#ropensci — Public Fediverse posts

👋 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 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
🔗 linkedin.com/in/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
🔗 linkedin.com/in/philippe-massicotte-725214260

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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
🔗 linkedin.com/in/philippe-massicotte-725214260

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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
🌐 fblpalmeira.github.io

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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
🌐 fblpalmeira.github.io

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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
🌐 fblpalmeira.github.io

#rOpenSci #RStats

#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
🌐 fblpalmeira.github.io

#rOpenSci #RStats

#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
🌐 fblpalmeira.github.io

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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
🔗 linkedin.com/in/moritz-hennicke-65048533

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👋 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
🔗 linkedin.com/in/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
💻 github.com/SoyAndrea

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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
🔗 linkedin.com/in/victor-ordu-868a0b3

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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
🐙 https://github.com/caropradier

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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
🌐 masalmon.eu

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👋 Meet Marcelo S. Perlin! 🇧🇷

Associate Professor of Finance at UFRGS and maintainer of {yfR}, an R package to download and organizes financial data from Yahoo Finance.

Find Marcelo at:
🌐 https://msperlin.com
💻 https://github.com/msperlin
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/marcelo-s-perlin-11b333201

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Today we’re featuring Julia Silge! 🇺🇸

Data scientist and MLOps practitioner with #rstats, specializing in text mining. She maintains {qualtRics} that implements the retrieval of survey data using the Qualtrics API and aims to reduce the pre-processing steps needed in analyzing such surveys.

🐘 https://fosstodon.org/@juliasilge
💻 https://github.com/juliasilge
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/juliasilge

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👋 Meet Daniel Vartanian! 🇧🇷

Researcher at the University of São Paulo and maintainer of {mctq}, an R package that provides a complete toolkit to process the Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ), a quantitative and validated tool to assess chronotypes using individuals’ sleep behavior.

🌐 https://danielvartan.com
💻 https://github.com/danielvartan
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/danielvartan

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👋 Meet Steffi Lazerte! 🇨🇦

Independent R Consultant and Teacher, Behavioural Ecologist, Citizen Science Enthusiast, and rOpenSci Community Assistant. She maintains {weathercan} that makes it easier to search for and download multiple months/years of historical weather data from Canada.

🐘 https://fosstodon.org/@steffilazerte
💻 https://github.com/steffilazerte
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/steffi-lazerte

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👋 Meet Peter Desmet! 🇧🇪

Biodiversity informatician at INBO, passionate about open data and open science. He develops research software, maintains data standards, and publishes datasets. Peter maintains {frictionless}, a package to read and write Frictionless Data Packages.

🦋 @peterdesmet.com
💻 https://github.com/peterdesmet
🔗 https://linkedin.com/in/peterdesmet

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👋 Meet Ronald M. Visser #MaintainerMonth spotlight!
Ronald is an interdisciplinary scientist combining archaeology, dendrochronology, and data science. He maintains {dendroNetwork}, an R package for analysing dendrochronological networks.

Find him at:
🐘 @RonaldVisser
🐙 https://github.com/RonaldVisser

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First Keynote Announcement for uRos2026
We are excited to reveal our first keynote speaker for the Use of R in Official Statistics Conference 2026 (uRos2026):
🎤 Rebecca Killick
Professor & Director of Research, Lancaster University
Rebecca Killick is a leading expert in statistical methodology, with a strong focus on nonstationary time series analysis and applications across domains such as energy, finance, health, and official statistics.
Her work bridges real-world problems and innovative methodology, always with a strong commitment to open-source software and reproducible research.
Keynote Talk: “R and Open-Source: A love story”
In this keynote, Rebecca will reflect on over 20 years of working with R and open-source.

📅 Stay tuned for more speakers and details!
#uRos2026 #OfficialStatistics #RStats #OpenSource #DataScience #Statistics #rOpenSci #ReproducibleResearch

🌟 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

🌟 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

6/8 🎉 Join us in celebrating peer review

As we celebrate Peer Review Week, we want to recognize the editor, reviewers, authors, and community members who make software peer review possible: https://github.com/ropensci/software-review?tab=readme-ov-file#-editors-and-reviewers

Together, we’re shaping the future of research software and Open Science. #PeerReviewWeek #rOpenSci #OpenScience

@koalha definitely a big issue, and why organisations that coordinate software curation and maintenance (like #ROpenSci), or collaborative efforts between entities (governments, universities...) like #SCOSS, are so important.
I'm hoping to design some sort of "Open Source Software selection guidelines" for our university's Library, so we can be more confident about the tools we train in and recommend to the community.
#openResearch

@koalha definitely a big issue, and why organisations that coordinate software curation and maintenance (like #ROpenSci), or collaborative efforts between entities (governments, universities...) like #SCOSS, are so important.
I'm hoping to design some sort of "Open Source Software selection guidelines" for our university's Library, so we can be more confident about the tools we train in and recommend to the community.
#openResearch