@alxrh.bsky.social's lightning talk was excellent!! So impressive to get the crowd laughing in a ✨pre-recorded✨ talk. #PositConf2025 pkg.rossellhayes.com/player/

new vcr release v2! vcr helps record & replay HTTP interactions in #rstats tests. Major update w/ better defaults, enhanced security, new local scoping tools & improved debugging. Huge thanks to @hadley.nz for the majority of work on this release 📋 github.com/ropensci/vcr... 📚 docs.ropensci.org/vcr

Congratulations to Posit on the Positron IDE exiting beta! This is huge for #python and #rstats data scientists - having a unified, modern IDE that speaks both languages fluently. Can't wait to see how this accelerates data science workflows! Try it out here: positron.posit.co/download.html

R devs can soon `brew install air` for lightning-fast formatting! ⚡ Submitted Posit's Air formatter built with Rust to Homebrew + wrote up the process since I always forget how to create formulae 😅 📝 blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/... 🔧 github.com/Homebrew/hom... #rstats #homebrew

I have an #rstats package idea that doesn't exist but I need for my work. So I decided to try something new. I fed Claude Opus 4 the state-of-the-art literature on this topic using Research. I had it craft the *ideal* prompt to pass to Claude Code to one-shot the package.

The future package turns ten today 🥳 To celebrate, I’ll start a blog series covering recent improvements that set us up for new, exciting ways for writing concurrent #RStats - neater than what our trusty workhorses future.apply & furrr offer www.jottr.org/2025/06/19/f... #parallel #futureverse

this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created

📣 Openscapes Reflections starts Monday! 5 hrs over 4 weeks to get unstuck in your data science workflows and learn GitHub for publishing & project management. Openscapes Reflections is an open data science coaching program for researchers and those who support research. openscapes.github.io/booklet/

Openscapes Community Call Tues Apr 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. Experts from @2i2c.org, NASA Alaska Satellite Facility, NOAA Fisheries, CryoCloud, Openscapes, share what they're building. Registration (free) openscapes.org/events/2025-...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Community Call April 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. @andyteucher.bsky.social (Openscapes), Alex Lewandowski (NASA ASF), Yuvi Panda (2i2c) sharing their experiences & what they're building. Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-04...

a very quick guide to some Zarr datasets for #RStats (I've been using this successfully in Linux, no luck in Windows and probably I'm assuming too-recent a GDAL, but it's worthwhile for anyone wanting to move past the classic limitations) gist.github.com/mdsumner/3f6...

Looks like someone took it upon themselves to update the product descriptions in at least one Toronto location. (Via Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/ontario/co... )

As access to scientific communications remains crucial, I'm excited to share I've joined openRxiv as Interim Chief Operations Officer to help launch the organization. It's already been amazing working with @richardsever.bsky.social & John Inglis & team & I'm grateful to be part of this next phase. 💚

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

I’m currently giving @kagi.com a try and I like it a lot Even on very niche searches, it gives me high quality results and very little to no AI slop So far, I find it better than Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo A service worth paying for

I hope this helps someone www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Just a little thread on (some) of my favourite charts I've made. 🧵

This community thread is a better morning read than most newsletters 📰 #databs

Have you ever attended a super great OR super terrible data + coding workshop (probably Python, R, shiny, js, etc)? What made it terrible or amazing?

Rebooting for #yyj Click through to report your #earthquake experience from this morning!

New #rstats pkg chores on CRAN! chores is an extensible collection of LLM assistants for R to help you with repetitive, hard-to-automate tasks. Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/chores/

TSN and CBC will broadcast NSL on a mix of streaming and linear services. CBC will have 8 matches on its national channel. A "Game of the Week" will co-stream on CBC Gem and NSL . ca, while 24 other matches will co-stream on TSN+ and NSL . ca. www.cbc.ca/sports/socce...

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

We are now available in English 👉 @en.fcstpauli.com #fcsp

a friend asked "how do I add a directory to my PATH" and I couldn't find any directions I liked so I wrote up a quick guide: jvns.ca/blog/2025/02...

