"A Gentle Introduction to Open Science" I love this post by Steffi LaZerte on @ropensci.org. Gentle indeed, and pragmatic. ropensci.org/blog/2025/09...

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Reading through these comments and I never felt such a stronger sense of community

The Boston #rladies are here! Come join us for a wicked smart time in this virtual data lunch. @ddiannae.bsky.social will give us a recap on the recent Posit Conference! (We will have in-person meetups in the future!) www.meetup.com/rladies-bost...

📣 PSA I've been wanting to say for a while. Not everyone is an expert programmer or coder, and that's okay. People can still do good, reproducible research without using the fanciest methods or the coolest tools. Low tech tools ≠ You can't do good work

Speaking of posit::conf, if you are interested in an informal, virtual hangout and reflection, join R-Ladies Boston's next meetup! 🍕Posit conf recap: Data lunch with R-Ladies Boston 📅 Friday, September 26, 2025 🕐 12 pm ET Register on Meetup: www.meetup.com/rladies-bost... #RStats

🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE? This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC) #RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Isabella @ivelasq3.bsky.social, formerly a data analyst, now at @posit.co, and your curator this week! There’s always something new in #RStats. I'll be sharing: ✨ Favorite R packages + workflows ✨ News + tools you might have missed ✨ #PositConf2025 recaps ✨ A decade of R memes 🎉

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ivelasq3.bsky.social!

i had one of those informational interviews on top of an caving in, structurally unsafe roof of a parking lot which was oddly really fun

Attending the Data Vis session and the speaker Simisani Ndaba is showing the reproducibility of WEB Du Bois figures in ggplot which like that level of reproducibility is amazing #Positconf2025

Slides for my #Positconf2025 lightning talk on ideas for using your data skills to help your local community:

✨ Happy Thursday! ✨ Ready for some exciting talks by our R-Ladies at #PositConf2025? 💬 Kylie Ainslie: Elevating Public Health Decision-Making with R Packages ⏰ 10:20 AM - 11:40 AM EDT 📍 Centennial I (1/7)

Another #positconf day in the books!! Super proud of our wonderful data community 🥹 Thanks for sticking with us through some technical difficulties! GOOD NEWS! Hadley and Joe's keynote recording is already up on the conf portal!! @hadley.nz, everyone loves your earrings! #databs #rstats #python

Jonathan McPherson just mentioned datapasta at the opening keynote of #positconf, so I'm sharing this once again to share the magic, for all those discovering it for the very first time ❤️ #databs #rstats

I'll be live (blue-ing? Sky-ing?) #PositConf2025 - so you might want to mute that tag if you don't want the deluge

If I'm missing anyone- please reach out!

That's a wrap! I was gonna live-post #positconf2025 virtual day 😂 but it turns out my plate was VERY FULL hosting and hanging out with the best data community ever in the discord!! Now I'm just wondering if the data world will forgive me for my trivia questions 😂 #databs #rstats #python

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

Yo yo! Virtual day for #PositConf2025 tomorrow. Libby ( @libbyheeren.bsky.social ) and I are hosting the data science trivia. Compete for the swag! Swag, swag, swag! More info: posit.co/blog/posit-c...

I'm unironically wondering if

Someone solve this dumb mystery. Why is it when you put "ggplot" in the Etsy store, eggplants show up.

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

Who needs chatgpt when I have a birding friend to tell me what bird it is (Juvenile starlings look very different!) :

People keep telling me they can't afford to attend #PositConf2025 next week, so I need to make a public service announcement: attending virtually is very affordable (or free!) & is amazing! Get registered & hangout with me on the Discord server!! #databs #rstats #python

🗳️Hey Boston, today is Preliminary Municipal Election Day! Polls are open until 8pm — make your plan to vote, tell a neighbor, loved one, & friend, and make your voice heard. Visit WhereDoIVoteMA.com to find your polling location.

Doing my god given duty of voting against Kraft for #boston.

My wife @clienkaemper.bsky.social and the Charlie Card Run! 6.4 miles of not getting hit by cars in #boston!

my wife is running against the #Boston Green Line B today. This was originally supposed to be a silly gag for her. And I think I lost braincells making this for her. But I'm giggling at some of the #rstats and #shiny gimmicks I used to pull this off:

I am old. I’ve been through so many waves of hustle culture. Outside of occasional crunch times, the overwork is always unnecessary, performative nonsense that provides cover for some combination of bad ideas, abusive leadership, disorganization, a total lack of strategy etc etc.

Can I convince you to get Slay the Spire? Legitimately a fun game with some interesting data projects due to its randomness.

I haven’t got to a cool animation or any landmarks for monoliths yet, but I do have something working and posted here: alanschussman.com/datablog/pos... Next pass definitely should be to do more jokes.

🧵 Skytorial 2 – Your profile on @github.com 1/ 🌟 The first thing on GitHub is your profile: your cover letter to the academic and scientific world. This is how colleagues, collaborators, and potential reviewers of your projects find you. Let's create it step by step 👇

Warning Alan is the Paintress gommaging everyone

Uh-oh, took the day off and started gommaging. #esquie

Kids aren’t just numbers, they’re not mere extensions of their parents, and they’re not shapeless pieces of clay to be molded as authority figures choose. They are their own people, capable of curiosity and love, and far more complexity and insight than adults may give them credit for.

I tried Quarto Closeread for the first time. Was excited about these videos then realized whoops you can't upload them unto GitHub. #rstats (embed YouTube videos do not work well :/)

had a job interview where she asked me if I'm comfortable joining data together. For some dumb reason I answered: "Yeah I no longer cry when I merge data frames" To be fair it was the bane of my existence my first year of #rstats. So I made this achievement badge to those starting out

This is extremely good!

Premise: Every year, a number counts down. Everyone at or above that age is erased from existence. Everyone lives knowing that they are inevitably doomed. Probably one of my favorite fictional premises. This is my love letter to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and to Boston.

Hello, all! My name is Morgana, and I am so honored to be this week's curator for the #rladies account here on Bluesky! I have been an R user since 2017, and while I now dabble in Python, in my heart of hearts I'll always be an R girl :) I'll my best to make it an interesting week, and thank you!

we have a horrible rat problem in my neighborhood. I love that one way to deal with it is that we have a lot of art dedicated to our furry pest neighbors doing silly things.

If you do a lot of regression analyses, you need to check out the OLSRR package. It makes it incredibly easy to automatically generate the most common residual diagnostic plots to check for heteroskadasticity, normality, etc. #rstats #rstudio youtu.be/6RthXUb3EGs?...

This week’s #RLadies curator is @morgana-kinlan.bsky.social 🎉

new #rstats art series posted

Ok hear me out. Hear me out. It's like Cats the musical but instead of cats introducing themselves it's R packages introducing themselves. plyr can be grizabella