 5.30-7.30pm
📍 TBA

Starting right now !!! Join us to celebrate our 9th birthday with SSA! #rstats #rladies

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for ✨ Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly with Dr. Kirsty McCann!

We loved seeing the community come together to explore interactive data viz. 🚀📊

#rstats #ggplot2 #ggplotly

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Lauren! A senior postdoc at WEHI, she uses #RStats #TidyModelling for disease research across humans and animals, with a special focus on #PlasmodiumVivax and #OneHealth approaches!

#CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience #InfectiousDisease

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Mansi! A product-focused bioinformatician at Mass Dynamics, she uses #RStats—especially #dplyr & #ggplot2—for data processing and visualisation to power proteomics and drive data-driven healthcare innovation!

#CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Caitlin: @caitbourke.bsky.social! She’s a post-doc researching malaria in Madagascar, using #RStats &#tidyverse for bioinformatics, visualisation & data analysis across transcriptomics, genomics, immunology & epidemiology!

#CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

Meet our R-Ladies Melb secretary Dr Sehrish Kanwal! A senior bioinformatician at UMCCR, she uses #RStats for cancer genomics, clinical data analysis & visualisations with #ggplot2—while championing equity, mentorship & open science via #rOpenSci & #RLadiesMelb
#CommitteeSpotlight #WomenInSTEM

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Kathleenl! She’s a post-doc at WEHI using #RStats for bioinformatics, data cleaning, and creating stunning visuals with her favourite package, #ggplot2!

#RLadiesMelbourne #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

Code acting up again? Take a moment to reset with the {praise} R package - sometimes a little encouragement goes a long way! 💻✨ #RStats

🔗 Read more about r-ladies' own R package here: github.com/rladies/praise

Meet our R-Ladies Melb VP Daidai (danyangdai.bsky.social)! She's a third-year PhD candidate using #RStats for data wrangling, visualisation, reproducible reporting, and Shiny apps: her go-to packages are #tidyverse and #rmarkdown!
#RLadiesMelbourne #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

Meet our R-Ladies Melb President ‪Dionne: @dionnecargy.bsky.social‬! They're a whiz at epidemiology and population genetics. Her favourite #RStats packages are #tidyverse, #poppr and #shiny.fluent! Ask them anything! #RLadiesMelbourne #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

We had our 2024-25 AGM today and we would love to announce our leadership for 2025-26 R-Ladies+ Melbourne: 🥳
- President: @dionnecargy.bsky.social
- Vice-President: @danyangdai.bsky.social
- Secretary: Sehrish Kanwal
- Treasurer: Kathleen Zeglinski
We look forward to hosting some great events!

🚨✨Happening now! Join us to learn more about PGEforge and see the application of epidemiological methods using R in action! Meet up link in the comments ✨ #RLadies #Genomics #Malaria

Did you know that Florence Nightingale, nurse & data viz pioneer, used stats to show poor sanitation killed soldiers in Crimea? Her "Rose Diagram" - which showed monthly causes of mortality - was so impactful, it drove real change in hospital practices. #WomenInSTEM #IWD #DataScienceHistory #RLadies

And we have our beautiful mugs to prove it!

We would like to say a massive thank you to both Elisa and Lauren for speaking for us tonight, and a huge thank you to #DiUS for their hospitality and hosting us.

Thank you all for coming and we hope you learned and had as much fun as we did ! ✨💜

We look forward to seeing you soon! #RStats