R climbs back up into the top ten programming languages https://flowingdata.com/2025/12/19/r-climbs-back-up-into-the-top-ten-programming-languages/ #rstats #datascience

❔ Which digital methods have you applied or adapted in your humanities research? 🗣️ Our English edition seeks new lesson proposals. 🔗 tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog 📩 Send us your proposal by 15 February 2026 #CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities

There are students at the library day trading crypto...when you have student day trading in a library, pretty sure that is a sign of a bubble.

Really though #VR was a fad. It probably still is, but I got a Meta Quest 3 the other day, and it is the most fun I've had with electronics in a while. Now to figure out If there is a #rstats library to create AR visualizations.

My NEW BOOK: Narrative & Generative AI! lnkd.in/grQN77uW Curious how AI systems like ChatGPT are transforming storytelling? #GenerativeAI #StorytellingWithAI #NarrativeAI #AIResearch #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalCreativity #AIandCreativity

Read up! 👇

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations. Statistics involves lots of matrix operations. R is a language for statistics... hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx #Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social

We’re hiring an Asst Prof of Instruction in Digital Humanities/Data Science with BSDS + English @UTAustin. Teach Python/R for Humanities, build DH projects, mentor capstones. Starts Fall 26. Repost & share widely. Apply by Dec 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/175750 #DigitalHumanities #DH

what is full stack feminism? new @dhquarterly.bsky.social piece by Caroline Bassett, Kylie Jarrett & @swebb.bsky.social on intersectional feminist #digitalhumanities ✨ dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000... #dh @fullstackfeminism.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social @sussexdigitalhums.bsky.social

Oh no. How could anyone have seen this coming?

Texas is the most freedom of speech.... The mostest

🚨Job ALERT🚨! My old postdoc is available! I cannot emphasize enough how much a life-altering position this was for me. It gave me the experience that I needed for my current role. As a postdoc, I was able to define my projects and acquire a lot of new skills as well as refine some I already had.

📣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...

The Pink Book of #MarginalEffects (aka Model to Meaning) ships next week and I've got a backlog of Zoolander memes. Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline. #RStats #PyData

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

You saw or you made something awesome related to Quarto either with #ObservableJS, #RStats, #Python or #JuliaLang? Please submit a suggestion issue to #AwesomeQuarto PS: if you like this list, star it and share it 😉 github.com/mcanouil/awe... #Quarto #DataScience #QuartoPub

We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept! 🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society 🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods 🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science 🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Apparently a real thing that we have to explain to people now: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

"#openaccess and #openpeerreview in the #digitalhumanities" https://www.infoclio.ch/en/open-access-and-open-peer-review-digital-humanities #oa #dh

This is how to get started with #tidyplots 🚀 tidyplots.org/getstarted #rstats #dataviz #phd

Had a great time at #DH2025. Safe travels to everyone!

I was today years old when I discovered the {memes} R package—you can make your own #memes right from R! 🤯😂 #RStats #DataHumour 🔗 Read more about the package here:

I feel I know how older generations feel with computers because my office phone was disconnected, and I honestly have no idea how to get it to work again.

#DigitalHumanities PhD position

Harvard launches Institutional Books 1.0, a public domain dataset for AI with 242B tokens from 394M scanned pages and 983K books in 254 languages, supporting open research and language diversity. #AI #MachineLearning #NLP #OpenData #Harvard #Dataset #AIResearch #DigitalHumanities

Another piece of #digitalhumanities infrastructure bites the dust: https://constellate.org/docs/constellate-sunset

#RStats maintainers: last week I used #TidyTuesday to promote the fact that @ropensci.org has been looking for a {historydata} maintainer for a year. This week it has a new volunteer maintainer. Need help with your data? Submit a dataset with {tidytuesdayR}! dslc-io.github.io/tidytuesdayR... #dataBS

I'm really enjoying this virtual conference platform for #ACH2025.

Thrilled to share that my new book „Cultural Data Science: An Introduction to R“ is out in print, too! A practical guide to data + code in the humanities. With a foreword by Lev Manovich, published by Springer Nature. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CulturalDataScience #DigitalHumanities #RStats

As a person that uses Typst a lot, this is great news!

My day job just lost the grants that fund my position, just in case anyone is hiring any mad scientists Here is an outdated thing I will now be rapidly updating

Elon genuinely believing that the GOP was interested in cutting budget spending rather than spreading cruelty through opportunism may be one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen: www.cnbc.com/2025/06/01/m...

As people are reading about the Harvard commencement, I wanted others to know that brave presidents are working at smaller colleges that are making equally bold statements against this administration. I was very proud of our president: youtu.be/1eeHLWLp6w0?... #politics #highered #education

This might be one of the greatest things I've ever seen

Recently published! A new @proghist.bsky.social lesson by @dratom.bsky.social: doi.org/10.46430/phe... Thanks to @fmvaldez.bsky.social and Rob Nelson for their reviews, and to @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social for editing.

We are excited to announce chromote v0.5.0, with new functions that make it much easier to download and use any version of Chrome. Use chromote to use #RStats to take screenshots of web pages, scrape from websites, test Shiny apps, and more. Read the blog post: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/c...

Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code. #DigitalHumanities #RStats link.springer.com/book/9783031...

The Immigration Hub just launched Disappeared in America — a living archive of the people swept up in Trump’s mass deportation dragnet in just 100 days. From cancer patients to U.S. citizens, no one is safe. #digitalhumanities www.disappearedInAmerica.com

Programming Historian has just published my article: programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/c... Thanks to @fmvaldez.bsky.social and Rob Nelson for their reviews, to @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social for editing, and to the patient and helpful staff at PH for guiding me thru the process.

Excited to launch "ggplot2 [un]charted" with @yan-holtz.bsky.social! 🎉 An online course to master #ggplot2 with exercises, quizzes, and modules—and hands-on code running in your browser! Still WIP—sign up now for a limited discount: 👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com #rstats #DataViz #DataVisualization

Somebody posted this on Facebook. I hate it. Please join me. #stats #rstats #pyhon

I am so excited that this excellent Programming Historian article by @dratom.bsky.social about police violence has just been published. Make sure to check it out!

I'm actually genuinely surprised up and coming nations are not heavily courting researchers and academics to relocate to their countries. I mean, the US is a mess and the UK is a mess. The EU is a mess. So many opportunities for countries to attract talent and build their economies.

Recently published! A new @proghist.bsky.social lesson by Igor Sosa Mayor & @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social doi.org/10.46430/phe... Thanks to @justinwigard.bsky.social and @regan008.bsky.social for their reviews, and to @semantic-noodles.bsky.social for editing.