A request for #rstats help. Motivated by a real-world problem I'm facing, I wrote a package designed to help new users wean themselves off using rm(list=ls()), and nudge them in the direction of better practice. I would sincerely appreciate feedback before I send it to CRAN

happy ‘i will reply to your email on my return’ day to all who celebrate

Philosophers: Imagine yourself behind the veil of ignorance, not knowing what life you might be born into Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it

Think of AI instead of cigarettes here. Nothing is inevitable.

I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading. This is one of those cases.

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

here’s a free version: neat_research_panel <- data.frame( id = 1:100, treatment = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 100, replace = TRUE), outcome = rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 5) )

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

contributing to base R is fun and surprisingly easy! 🧵 by the amazing @ellakaye.co.uk #RStats

'How Open Science Bridges Cultures and Promotes Best Practices' webinar tonight at 20:00 NL time. Organized by @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social Master's student Antonios Kagialis, and featuring Flavio Azevedo among the amazing speakers! Registration via us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Scientists often don't think about communication goals: "I want to make a podcast", and then make a podcast. But what is the goal of your #SciComm?
- @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday July 23rd, 4pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

my supervisors whenever they get a draft from me:

We are Nowhere Lab 👋 nowherelab.com Anyone from any field is welcome to join who doesn't have a lab but would like the lab meeting experience! 🍃 July-September meetings 📆 Every week on WEDNESDAY ⏰ 3.30-4.30pm (UK) 🌐 Remote (email priyasilverstein at gmail dot com to join)

🌈 🌐 rainbowR conference: online, early 2026 🌐 🌈 Are you LGBTQIA+, do you code in R, and would you like to get involved in rainbowR’s first-ever conference? We are looking for people to join our conference organising committee! ➡️ rainbowr.org/conference 🗓️ 1st meeting: July 9, 4pm UTC

We had a great time at our session at #metascience2025 on Monday! We got a lot of new members and connections that joined our community over the last days. Missed our talk, and want to join PYMS or learn more? Find one of our board members at the last day of the conference!

If it weren't for Andy Sterling and @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, today's #metascience2025 plenaries would have centred on Ioannidis' zombie numbers and Google's PR (which when challenged was protected by one of the most elitist voices on stage). Thanks you bringing something worth thinking about.

It was all just vibes! But what shocked me even more was promoting the lab leak theory 🤯 (The podcast “If Books Could Kill” has a recent very good discussion of the evidence around this theory and the political forces pushing it)

I'm sorry but you can't come to a #metascience2025 conference and do slide after slide comparing 2005 and 2025 without a single source. Also, I can think of positive reasons for some of the things he's promoting as bad e.g. retractions. Is it just me that's sitting here spectacularly unimpressed?

What is ‘Open Science’? Or, how is Open Science operationalised in survey research? Come talk to me at the #metascience2025 poster session!

I'll be giving an unconference session at #MetaScience today at 14:00 on Papercheck. It will be a workshop on using and creating modules to detect (and correct) scientific practice and reporting. Come along if you're interested in how to use or contribute. No coding expertise required beyond using R

The intense embrace of LLMs at metascience 2025 is a recipe for handing over the reigns of scientific decision making to private interests and governments.

"We should talk about 'opening science' as opposed to 'open science'" - Henriikka Mustajoki #metascience

"we need more scientists to start doing politics" #metascience

Who else is sceptic about the UK's use of AI to assess research grant proposals? #metascience

After two weeks, I'm finally done! In this post, I explain different approaches for solving linear regression in R: directly, using QR, singular value and Cholesky decompositions, and do some benchmarking for comparison with in-built approaches. thomvolker.github.io/blog/2506_re...

Sign-up for the next round of the rainbowR buddies scheme is open until Mar 2nd! Pairs will be introduced on Mar 3rd 🌈👯‍♂️ If you're LGBTQ+ and code in #RStats, and want an opportunity to connect with someone else in the community (through a random pairing), this is for you 😃 rainbowr.org/buddies

One of the warmest and most empowering communities I’ve found in the R world is @rainbowr.org 💜 ✨ Their mission? To connect, support, and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community and to spread awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism. 🌈📊 #RStats #RLadies

This week’s #RLadies curator is @njokinjuki.bsky.social 🎉

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday April 23th, 4pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

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⌛ just 3 more hours until this amazing event! 🌈📚

Very excited for the final session of our book club tomorrow, where we'll be joined by @kevinguyan.bsky.social to discuss the conclusion of Queer Data, and for a Q&A. Thursday April 10th, 4pm UTC. See rainbowr.org/book-club for more details and Zoom link.

Need to explain (or understand) linear mixed effects regressions, random intercepts, and random slopes? Look no further than "A Visual Introduction to Hierarchical Models" by Michael Freeman, 2017. It's a banger!

The Fish Doorbell #VisDeurbel is on! Help migrating fish get throught the lock gate at #Weerdsluis in #Utrecht #Netherlands. Watch the webcam, spot a fish and ring the doorbell so the lock keeper can open the gate! #SciComm IMAGE: "DING! DONG!" text and pictures of fish visdeurbel.nl/en/

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday February 26th, 5pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

🍽️ palate cleanser for your timeline!

RIP any human subjects methods section: women, gender, female, excluded RIP math/stats: biases, marginalise, equality, inequality, group, inclusive RIP social sciences: status, systemic, political, group, socioeconomic, institutional, cultural This is not just evil it is also SO VERY DUMB

Is mean imputation effective? Yes—at filling in the missings; but also Yes—at biasing any subsequent analyses. stefvanbuuren.name/fimd

stop talking about "keeping AI accountable" and start talking about "keeping AI developers and vendors accountable"

👋 Hello world! This is OSCU: the Open Science Community Utrecht. We're on a mission to make science more accessible, transparent and equitable. Join the movement & take your next step into Open Science! 🔓🌍 #OpenScience #OSCNL #INOSC ➡️ openscience-utrecht.com

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Got a lot of text to add to an #rstats Shiny app but don't want to bother with a thousand html paragraph tags? Create a markdown file, then pass it into your app with htmltools::includeMarkdown() Future you will thank yourself. #manageablecode

The DANS Open Hour is back. Join us on Monday, 20 January, at 10 a.m. CET. Bring your questions on #FAIR #OpenScience, data storage, and Research Data Management for the #SSH community. Our Data Station managers are here to help. Sign up now 👉 https://buff.ly/3E5H7Iy

🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday January 15th, 5pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

I have now also ported the color vision deficiency simulation app to Shiny live. Advantage is this runs entirely in your browser, even though you "upload" the image it never leaves your computer.