Announcing New Stats Software Peer Review Editors: Emi Tanaka and Nima Hejazi
Introducing two new members of the rOpenSci Software Peer Review editorial team.
Yanina Bellini Saibene
Argentina
Yani is rOpenSci Community Manager, R-Ladies Project Lead, and professor at several universities in Argentina and Uruguay. She has a background in Information Systems and Agricultural Research (she was a researcher at the Argentine National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) for 24 years). She also has an M.S. in Data Mining and Knowledge Management. She is a passionate instructor and loves writing and talking about data management, data science, and artificial intelligence in her field. She was global coordinator of useR!2021, chair of the Argentine Congress of Agroinformatics (CAI) and general chair of the Argentine Conference on Informatics and Operational Research (JAIIO). She is also a Community leader: she co-founds MetaDocencia, LatinR, and R-Ladies Santa Rosa and is a member of The Carpentries Executive Council, R-Ladies Global Team, RForwards Core Team, R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee, R4DS_ES, useR! Working Group, MiR, Open Heroines and Sociedad Argentina de Informática. She also led and was part of several volunteer teams that translated Data Science and teaching material into Spanish. She is a prolific international bilingual speaker and teacher thanks to these communities.
Community Contributions
From Surviving to Thriving: A Convening to Reclaim and Sustain Open Science Communities
Five leading open science organizations — The Carpentries, OLS, rOpenSci, pyOpenSci, and PREreview — are coming together for a strategic convening, supported by The Navigation Fund, to address shared challenges of underfunding, fragmentation, and unsustainable volunteer models.
Skytorial and Linkedtorial 4 - Issues on GitHub
Github issues as todo list and collaboration tool for researchers.
rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up
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.
Skytorial and Linkedtorial 3 - Repositories on GitHub
Third part of the Skytorial and Linkedtorial series: creating and managing repositories on GitHub for researchers who don’t need to know how to program.
Skytorial and Linkedtorial 2: Your Profile on GitHub
Second part of the Skytorial and Linkedtorial series: how to create your profile on GitHub step by step.
Skytorial and Linkedtorial 1: Introduction to GitHub for Researchers
I will start a series of Linkedtorials. Over the next few days, I’ll be sharing a series of short tutorials on GitHub for researchers who don’t need to know how to program. Let me know what you think 😀. The first on the series in an Intro to Github
Exploring Open Science, R Packages, and Research Software Development at the CSIDNet AGM 2025
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.
On July 21, during the 2025 Annual General Meeting of the CSIDNet, Yanina Bellini Saibene and Samuel Schildhauer co-lead a session titled “Open Science, R Packages, and Research Software Development”. The session was designed not only to introduce participants to tools and practices in open science with R but also to encourage active reflection and discussion on their own workflows and the challenges they face.
