Air is our incredibly fast R code formatter! Come learn all about it at 2:40pm in Regency V in the Sparking Development Joy session!! We also have hex stickers! #positconf2025 #rstats

The equivalent of the Bechdel test for a tech-ish event is “is there a line for the womens bathroom?” and #positconf just passed with flying colours 😅

Whole entire extra day of #positconf, anyone? All Virtual!! Come hang with me on Tuesday Sept 16th (day before talks!) from 11am to 4pm ET. We'll have an AMA with Rich Iannone, a full talk session, a DS Hangout style Q&A session, and a Trivia Night game with swag prizes!! #databs #rstats #python

Does Jenny Bryan #VibeCode? 🤔 She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn #rust and #typscript in the age of #AI and these are her thoughts on #LLM use. (We really need a #RubberDuck emoji 🦆) #rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python

If you attend *ONE* Data Science Hangout this year, make it this week's hangout with JENNY BRYAN. Trust me ✨ Thursday, July 31st at 9AM PT / 12PM ET - a casual conversation with Jenny powered by YOUR questions. Feel free to lurk or hop in the chat. #rstats #databs pos.it/dsh 👈🏼 👀 (register here!)

Take a quick tour of Positron, Posit's next-generation data science IDE, built by the creators of RStudio. Read the blog to learn more: posit.co/blog/a-quick...

I seriously recommend reading the comments on this one. An incredible collection of annoying website sign-in behaviours.

We're happy to announce that there will be another #rstats Tidy Development Day after the 2025 posit::conf in Atlanta! www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

Ready to plan your #positconf2025 adventure? The posit::conf(2025) agenda is LIVE, packed with incredible workshops, keynotes, and talks. Plan your perfect conference with Sam Parmar's Agenda Chat Bot, powered by #RStats shinychat, ellmer, and ragnar. Check it out! posit.co/blog/posit-c...

RaukR is an #rstats summer school (~1.5 weeks) I've taught at a few times. Highly recommended for content (of course I'm biased 😁), smooth organization, and an amazing location (Visby 🏰 on the island of Gotland in Sweden 🇸🇪). Intrigued? Sign up to get notified when RaukR 2026 opens for registration.

Ever wonder how the #tidyverse came to be? 🤔 #TheTestSet's first episode features @hadley.nz on his accidental empire of #RStats packages, bear encounters, and more! Stream it at thetestset.co, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. #DataAnalytics #PodcastLaunch

Deep thought of the morning ☕🤔 Custom LLM instructions will usher in a golden age for contributor docs. Now there's a whole new level of motivation to create these and actually keep them current.

I'm excited to go to #useR this year and will be offering a half-day tutorial on Positron with @juliasilge.com. I just realized the last in-person #useR I attended was 2019 in Toulouse 😅 I hope to see lots of #RStats folks in August 😎

Come for the detailed #PositConf2025 schedule, stay for the unpredictable rollercoaster of serious 🤓 and unhinged 🤪 session titles! #RStats #Python

Two days until the Tongs Election

Hopefully the US will experience a similar about face in future 🤞 (Reminder: Color conventions are the opposite of those in US. Red is more like Democrat, blue is more like Republican.)

We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson – software architect at Posit – as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this! Join us Sep 16-18 in Atlanta. pos.it/conf

Canadians seem to be realizing that maybe they don't want their own mini-Trump after all. The colors associated with the 2 main parties are basically the opposite of the convention in the US. This shows a dramatic improvement for the Liberals (red, ~Dems) relative to the Conservatives (blue, ~Rep).

Shopping in Canada be like 🇨🇦

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Tuesday February 18th, @josefina-bernardo.bsky.social will talk us through the second part of Daily workflows in our online #rstats R-Ladies boookclub around the book Happy Git and Github for the useR, by @jennybryan.bsky.social. Want to join us? See www.meetup.com/rladies-den-...

Vancouver is the latest to boo the Star-Spangled Banner

The US national anthem just got booed at the Toronto Raptors game tonight. This doesn’t happen. The anger is real. #TrumpTradeWar (🎥 William Lou)

Resonant words from the Auschwitz Memorial today: “Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. Hatred was gradually developed. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through dehumanization & violence to systematic & industrial murder. “Auschwitz took time.”

Sometimes when building a minimal reprex for a bug, you discover that you were the bug all along. I assume this is what Kafka was on about.

