dear #AcademicSky do you know of any (preferably European) small-ish grant schemes that are specifically designed to support seminar series? (asking for a friend... of #demography 😅)

Ready for my first in-house #rstats teaching at @dst.dk 🤩 The usual prep step in RStudio click Help —> Cheat Sheets and then print out the ones of data manipulation and dataviz. These are always helpful 💡

The magnificent @deevybee.bsky.social gave a #fosci talk pointing out to the major issue in #scientificpublishing that corporations are desperately trying to ignore — the editors who let all the garbage in their prestigious journals 🎇 + brilliant term: Negligent Open Access Publisher = NOPE

This is the most exciting time ever to be working in data, and I'm not talking about AI. 3 years ago, I wrote a database-centric guide in my book for analyzing the full 92 million record 1910 Census. Now, with #rstats and @duckdb? Analyze those 92 million rows in seconds.

Few moves are as damaging for the reputation/perception of a journal/publisher as irrelevant or loosely relevant invitations to join editorial boards Do you genuinely expect me to volunteer my time when you didn't spare 2 minutes to check my profile? #OpenScience #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing

I can hardly believe the luck — a local shop in Odense was selling these exciting books from an old American lady's library for less than 3 euro each 😍 my English reading daughters will be delighted

I've suddenly noticed that Factfulness by Hans Rosling and his son & daughter in law is now hugely discounted on Google Play Store / Books, costs just 1 euro play.google.com/store/books/... HUGELY RECOMMENDED #demography #episky

In case you didn't know: You can run your package unit tests with {testthat} in parallel with two simple steps (see testthat.r-lib.org/articles/par...): tldr: 1. Add `Config/testthat/parallel: true` to DESCRIPTION. 2. Add `TESTTHAT_CPUS=8` to your .Renviron and restart R. #rstats

Houston we have a problem 🖕

Today I figured out that Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen @runejacobsen.bsky.social blocked me on LinkedIn, many weeks after he initially blocked other critics who outed his profound incompetence. Yeah open debate, you know 🙈 Let me up this gem from some time ago, it comes from here: sdunet.dk/en/enheder/i...

Impressed with the catching up capabilities of Gemini (explored via AI Studio), I decided to try out Gemini AI Pro, the first free trial month. And my first interaction with Gemini in Gmail was rather amusing, a literal "go f*ck yourself" 😆

I gave Gemini 2.5 Pro another try for writing #RStats code and I was pretty pleased. I gave it a LOT of context, and it eventually solved my problem. I still like Claude Opus, but I hit its Web limits quickly vs Gemini. Plus, Gemini 2.5 Pro's context window is 5X larger than Opus. #GenAI #LLM

Deeply honoured and genuinely surprised to receive this year’s European Demographer Award alongside @juliahellstrand.bsky.social and @fertdem.bsky.social 🥳Congratulations to all awardees 👏 Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!

YES!!! @cosmostrozza.bsky.social for the ECR award 🏅For years and years Cosmo was doing a terrific job: producing great research, managing the big project after Jim's sudden passing, teaching EDSD students, teaching in the new CPop master program, supporting everyone around… Congratulations Cosmo! 🙌

😍 beautiful #dataviz

I rarely come across examples of #dataviz that are awful and brilliant at the same time, use borderline unacceptable design techniques, and yet work near perfectly in delivering the key info 😅 🙌 well done @nurassyl.bsky.social, btw follow him for more cool stuff 🌱

Ronaldo and Messi are legends of such a scale that they became bigger than clubs they played for. Seaside souvenir shops are selling t-shirts featuring their career paths ⚽

July 2025 turned out to be my most running month so far, largely thanks to the gorgeous early morning runs on vacation in Croatia, for once I was really able to enjoy a 5k morning run daily for more than a week 💪👟🦿

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I've committed this academic crime 🙈 have you? #AcademicSky

Google has just announced its vibe coding product. And seeing how much they struggle to win the userbase, they are likely to offer a generous free tier to start exploring, and their models are increasingly competitive techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/g...

A dynamic, interactive heatmap over a 3D globe? It’s all possible with @mapbox.com and #rstats. Learn how: walker-data.com/mapgl/articl...

🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....

Wishing you all a 𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩 ride into the weekend 😎 rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/dsbook/smoot... #rstats #stats

A perfect URL does not exi... 😃 #rstats 🔗 rstats.wtf

{ralger} #rstats package looks like an absolute game changer in the task of web scraping for people with very occasional need in this rather nerdy task 🤩 Instead of drilling manually through cached HTML, one can use intuitively named functions that just do it ✨ 🔗 feddelegrand7.github.io/ralger/

#rstats tidypolars 0.14.0 is now available! tidypolars provides the tidyverse syntax while using polars for efficient computations in the background. This release brings compatibility with polars 1.0.0, released earlier this week, and several features and bug fixes. (1/2)

Dear @hadley.nz and @posit.co dev team I just saw the news that py plotnine now offers patchwork's functionality natively Can we please have ggverse? Just a shorthand to install, update, and attach the core gg packages #rstats #dataviz Selecting the core extensions can also be fun social activity

