For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals.

The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster.

https://grant-witness.us/funding_curves.html

Lots of neat stuff in this month's update! My faves:

1) O nosso guia agora é trilíngue (Inglês, Espanhol e Português)!

2) @mpadge's {pkgmatch} is now run on all new package submissions, helping authors and editors find reviewers and prior art! https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/671#issuecomment-4117805740

#RStats

https://hachyderm.io/@rOpenSci/116317252225898305

Evolutionary biology colleagues: please consider to submit a title and Abstract suggestion to our forthcoming theme issue in "Methods in Ecology & Evolution" on time-dependency in micro- and macroevolutionary rates:

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/2041210x/call-for-papers/micro-macroevolutionary-Rates-time-dependency

Deadline for Abstract submission: May 1 2026. Deadline for full article submission: October 31 2026.

#EvolutionaryBiology #MacroEvolution #microevolution

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it.

Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data.

https://r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com/

Well well well, what do we have here? Is that... real 3D data in my 3D ggplot? 🤫

#RStats #rayshader #rayverse

Hello 👋🏻

I'm a Principal Research Software Engineer in Advanced Research Computing at the University of Birmingham, UK.

I lead the international project “Enabling the next generation of contributors to R” and manage research software development projects at UoB.

* R Core member
* Chair of R Contribution Working Group https://contributor.r-project.org/
* Chair of R Forwards https://forwards.github.io/

Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing:

https://wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Professor-tenure-track-qualification-agreement-eng-j2682.html

As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R.

Deadline Mar 18!

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @HeathrTurnr has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways. #Rstats

Co-initiator of @R_Contributors and co-founder of @RLadiesGlobal in 2016, Heather has been an R Foundation board member, member of the RF Conference committee, and involved in many useR! conferences @useR_conf