Why publish your research data in a proper repository like Zenodo, not a on a fancy institutional website?

I was looking to access the UN Peace Missions Mandate dataset for some analysis. When I checked https://www.peacemissions.info it was gone. Timed out.

I have no idea if it's temporarily down or down forever or what has happened.

It's not accessible elsewhere as far as I can tell, so the analysis is not happening.

#Data #Zenodo #ReproducibleResearch

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

If you’re into #Rstats and/or #bioinformatics, if you care about #ReproducibleResearch, consider helping out fellow #Guix hackers!
https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-cran-scripts/

The scripts above are what powers the automated imports of CRAN and Bioconductor as Guix channels, and they need ❤

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@robinlovelace/116136723310374275

It's great to log-on to #Mastodon to find not only my work being discussed and put out there with enlightening comments (thanks @AntoninDanalet ), but also that quote reposts are now a thing, when did that happen?! In any case check it out when you get a chance and join the conversation of openness (including open publications, code, data and accessible communities) in research! #OpenSource #dataScience for #reproducibleresearch in the public interest 🚀

Read on #Guix science channel about #Bazel:

« The offending upstream commit is here: github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow@e85860e838

There is no way to build Tensorflow without a bundled Python toolchain. The only way I see is to trick it into "downloading" our provided Python toolchain from a file:// URL.

I find this battle against upstream's approach towards reproducibility exhausting. »

🤔 Could you stop to say: “yeah Guix is great but I don’t use because it doesn’t provide what I need”…

…and instead explicitly say: “my research outcome is more important than doing it correctly”.

https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-science/issues/593#issuecomment-11048234
#ReproducibleResearch #OpenScience

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@IGVazquez/114287902390966809

I've just found an example of B. An R package citing its uses, although it would be even better if it would show specific reproducible examples: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nlraa/readme/README.html

#RStats #nlraa #ReproducibleResearch #OpenResearch #R #research

📣 Looking for tutorials and other references about containers!

In the context of #ReproducibleResearch [1], we’re writing “cards” gathering resources for more robust scientific outcomes.

You want to help?

Easy: mention one tutorial or some reference that already helped you!

• Either a practical getting started;
• Either something that helped you to get how containers can boost your research by being more reproducible.

Checkout: https://gt-env-logiciels.gricad-pages.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/sandbox-notecards/cards/containers

Thanks

#OpenScience
1: https://www.recherche-reproductible.fr