🌊 Level up your R skills in Visby, Aug 10–20! 🏰 #RaukR Data Science with R Summer School. Instructors including jennybryan.bsky.social & cderv.bsky.social. Join ~300 happy alumni! Registration deadline soon! raukr.nbis.se #RStats #Bioinformatics #RaukR #DataScience #SciLifeLab nbis.se #NBIS

The stages of Brief. Will there be a Breunion or will they be Brejected? #brexit

BullshitBench ranks LLMs on their ability to detect nonsense. arena.ai/blog/inside-... #llm #ai

DaVinci Resolve adds new photo editing tools to take on Lightroom and Photoshop

Amazonia: Brazil tourism and Futurebrand comes together to create an amazing branding and logo design based on satellite images of the Amazon river 🤩🇧🇷🌴 www.visiteamazonia.com.br/en/ #logodesign #branding #graphicdesign #illustration

Super excited to be launching two things today: #RustQC 🦀🧬 and rewrites.bio 🚀 I used AI to rewrite 15 RNA-seq QC tools into a single Rust binary (I've never written any Rust). It ended up being over 60x faster. Here's the story 🧵 seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/

I'm back with another quarto extension, now presenting quarto-timelines! Customizable timelines in html and revealjs slides, different layout and fragment support included emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-... #quarto

I guess easter reincarnated {ggvis} as {gglite} #rstats

Trailing pointer for your quarto revealjs presentations. github.com/royfrancis/q... #quarto

This is how you can visualize gene expression data in #tidyheatmaps 🤩 https://jbengler.github.io/tidyheatmaps/#tidyheatmaps #rstats #dataviz #phd

Which is the best LLM to use for R coding? Does this fit your observations? Inspired by the vitals pkg and it's benchmark posit.co/blog/r-llm-e... #rstats #llm #ai #gt #dataviz

Just found reviewer from @simonpcouch.com: Human-scale LLM code review, as if a member of the tidyverse team were there with you to workshop your code for reproducibility, readability, and resilience. Note it's still very experimental. #Rstats github.com/simonpcouch/...

Announcing Rapp 0.3.0: Turn your #RStats scripts into polished command-line tools. 🛠️ 💻 Rapp turns R scripts into polished command-line tools. New in 0.3.0: R expressions for CLI options & switches, support for switch() blocks, help menu from comments. Read more: tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Use the vitals package with ellmer to evaluate and compare the accuracy of LLMs, including writing evals to test local models. www.infoworld.com/article/4130...

Meet the (mighty!) Package Dependency Graph! 🕸️📦 Powered by {pak} and crafted with some Gemini wit, I’m stoked to share this visualization tool with the community. Perfect for untangling your recursive dependencies in style. Try the live demo here: tinyurl.com/package-depe... #rstats #pak #ggplot2

Euronet ATMs are a scam. Avoid them like the plague! youtu.be/rdYhm__yMQY?...

webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad. I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review. apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...

Ever wonder how R is actually governed? At #useR2026, R Core veteran Peter Dalgaard traces the project’s evolution—from its 90s roots to the modern roles of CRAN and the R Foundation. A must-watch on the future of #rstats sustainability. @pdalgd.bsky.social user2026.r-project.org

futurize: Parallelize Common Functions via One Magic Function futurize.futureverse.org #Rstats

ICYMI: stringr 1.6.0 🧵 This update brings performance gains and new fns for string manipulation in #RStats. Highlights include: Faster replacements with `str_replace_all()`, 🐫 new case tools to camel, snake, and kebab, case-sensitive str_like(), & more. Read more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

rspatialdata: a repository of spatial datasets & tutorials for spatial analysis & visualization in #rstats, supporting real-world applications such as estimating air pollution, quantifying disease burden, and monitoring progress toward the SDGs🌍💻📊 👉 rspatialdata.github.io

Join us this summer in Visby, Sweden 🇸🇪 for RaukR 2026, a 2-week intensive R summer school 👨‍💻👩‍💻 to take your R skills 📊 beyond the basics. Sign up now for early bird offer! @nbis.se @scilifelab #rstats #r #datascience #code #bioinformatics #nbisweden #raukr go.nbis.se/raukr-2026/

to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes

YaRrr! The Pirate's Guide to R by Nathaniel D. Phillips #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/r%20programming.html#yarrr#RStats-the-pirates-guide-to-r

Orchestrating Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis with Bioconductor (including interoperability with Python) Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Book: bioconductor.org/books/OSTA/ #Rstats

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.

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...

Nice use of #rstats #quarto #closeread in this post!

{brandthis} is ready to install. Try it and let me know if anything breaks: github.com/durraniu/bra... Here's an example site that uses the generated _brand.yml and color palettes: dru.quarto.pub/brandthis-de... #RStats

Truchet tiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truchet_tile R code below 👇 #tilingtuesday #rstats #generativeart

Revealjs #Quarto tip of the day: ::: {.incremental} - element 1 - element 2 - element 3 ::: displays lists incrementally ::: {.fragment} element 1 ::: ::: {.fragment} element 2 ::: ::: {.fragment} element 3 ::: increments any content see quarto.org/docs/present... #rstats

The AI boom a bubble larger than the . com bubble that is the only thing keeping our economy propped up has always only ever been a complicated financial scheme to continuously inflate stock prices. Many of us have been saying this for years noting it's extreme unprofitability. Now Bloomberg noticed

Trying out the {marquee} #rstats package for markdown-based formatting of ggplot elements and it's super neat marquee.r-lib.org (code for plot here github.com/andrewheiss/...)

#rstats #dataviz 📊 Just discovered the {loon.ggplot} 📦, designed to turn ggplot graphics into interactive (loon) plots. It provides operations for an _interactive grammar of graphics_ -zooming, panning, and linking among any number of displays. great-northern-diver.github.io/loon.ggplot/...

Great post by @andrew.heiss.phd on animating #rstats {dplyr} operations www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/04...

Every once in a while I need to fiddle with long category labels in #rstats ggplot2. It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...

Weird ggplot thing that got me this week with the update to 4.0 - it supports new ink and paper arguments (www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... ) and they've changed how transparency works! If you a transparent bg, you can control it with theme_*() now #rstats

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto

Quick little update to quarto-revealjs-editable Now works with `::: editable` in addition to `::: {.editable}`. Not shown in gif. github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Vignette: Fundamentals of map design with mapgl If you are looking for a modern tutorial on how to make interactive maps of US Census data in R, this is a great place to start! walker-data.com/mapg... #rstats #GIS

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 now supports absolute plot dimensions 🤩 #rstats #dataviz #phd

{hexsession} by @liomys.mx is fun and useful! Produces css/html snippets that tile hex logos nicely, e.g. to showcase your #rstats package projects. 😎 github.com/luisDVA/hexs... #useR2025

OK #PositConf2025 -- I acquired most of the stickers I heard were available; here's my final score! (Thanks for the assists @ivelasq3.bsky.social ({dtplyr}!!!) @kellybodwin.com and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social ). I'll be re-distributing many of these to my students as leaderboard prizes 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 #rstats

Charlie Gao talks about parallel Purrr and Mirai #positconf #positconf2025 #rstats

Night at Atlanta Aquarium 🐋 #positconf #positconf2025 #atlantaaquarium

PositConf Day 1 #positconf #positconf2025

PositConf Day 1 #positconf #positconf2025

Christoph talks about expanding quarto's capabilities with Lua. #positconf #positconf2025 #quarto

At PositConf 2025 inside some sort of Avatar-Matrix world. #rstats #positconf #positconf2025 #hyattregencyatlanta