For those of you who run lab groups, consider creating a lab handbook if you don’t already have one. Ideally something all members can contribute to with philosophies, policies, procedures, tips, etc! This could be as simple as a shared google doc or something a little fancier. Need a template […]

Announcing {volcalc} version 2.2.0! The {volcalc} #rstats package, a collaboration with @laurameredith.bsky.social, allows estimation of the volatility of compounds using functional group methods. v2.2.0 now allows temperature specification. Full changelog: meredith-lab.github.io/volcalc/news...

Our group, @cct-datascience.bsky.social, was given 30 days notice to be 100% soft-funded. I'll need to drop to 50% time in May or find more projects in order to keep my job. But more importantly, our group is not sustainable under this model. datascience.cct.arizona.edu/news/data-sc...

Research synthesis is just plain hard 😡 But did you know there's a community that aims to make things easier and more accessible in R 😍 Join us at the free Evidence Synthesis & Meta-analysis in R Conference #ESMARConf2025 Abstracts due real soon: Monday April 21st! #MetaAnalysis #Rstats

University of Arizona Ph.D. student Deandra Jones researches black bears in the Navajo Nation, combining traditional knowledge and science to guide respectful coexistence.

Haven't blogged in a little while, here's a new one: "R Version 4.5.0 is Out!" www.njtierney.com/post/2025/04... - `install.packages()` is faster - new datasets! `penguins`, `gait` - BLAS/LAPACK updates - My thoughts on reading NEWS files and updating R packages #rstats #rse #rpkgs #cran

There was a lot of debate about this, and plenty of good arguments on both sides. The shorter variable names are for more compact code and data display. For those wanting to covert existing scripts to use the #RStats 4.5.0 versions, there’s the new {basepenguins} 📦 ellakaye.github.io/basepenguins

We are thrilled to announce Air, an extremely fast R formatter! This super speedy tool written in #Rust ensures consistent, readable #RStats code. Read more on the tidyverse blog: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Fun R Shiny app that lets you analyze your Goodreads reading data. By Gigi Kenneth. App: gkenneth.shinyapps.i... Code: github.com/gigikenne... #RStats #RShiny #ShinyConf2025 #ShinyConf

If you (like me) are brushing up on your #python plotting using #matplotlib or #seaborn, check out the python graph gallery by Yan Holtz: python-graph-gallery.com Being more versed in R, I've found it hard to find others using python (but the #PydyTuesday hash helps). 🙋🏻‍♀️ Say hi if that's you! #databs

Are you an #RSE who wants to work on humanities/arts research? Are you an academic in the humanities/arts thinking about computational methods? These reports are for you! Brought to you by @dataculture.bsky.social @davidbeavan.bsky.social @andrepiza.bsky.social & many more!

this week in #rstats 🔥 - evaluating LLMs in R 🧪 @simonpcouch.com - Observable JS for R users 📊 @nrennie.bsky.social - a new Docker pkg for R 🐳 @coatless.bsky.social - using duckdb & duckplyr 🦆 @rorylawless.com - R pkg risk & QA 🚧 @jumpingrivers.com and more! 🥳 www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-r...

I recently did a live demo of a "reproducibility audit" for @us_rse. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ZsLbBkWrk #reprohack #reproducibleresearch #codereview #rseng

📝 New post: 'Positron: current joys and pains' 🧍 Positron's pros & cons. From improved workflow transparency, to growing debugging pains. 👀 https://is.gd/Pq7oRV #rstats #Positron #IDE #Debugging

In addition to incubator projects (which you *might* not be eligible for) our data scientists / research software engineers are available for paid work on longer term projects. Check out some past examples of our collaborations here: datascience.cct.arizona.edu/projects

Postdoc opp! University of Arizona school of sociology is seeking Quantitative/string communication skills and tech transfer /IP research interests. A great chance to work with the inimitable Erin Leahey! Apply here: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Helpful trick for academic writing with #QuartoPub: sometimes when trimming down papers, you've got to remove references (ugh—bibliographies shouldn't count in word counts!) so I use this #rstats snippet to extract all citations & and find things that I've only used once to see if they're droppable

Question for people involved with computational science, #supercomputing, or similar at academic institutions or national labs: Which do you professionally self-identify as most strongly? #HPC person? #RSE person? Computational scientist? Other? If so, what?

