Join @steffilazerte and I for a chat about code review at @rOpenSci 's coworking call a month from today. If you're transitioning to working on open science projects and want to learn how teams work on code together, this will introduce rOpenSci's community and resources. If you are already a contributor, bring your experiences and tips. https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-11/

Next Monday I'll be giving a talk with @yabellini at the Big Team Science Conference. We'll be talking about @rOpenSci's community and resources for working together on statistical analysis code. After years of working independently, I've met some great colleagues and learned a lot. https://bigteamscienceconference.github.io

Moneybags Elsevier has offered me a gift card to do accessibility testing -- not cash that I could use for practical things or a professional hourly rate, but a lousy gift card. My expertise is worth more and I hope other #DisabledInSTEM folks will consider not accepting this disrespectful offer.

Does anybody know of a meeting time poll site that is screen reader accessible to set up? I was using Calendly but they broke the accessibility of their date picker. I need to be able to set up polls, not just answer them.

I'm excited to have been selected for the rOpenSci Champions program. It's a mentoring program for people who want to improve their ability to contribute to open science through R programming. It's also a great opportunity to learn from leaders and cohort members from all over the world. https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/02/15/champions-program-champions-2024/

Check us out at https://manydogsproject.github.io and get involved! We welcome folks from all careers and career stages, folks from dog organizations outside of academia, In the future we'll be asking folks to propose dog cognition hypotheses for ManyDogs labs to study together.

I'm so excited to share our paper introducing the ManyDogs Project! With this big team open science approach, we can advance cognitive & behavior research reproducibly with sample sizes that weren't possible without a consortium.
https://comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/vol18_manydogs/

I love this description from Andrea:
“Accessibility as a set of community-wide, behavioral, social, technical decisions
we take to ensure people with disabilities are welcome and are
able to participate in a community or event.”

Of course, we can extend this welcome to anyone from a historically excluded background. 3/3

It’s always a good practice to make your slides available separately because they aren’t accessible in video or screen share for screen reader users. 2/3
https://lizharedogs.github.io/ttwBookDashNov22accessibility/#1

The @turingway is an online community that produces a digital book full of resources about reproducible, open, and ethical science. Last fall, I participated in a collaborative week-long BookDash. @ludovia and I had a chance to give a talk about accessibility in the Turing Way community and book. 1/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARMs7C_wE04