zoeturner.bsky.social
@zoeturner.bsky.social
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Today is the Pope's funeral. Let's talk about the practice of "SIN-EATING" 🧵

In 19th-century Britain, it was customary during a funeral to provide biscuits for mourners to take away. They were often wrapped and sealed in black wax. Here you see an example of a funeral biscuit wrapper from 1828. 1/8
April 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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PSA: Learning #datascience with others beats Googling error messages every time. 😅 We've all been there! Finding a community (like a #useR or #RLadies group) or study buddy can turn frustration into “aha!” moments. Team up and save yourself some time and angst. #rstats #BetterTogether
April 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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duck sorter
procedural animations
April 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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❗️Our next workshop will be on April 25th, 6 pm CEST on Dealing with Duplicate Data in R by @astroeringrand.bsky.social!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats #dataviz
April 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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🚀 R-Ladies+ is rebranding! We need a branding expert to design a fresh new look. Submit your proposal by April 15, 2025! 💜

👀 CFP: rladies.org/news/rebrand...
🔗 Apply now: airtable.com/apphrsts5Iru...

#rstats #rladies
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March 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Last month I did a little experiment.

I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.

The results were...interesting...

[Thread]
March 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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R-Ladies is doing a rebrand, and we are looking for designers to help us create a new brand book!

Help us reach designers that would like to work with us on this!

#design #branding
In order to better align with our mission to support all underrepresented genders in the R community, R-Ladies is re-branding to R-Ladies+! 💜 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️

✨ R-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ rladies.org/news/rebrand...
✨ Rebranding Call For Proposal rladies.org/news/rebrand...

#rstats #rladies
R-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ - R-Ladies Global
R-Ladies is a world-wide organization to promote gender diversity in the R community
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March 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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BUT it was a trick dataset and plotting the data revealed a gorilla! We found that students with a specific hypothesis were three times less likely to see the gorilla in the dataset. That means they didn’t even plot the data, which means they didn't take the first step towards exploring their data.
March 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The R-Ladies Philly 🔔 recording of Quarto with brand.yml by ✨@ivelasq3.bsky.social ✨ is now available on YouTube! 🎉 youtu.be/mTuhQ64P3qc?... #rstats #rladies 💜
Quarto with brand.yml with Isabella Velásquez
Slides: https://ivelasq-branded-quarto.share.connect.posit.cloud/Maintaining a consistent brand identity across data science outputs is essential for clear c...
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The Scottish have won the AI Wars.
March 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Last day to sign-up for this round of the rainbowR buddies scheme to be randomly paired with someone else LGBTQ+ who codes is #RStats (well, by 8am UTC on Monday Mar 3rd please)!
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
March 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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An upd report on our workshops for Ukraine series on #RStats, #Python & more. So far, we have raised >91k euro & the workshops have been attended by > 4100 ppl!
👇you can find more info on how you can help & a detailed report.
All info on workshops: bit.ly/3wBeY4S 1/n
March 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Anyone pledging that government digital services should be as good as the private sector should know that I've spent less than 5 mins successfully ordering a new driving licence and so far about 15 trying and failing to update my travel insurance policy
February 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday February 26th, 5pm 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
February 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Legendary hater Charles Darwin
February 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos
February 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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It's fantastic to see the #RLadies rotating curator programme back up and running! 💜

I really enjoyed curating when I did it 4 years ago, and I wrote a short blog post about it: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/curatin...

I'd highly recommend giving it a go if you're thinking about it! 💜

#RStats
January 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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🚨 Calling all R enthusiasts and conference veterans! 🚨
Volunteer as a reviewer with the R-Ladies Abstract Review Team! 💻🌟
Flexible commitment, big impact. 💪
See the news post 👉 https://buff.ly/4jpHdv4
Sign up here 👉 https://buff.ly/4gQMtWH
Thank you! 💜 #rstats #rladies
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January 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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📢 Don't forget to sign up to the first NHS-R Community event of 2025 - NHS-R Community Q&A with Posit Quarto team on Wed, Jan. 22nd, 2025!

events.nhsrcommunity.com/quarto-qa/
NHS-R Community Q&A with Posit Quarto team
Wed, Jan. 22nd, 2025
events.nhsrcommunity.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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We have only 2.4 hospital beds per 1000 people, compared to 7.8 in Germany, 5.8 in France & an OECD average of 5.0.

We also have 1 in 8 beds occupied by medically fit patients needing social care - an issue that Labour won’t definitively address until 2028 at the earliest. Simply disastrous. (2/2)
January 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Can't wait to welcome 150+ programming educators to the #EdinburghWinterSchool25 - Teaching Programming Across Disciplines. Our keynotes will be @felienne.bsky.social, Greg Wilson and @yabellini.bsky.social. Check out the full programme at pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/winter-schoo...
January 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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I enjoy the way that in this photo my cats look like a hip-hop duo quite a lot of people quite liked in 1996 who have made a comeback record, done an interview with a broadsheet newspaper and are attempting to prove they are still serious and relevant.
December 14, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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Some five-word horror stories for Friday the 13th:

Running out of tea bags
Someone talking in a lift
Unexpected knock on the door
Biscuit falling into your brew
Stuck on rail replacement bus
Forgetting to take an umbrella
Missing bin day before Christmas
Say a bit about yourself
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Extremely proud of my team who have been shortlisted in the Analysis in Government awards for communication for our Health trends in England tool, designed to open up public health data to a broader audience. We used Quarto by @posit.co to build it. fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-repor...
December 13, 2024 at 9:47 AM