Luis D. Verde Arregoitia

Suggestion for an additional name tag ribbon at future editions of posit::conf: Team Copy on Modify

📖 Published 📖 This approach reveals where particular regions of climatic space are common or rare, how isolated they are and how these properties influence species richness across dimensions 🗺️ 🦔 📈 👉️ buff.ly/IDWtvjS

💭 Have you built software & wondered how to share it with others? 💭 Feel overwhelmed by writing a publication to show-off your work? 💡Join our Publishing Your Software tutorial at #WOMBAT2026 🗓️ 30 Nov 1330 📌 Register lnkd.in/gHj2HQwe @visnut.bsky.social and I would love to see you there! 😁

🚀 ¡Más allá del código! Mirá el video de nuestro evento "Conversaciones con la comunidad" y conocé los proyectos de la cohorte de Campeon(a|e)s de rOpenSci: paquetes, revisión por pares y divulgación. 🎥 Video, notas y proyectos: ropensci.org/es/commcalls... #rOpenSci #RStats

Open Access goes beyond making research free to read. Who pays for publishing? Whose labour sustains it? Who is excluded from the system? Ahead of #OAWeek, we reflect on the real cost of knowledge and how to build alternatives. Read more: peeer.net/2026/10/12/t... #BetterPublishing

Episode 244 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🔁 Spreadsheet and GT roundtrip @liomys.mx ✨ Introducing {shinyreact} @schloerke.com 🎨 Aperiodic tilings @djnavarro.net h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏 #rstats #databs

HackeaR, el hackathon de LatinR 2026 ¡ven a dar tus primeros pasos en el código abierto o a seguir contribuyendo! 📍 Viernes 13 de noviembre, de 8 a 10 h, con mentoría. 💻️ Regístrate: www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1998690018... #LatinR2026 #RStats #HackeaR

Do you find testing in #RStats and #Python... spooky? 👻 Do not fear! Join us for Testober (h/t @schloerke.com): 🎃 10/6: Basic testing in R 🎃 10/13: Basic testing in Python 🎃 10/20: Testing in Shiny for R 🎃 10/27: Testing in Shiny for Python No tricks, only treats! Register here: pos.it/dslab

🐦 What is the BirdNET team at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology building with R? Sunny Tseng, PhD takes us inside birdnetTools 2.0, helping researchers turn millions of BirdNET detections into ecological insight. r-consortium.org/posts/from-b... #RStats #BirdNET @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

Ever wondered how to combine biodiversity analyses in geographic space with those in environmental space, while also considering species' traits in an attribute space? Wonder no more! shorturl.at/Qsbdk

Oh, no! My R package {safespace} is in a broken state - won't someone (new to PRs) help me fix it??? I'm renewing my offer to guide newbies through the R package building / fixing / reviewing process during Hacktoberfest - see this post […]

🎨 formatted spreadsheets can now make the round trip in R. {forgts} reads a formatted .xlsx file into a gt table, and the new {gtxlsx} package by J.M. Garbuszus writes it back out with fills, fonts, and colors #rstats post available in English and Spanish luisdva.github.io/rstats/round...

I’m pleased to announce that Vol 18 Issue 3 of The R Journal is out now! 🥳 Free & open access, R journal is made possible by our volunteer editors, reviewers + contributing authors. Thank you all! journal.r-project.org/issues/2026-3/ 🧵 20 articles 👇 #rstats journal.r-project.org/issues/2026-3/

If you're ever like, man which 40 new #RStats packages should I take a look at this month, may I introduce.... the CRAN Top 40 😎

✍️[blog] Celebrating the rOpenSci Community by Mauro Lepore #RStats For rOpenSci’s 15th anniversary, Mauro reflects on his journey with the community & shares 5 lessons about collaboration, contribution, kindness, and the importance of human connections in the age of AI ropensci.org/blog/2026/09...

✍️[blog] Celebrando la comunidad de rOpenSci #RStats En el marco del 15 aniversario de rOpenSci, Mauro Lepore reflexiona sobre su recorrido y comparte 5 lecciones sobre colaboración, contribución, amabilidad y la importancia de las conexiones humanas en la era de la IA ropensci.org/es/blog/2026...

"Sustaining R: Investing in the People, Infrastructure, and Community Behind R" Register for Oct 6 R Core / R Foundation panel discussion Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik & Heather Turner. Hosted by R Consortium. r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats

2. Bold indicates negative? (Luis D. Verde Arregoitia, Instituto De Ecología, A.c.) @liomys.mx youtu.be/NJz0779Seto. Lots of messy spreadsheets cross my desk, so this talk hit home.

Our update to the BES Data Management Guide is now live! assets.britishecologicalsociety.org/2026/09/2110... Huge thanks to the incredibly talented ECRs who contributed sections. It's an excellent resource that I've already used with my PhD students. ❤️

Would have liked to see a few talks about the new features in dplyr or even more on ellmer, for emotional support and reassurance

Each year I try to be constructive and helpful with my talks at #positconf but ended up complaining about: - code comments (2024) - spreadsheets (2025) - IDEs + my dad fixing electronics with a kitchen knife (today)

👏👏👏 to @liomys.mx for calling out the issue of academic works citing the IDE instead of the language/packages!

loved @liomys.mx hand drawn slides at #PositConf2026 a breath of fresh air after so many AI art slides

The @ropensci.org crew present at #positconf 2026 💪 ropensci.org/events/posit...

