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I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Nachtrag zum Erneuerbaren-Ausbau-(Beschleunigungs)gesetz: Wurde ja mit den Stimmen aller Parteien außer der FPÖ in der 3. Lesung angenommen. Das ist akutell die häufigste Konstellation mit der Gesetze in der 3. Lesung verabschiedet werden. werk.statt.codes/posts/2026-0... 1/2

The ruinous 20th century ethnic cleansing in parts of Central Europe was driven by ethnic-cleansing entrepreneurs. Thugs inflicting street violence were just one instrument in their self-advancement schemes.

For those working on the Austrian Parliament - latest release of #rstats ParlAT pkg contains improved `get_item_details()` function; 'votes' parameter returns vote results for the relevant items ('Verhandlungsgegenstände) in the third readings in the National Council. Still evolving, but sfsg. 1/2

Very happy (and exhausted), and also very happy for @arseblog.com @tim-stillman.bsky.social and @gunnerblog.bsky.social... Thanks for the ride... #arsenal

🇭🇺🎶 For the first time in Hungarian history, 'The forest is green / Pădure vergyé', the Hungarian Roma community's anthem — which gained that status after a 1993 civil rights protest — was played in parliament, at Prime Minister Péter Magyar's suggestion. Many MPs were in tears, and so was I.

“1940: The Invention of Western and Eastern Europe”, one is tempted to quip tongue in cheek.

Fidesz-KDNP is on track to ~28% of the seats with ~30% of the electorate. That's a larger electorate share than in 2014. Then, they got 67% of the seats with 28% of the electorate. Thanks to lower turnout and their electoral engineering. Now that very engineering has hit them hard. “Loop closed.”

trying to do a NYT-style swing map but the swings are too mad

Hungary's population pyramids on four elections years: 1990 - the 1st free and fair 2010 - Fidesz's return to power 2022 - the previous 2026 - today's Per the UN WPP '24 estimates. NB not all adult inhabitants can vote, and some Hungarian citizen live abroad and are thus not in the pyramids.

💥Orbán’s intelligence agencies have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR.

✍️ “The vote on April 12 is Hungary’s best chance in 16 years to choose democracy over autocracy. It may not come again,” our researchers Balint Magyar and Balint Madlovics write in their op-ed in @foreignaffairs.com. 🇭🇺🗳️ Read it now: 👉 cutt.ly/etFh64Cc

this is good stuff

This IS the droid you're looking for. webRoid v1.0.0: R on Android. Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes. No server required. Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises. play.google.com/store/apps/d... #rstats #webR #Android #WebAssembly

Hajmo ljudi!

Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr... As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R. Deadline Mar 18!

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

UseR! 2026 – Warsaw 🇵🇱✨ CFP is now open! Submit abstracts for talks, lightning talks, posters, tutorials, and panels. 🗓 Deadline: Sun 8 Mar 2026 📅 Conference: 7–9 July 🎓 Tutorial Day: 6 July 🔗 user2026.r-project.org/call/ #rstats #warsaw #datascience

Happy to release the initial version of ParlAT, an #rstats package wrapping the API of the Austrian Parliament @parlament.gv.at . If you are a researcher, student, journalist, simply someone interested in the AT Parliament, ParlAT hopefully comes as a helpful tool. werkstattcodes.github.io/ParlAT/

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Where do parents find the time to parent? Less sleep, work and screens. Amazing chart feat. in @alphaville.ft.com Further Reading. homeeconomics.substack.com/p/where-do-p...

Next release of #rstats package usethis will include an (experimental) function to setup projects using Claude code: use_claude_code. Interesting to see how ai tools will form part/play together with the tidyverse & co. usethis.r-lib.org/dev/referenc...

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

Just read these 2 blog posts on AI and software development & data science. Both resonated with me quite strongly. Many thanks to the authors. "My First Look at Claude Code" by @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/claude-cod... The post is on much more than #Claude. and... #rstats

Happy holidays! 🎄 I snuck in a {btw} release just before CRAN went on vacation for the year. {btw} is an #RStats package full of tools for LLMs, including a new tool for running R code. Here's a quick demo using `btw_app()` to create a quick festive ggplot2 from holiday movie titles. Cheers! 🧑‍🎄

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

New #positron release, new shortcut. #rstats 🎉

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

can #google pls ask gemini to finally introduce the ability into #googletasks to 1) easily share tasks with other g users; 2) archive todo lists, and 3) provide a view which shows all tasks across lists. thank you.

{ripper} dissects your #Quarto documents, extracting code blocks by language and leaving executable scripts behind. Supports #rstats, #python, #julia, and 13 other victims. For those who never stopped celebrating Halloween. 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/ripper/ 💻 github.com/coatless-qua...

Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots. When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction. bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...

#rstats user: I am trying to get #Gemini CLI running R scripts, but fail "due to issues with how the command line (powershell) parses and passes the R code to Rscript.exe". Instead G creates a separate file which is then triggered. This is quite different to Claude Code. Am i missing sth?

Have some free time this weekend? How about 2,500 hours? The recordings from posit::conf(2025) are now online! Learn about the innovations and insights from conf. We celebrated #RStats and #Python, with a focus on next-gen tools & #AI integration. See the info here: posit.co/blog/talks-a...

pkgdown 2.2.0 now out — tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11.... Main feature is new build_llm_docs() which makes your websites easier to understand by LLMs. (Which you can easily turn off if desired) #rstats

New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around

Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

📅 Save the Dates: UseR! 2026 The international #Rstats community will gather in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱 from 6–9 July 2026 for the next edition of UseR!, the premier conference for users and developers of the R programming language. Website: user2026.r-project.org/index2.html

Anton Pelinka was Austria's most prominent political scientist, who was also one of my inspirations, combining insightful research with important public outreach. I met him a few times and was always humbled by his kind support. He gave this interview less than 3 months ago. R.I.P. Anton! 💔

look what you made me do (#rstats code here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Learn how to ask natural-language questions of your text data with #RStats and support Ukraine! “RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) in R with ragnar“ is tomorrow, Sept. 11, 12-2 pm ET for a 20 euro donation. Can't attend live? Register for recording & materials. sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

Just 3 days left until this workshop, don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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Help needed 🙏 If you're a HPC #RStats user on SGE/Slurm/Torque/PBS/LSF/OpenLava, could you pls try {future.batchtools} devel version per future.batchtools.futureverse.org/index.html#p...? library(future.batchtools) plan(batchtools_slurm) f <- future(Sys.info()) value(f) #parallel #hpc #future

Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.

dear #rstats users debugging in #vscode - how to get the data viewer opened inside an editor tab (and not outside of vs code in a "raw" window). the workaround describe e.g. here does not with me... many thanks! yohann-data.fr/posts/debugv... @yosky.bsky.social (thx for the great blog post)

🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....

hello excel dark mode, very happy to finally see you!