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Today's #MaintainerMonth Highlight is Austin Koontz 🇺🇸
Research Consultant for the Hoban Conservation Lab, studying conservation genetics in oaks with a background in bioinformatics and plant population genetics.
Is the maintainer of SymbiotaR2 package that allows users to access and download specimen and observation-based data from a published Symbiota2 portal.Fin Austin at:
🌐 akoontz11.netlify.app
🐙 github.com/akoontz11
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May news 🗞️ #RStats
🎉 15 Years of rOpenSci, and we’re just getting started
✍️ Champions Program update
🙌 May is Maintainer Month
📬 Software-Review update
🚀 Social media cards for R-universe
📆 Coworking
🗒️ Blog posts
🧰 Package development corner
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Coworking and Office Hours next week!
Theme: 15 years with rOpenSci
Tuesday June 2nd 14:00 Europe Central (12:00 UTC)
Join @noamross and @steffilazerte
- General coworking
- Explore rOpenSci projects
- Do a deep dive into the rOpenSci blog history
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👋 Meet Will Pearse! 🇬🇧
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Imperial College London. He maintains {suppdata} for rOpenSci: a package that lets researchers download supplementary data files directly from published scientific articles across major journals.
Find Will at:
🌐 pearselab.com
💻 github.com/willpearse
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👋 Meet Alex Koiter! 🇨🇦
Professor & Environmental Scientist at Brandon University focused on soil erosion, watershed management, sediment dynamics, and geomorphology.
He maintains {mbquartR}, a package for working with Manitoba's quarter-section land survey system, useful for watershed and land management research in Canada.Find Alex at:
🐘 @Alex_Koiter
💻 github.com/alex-koiter
🌐 alexkoiter.ca -
👋 Meet Will Landau! 🇺🇸
Statistician and software developer. He maintains {targets} and several related packages to the targets ecosystem. Target is a pipeline toolkit that makes data analysis in R faster and fully reproducible by tracking dependencies and skipping work that is already up to date.
Find Will at:
🐘 fosstodon.org/@landau
💻 wlandau.github.io
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👋 Meet Erick Navarro Delgado! 🇨🇦🇲🇽
PhD candidate in Bioinformatics at the University of British Columbia. He maintains {RAMEN} for rOpenSci, a package for identifying associations between repeated environmental exposures and molecular outcomes, supporting exposome and multi-omics research.
Find Erick at:
🌐 erick-navarrodelgado.netlify.app
💻 github.com/ErickNavarroD
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👋 Meet Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng! 🇨🇦 🇹🇼
Bioacoustic ecologist with a career centered on bird-related research. She maintains {bbsTaiwan}, a package she developed as rOpenSci's Champions. The bbsTaiwan package is for accessing and analyzing data from Taiwan's Breeding Bird Survey, supporting bird population monitoring and conservation science.
Find Sunny at:
🌐 https://sunnytseng.ca
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📢 The call for submissions for #LatinR2026 has been extended!
There’s still time to share your projects, experiences, and work with the R community in Latin America 💜
🗓️ New deadline: June 1
✍️ openreview.net/group?id=LATIN-R.com/2026/Conference
🔗 latinr.org
📍 Medellín, Colombia#LatinR #RStats #OpenScience #DataScience #OpenData #OpenSource
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👋 Meet Jonathan Keane!
Engineer at Posit, formerly at Ursa Computing, Voltron Data, and Socure. Jon maintains {dittodb} for rOpenSci: a package that makes testing database code easy by recording and replaying real database interactions, so tests run without needing a live database connection.
Find Jon at:
🐘 @jonkeane
💻 github.com/jonkeane
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👋 Meet Karl Broman! 🇺🇸
Professor of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at UW–Madison and applied statistician working on statistical genomics. He maintains {chromer} and {aRxiv}. Both packages provide programmatic access to APIs: Chromosome Counts Database and to the arXiv repository of electronic preprints for computer science, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance & statistics.🐘 @kbroman
💻 github.com/kbroman
🌐 kbroman.org
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👋 Meet Will Gearty! 🇺🇸
Paleobiologist, Software Engineer, and Open Scientist. Postdoctoral Researcher at Syracuse University and maintainer of {rredlist} for rOpenSci. The package provides access to the IUCN Red List API, which is a global list of threatened and endangered species.
Find Will at:
🌐 williamgearty.com
💻 github.com/willgearty
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👋 Meet Philippe Massicotte! 🇨🇦
Research Assistant and maintainer of {rnaturalearth}, {rnaturalearthdata}, and {gitignore} for rOpenSci. The first two packages facilitate mapping by providing world vector maps and data. {gitignore} helps you to create useful .gitignore files for your project.
Find Philippe at:
🐘 @philmassicotte
💻 github.com/PMassicotte
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#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Francesca Palmeira
She is a biologist working on conservation conflicts and ecological modeling. Francesca participated on rOpenSci Champions Program, developing {pcir}, a package to calculate, compare, and visualize the Potential for Conflict Index among stakeholders.
