Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats
7 women and men smiling, wearing conference lanyards, standing in front of a large screen projecting a headshot of Julie Lowndes and her talk title Forking as a worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science. In center of line of people, a woman is presenting award certificate to Julie.
📅 March 19 @juliesquid.bsky.social will reprise her AGU Greg Leptoukh Lecture: Forking as a Worldview: How Openscapes uses the open source concept of copy-modify to support researchers & shift culture in science.
Everyone welcome. Details: openscapes.org/events/2026-...
#openscience #kinderscience
nasa logo to left of openscapes logo
✍🏼📣We're expanding our support of open Earth science with NASA Openscapes Mentors, with additional focus supporting suborbital science teams to develop reproducible workflows.
Welcoming Ronny Hernández Mora to the Openscapes team to support this work!
nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2026-03...
@duncanmccue.bsky.social Steve Earle in Canada this summer. www.livenation.ca/all-events/s...
Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day.
They want you to book them a shark research experience that raises money for science outreach!
I can help. Let’s chat.
Of COURSE it's the people that make it work!
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photo of eleven smiling women and men holding up hexagonal stickers
✍🏼 People, structure, mechanics: How we led the earthaccess Dec 15 Hackday online and in New Orleans
earthaccess is a Python library that simplifies access to NASA Earth science data. We designed the event to focus on building the community of contributors & adopters.
openscapes.org/blog/2026-02...
What's Missing? 300 extensions and counting. Help shape what comes next.
What Quarto extension would make your workflow easier?
There are already almost 300 extensions browsable at m.canouil.dev/quarto-exten... and installable via Quarto Wizard at m.canouil.dev/quarto-wizard/.
Drop your ideas below.
If there's enough interest, I might just build it.
#Quarto #OpenSource
Mount Whitney sunrise. Deep blue clear sky. Reddish mountains with a dusting of snow, with each sharp ridge casting a shadow on the next ridge to the right. Boulders in the foreground.
✍🏼 Openscapes Newsletter, Winter 2026
openscapes.org/blog/2026-01...
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image titled asar::cheatsheet is a crowded image of documentation with 7 headings like Install, or Create report skeleton. Below each heading is text, code and blue callout bubbles with additional text.
✍🏼 Make your own software cheatsheet. NOAA Fisheries staff document how they figured it out and the resources they used!
by Sophie Breitbard, Sam Schiano, Kelli Johnson, Kathryn Doering.
Published at:
nmfs-ost.github.io/noaa-fit-res...
openscapes.org/blog/2026-01...
Just like the great old #rstats Twitter days. People figure things out, write about it from that beginner mindset, and orgs with the capacity amplify these great messages.
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
This is an excellent guide!
🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project
"Enabling the next generation of R contributors"
has received £500k over 2 years.
- mentoring expert contributors
- modernising infrastructure
- improving governance
- strengthen communication and outreach
www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...
A much needed reminder in these times. 🧡
New post on the @ropensci.org blog: How to Assess Usage of your #RStats Package
📂 Downloads
🌳 Reverse dependencies
🔍 Code mentions
🎓 Citations
⭐ Popularity measures: likes
🤝 Contributions to the repository
🙋 Use case reports
🕵️ Telemetry
ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...
Same!
The overexposed Moon is surrounded by a ghostly ring of light, shining through the trees. A small plant is in the foreground shaped like a pine cone, the edges of the petals lit by moonlight. Overall a lovely and somewhat eerie scene.
Pretty cool halo around the Moon in Virginia just now. Ice crystals high up in the atmosphere bend the light to form the ring and can also break it up into colors like a rainbow, though the colors are usually faint. That's a hens and chicks plant lit by the Moon in the foreground, BTW.
✍🏼Summary post on NASA Openscapes Champions 2025 - A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess.
Links to recording, slides, notes doc
nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-11...
Bourses de formation HCB. A propos des bourses: Le programme de bourses de formation HCB offre jusqu'a 2 500$ CA pour le perfectionnement professionnel des stagiaires au Canada. Inscrivez-vous aux ateliers, tutoriels et formations repondant a vos besoins en bioinformatique, biologie computationnelle et science des donnees. Date limite de depot des candidatures: 1er decembre 2025. Des questions? training@bioinformatics.ca
La date limite pour soumettre une demande de bourse de formation HCB sera le 1er décembre 2025! Les candidats retenus recevront jusqu’à 2 500$ CA pour participer à un atelier, un tutorat ou une autre formation en 2026. Pour en savoir plus et postuler: bioinformatics.ca/hub/training...
CBH Training Awards. About the Awards: CBH Training Awards fund up to $2,500 CAD for professional development for trainees in Canada. Apply to attend workshops, tutorials, and training events that address your training needs in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Data Science. Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. Questions? training@bioinformatics.ca
The Canadian Bioinformatics Hub Training Award application deadline is coming up soon on Dec 1, 2025! Successful applicants will receive up to $2,500 CAD to attend a workshop, tutoral, or other training event in 2026. Learn more and apply: bioinformatics.ca/hub/training...
event flyer, see details via http://bit.ly/rsscdnov
rainbowR event: Trans Lived Experiences in Data 🏳️⚧️
We are partnering with the
@rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below!
📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT)
👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov
Sarah holds up an eel facts advent calendar in front of blooming flowers on her sidewalk. It says eel facts an advent calendar. It has 24 boxes with orange and yellow zigzags and yellow circles in the middle with numbers one through 24 in the middle of the boxes there are six eels depicted on this calendar, one green Moray, two splendid garden eels, one blue and yellow ribbon eel, and one American eel and one European.
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
Surprise grief support benefit: Mum received her Eel Facts Advent Calendar a week after my Dad died. It’s been a wonderful daily connection, curiosity spark, and source of joy
Eel Facts Advent Calendar. Not just for advent! Got for my 81yr old Mum & 19yr old daughter. Mum txts each daily fact to family group chat and they are awesome!!
Sarah holds up an eel fact advent calendar which has orange and yellow boxes with yellow circles in them that are numbered 1-24. There are 6 eels. One ribbon eel, one moray eel, two splendid garden eels, and an american and european eel. Sarah's holding it up on her roof in front of plants in the bright sun
Advent is a mere 3 weeks away!
Consider this. Who in your life...
needs to know more about eels?
feels joy in learning?
likes the ocean?
needs a little treat?
You should send them an Eel Facts Advent Calendar!
Sales support @skypeascientist.bsky.social and it's just plain fun!
EelFacts.net
Person pointing at green ear shaped sign
Person (me) looking at green ear shaped sign
Close up of sign
Close up of banding
Awe man. Two [murmur] signs aka [murmure] still up. I put these signs up Oct 2003. Such respect here - poles painted but signs intact. (murmur was our location-based mobile phone oral history project. Recorded stories about places & people could call & listen while there. Pre smartphone!).
