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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Level up R workflows with @shikokuchuo.net 🚀 Charlie will give us a practical tour of the open source stack he created to improve parallel computing 📦 Join our Stats Computing + Data Vis Webinar and learn from the best💡 🗓️ THU 22 Oct ⌚️18:00 AEDT | 07:00 UTC 📌 Register statsoc.org.au/event-6817896

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

At @rainbowr.org, we organise monthly meet-ups for rainbow folks and allies to catch up and discuss their going-ons and latest #R projects! 🌍 The Europe/London meeting is on last Wed of every month 🌏 The APAC one is on the last Friday of every month More info here: rainbowr.org/meetups.html 🌈

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

my fellow #Rstats friends - would any multilingual folks have any tips on changing the language for R/RStudio (including the menus) for a given session without changing the system settings? The goal is find a frictionless workflow to facilitate teaching 😊🍎 (1/2)

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

See you folks very soon! Excited to end the afternoon chatting with fellow R nerds!

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

📮You've got mail! 💌 We are thrilled to invite you to "Where do R packages live?" a discussion with folks from the #R foundation, #CRAN #Bioconductor #R-universe and @posit.co. Let's learn from our panel about the ins-and-outs of where you might want to create a home for your R software 📦 1/n

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Just over 1 week until our panel discussion! 💬👏 The event is ✨free✨ and ✨open✨ to all! Register today! 📆 Wed 20 May 2026 ⏰ 5:00 PM AEST | 7:00 AM UTC 🔗 statsoc.org.au/event-6653060 Looking forward to nerdy chats with @visnut.bsky.social @smped.bsky.social @jeroenooms.bsky.social

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Had a wonderful time tuning in to the speakers 👏 Super awesome to see such a diverse line up! I particularly loved Harriet's doodle of @hadley.nz. The earrings are on point 🤌 #dataviz #ggplot2 #opensource

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

📊 2025 Di Cook Award webinar: hear the winner and two highly commended applicants present innovative open-source statistical software, methods, and ideas. 💡 ⌚ TODAY Wed 8 Apr 2026, 7–8pm AEST, online. 🎟️ Register: www.statsoc.org.au/event-6618285 @visnut.bsky.social @deanmarchiori.bsky.social

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Statistical Society of Australia - Di Cook Award seminar

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Posit @posit.co · 02/02/2026

Good news: The posit::conf(2026) Call for Talks has been extended to Friday, February 20! Join us in Houston to share your work with the R & Python community. 🎤 Speakers receive: Professional coaching, free conference pass, travel assistance Submit your 20-min talk proposal: pos.it/conf-talk-2026

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rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 03/02/2026

rOpenSci Coworking and Office Hours coming up in an hour! Today's Theme: Share your Positron setup! with cohost @noamross Tuesday February 3rd 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC) ropensci.org/events/coworking-2026-… #RStats @rstats@a.gup.pe

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Social Coworking and Office Hours - Share your Positron setup!

Cowork or discuss the perfect Positron setup with our cohost or other participants.

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'm excited to inform you: @hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀 I regret to inform you: I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻 #rstats #databs

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 02/02/2026

📣 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

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rainbowR Conference 2026

Feb. 25 – 26, 2026

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

For the past couple of months I have been working the `heritable` R package with @emitanaka.org 🧬📦 A one-stop shop for calculating heritability from mixed models! Read more: anu-aagi.github.io/news/posts/2...

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A simple but lovely idea borrowed from the R user community ☺️

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

#OceaniaR2025 has kicked off! We have wonderful attendees from the UK, South America and the South Pacific 🌎

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We are thrilled to welcome fellow R nerds to the OceaniaR hackathon this Sunday on ANU campus. A few more tickets left if you would like to join us! @deanmarchiori.bsky.social @njtierney.aus.social.ap.brid.gy @visnut.bsky.social statsocaus.github.io/oceaniar-hac...

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International Biometric Society Australasian Region @biometricsociety.org.au · 03/11/2025

Coming to the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting & need a little R&R? 🌿 🚨 Our social activity sign-ups closes this Friday! 🚨 Whether you want to get out and see the wildlife 🦘, enjoy fine wines 🍷or stretch your legs 🚶, we hope you will enjoy your time in Canberra. 🔗: bit.ly/4oSSMwL

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Issue 19 of RDM Weekly is out! 🎃 - Handbook for Reproduction and Replication Studies @forrt.bsky.social - A Crowdsourced Effort to Develop a Lab Manual Template @improvingpsych.org - So, What’s the Deal with rlang, Anyway? @veerle.hypebright.nl and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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International Biometric Society Australasian Region @biometricsociety.org.au · 28/10/2025

Registration for the Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting is closing in just over one week! We have an incredible line up of workshops and talks and hope to see you in Canberra soon!! Register here! membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

@emitanaka.org talks about key design principles from #tidyverse and how we can improve plant breeding software 😎

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Have an open-source project that needs a bit of TLC? Want to meet cool R folks and build capacity within the community? Why not propose a project at the upcoming OceaniaR hackathon held in Canberra Nov 23! github.com/StatSocAus/o... @deanmarchiori.bsky.social

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🌾 We had a great time talking about initial data analysis, chi-square goodness of fit and glms with @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social @emitanaka.org 📊🍫👩‍💻 Thanks for having us @futurecropsau.bsky.social 🙏

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Andrea @goandre.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined in with their hex photo. It was a pleasure to be part of R Dev Day and to have presented R in Buenos Aires 💜. #RStats #RDevDay

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Was wonderful to reconnect with @goandre.bsky.social again after meeting at #posit::conf(2024). Check out her incredible leadership in kick starting R en Buenos Aires community👏 r-consortium.org/posts/r-en-b...

