all americans are created equal which is why equality demands that we obliterate all representation for 40 percent of the people of the state

The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

/ THATS IT / UVE DONE IT BOSTON / UVE BROKEN THE RECORD 4 WARMEST 5/19 IN RECORDED HISTORY / W/ LOGAN AIRPORT RINGING IN @ 92 DEGREES / W/ PLENTY OF WARMING 2 GO / JUST HOW HOT DEW U THINK IT CULD GET

Yep. Our 12 year old shit-talks AI like I've no one I've ever seen.

Any @arrow.apache.org devs that work on the {arrow} R package have any ideas here? I think several of the things I demonstrate in this blog post might be considered bugs.

I cannot for the life of me figure out a good way to read in a dataset made of hundreds of CSVs with *mostly* the same columns (in :rstats: ). I wrote a blog post that is basically an extended reprex. Comments and solutions are welcome! […]

OpenTelemetry has come to R 🎉 Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI are now instrumented: production-grade traces from R with no code changes. Set a few env vars and telemetry flows to the backend of your choice. Full write-up: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... #Rstats

Soooo basically there will be a food shortage very soon. And without adequate financial support, specialty crops in particular will cost even more. If you’re wondering what specialty crops are, it’s the produce in the grocery store. 🙃🙃🙃🙃😪

a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.

for the targets #rstats fans: highly recommend some targets-specific keybindings for Positron/VSCode

Our research team estimates that Covid caused 23 million deaths I’m sorry that Dr Bhattacharya felt stressed during the time he pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination; a physician friend of mine in Kenya lost 28 patients to Covid IN ONE NIGHT & still has PTSD

I implemented a fork of {targets} which provides the necessary changes to support {mori} shared memory regions! Check out the discussion thread below to learn more about the implementation: github.com/ropensci/tar... And try out the primary fork here: github.com/tylermorganw... #RStats

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

Belated happy `%notin%` day to all who celebrate. #rstats #databs

Just released: "Mission Aborted: How NASA Illegally Implemented the President's Budget Request Without Congressional Approval" - Minority Staff Report Prepared for Members of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

This blatant lie about NSF not being able to implement Congress's budget reminds me of Trump saying that picture of him as Jesus was actually of him as a doctor. There's no one who believes it. There's no one who *pretends* to believe it. It's just aggressive performative lying to assert dominance.

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

FUND THE FUCKING SCHOOLS OH MY GODDDDDNSJZJZKKAKZJZJJZJAHHHHHHHHHHH

Jeremy is on fire in this letter

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Geosciences is at *74* total awards this fiscal year (which is now half over). Compared to 279 by the same point last year and between 330 and 440 by the same point 2021-2024. 13 grants were made in the month of March.

The moral injury of watching incredible colleagues leave federal science because of what amounts to partisan sabotage is indescribable. Godspeed, Dr. Marvel. We’re lucky to share our one wild and precious planet with you.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats

🆕 BLOG POST There’s so much more to spatial downscaling today than classic LM or kriging. In my new blog post, I show how flexible and powerful GAMs can be for this task. #rstats #dataviz ➡️ dominicroye.github.io/blog/canary-...

While we're discussing what we like and dislike in #Rstats, here's why I don't like tidymodels: mansthulin.se/posts/tidymo...

Good advice from the 'bind_cols' documentation: "Where possible prefer using a join to combine multiple data frames. bind_cols() binds the rows in order in which they appear so it is easy to create meaningless results without realising it." #RStats #DefensiveProgramming

Join our online course on Multivariate Data Analysis with R led and vegan by @gsimpson.bsky.social , 4–7 May, and gain practical skills to analyse and interpret multivariate ecological and biological datasets. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Rstats #veganPackage

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Last month, the administration reversed massive cuts to to SAMHSA and CDC after public and congressional outcry. We can do that again. Call your representatives! 5/5 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

The Trump administration is planning to terminate $600M of CDC grants to CA, CO, MN, and IL. We're publishing the full list. They are using vulnerable communities as a weapon to dismantle public health, targeting partisan enemies, and manipulating media. 🧵 1/5 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

dplyr 1.2.0 was released last week and since I use {dplyr} a lot in my work, I wanted to take some time to try some of the new functions. This post provides some supplemental examples of the new functions, beyond what is provided in the new Posit materials. #rstats cghlewis.com/blog/dplyr_u...

This is from last year. But, it’s a concise explanation of why the stupid thing is happening.

We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs... If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!

Great new paper! Many stinging wasps, bees, and ants have controlled the sex of their developing eggs for millions of year using an ancient segment of their genome- always the same segment- but what's weird is, *the exact DNA sequence of that segment doesn't seem to matter*.

MAKE 2026 THE YEAR OF REPENTANCE 2 UR WEATHER LORDS

Fun fact... autistic people are often rule followers... We are also more likely to have extremely strong convictions... So, if the rules are aligned with our values, we are steadfast. But if the rules don't make sense to us or seem arbitrary, we can suddenly seem like rebellious rule breakers.

RFK Jr is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 children in American Samoa from measles because he told them to stop vaccinating. Now, he's trying to kill trans kids. He's a fucking psychopath.

Podcast Jay…err…NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya made an appearance at TPUSA to continue railing against public health and COVID19 mitigation. He and his buds have been destroying US science and public health for a year because their feelings were hurt. youtu.be/e9gMZ1sme0k

AI slop has made it to the deep sea. That’s not a blobfish: Deep Sea Social Media is Flooded by AI Slop www.southernfriedscience.com/thats-not-a-...

Have you got a PhD in Statistics (or related field) and experience in Statistical Consulting? A continuing position at the Australian National University is now open 🇦🇺🦘🐨. Would love to get an #rstats person if possible ☺️ Apply by 18 Jan 👉 jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/course-... #statssky #statsky

It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect

Incredible headline.

Having two papers retracted for data fraud (allegedly by a co-author) can be awkward to explain in a highly competitive interview process…

My health insurance is going up $125/month 😡

A New Thread on NIH Forward Funding I recently posted an analysis of forward funding of NIH grants from 2015-25. This analysis was flawed and should be ignored. I apologize for the misleading information I present an analysis of my error and a revised analysis which I am confident is right. 1/25