In other news, discovered my new nemesis yesterday - the wall ball exercise.

TV Time is shutting down on July 15. I've downloaded my data and I'm now looking for a new home for my history of watched shows and episodes. (I track movies on Letterboxd.) What do you all recommend? Must be free and with the option to import TV Time history from the file.

Just wanted to share this sticker with you all

I’ve always felt that many so-called consensus-based guidelines are actually based on consensus from the Global North. Now, this assessment of the PRISMA guidelines seems to support that intuition: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Issue 51 of #rdmweekly is out! ➡️ The Open Science Utopia: How Transparency Can Improve Science @heidiseibold.bsky.social ➡️ Why Repositories Matter More Than Ever! @coar-repositories.bsky.social ➡️ Data Management for Beginners @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

"AI can improve the surface of a manuscript. It cannot change who wrote it, where they are from, or how reviewers respond to those inferences. Therefore, the problem was never purely linguistic but structural, and AI tools are not designed to address structural bias." 👏

🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

"AI can improve the surface of a manuscript. It cannot change who wrote it, where they are from, or how reviewers respond to those inferences. Therefore, the problem was never purely linguistic but structural, and AI tools are not designed to address structural bias." 👏

Today's chart is a reminder that there is still some good news in the world 📊 This heatmap shows deaths from cervical cancer have dropped to 0 over a 5 year period in England for women aged 20-24. Deaths are also generally decreasing across all age groups. Made with #RStats and #ggplot2 #DataViz

Okay, my dreams are usually dull. And then I dream of a crow (or raven?) entering my home, landing on my shoulder, and a chief of some sort telling me I hail from a tribe of south (south-eastern?) Asia. I try to google it but alas, I wake up. Cool cool.

36°C today and they're threatening 39°C on Monday. Already exhausted just thinking about it. Today's little trip around the block nearly finished me as it is. ☀️😱

Been learning Displayr, a data analysis & reporting platform that runs on R under the hood. Wrote more about it on LinkedIn. Too tired to adapt it for here. #TGIF #RStats

Thought it would be nice (on this super hot day) to create a thread of any cool apps, packages, or websites people are proud of making as side projects! I'll go first - really happy to have made these three shiny apps in R: shinyDigitise: github.com/EIvimeyCook/... (a data extraction app) 1/2

Issue 50 of #rdmweekly is out, also marking the 1 year anniversary of the newsletter! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has followed this newsletter this past year, and here's to another year of learning together! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

You thought correcting for heterogeneity is enough? What if the heterogeneity is heterogenous?? Hm? Did you think about that?!

{ellmer} is definitely a package I'd love to learn more about 👀 #Rstats

genre: men with problems

Definitely don't use this website. removepaywalls.com

Definitely don't use this website. removepaywalls.com

Working on a little colour blending tool for my #DataViz and #CreativeCoding projects 🎨 Input an R vector or Python/JS array 🎨 Add a blending colour and amount 🎨 Visualise palettes 🎨 Check contrast in greyscale 🎨 Copy colours to use in R, Python, or JavaScript #GenerativeArt #RStats #Python

I'm apparently a hallucination.

I built a website that tracks open source tools that provide automated checks for scientific manuscripts: lakens.github.io/automated_re... It provides a summary through RSS feed that you can subscribe to. It tracks 13 repositories - if you want your repo to be included, let me know!

Highlight of my week: Met a cute doggo at the gym.🐕 Lowlight of my week: Had to use Python.👎

In large meta-analyses, standard forest plot can become excessively large. One solution is to group the estimates together within studies. I just added an example to the metafor website illustrating this possibility: www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/plo... #MetaAnalysis #RStats

As a previous co-organizer for R-Ladies Seattle, I know how long a little help can go. That’s why I’m so excited that Posit is supporting community conferences and local meetups! Please share this with an organizer who wants to feed folks some pizza while learning about data science tools 🍕

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Check for replications of a specific article or your entire Zotero library - it only takes a few seconds with our Zotero Replication Checker. Download it for free at forrt.org/flora-zotero/ @zotero.org @forrt.bsky.social

Issue 49 of #rdmweekly! 📬 ➡️ Better Code, Better Science @russpoldrack.org ➡️ Improving acknowledgments sections to better credit research contributors @alexh.bsky.social ➡️ Data Reuse is the Sincerest Form of Flattery @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

How can AI & LLMs improve how science works? FORRT is delighted to host the AI in Metascience online conference. Please join us! 🗓️ 28–30 Sep 2026 · online · free Talks, workshops & hackathons — all career stages welcome. 👉 Submit by 31 Jul: forrt.org/ai-metascience #Metascience #OpenScience

Replicated it and I don't like it.

Finally the weekend, I can do whatever I like. Me: making R stats memes and puns (an old vice), and reading an Icelandic horror novel (a habit I picked up recently). Yes, that's the stuff.

Quality #statsmeme

My, to my boss, as he tries to sort his way through 5000 lines of python bodge code:

Me at work, every day. #RStats

I saw someone write arXiv as ARXIV (all caps) and thought it was a new drug.

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

I've started re-working some of my resource lists, to collect them all in one place! More resources on other topics will be coming soon 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #Maps #RSpatial

Issue 48 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ With Qualitative Research, the Risks of Data Sharing Can Outweigh the Rewards @jessicacalarco.com ➡️ Checklist for Reusable Code ➡️ Today I Learned in R: RStudio Snippets with @jadeynryan.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Won an award at work yesterday and I've only been in the role for two months. Can you guess what it was for? Wrong answers only. 😄

We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com

Alma Jeftic's interest in psychology is rooted in her childhood during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now, she studies how psychological interventions can foster forgiveness and social cohesion. Read more in our latest SPSP Member Spotlight: https://ow.ly/uRVM50Z8cBf

The programme for the King's Open Research Summer School 2026 is now here! Free, open to everyone, and available both in-person and online. Register: tinyurl.com/3wbx9tmr

I was today years old.

Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort.

Issue 47 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ Test-Driven Data Analysis @njr0.bsky.social ➡️ How to Get Started Using AI with R @dgkeyes.com ➡️ Skills for the Curation of Sensitive Data ➡️ How to Cite Data Resources in Wikipedia ➡️ Lab Handbook Template and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Oh no :( Guess I'm going to have to have to rethink my #rStats & #Quarto #strava backend :/ Any suggestions for alternative activity tracking website that plays nicely with Garmin? rhionthesea.netlify.app github.com/StatsRhian/p...

Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme

A man at a meeting I attended recently made a big deal about how his office door doesn't say "Professor", just his name, and that's how he encourages healthy research culture. I pointed out that that works for him because, unlike me, he probably won't be mistaken for his own secretary.

Managed a little 4k in 26°C heat this morning. Small wins. Also had a realization: I'm fully logging off on weekends now. This is the first time in my life I've done this. Never in grad school, never in academia. Feels strange... 😕