This week's #TidyTuesday data is about art in New York subway and train stations - thanks to @karaman.is for curating the data! I made an interactive chart about the sentiment of the descriptions! 💬 Sentiment analysis with {tidytext} 📊 Plot with #ggplot2 🦒 Tooltips with {ggiraph} #RStats #DataViz

This is such a cool addition to the powerful #rstats functionality enabling smooth #OpenScience workflows 🤩

As I'm getting further from my PhD years, the reflections of that experience are becoming (hopefully) more useful to share with the ones who are just making their academic baby steps 🐾 👀 New blog post (my first not for R-bloggers) inspired by @clauswilke.com's post 🔗 ikashnitsky.phd/2025/sidekic...

Life changing discoveries in coding may come annoyingly/embarrassingly late, yet they are still so welcome and bring joy 😅 #rstats folks, what was your belated discovery of that kind?

SmothCSV -- the tool I always wanted smoothcsv.com Picture this: You need to explore visually some CSV data. So you double-slick the file and... wait for 20 seconds for Excel to boot up... Agggr. Instead, SmoothCSV does the job blazing fast (written in rust). FOSS, quick, sleek, beautiful 😍

Observation: I met several truly exceptional people along my professional path. There is a personality trait that they necessarily have and demonstrate — they are very generous in sharing credit and recognizing one's input, always lifting people around them to new highs, motivating to grow & dare 🌱

Yet another brilliant blog post by @clauswilke.com in which he presents solid and carefully thought through argumentation on why deliberately publishing fewer papers may be a bad idea, hurting both quantity *and* quality of one's scientific output 👀 clauswilke.substack.com/p/from-the-a...

This is an exceptionally creative and efficient way of visualising multiple survey questions on an adjacent topic. Not to mention that the plot is a pure art 🤩 Now I'm definitely waiting eagerly for any next #dataviz coming from @bpiros.bsky.social ✍️

Absolutely enchanting #dataviz 😍

🇩🇰 Denmark is proud about its low inequality (and rightfully so! few countries do better) Yet, in current Danish society, the richest quarter of males have a 5% risk of not surviving in the age period 50-65; for the poorest quarter of males this figure is… 22%🤯 And this gap is increasing 🤨

A major finding is that across 19 cohorts of retirees, consistently almost 1 in 4 low-income men do not survive between age 50 and retirement while high-income men's survival improved dramatically from 1 in 10 to 1 in 20 as shown in the figure below (panel c) 👀

Mortality stagnates for Denmark's lowest socioeconomic groups while decreasing for highest, driving widening survival gaps to retirement ‼️ Check out our newest publication in @genus.bsky.social with @svigezzi.bsky.social @juliacalla.bsky.social @sandrsalek.bsky.social @ikashnitsky.phd

Survival inequalities expand in DK by socioeconomic group. New paper by @cosmostrozza.bsky.social, @svigezzi.bsky.social, @juliacalla.bsky.social, @sandrsalek.bsky.social, @ikashnitsky.phd, find that almost 1/4 poor men vs 1/20 rich men die pre-retirement. 🔗 genus.springeropen.com/articles/10....

New blog post: Tidy retrieval augmented generation (RAG) in R using the ragnar package. Demonstration: scraping text from relevant links on a website and using RAG to ask about a particular university's grant funding. #Rstats doi.org/10.59350/qds...

ggplot2 Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis by Hadley Wickham #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20visualization.html#ggplot2-elegant-graphics-for-data-analysis

I just discovered a new super easy way to constrain annotations to specific facets in {ggplot2} with at_panel() from @teunbrand.bsky.social's {ggh4x} teunbrand.github.io/ggh4x/refere... #rstats #dataviz

My long, warm, and fruitful collaboration with the dear colleagues at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social is now more formal and, with the status of an Affiliated Member, becomes my new "academic passport" 😍 Thanks for the trust and support @melindacmills.bsky.social @drjenndowd.bsky.social @crahal.com 💛

I'm blown away 🤯 Google offers an experimental app (you know like NotebookLM or AI Studio) called Firebase Studio — is a fully fledged VS Code web fork with ability install extensions, and all supercharged with Gemini Code Assistant ✨ Just import a repo from GitHub and you are good to take off 🚀

I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...

🤩 UPD {sjrdata} to 2024 data #rstats github.com/ikashnitsky/... In this update I revert back to downloading all the data yearly. This came out of a productive discussion with @hansonmark.bsky.social (🙌), in which he pointed out that SCImago group sometimes changes the data backwards in their updates

Everything in mortality is a tempo effect. Let me walk you through my recent work on "A convolution formulation of mortality displacement" a.k.a. "Lifetime lost from time series of counts", last shown at Nordic Demographic Symposium. Happy to give invited talks. www.jschoeley.com/events/2025-...

#demography folks, do you know there is a nice little dataset `swiss` always at your fingertips with base #rstats? 💡