Saras Windecker

Do you run or participate in a code club at your institution, or are you interested in starting one but don’t know where to begin? @cecibaldoni.bsky.social and I are leading an ‘unconference’ discussion at @sortee.bsky.social’s virtual conference on October 16 - come share some tips and ideas!

03.10.2025 02:36 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1

Very excited to be travelling to Melbourne to speak at WOMBAT2025 about community building & code review. Really looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and new. 🙌

22.09.2025 08:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and evolution, we still do not know how widespread data- and ...

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB!

We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals

We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

18.09.2025 08:22 — 👍 31    🔁 25    💬 1    📌 1

🙌 wonderful work leading this @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social, @eivimeycook.bsky.social, and @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social.

Transparency with open data and code sharing is a critical first step in the quality control pipeline for research code.

17.09.2025 06:36 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

very excited to be joining the Research Software Asia Australia conference this week #RSAA25

Speaking tomorrow "Piloting peer code review in a research consortium community of practice". Happy to be meeting with like minds 🥳

17.09.2025 04:34 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Computational image analyst (m/f/d) The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has an opening for a

My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...

12.09.2025 06:17 — 👍 87    🔁 86    💬 1    📌 1

A couple throwback pics from past scientific lives courtesy of downloading my twitter archive ~

PhD swamp life 👩‍🎓🌱, and a classic from spotlighting for ringtail possums with Nick Golding, who I still have the pleasure of working with today 🤩

12.09.2025 07:33 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

ReSA Director Michelle Barker introduces the International Research Software Conference during RSECon25.

We’re excited to announce the International Research Software Conference (IRSC)!

7–8 September 2026 | Sheffield, UK & online | Co-located with #RSECon26 @society-rse.org

Learn more: www.researchsoft.org/irsc/

For updates, join: preview.mailerlite.io/forms/778129...

Image by @danielskatz.org

11.09.2025 11:22 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

rOpenSci Package Checks Check whether a package is ready for submission to rOpenSci's peer review system.

4/ lastly, ropensci's very own pkgcheck action.

This one is really interesting as it gives you a summary of points you've either hit or missed and summarises them in a new issue in your repo. Subsequent pushes show up as comments in the same issue thread.

docs.ropensci.org/pkgcheck/ind...

11.09.2025 07:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

actions/examples at v2 · r-lib/actions GitHub Actions for the R community. Contribute to r-lib/actions development by creating an account on GitHub.

3/ pkgdown workflow

Not related to the ropensci submission, but very handy if you have a pkgdown website.

I adapted from the examples here github.com/r-lib/action.... It is great knowing the website is up to date with changes I've pushed and I didn't have to separately re-publish the website.

11.09.2025 07:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

GitHub - codecov/codecov-action: GitHub Action that uploads coverage to Codecov GitHub Action that uploads coverage to Codecov :open_umbrella: - GitHub - codecov/codecov-action: GitHub Action that uploads coverage to Codecov

2/ I also set up an action to access my code coverage and report it on the readme. It's not as high as I'd like yet, but it's getting there!

To get this to work I first had to link the repo on codecov.io.

github.com/codecov/code...

11.09.2025 07:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

actions/examples at v2 · r-lib/actions GitHub Actions for the R community. Contribute to r-lib/actions development by creating an account on GitHub.

1/ continuous integration

Compared to the last time I set up continuous integration, things are SO EASY now. I used the following:

github.com/r-lib/action...

11.09.2025 07:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

a man wearing headphones says action in a snl advertisement ALT: a man wearing headphones says action in a snl advertisement

Going to start a series of threads on what I've been learning as I get an #rstats 📦 ready to submit to @ropensci.org.

Every time I think the package is "ready" I find another checklist I haven't been through, but it's making it all the better.

This first thread is on github actions!

11.09.2025 07:01 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Stopped using "X" years ago and have finally made a switch. Hope to reconnect with folks and touch back in to the social land to share and talk about open science, research software, ecology, and public health. 🙌

10.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 141    🔁 13    💬 12    📌 0