Maëlle Salmon

New post on the @ropensci.org blog, "A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter" Edited by @etiennebacher.bsky.social, @davisvaughan.bsky.social, Steffi LaZerte ropensci.org/blog/2026/04... #RStats

✍️ [blog] Mark Padgham: Building the Machinery of Software Peer Review By The rOpenSci Team Mark Padgham is leaving rOpenSci at the end of October, and we want to take this moment to recognize his impact and say thank you for helping to shape rOpenSci. ropensci.org/blog/2026/10...

are you interested in learning to use Git (as a total beginner?) I'd love your feedback on a Git tutorial! Sign up here: forms.gle/msQDVyJtEtre... the tutorial will be available for free on git-scm.com when it's done, and we need a few more testers to make that possible!

I gave a Keynote presentation at the #EARL2026 conference yesterday talking about the need for *people* while we’re all excited about AI. People and communities have always been important in open-source but I think they’re even more important now. github.com/MikeKSmith/E...

🐦 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

✍️ [blog] Happy Birthday rOpenSci — My Journey from First-Time Developer to Current Opportunities by Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng Learn how the rOpenSci Champions Program helped her grow from a first-time R package developer into an open science contributor. ropensci.org/blog/2026/09... #RStats

If you read just one thing about the realities of modern AI and agents going "rogue", read this: aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading... Brilliant piece from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

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

The R Consortium is now accepting submissions for the second 2026 technical grant cycle. We fund projects that strengthen R’s technical and social infrastructure! Applications close Oct 1, 2026 Submit your proposal: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats #opensource #grants

New post: we need to be deleting more code. vickiboykis.com/2026/09/01/b...

August news 🗞️ #RStats ✍️ Champions Program update 🚀 R-Universe updates 📦️ New packages {lakefetch}, {galamm}, {EpiStrainDynamics}, {RAMEN} 🎂 Quinceañera: celebrating 15 years together 📆 Coworking 🗒️ Blog posts 🧰 Package development corner ropensci.org/blog/2026/08...

This month I closed issues and merged PR in various rOpenSci repositories; some were 2+ years old. I also created PRs that will close other old issues. And I was able to do all of this during my paid work hours thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fellowship @sovereign.tech It feels so good 🤩

August news 🗞️ #RStats ✍️ Champions Program update 🚀 R-Universe updates 📦️ New packages {lakefetch}, {galamm}, {EpiStrainDynamics}, {RAMEN} 🎂 Quinceañera: celebrating 15 years together 📆 Coworking 🗒️ Blog posts 🧰 Package development corner […]

As I wrote for @fastcompany.com , women are sounding an alarm about AI. But they are not rooted in a fear of change but in the unequal risks of AI: From bias to privacy to environmental costs to job exposure to competence penalties to emotional labor. www.fastcompany.com/91584377/wom...

New post: Reading notes on Naming Things by Tom Benner 🏷️ masalmon.eu/2026/08/27/n...

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Finally, I'm glad that six people (besides myself) contributed some code to Jarl! If you want to get started using Rust in a real project, read suggestions for new linting rules in the github repo and check out the contributing guide: jarl.etiennebacher.com/contributing... (5/5)

#rstats I'm glad to announce Jarl 0.6.0! Jarl is a very fast R linter, written in Rust. This release brings many improvements and fixes. See the blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2026-0... And the full changelog: jarl.etiennebacher.com/changelog 🧵 to highlight some features below (1/5)

Próximo taller de Git con @yabellini.bsky.social: "¡Miércoles, Git! Manejo de errores en Git y no morir en el intento" 💩💪 Martes 25 de agosto 7:00 hs México (UTC-6) en #RSLA26 rs-latam.org/tutorial-git...

New post: Reading Notes on The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans 🧠 masalmon.eu/2026/08/21/t...

New #RStats post: Learning how to extract parts of a string Thanks @jeroenooms.bsky.social for stating the obvious when seeing ugly code of mine. 😉 masalmon.eu/2026/08/21/e...

The Carpentries Executive Director @drkariljordan.carpentries.org and Associate Director @erinstellabecker.bsky.social will step down on 1 September 2026. Dr. SherAaron Hurt will serve as Interim Executive Director for a 6-month term from 2 Sept. Full announcement: carpentries.org/blog/2026/08...

Two rOpenSci stories featured in episode 238 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast! 🎙️ We’re always so happy to see rOpenSci work featured on the show. 💚 Thanks to the podcast team for the shout-outs! 🙏 Go give the episode a listen! 🎧 #RStats

New post: Reading notes on Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann 📑 masalmon.eu/2026/08/14/c...

roxygen2 8.1.0 is now out with two small performance improvements: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-08... (one will probably change your NAMESPACE, hence the minor version + blog post)

Próximo taller de Git con @yabellini.bsky.social: "¡Miércoles, Git! Manejo de errores en Git y no morir en el intento" 💩💪 Martes 25 de agosto 7:00 hs México (UTC-6) en #RSLA26 rs-latam.org/tutorial-git...