Hey #rstats! 👋 As part of my first consulting venture, I'm excited to share 2 in-person workshops in Brisbane on April 14 & 15: "Quarto for Scientists" and "R Package Essentials". Bonus: When you sign up, you'll get a free one-hour video consult with me for code review, writing, or data analysis! 🚀💡

UPDATE: Here's where we're at w/ NIH grant terminations: ❌ 429 NIH grants terminated* ❌ 137 related to HIV/AIDS prevention ❌ 27 on cancer ❌ 16 on Alzheimer's The full Airtable, thanks to wizardry of @noamross.net👇 *This is just what we know. There are certainly more we don't know about yet.

PLEASE KEEP SUBMITTING YOUR TERMINATED GRANTS! So far, there have been fewer grants terminated this week than last, but the week ain't over. It's *CRITICAL* to advocacy for the public to know what's going on. We can't do that without you. Submit your terminated grant info here ⤵️

See the latest news from the BIO5! In this newsletter, learn about the BIO5 Flinn Scholar Research Experience, celebrate work anniversary milestones, and meet a nurse-scientist empowering nurse practitioners. Subscribe and get these updates in your inbox ✍️ view.comms.arizona.edu?qs=587e4245c...

Thanks everyone who came to the API Workshop for Ukraine! Materials are here: laderast.github.io/intro_apis_u... And GitHub repo is here: github.com/laderast/int... Thank you to @dariia.bsky.social for organizing this! #rstats #databs

⚠️WANTED⚠️ Dirty datasets that can be used in training courses! Have you got any great examples of datasets (preferably CC0 or CC-BY) that you think demonstrate some of the key issues with dirty data? I'm interested in teaching how to improve data collection, & about cleaning data once you have it. 📊

The Code Review Working Group is starting a Code Review Demo Series. Our first demo is on conducting reproducibility audits, presented by Eric Scott, Thursday, March 27 3PM ET. Registration and more details at arizona.zoom.us/meeting/regi.... Ideas for future events? Comment #rseng #rse #codereview

I am having a hard time finding literature guidance on how to perform model diagnostics for a nonlinear model with multiplicative errors: Y = aX^b*epsilon. In this case, the residuals should be Y/fitted, with fitted = ahat X^bhat. That’s how far I got. Help! 🤭 #rstats

🚩 Our poster, "An Inventory of Spatial Machine Learning Packages in R" was presented at #FOSSGIS2025 in Münster.🚩 It compares caret, mlr3, and tidymodels for spatial ML and highlights other relevant R packages. Poster and related materials, including code […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

We also offer data science incubators—pre-funded short-term collaborations with our data scientists and research software engineers. Check out past projects and learn more about eligibility here: datascience.cct.arizona.edu/incubator #Tucson #UniversityOfArizona #RSEng #DataScience

For #rstats users, find Flexoki (and much more) in the outstanding hrbrthemes package, thanks to @hrbrmstr.dev ! github.com/hrbrmstr/hrb...

[help wanted] rOpenSci packages are looking for some help! 🙏 💡 A great way to learn with these 'good first issues'! 💡 📦 stplanr (by @robinlovelace) "Rename rnet_merge as rnet_merge_sum and add settings to reproduce NPT results" at https://github.com/ropensci/stplanr/issues/569 "Actions […]

One of the services we offer to #UniveristyOfArizona researchers is workshops on practical data science topics. All of our past workshops are recorded and on YouTube. Check out our most recent workshop on the {targets} package for workflow management in R. youtu.be/qTo6riXn6sw

Hello Bluesky! We are a group of data scientists / research software engineers that serves researchers at #UniversityOfArizona through drop-in hours, workshops, data science incubator projects, and long-term collaborations. Learn more: datascience.cct.arizona.edu #RSEng, #DataScience, #Tucson