Riva Quiroga

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.

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...

📣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...

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

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

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...

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.

Take care, Dariia! 💛💙

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.

✨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)

@nllano.bsky.social, @jpmarindiaz.bsky.social 👀

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

🌈 🌐 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

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.

🔥 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

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

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

#FIAR4RS

🔍 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. https://forms.gle/sRhRQD4gWBQWzcGS7

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

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

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...

Voy a revisar en los grupos familiares de wasap, porque mis tías son fuente eterna de ese tipo de cosas

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...

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...

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

The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, an advocate for the value and importa...

There is still time left to nominate a work you ❤️ for the 2024 Deswarte Prize in Digital History (anything published since Jan 2023 is eligible).
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...

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.

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...

Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor | Debates in the Digital Humanities Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

CFP - Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/culture...

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.

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...

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...

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...

And now we have to wait again until Sunday 😭

‘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

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.

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

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜. In Proceedings of FAccT 2021, pp.6...

Check it out! Stochastic Parrots is now available in audiopaper form, read by Timnit Gebru, @mmitchell.bsky.social
Angelina McMillan-Major & me and produced by @ctaylsaurus.bsky.social

If you've never read the original and appreciate this format for reading, this is for you!

A screenshot of the form options regarding presentation options that says: "Please indicate your preference. Plan to attend meeting in person / Planea asistir a la reunión en persona Would prefer remote participation if this option is available / Preferiría participar a distancia si esta opción está disponible Want to submit a pre-recorded presentation / Quiere enviar una presentación pregrabada"

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