I'm an R person who just shipped two cross-platform desktop apps in Rust + Tauri + React — a stack I'd never written before. One built straight in code with Claude, one designed first as a clickable artifact. Story: https://l.drmowinckels.io/sNeRrN

Because *I* tend to confuse them... 👽 Mutation testing: you run tests on mutated version of the *code*. E.g. events.digital-research.academy/event/109/co... 🚮 Fuzzy testing: you run tests with all sorts of *inputs* to the code. E.g. events.digital-research.academy/event/109/co... #RStats

The same but with an archive.ph link 🥪 "If I bring in someone new to push the machine’s buttons, they will never really learn to make my sandwiches. And then who is going to take over the deli?" archive.ph/eUi58

Want to learn geocomputation with R? The materials from our tutorial at UseR! 2026 are now available: slides, hands-on exercises, datasets, and solutions, covering CRS, vector and raster data, and mapping with **tmap**. github.com/geocompx/use... #rstats #geocompx #rspatial #UseR2026

Related, I am delivering a suite of data science training courses later this year. You can register your interest at training.njtierney.com Course materials are free and online Live courses will be: - Priced competitively - Run online in small groups (up to 6) - Have a $6 scholarship per course

As part of this talk, I wrote a blog post detailing how to share your delivered course as a quarto book, and put it online - you can read this here: www.njtierney.com/post/2026/07... And see the further accompanying github repo: github.com/njtierney/co... #rstats

I recently gave a talk, "The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher" (njtierney.github.io/talk-teacher...) at "Essential skills for statistics leadership in consultancy and research" My argument was: your time is time higher value than content, so put your content up for free #rstats

A side project I've been working on is public now: vellumverse, an #Rstats graphics stack built on a Rust backend. vellum sits where grid does but renders in Rust. vellumplot is the grammar on top and vellumwidget turns any plot into an interactive widget. Feedback welcome ☺️ github.com/r-vellum

R CMD check comes back clean. Then CRAN emails you about title case and a missing @ return tag. checktor is in. It catches those before you submit. On CRAN as of last week 7/2! CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=chec... Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/... #rstats

Recién @yabellini.bsky.social y yo enseñamos esas sesiones para campeones de @ropensci.org: 💄 ¡Código hermoso, porque lo valemos! 🧰 Desarrollo de 📦 para principiantes 💩 ¡Miércoles, Git! 📜 Usar y mejorar tu historial de Git ✨ Desarrollo de 📦 avanzado Materiales ropensci.org/es/training/ #RStats

A world still to be mapped 🌍 Today at UseR! 2026 in Warsaw, I gave a talk "A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R". A look at the #rspatial history, current state, my challenges, and more. Slides: jakubnowosad.com/user2026/ #rstats #geocomputation #UseR2026

I’ve been thinking about how to find R packages by functionality when you don’t already know the package name. So over the holidays, Claude Code and I built The Warehouse: a functionality-first R package directory that helps you find packages by what they do. rwarehouse.netlify.app #rstats

July 06-09, 2026: useR! 2026 is taking place in Warsaw. Check out rOpenSci community members' participation in the conference: ropensci.org/events/user-... #RStats #useR2026

Read this incredibly useful post by Community Engineer Steffi LaZerte if you write prose in Quarto or R Markdown! I begged her to write it so I could duplicate her spellcheck, formatting and grammar linting config. (Also, note that we reset the @ropensci.org account, give it a re-follow!) #RStats

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

June news 🗞️ #RStats 🌟 Yanina Joins the 2026 Sovereign Tech Fellowship 🙏 New editors Ronny Hernandez Mora, Joel Nitta, and Nick Tierney 📑 A new guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors ✍️ Champions Program update 🚀 R-Universe updates 👀 Software Peer-Review updates 🎂 […]

Episode 230 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🚧 Caution after R updates @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 🧹 Refactoring with Jarl @frick.ws @masalmon.eu 👃 Test smells @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats

New #RStats post on the cynkra blog with @schochastics.net & @kirill79.bsky.social "Three small dots for more readable code" cynkra.com/blog/2026-06...

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

I'm very very excited to be part of this year's STA Fellows. 💫 🤩 I'm looking forward to learning more about the other fellows' work and projects and sharing mine. Thank you for this great opportunity! #RStats @ropensci.org @rladies.org @carpentries.carpentries.org