This summer I had a wonderful time attending the Society for Canadian Ornithologists meeting in Saskatoon, Canada.It was super exciting to run into Sunny Tseng, rOpenSci Champion and fellow ornithologist!It’s not often that I am able to run into both types of colleagues (R developers and ornithologists) at the same conference, so I cherish these experiences.

If life gives you a bunch of Markdown files to analyse or edit, do you warm up your regex muscles and get going? How about using more specific tools instead? In this post, we shall give an overview of programmatic ways to parse and edit Markdown files: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, Hugo files, you name it. 🔗What is Markdown? Markdown is a (punny, eh) markup language created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz.

Open science has transformed how research is conducted, shared, and reused.Yet the organisations at the heart of this transformation are often left vulnerable, underfunded, and disconnected from one another.To move from simply surviving to truly thriving, five leading open science organisations – The Carpentries, OLS, rOpenSci , pyOpenSci, and PREreview – are convening to chart a collective path forward.We are so grateful to The

We have developed a prototype dashboard which aims to help organizations maintain complex systems of inter-dependent software components.Our initial prototype organizational dashboard provides insights into code contributors, their repositories, and maintenance status and needs.The prototype dashboard shows data for the three related GitHub organizations, reconhub, epiverse, and epiverse-trace, all of which develop and host open-source software

As we welcome the third cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program, our second cohort has now completed the second phase of the program.In this article, we share each Champion’s project, their achievements, and their outreach activities. 🔗Champions’ Projects In their applications Champions choose to develop a new package or to participate in the review process as authors or reviewers.

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗Community call: “R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages” On Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC, we’ll host a community call about the R-multiverse, starring Will Landau!

The “Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease” (CSID) Network looks to connect a global community of actors contributing towards impactful CSID software tools and establish localized CSID communities that can link existing on-the-ground issues and initiatives to the development and maintenance of CSID tools.

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗Open Science with a Latin American Identity: Meet the New Cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program We’re very excited to introduce the new rOpenSci Champions!

We’re very excited to introduce the new rOpenSci Champions! This cohort will participate in the program and carry out their work in Spanish, allowing us to continue strengthening the open science and research software development community in this language. We’re excited about the projects they’ll be developing, which tackle real-world challenges across diverse disciplines and regions of Latin America.

We are excited to welcome Emi Tanaka and Nima Hejazi to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Stats Software Peer Review.They join Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Jouni Helske, Toby Hocking, Rebecca Killick, Anna Krystalli, Mauro Lepore, Noam Ross, Maëlle Salmon, Emily Riederer, Adam Sparks, Beatriz Milz, Margaret Siple and Jeff Hollister.Since 2015, rOpenSci has operated a thorough and collaborative software peer review system.Our

As we’ve said before, we believe that publishing multilingual resources can lower the barrier to access to knowledge, help democratize access to quality resources and increase the possibilities of contributing to software and open science projects.Our ongoing efforts at multilingual publishing are crucial work for rOpenSci’s mission.When discussing this project at conferences and elsewhere, we start an important conversation with people less