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

It makes my heart so warm to see our shared love for R bring us together 🫶

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Very excited to be reunited with @ellakaye.co.uk + Heather Turner to help out in the #RDevDay! Lots of small wins with @emitanaka.org and others on making R manuals pretty, a continuing project I worked on at last years R Dev Day in Austria 🫶

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Re-sharing my starter pack so I can update my pinned post If you're a statistician, data scientist, or someone doing statsy or data sciencey things in Australia or Aotearoa (New Zealand) and want to be on the list, just let me know! go.bsky.app/3wERdAo

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Join us folks, we are a lovely bunch 💜

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Come along to OceaniaR in Canberra! Why? Because we'll talk about fun things you can do with #rstats all day, and work on fun projects. It's an inclusive space, with a great mix of those newer to R, as well as experienced users, too! Some examples from last year:

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International Biometric Society Australasian Region @biometricsociety.org.au · 07/08/2025

📊 Go beyond linear! Learn to model complex relationships with generalized nonlinear models in R using the gnm package with ‪@heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy‬ 🗓️ Monday 24 Nov 🕙 9am – 5pm 🔗 Register now: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #BIBC2025

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🎉 Join us for the first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you're new or a regular, come connect, unwind, and build community. #Rstats #Rladies 📍 Father’s Office 🕕 August 14, 6pm 🍻 Arrive on time for happy hour! www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...

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R-Ladies Social Night, Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Come unwind and connect with like-minded people at our first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you’ve been to one of our events in the past or you’re just starting out, this e

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Prefer to enjoy nature with wine and cheese, then the Clonkilla wine tasting tour might be the one for you 🍇💜 See you there! #BIB2025 membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

There is one *spot* at Tidbinbilla where everyone says there is a good chance to spot these cuties. In my own experience, I've had a hit rate of 2/3 times 😉 🎯 See you there! (Bring binoculars if you have em!) membership.biometricsociety.org.au/event-6157046

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Calling all stats nerds to the heart of Australia to discuss all things #Biometrics! 🐨 at the upcoming Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting #BIB25 ⚡ Abstract submission has been extended! We'll see you there!

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

@emitanaka.org has been upskilling our team on all things plant breeding. Design, stats, math and cake

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The cake was grains themed!!!! 🌾 brains, belly and heart full. Thank you so much @emitanaka.org 🫶

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Do my residuals look okay? @weihaolipatrick.bsky.social showed off his R package / Shiny app {autovi} for making visual inferences on residual plots! We also had rainbow cake to make us happy, it also made the slides rainbow. Thank you Elle!! 📈🌈 #BDSI #dataviz 🔗 tengmcing.github.io/autovi/

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

And I'm excited to see that it uses the {galah} package to get data from GBIF and the ALA too! See what you can do with {galah} by visiting the package website, or checking on the tutorials on ALA Labs galah.ala.org.au/R/ labs.ala.org.au/posts/ #rstats @rowdynerd.bsky.social

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Biodiversity Data from the GBIF Node Network

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, <https://www.gbif.org>) sources data from an international network of data providers, known as nodes. Several of these nodes - the "living atlases" ...

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This mobile-friendly & R-friendly app lets you create species checklists for a specified area 📋🐦🦘🌱 It uses global and national data (from GBIF & ALA) to make a list comprehensive & fast! Cool new tool from an awesome group of people made with #Shiny & #rstats🧪🌏 unsw.shinyapps.io/infinitylists/

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Infinity Lists

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳 @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social

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Shandiya Balasubramaniam 🍉 @shandiya.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Excited to be at #ICCB2025 in 2 weeks! * Sunday 15 workshop: Introducing galah: the Atlas of Living Australia's R Interface for Accessing Biodiversity Data with @rowdynerd.bsky.social * Monday 16 talk: Supporting Scientists and Decision-makers to use Biodiversity Data #conservation #rstats 🧪🌏

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Super excited to join forces with to solve crop breeding problems!!! Let’s go! 🌾🐝😎

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Bittersweet feelings finishing a postdoc and starting a new one 🌦️ I wrote a little blog reflecting on some highlights from the past four years 😌 fontikar.github.io/blog/farewel...

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An ode to the forest – Fonti Kar

In the flurry of fixed termed contracts, close-knit teams and solving problems together, something magical happens 💫

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This is the way. Join us R friends 🦾

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Calling all #rstats friends in Australia/Oceania! Exciting news! Fonti Kar (@fontikar.bsky.social) and I are forming a "C Study Group for R Contributors" in 2025. It's like getting skills to help build the Millennium Falcon of programming languages! 1/n

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