Hanne Oberman

(re-)introducing myself! - open scientist - (missing) data nerd - #rstats developer - rainbowR.org organizer - activist - teacher

"STOP ELSEVIER CONTRACT" A little bit of activism during the Open Science Festival today, during the opening plenary. Inspired by the session on activism yesterday at the OS Barcamp, awesome to see action being taken directly!

💭 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! 😁

👀 who's joining the rainbowR meet-up this time tomorrow? bsky.app/profile/rain...

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: Sept 25th and 30th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

What does it take to sustain R? Join R Consortium, R Core & R Foundation Oct 6 to discuss the people, infrastructure & community behind R. 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats

Buuuut... I *like* writing code.

Workshop done 😀 since I anyway put together a list of resources, I'm going to share it in this thread. So here we go, my top recommendations for how to improve computational reproducibility of your work

rainbowR Buddies 🌈👥 Sign up by Thursday Sept 3rd to be paired with a fellow LGBTQIA+ #RStats programmer via rainbowr.org/buddies Chat, code, learn, and build connection!

Presented my study on reporting practices, open science practices, and trustworthiness in simulation studies at #MSMR2026 Great conference so far, with a nice group of people attending Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Interest to become a collaborator on my next studies: tinyurl.com/yc4pvkmj

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: today (in 2 hours!), and on August 28th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research is just around the corner! How can we improve research on research methods? 💻 Registration for online attendance is still open! 📅 31 August - 1 September 2026 🔗 crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/ #MSMR2026 #MetaScience #MetaResearch

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? A hex sticker of an R package you've never used

Our platform runs for roughly €25/day — and anyone can publish on it for free. The APC for a single paper could instead keep ResearchEquals online for months: Nature: €10,000 → ~400 days Scientific Data: €2,390 → ~96 days PLOS Biology: $5,500 → ~190 days DM us if your OA funds need more purpose 😉

🌈 Big news! After the huge success of our conference we're doing it all again! 🎉 Want to help shape an amazing community event, gain experience, and meet brilliant people? We're recruiting volunteers for the 2027 conference organising committee. bit.ly/4vRGXKk #rstats #LGBTQinTech #OpenSource

Thanks for the love @oberman.bsky.social 💜 With the chance of creative ideas, do keep sending your wildest feature requests! support@researchequals.com

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

"mice: the only method here that carries imputation uncertainty into the model. Use it whenever the output is an estimate, a confidence interval, or a p-value, the typical medical or epidemiological analysis. Ten years on, it is still the right default for inference."

happy pi approximation day (22/7) to all those who celebrate

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

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

> “Our findings frame AI slop as a tragedy of the commons,” the researchers concluded, “where individual productivity gains externalise costs on to reviewers, maintainers and the broader community.” The newer gift link: as.ft.com/r/cb395b74-8...

The spider bite leading one to become a methodologist: "[substantive topic] is a interesting, I want to study it!" [Learns about how topic is typically studied] "Oh my god" [Becomes a methodologist]

We're excited that #rainbowR is at @user-conf.bsky.social this week. Keep an eye out for committee members @ellakaye.co.uk & @tinarozsos.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 If you're an LGBTQ+ coder looking for a friendly face, or you're curious to learn more about our community, please say hi👋 #useR2026 #RStats

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: June 24th & 29th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

final stretch of PhD life: taking ADHD meds and stomach ulcer meds with your 2nd cup of coffee before 9am ツ

Give a nerd a chart or a map and they will waste a day. Teach a nerd how to make charts and maps and they will waste the rest of their life.

“Data viz” is short for “Data vizualisation”

Hidden in plain sight

New post on the R-hub blog! "Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat" ✨ By @frick.ws + myself, reviewed by @etiennebacher.bsky.social blog.r-hub.io/2026/06/02/j... #RStats

The 3rd edition of Meta Research Symposium is open for accepting abstracts. We have two categories: 3-h hackathons, organised by @youngmetascience.bsky.social and 20-minute talks. Learn more and submit your abstracts here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/sy...

The average data driven decision making

Psychologists doing exploratory factor analysis be like: #statsmeme

Only less than two months before our Missing Data Summer School starts! If you want to learn how to appropriately handle missing data in your statistical analysis, this course might be for you. We cover cross-sectional, longitudinal and experimental data and both inferential and predictive models.

🌈 rainbowR meet-up starting in 55 mins!

The shift among some to using AI generation for making a point, reminds me more and more of the Andrew Lang quote: "He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts - for support rather than illumination."

spot this gender queer gremlin amidst the RLadies

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: May 25th & 27th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

navigating someone else's code

joining a research group as a PhD candidate #AcademicChatter

NA, NULL, -999, "Not applicable", "I don't know", "Prefer not to answer"

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: did you know that the words "minute" and "second" stem from the base-60 divisions of the hour: 'pars minuta prima' and 'pars minuta secunda' meaning 1st small part and 2nd small part en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second