Spotted at #RSEcon and foreshadowing #positconf

Wrapped up a productive #rstats R-project sprint 2026 yesterday Cool people contributing to R over three days and lots of work done

Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)

¡el programa de RSLA26 está buenazo! 🔄 FAIR+Flujos de trabajo reproducibles 🤖 IA aplicada, agentes y Green Software 🏥 Datos biomédicos y salud pública 🌍 Datos geoespaciales y ciencias atmosféricas 📊 Investigación cualitativa/cienciometría 🐸 Biodiversidad/bioinformática rs-latam.org/programa.html

¡el programa de RSLA26 está buenazo! 🔄 FAIR+Flujos de trabajo reproducibles 🤖 IA aplicada, agentes y Green Software 🏥 Datos biomédicos y salud pública 🌍 Datos geoespaciales y ciencias atmosféricas 📊 Investigación cualitativa/cienciometría 🐸 Biodiversidad/bioinformática rs-latam.org/programa.html

Quedan lugares en los tutoriales de #RSLA26, Primera conferencia sobre Software de Investigación en Latinoamérica 🛠️ Temas: Git, HPC, Python, renv y LLMs en R. 💰 Cuotas simbólicas (desde US$7). 🔗 rs-latam.org/tutoriales.h... #RStats #CienciaAbierta

How do you choose an LLM? A survey of the current model landscape, including results from the vibes-from-Sara-and-Simon eval (/s) New on the @posit.co open source blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-08...

In **1 week**! The fabulous @libbyheeren.bsky.social and I are giving a guided tour to Positron for RStudio users 💻 Join us for a live walkthrough of this cool tool. 📅 30th July, 2026 ⏰ 11 AM AEST / 8 PM CDT 🔗 www.meetup.com/rladies-melb... 💜 Thanks for having us, @rladiesmelb.bsky.social!

I converted part of my #RSE Argentina talk into a blog post. ✍ If you're a researcher who values #openscience and computational #reproducibility but has never considered how it might change with the adoption of #AI, this post can offer some hints! 🔍 florencia-dandrea.netlify.app/posts/2026-0...

Good news for Europe: posit::conf's virtual pass now includes auto-subtitles in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German & Italian 🎉 Plus a virtual workshop on 9/14, multiple time slots, and recordings within hours — easy to catch afternoon US sessions next morning. Join us virtually!

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

Me at work, every day. #RStats

Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

📦 overlay was recently mentioned by @rfortherestofus.com, so I thought I'd share a recent example from teaching. Combining ggpath for background images in plots with overlay to add the code for the special legend - created with legendry #rstats

For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community. AI is changing that. What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there? blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...

🌎 LatinR 2026 te espera en *cualquier disciplina*: ciencias sociales, salud, medio ambiente, educación, sector público, IA, paquetes… Si usás #RStats en lo tuyo, tu lugar está en Medellín 🇨🇴 📅 Cierre: 15 de junio. openreview.net/group?id=LAT...

📚 Tip de envío: en #LatinR podés ser **autor/a principal de 1 trabajo** y **co-autor/a de hasta 2 más**. Pensá qué proyectos podés impulsar con tu equipo 👥 #RStats Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia. Cierre: 15 de junio. openreview.net/group?id=LAT...

Neat study led by @liomys.mx describing what we (don't) know about genetic data on Mexican mammals. Part of the Special Issue of Therya (Mexican Mammalogy Association) dedicated to the pioneering work of Livia León Paniagua

New paper out with many cool collaborators: 🇲🇽 Overall, Mexican land mammals are genetically undersampled and a large % of existing samples lack spatial context, so what can we do to fix this? 🧬 💕 In a Special issue dedicated to Livia León Paniagua doi.org/10.12933/the...

📢 ¡Anunciamos nuestra primera keynote de #LatinR2026! 🤩 Nic Crane (@niccrane.bsky.social) nos acompañará en esta edición de #LatinR. 🥳 Nic mantiene el paquete Arrow en R, es parte del Apache Arrow PMC, contribuye a ellmer y es referente en el uso de #LLMs con #RStats. #RLadies #DataScience

We’re excited to announce the sponsors supporting #LatinR 2026! 🎉 A huge thank you to @rconsortium.bsky.social and @posit.co for helping make this community-driven event possible and for their continued support of the #RStats in Latin America 💙 Stay tuned for more updates about #LatinR2026

📦 new #rstats package to overlay ggplot2 plots, gt tables, or code snippets onto images, with optional perspective warp and transparency. 🪄powered by magick luisdva.github.io/overlay/

🐵 New paper out today 📄 How is hunting distributed across the primate phylogeny and how is this influencing extinction risk? International collaboration w/ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social and many others doi.org/10.1111/acv....