Appreciate #strangerthings for distracting me from the other stuff in life for a few hours tonight. Really likes how they wrapped it all up

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

Noticed that the {revdepcheck} package no longer has the "not being actively maintained" message (looks like it was removed a year ago, just didn't notice). This is such a nice package, thanks to @gaborcsardi.org @hadley.nz and co for keeping it alive 🎉

New, at Can We Still Govern? Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it. A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...

"we'll give you $3,000 to stop contributing to our economy"

I don't know how I've missed it because it's *right on the documentation home page*, but if you use {glue} for nice string interpolation in #rstats and you have {stringr} loaded (likely through the tidyverse), you can use str_glue() instead of glue::glue() or loading library(glue) glue.tidyverse.org

This is a very good paper (focused on infectious diseases and DiD) that looks at how DiD handles different specifications. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

hahahaha just got an email from someone who was using Claude to generate a boilerplate #QuartoPub document and the LLM *used my name* as the author. The computers are literally trying to be me now 😂🤣🙃🫠

new #rstats blogpost: readtextgrid now uses C++ (and ChatGPT helped) www.tjmahr.com/readtextgrid...

More Military personnel are calling legal military non-profit agencies seeking advice for orders they received. The DOJ has issues a order that all orders are legal & the personnel are immune from prosecution. Right there is the red flag, the prosecution immunity. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

My posit::conf(2025) talk with @gosterhout.bsky.social on election reporting with #rstats and #QuartoPub is up on YouTube now! See the slides here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-des... And see a whole example/tutorial site here: andrewheiss.github.io/election-desk/

In its first year tidyplots.org has become the go-to data viz for many life science researchers, got 620+ stars on Github, ~30K CRAN downloads, and 11 citations. Thank you for using, sharing, citing, and feedback! There is more to come 🤩 #rstats #dataviz #phd

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Trump taking a victory lap because Walmart made their Thanksgiving meal smaller and crappier (and hence cheaper) is such a perfect encapsulation of his hucksterism

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

An all time classic World Series. It’s a shame someone had to lose.

Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."

BREAKING: Trump slaps 30% tariff on Jerome Powell

👏👏👏 this is what I was hoping to see from orgs like this, really impressed with their commitment to the community

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

it's dizzying to me that stories like this -- a corrupt grift built on democracy-wrecking lies that culminated in a coup attempt -- barely breakthrough anymore. they're just daily background noise now.

One of my favorite recent Positron discoveries is that you can not only (1) pin tabs, but (2) put the pinned tabs on their own dedicated row (after enabling that setting), which is glorious for workspace tab management #rstats

This is similar to the conclusion I’ve come to as of late. I hold on to some hope that it will improve sooner rather than later but history doesn’t seem to point in that direction. In the meantime, be one of those “helpers” that Mr Rogers talked about.

Despite all the uncertainty right now in American Higher Ed, our department is hiring! jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Happy to answer any questions you have - it's a wonderful place to work. 🥰 (Note: this is a tenure-track TEACHING position, not a good fit for research-only goals.)

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”. The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Weird ggplot thing that got me this week with the update to 4.0 - it supports new ink and paper arguments (www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... ) and they've changed how transparency works! If you a transparent bg, you can control it with theme_*() now #rstats

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The person who did all of these things was called a “tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in 1776. Yup. Give it a read…

Everything is so stupid.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Another week, another magical #rstats gift from Emil. 🥰

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

One of my favorite #PositConf things, from @hadley.nz : the Pac-Man inclusiveness "rule" #PositConf2025

"It places you in a powerful state of extreme empathy — that our user’s code is our responsibility"

The new {marginaleffects} release for #RStats (0.30.0) comes with two new vignettes: 1. Speed up computation with automatic differentiation (often 10x gains) marginaleffects.com/bonus/perfor... 2. Power analyses with {marginaleffects} and {DeclareDesign}. marginaleffects.com/bonus/power....

By request: Same #rshiny app → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11 shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe [Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac] Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

I gave the keynote at Cascadia R Conf 2025: “25 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with R.” R isn’t just for stats — it’s great for visualization, mapping, automation, and more. Watch the talk + get all the resources here: buff.ly/6svaIME Hope you learn something new! #rstats

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

For those of you who like a bit of socialism with your nationalism. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...