Find her at:
🔗 in/francesca-palmeira-06393725a
💻 github.com/fblpalmeira
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✍️ 15 Years of rOpenSci, and We’re Just Getting Started 🎉 by The rOpenSci Team
rOpenSci turns 15! 🎉 We're celebrating all year long, starting with three virtual community events on June.
Come connect, reflect, and help shape the next 15 years.
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👋 Meet Moritz Hennicke! 🇧🇪
PostDoc in Political Economy & Industrial Economics and maintainer of {nuts}, a package to convert european regional data with NUTS codes between versions.Find Morits at:
🌐 hennicke.science
💻 github.com/AAoritz
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#MaintainerMonth highlight #RStats
Meet Pao Corrales 🇦🇷 🇦🇺Pao works as a Research Software Engineer to support research in climate and weather. She is an educator and maintains {agroclimatico}. This R package is a set of functions for calculating climate and hydrological indices and statistics from “tidy” data. It includes a function for graphing georeferenced results and cartographic information.
Find Pao at:
🌐 https://paocorrales.github.io/
💻 https://github.com/paocorrales
🐘 @paocorrales -
👋 Meet Zhian Kamvar! 🇺🇸
Senior Software Engineer at Recast and maintainer of {tinkr} for rOpenSci. tinkr package cast (R)Markdown Files to XML and Back Again.
Find Zhian at:
🐘 hachyderm.io/@zkamvar
💻 github.com/zkamvar
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#MaintainerMonth spotlight! Meet Andrea Gómez Vargas
Andrea is a sociologist and data analyst focused on population statistics and official data, developing R tools for the public sector. She is part of rOpenSci's Champions Program and maintains {ARcenso}. This R package is designed to democratize access to official data from Argentina’s National Population Censuses, produced by INDEC
Find Andrea at:
🌐 soyandrea.github.io
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👋 Meet Victor Ordu! 🇳🇬🇺🇸
Medical Doctor and software developer. Participant of rOpenSci Champions Program and maintainer of {naijR}, an R package that contains a suite of functions that make it easier to deal with data and datasets about the country Nigeria and its constituent parts.
Find him at:
🌐 victorordu.wordpress.com
💻 github.com/BroVic
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👋 Meet Carolina Pradier 🇦🇷 🇨🇦
She researches gender inequalities in science through bibliometrics.
Maintainer of {eph}, Argentina's Permanent Household Survey Data and Manipulation Utilities. Carolina is a participant in the rOpenSci's Champions Program.Find her at:
🌐 https://cpradier.netlify.app
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Today we’re featuring Maëlle Salmon! 🇫🇷
R(esearch) Software Engineer and Blogger. She maintains {saperlipopette}, {babelquarto}, and {babeldown} for rOpenSci.
🐘 @maelle
💻 github.com/maelle
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🌟 La Chan Zuckerberg Initiative otorga fondos a rOpenSci para el desarrollo de software de investigación sostenible, con enfoque en América Latina. 🌎
Este financiamiento nos ayudará a impulsar la ciencia abierta y el software de investigación en particular, construyendo comunidad y capacidades en toda la región.
Conoce más en nuestro último blog post:
🔗 https://ropensci.org/es/blog/2024/10/10/czi-america-latina-grant/#CienciaAbierta #CZI #AméricaLatina #SoftwareSostenible #rOpenSci #SoftwareLibre #SoftwareAbierto #RSE #RStatsES
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🌟 The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards funds to rOpenSci for sustainable research software development with focus in Latin America. 🌎
This support will help us to foster open science and research software in particular, by building community and capacity across the region. Learn more in our latest blog post:
🔗 https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/10/10/czi-latam-grant/
#OpenScience #CZI #LatinAmerica #SustainableSoftware #rOpenSci #OSS #RStats #RSE
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🚨 Atención 🚨
¡La convocatoria de propuestas para csv,conf,v8 se extiende hasta el 31 de enero! Envía tus ideas para presentaciones (en inglés y español) para participar de la conferencia en Puebla, México 🇲🇽 (29-31 de mayo).¡Comparte tus historias sobre #DatosAbiertos análisis de datos de la ciencia, el periodismo, el gobierno, #OpenSource y más!
✅ Completa el formulario con tu propuesta https://lnkd.in/dekEzJmT
#CSVCONF #commallama #opendata #opensource #datascience #datajournalism
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🚨 Important news 🚨 The csv,conf,v8 Call for Proposals has been extended until January 31!
Submit your ideas for presentations (in English and Spanish) for a chance to join us in Puebla, Mexico 🇲🇽 (May 29-31 2024).
Share your stories about #OpenData and data analysis from science, journalism, government, #OpenSource and beyond!
✅ Submit in English: https://lnkd.in/dzxJ4JGa
#CSVCONF #commallama #opendata #opensource #datascience #datajournalism