From the same job advert: ZERO applicants

Somebody asked "how can we enshittify the shit out of the job market?" and someone else came out with this:

- [Takes a deep breath and dives into #rstats {tidymodels}] - [Realizes it wasn’t deep enough] - [Drowns] - [The End]

Prod is gonna love this.

ooof this feels like most every university rn

The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉 I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩 youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?... Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...

with{targets}, might seem that *your workflow* is complex and bespoke and not fit, you are probably wrong - it makes the expertise that is truly *yours* shine and grow. Encapsulate an entire production process and makes that easy to do it's more *you*, actually - keep at it! #rstats

The detectCores() apocalypse is creeping up on us 👻🐛 As more people are getting access to 128+ CPU cores, code spinning up parallel cluster with detectCores() workers fails - not enough #RStats connections available Friends, do *not* default to detectCores(), bc www.jottr.org/2022/12/05/a...

There's a Recall() in base R that one can use to avoid having to specify the function name, e.g. here Recall(n - 1). That way it will be agile if you ever rename the function. But, it'll also allow you to do recursive calls in anonymous functions, which don't have names

I am vibe-coding a little R package for work, as an experiment. This is a first for me, and I can already see how this habit would turn me into a dumber mofo in weeks. I cannot imagine a faster shortcut to irrelevance...

I’ve been writing R since 2008 and somehow NEVER noticed that functions can literally call themselves in some sort of evil self-recursion. I don't remember ever seeing this thing in the wild! #rstats

Hey #Bluesky,. Can anyone recommend somebody to help me tweak the text on my new consulting website? I've written everything myself, but I'd love to refine the text so it's tighter (and avoids being too 'salesy'). www.gilesd-j.com

Just published! 🎉 My new blog post tackles the mighty `apply()` function in R. Demystify `MARGIN` and master operations from matrices to 5D neuroimaging data. Say goodbye to loops! 🧠📊 drmo.site/k40xD5 #RStats #DataScience #Neuroimaging

On the other hand, the R package {collinear} (URL: blasbenito.github.io/collinear/) saw an increase in downloads after release 2.0, a version with no breaking changes. Version 3.0 is coming soon, with a few significant improvements and some changes, so we'll see how things go after that. #rstats

The download history of the R package {distantia} (URL: blasbenito.github.io/distantia/) isn't half bad for such a niche tool! There is a clear drop after releasing v2.0 in Jan 2025, but I get it: this was a full rewrite with no backward compatibility. Breaking changes break trust! #rstats

Not so different from mine.

Way to summarize years of hard work!

Geocomputation. Faster and better than GIS even when Python available.

I just watched THAT Futurama episode featuring Seymour, Fry's fossilized doggie. 😂😆😊😳😟😥😭 I might need therapy now.

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Opens Bluesky at American time. Watches an inflatable penis being arrested. Watches an AI shitvideo of a demented man bombing protestors with diarrhoea. Thinks about life choices. Closes Bluesky.

I'm still too heartbroken that it's over. But try Our Flag Means Death next.

I am utterly disappointed that none of you freaking mortals here has ever mentioned the TV show "What We Do In The Shadows" to me. Bat! 🦇

got laid off due to restructuring :( i’m now available for mid+ frontend developer/software engineering positions in the meantime, we’re back to building the future and fun on the web on atproto :)

In case anyone doesn't know that there's an enormous dataset full of #rstats tweets spanning 2008-2022 on GitHub (care of Tom Mock, who I've already tagged once tonight, so I'll spare here 😌): github.com/jthomasmock/...

Genuine talent doesn't emerge from a vacuum. It results from a massive effort: try, fail, learn, and repeat until failure becomes success, whatever that means. Running the loop for long enough might get you there, hopefully. Offloading the grind to a machine surely won't.

This take on "AI art" by Matthew Inman (author of The Oatmeal, rings a bell?) is brilliant: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Jewell Lloyd has one of the silkiest jumpers in the league!

#r2u had its first 'three million packages delivered' month in September (outside that two-day Sep 2023 outlier) bringing the total to over 54 million #CRAN #Rstats packages shipped as #Ubuntu .deb binaries. #r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

I am bummed for the Lynx, this amazing team deserved better. No shame though, this Mercury squad is freaking tough to play against. On the other hand, the Hospital Fever got the Aces against the ropes. Go Fever! #wnba

I’m not letting an LLM write __MY_CODE__. I’m perfectly capable of producing my own slop.

Since I'm thinking about it, here's the network of geologic test holes drilled by the Nebraska state geological survey since the 1930s. Detailed lithological and stratigraphic logs. The goal not always achieved, was to drill to the Pennsylvanian in the east, to the base of the Cenozoic in the west.

A few words on survey weights, why I'm embarrassed to have forgotten to take them into account in the past, and how I got lucky because I personally didn't get burned. Not a mistake I intend to repeat in the future blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

if you are interested in using the process model for attribution or species distribution modelling, check out our R package: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 2/3

I was excited for a second seeing Amelia Earhart trending (maybe they found her?), but nope, it was just another shit stain on the wall.

Very cool climate-change study using long NDVI/climate time series and process-based models by my dear @timoconradi.bsky.social l and colleagues.

Just done with my early #rstats development session: - 100% bug fixes. - 0% new features. Past me really outdid himself.

I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package. The blog post will tell you more #rstats

Stunning oblique satellite 🛰️ image of #Paris from BlackSky. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.

A nice intro to #marimo, the #jupyter alternative codecut.ai/marimo-a-mod... #python #datascience

“Listers, which is streaming for free on YouTube, is like Fear & Loathing for birding" is a great description. This is one of the most fun documentaries I've seen in ages. It's simultaneously crass & elegant, in addition to being an unseriously serious celebration of birds. High rec. 4 bird nerds.

A post by @forrest.nyc (he's always finding cool geostuff!) in LinkedIn brought this to my attention: Temporal Embeddings of Surface Spectra for Earth Representation and Analysis (TESSERA) github.com/ucam-eo/tess... There's also a library to access the data: github.com/ucam-eo/geot... #geospatial

Had a privilege and pleasure to teach terra pkg (created by @roberthijmans.bsky.social et al.) and spatial sampling with R together with Alexandre Wadoux at the #EOSummerSchool2025 at WICC. You can follow the terra tutorial from here: differ.blog/p/processing... 📹: youtu.be/q9sQkg7BeAc?...

Fantastic in-depth article about 19 year old Dominique Malonga - tracking her progress and thought process during her first year in the WNBA.

Equivalence between pairwise correlation and VIF in multicollinearity filtering. Experiment: - Subset df (30k rows, 249 cols) to random dimensions. - Filter using a random max correlation. - Find VIF producing the most similar result to the step above. - Repeat 10k times. #rstats 📦 {collinear}

What a beautiful way to deliver rich spatial data. Many companies could learn a thing or two from this: explorer.audubon.org/explore/spec...

I'm not impressed.