We've added an article about RStudio's Rproj files and how to adapt related workflows, if you're starting to kick the tires on Positron. If this interests you, check it out 👀 positron.posit.co/rstudio-rpro... #rstats #rstudio #positron

We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)! These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs. If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025 #DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata

Tuesday January 21, Michelle Borley Verstraaten talks about Git Fundamentals in our #rstats #rladies boook club around @jennybryan.bsky.social 's Happy Git and Github for the useR! Still possible to join us (#rladies Bergen, - Den Bosch, - Amsterdam) , more info at www.meetup.com/rladies-den-...

We're delighted to announce Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social – psychologist for software teams – will be a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Discover psychology tips for better dev teams and much more at conf. Register at pos.it/conf #PositConf2025 #DataScience #OpenSource #Python #RStats

Speak at posit::conf(2025)! posit::conf(2025) is coming to Atlanta, GA in Sept, and we're looking for talks on data science with R & Python. Learn more: posit.co/blog/speak-at-posit-conf-2025/ Deadline Feb 3! #positconf2025 #rstats #python #pydata #datascience

This datetime stupidity is new to me! This slide digitizing gadget lets you associate specific metadata when you scan an image. But once you go past 1980 it circles around to 2050 🤯 Wouldn’t you think that most images stuck in slide form are from before 1980 🤔

I just got a "Spotify Wrapped"-inspired email from my ... eSIM provider 🤔 I appreciate the hustle, but I don't think this concept really transfers.

Exciting news! We just onboarded posit.co to @opensourcepledge.com edging out @sentry.io as the largest member company by number of developers, and launching us well past the $2M ARR mark for Open Source. How's that for a holiday surprise? 😍🎅💃 Welcome aboard, Posit! 👏

Registration for posit::conf(2025) just opened. More program details will be gradually rolling out. If you're into 📦 #rstats package development 📦 (or want to be!), check out my workshop.

Ah, "How to name files", a topic that is near and dear to my 💜 My most recent (and semi-polished) iteration on this stuff was a 5-minute lightning talk for NormConf 2022. Here's the video & the slides: youtu.be/ES1LTlnpLMk?... speakerdeck.com/jennybc/how-...

The R-Ladies Philly 🔔 recording of Jenny Bryan on "Let me GitHub search that for you" is available on YouTube! 🎉 #rstats #rladies

📦 usethis 3.1.0 📦 is released. `use_vignette()` and `use_article()` can now help you initiate a Quarto (.qmd) vignette or article. #rstats usethis.r-lib.org/news/index.h...

We are thrilled to announce that we have a new @posit.co Starter Pack, thanks to @jeremy-data.bsky.social! Find and follow Posit people here: go.bsky.app/RxAPkGi

I've been working a new #rstats package called pal🤖 Pals bring a library of LLM prompts into your RStudio/Positron sessions, editing code directly at the press of a keyboard shortcut. Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/pal/

I just used the space bar to scroll and it toggled the favorite status of a post here. Tickles a specific twitter memory for me 😅

I really didn't feel like getting out of bed today, but past me had agreed to do 2 (two!) remote #rladies meetups. Still super upset about what's coming, but hanging out with your people, virtually and IRL, is the best you can do on a day like this 😔

R-Ladies Philly is thrilled to have @jennybryan.bsky.social speak tomorrow! #rstats #rladies

Btw, speaking of Mitch, he wrote one of my favorite posts on how to motivate yourself to build things: get yourself to a demo. mitchellh.com/writing/buil...

R-Ladies Book Club is back w/ "Happy Git and GitHub for the useR" by @jennybryan.bsky.social from @posit.co Want to streamline your workflow? Been meaning to learn to use Git, but haven't gotten around to it? Now you can! Kick-off (online): Nov 6 16:30-18:00 CET www.meetup.com/rladies-amst...

If you're an #rstats user, one way to protect yourself from yourself is to do: usethis::git_vaccinate() which will setup or modify your user-level (aka global) gitignore file to handle the most obvious R-associated files that probably don't belong in git. usethis.r-lib.org/reference/gi...

If someone is on bluesky directly but they have also set up some sort of bridge thingy with their mastodon account ... what's the sensible stance re: following those 2 accounts? Feels like we're in for a lot of duplication in various forms. 🤔

I'll be chatting with R-Ladies Philly soon about using GitHub code search to answer your own #rstats questions. Related: if you have any especially fruitful GitHub searches in the near future, let me know! Good, fresh, authentic examples are super useful.