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Research Software Alliance @researchsoftware.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The IRSC26 program is live! www.researchsoft.org/irsc/program/ Keynotes by @rivaquiroga.bsky.social & Stefano Zacchiroli, BoFs, talks, lightning talks, plenary discussions & community reflections, and more! Join us 7–8 Sept 2026 in Sheffield, UK or online. #IRSC26 #ResearchSoftware

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Research Software Alliance

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RLadies+ @rladies.org · 11/05/2026

We listened. We reflected. We evolved. Meet RLadies+. A more inclusive identity for our global community. Because belonging matters. 🔗 Read more about the rebrand: rladies.org/news/2026/re...

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

After the British museum theft and now the Louvre heist, the premise of Euro-custodianship of global south heritage is more than debatable. Return the possessions to their community custodians.

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 22/09/2025

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

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Interested in a rainbowR Conference?

rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...

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RLadies+ @rladies.org · 12/09/2025

R Developer Day at University of Warwick brought together R-Ladies from around the world 🌎. Spaces like this remind us how powerful our global community is when we learn, collaborate and build together. Thanks to Heather Turner for making this possible 💜 #RDevDay #rladies

“Smiling group of 14 R-Ladies at R Dev Day, posing together in a meeting room with a whiteboard and chairs in the background.

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 23/08/2025

One of the best short papers I've read in a long time, by @jonathanzong.com: "Using real names of disabled participant-contributors to practice citational justice in accessibility" This piece is stupendous because it is *practical* and not just a methods section in an otherwise larger project.

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Using Real Names of Disabled Participant-Contributors to Practice Citational Justice in Accessibility

In accessibility research involving human subjects, researchers conventionally anonymize their research participants to protect privacy. However, a lack of intentionality about who to publicly acknowl...

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

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Arielle Bennett @arielleb.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

✨Calling all academic coders! Share your views on open source in academia ✨ TL;DR 🚀Survey on contributing to open source projects in academia 👉 southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... ⏰ Approx 20 mins. 📅 Closes 30 September 🌍 Open to anyone in academia, anywhere in the world (1/6)

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 07/07/2025

🌈 🌐 rainbowR conference: online, early 2026 🌐 🌈 Are you LGBTQIA+, do you code in R, and would you like to get involved in rainbowR’s first-ever conference? We are looking for people to join our conference organising committee! ➡️ rainbowr.org/conference 🗓️ 1st meeting: July 9, 4pm UTC

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Conference – rainbowR

Join our conference organising committee! See our conference page for more info.

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The Turing Way @turingway.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

🔥 Save the date 🔥 "What does Governance mean to us in Research and Open Science?" 📅 30 June 2025, 15 - 16:30 UTC+1 (UK time) Featuring @npch.bsky.social, @simonhettrick.bsky.social, @rivaquiroga.bsky.social, @oscarseip.bsky.social & @malvikasharan.bsky.social Sign-up: forms.gle/d2vuQcpoXJpD

Hand-drawn image by scriberia is on the right of the digital poster: three people are sitting around a fire whose flames form the words “The Fireside Chat”. They are holding speech bubbles on sticks in lieu of marshmallows.

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RLadies+ @rladies.org · 14/03/2025

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

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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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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

🔍 2+ years after publishing, have the FAIR principles for Research Software been useful & usable? What is your experience? Survey closes Fri 7 Mar, and results will come week of Apr 7th. Thanks to all those who have already responded to this community review. forms.gle/sRhRQD4gWBQWzcGS7

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

I set up a starter pack with #PyLadies on Bluesky - if you're also here and want to be included, let me know! I'm hoping to find more PyLadies over here ✨ bsky.app/starter-pack... @pyladies-bot.bsky.social

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 28/10/2024

Check out the new `pastum` extension for Positron (and VS Code I guess)—it's {datapasta} for Positron! It works with both R (base R, tibble, and data.frame) and Python (pandas and polars) github.com/atsyplenkov/... #rstats #python

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Super excited to announce the lauch of the Journal of Electronic Publishing's new special issue on Multilingual Publishing & Scholarship, co-edited by Janneke Adema Alyssa Arbuckle and yours truly. Out today journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/26...

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The Journal of Electronic Publishing | Issue: Issue: 1(27) Special Issue: Multilingual Publishing and Scholarship (2024)

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Mike Morrison @mikemorrison.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Less is more in your presentation slides, illustrated in an eye tracking study. Shown only one bullet point, students consistently read the whole bullet. Shown lots of bullet points, students skimmed and inconsistently read. 1 min video summary: youtube.com/shorts/z--JA...

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

More new work! "Data Feminism for AI," with @kanarinka.bsky.social, which reflects our current thinking about how and why data feminism remains deeply relevant for AI research: arxiv.org/abs/2405.01286

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Data Feminism for AI

This paper presents a set of intersectional feminist principles for conducting equitable, ethical, and sustainable AI research. In Data Feminism (2020), we offered seven principles for examining...

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

The Association for Computers and the Humanities invites proposals for #ACH2024, our virtual annual conference being held Nov 6-8, 2024. Proposals are due May 20. Learn more at ach2024.ach.org.

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DH 2024 @dh2024.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

We are pleased to share that ADHO bursaries are now open for DH2024! Students and early career scholars who have submissions accepted for presentation at DH2024 are eligible to apply. dh2024.adho.org/adho-bursari...

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ADHO Bursaries Now Open – DH2024

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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Hi #rstats and #python #datascience friends! Once again #Posit will provide opportunity scholarships to individuals worldwide who are members of an underrepresented group so they can attend posit::conf(2024). Apply by March 22nd! More info in the conf announcement here posit.co/blog/posit-c...

An illustration of people helping each other climb a ladder, with text that text about Posit's conference in 2024, especially that Posit is offering scholarships to attend the conference.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

hi this is a humble reminder that if you are a humanities graduate student or early career scholar with questions like "do I belong here" or "what am I doing with my life" or "why am I so sad" I have a workbook that might help. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

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Finding Your Purpose

Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate t...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

It should not go unnoticed that the very same billionaires conducting the Plagiarism Crusade against non-white, female university presidents have their entire life savings tied up in a Plagiarism Machine.

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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products

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DH 2024 @dh2024.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Hi everyone - you asked and we listened! The CFP deadline will be extended until Sunday, December 10th at 11:59PM EST so you have a few more weekdays and one more weekend to get everything polished up. We look forward to seeing all your amazing proposals via www.conftool.pro/dh2024/ #dh2024

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Naomi Wells @naswells.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

The Programming Historian’s English edition are recruiting editors, and are keen to engage editors with knowledge of French, Spanish and/or Portuguese: programminghistorian.org/en/vacancies

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 05/10/2023

For anyone who's worked on corpus building and wished there were some way to get a data dump from Worldcat, the shadow library world has now gone and done it.

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1.3B Worldcat scrape & data science mini-competition

Anna’s Archive scraped all of Worldcat to make a TODO list of books that need to be preserved, and is hosting a data science mini-competition.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Lots of bluesky codes in the cache thanks to the generosity of the community here! So it's a good time to pass this form along to your students and colleagues if they might be interested in joining. We'll have a code ready for them. bit.ly/dh-bluesky

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Digital Humanities Bluesky Code Sharing Form

Given the ongoing deterioration of Twitter as a viable space for the sharing of digital humanities work, ACH has begun exploring alternatives. Bluesky social has the makings of a viable alternative, b...

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