Love this by @b0rk.jvns.ca jvns.ca/blog/2025/02.... "Just add the program to your PATH" is a good example of "command-line bullshittery" and can have so much accidental complexity and put off inexperienced command-line users. This post lays it out very nicely

This week’s #RLadies curator is @isabelizimm.bsky.social !

follow along with me this week!! i’ll have lots of #quartopub and #positronide content 🫶🌸

Hello, I'm new here 👋 I am an #OpenScience and reproducibility nerd and love helping researchers improve the way they do research. I'll post about open research, data and code. And sometimes bicycles 🚲 😉 I co-founded the @digiresacademy.bsky.social 💜

The surest sign of the west coast deep freeze is the frozen fountain at the BC Legislature. #bcpoli

Worthy of attention in the Canadian conversation about "what next?" -- the giant climate and energy policy pendulum swing happening in the US could make Canada a MORE attractive destination for low-carbon investment IF we don't follow suit. Keep Canada Boring. polarisstrategy.ca/2024/05/13/k...

📣 Openscapes Champions Program at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Apr-Jun 2025! Please share. Encourage your Hutch friends to sign up! Leading this with @seankross.com @monicagerber.bsky.social @tladeras.bsky.social & Chris Lo openscapes.org/events/2025-... #OpenScience #KinderScience

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

🧵 (1/5) 👀So what is open science?? Open data science refers to the tools and practices enabling reproducible, transparent, and inclusive practices for data intensive science! Still not sure what we mean? We’ve got you! Examples below🫡 #OpenScience #KinderScience

blog: The Abundance of Community at the 2024 AGU Meeting. Reflections following the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, December 2024. openscapes.org/blog/2025-01... #OpenScience #KinderScience

The tidymodels team is hiring an intern! Please share with #rstats folks looking for summer opportunities with an interest in data preprocessing for ML. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...

I've been hard at work updating our entire text rendering stack in #rstats. Read about the relevant improvements in systemfonts, textshaping, and marquee in this rundown. The tldr; is that marquee is now ready for primetime

Simplifying number of vertices in #Rstats? Avoid using st_simplify in the sf library and instead use ms-simplify in the rmapshaper library: r.geocompx.org/geometry-ope... @jakubnowosad.com @robinlovelace.bsky.social

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

Ready to level up your skills in 2025? Join the “Pathways to Open Science” series by @official-bweems.bsky.social, Black in Marine Science & Openscapes, starting next Thursday! Build data science skills, community, and more! Register (free) openscapes.github.io/pathways-to-... 💻✨ #OpenScience

Meet gander, a chat interface for R data scientists🪿 gander automatically incorporates context from your #rstats environment and surrounding code and can be used with any model supported by ellmer in either RStudio or Positron. Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/gander/

We're delighted to announce Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social – psychologist for software teams – will be a keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! Discover psychology tips for better dev teams and much more at conf. Register at pos.it/conf #PositConf2025 #DataScience #OpenSource #Python #RStats

🇨🇦 It’s all but confirmed now that #CanWNT/#CanXNT have their new coach: former England international and San Diego Wave manager Casey Stoney. Widely regarded as one of the best WoSo coaches on the market, this is quite the coup for Canada. MORE: canadiansoccerdaily.com/2025/01/10/e...

I am using Positron every day and having a blast! Wrote up a small post outlining the key bindings I use and have created to make my life easier emilhvitfeldt.com/post/positro...

If you've ever tried to version control a Jupyter Notebook and been frustrated by it, you might want to look into switching to Quarto. The files are just plain text, so they're totally readable for reviewing changes in git. 'Tis peak 👨🏻‍🍳💋

PSA: GitHub Actions switched `ubuntu-latest` to `ubuntu-24.04`, which does not have #Rstats pre-installed. Use `r-lib/actions/setup-r@v2` (see github.com/r-lib/actions) to install it, or use a Docker container, e.g. docker run ghcr.io/r-hub/r-minimal/r-minimal:latest R ...

"Solving the lonely data scientist problem", a post by @monicagerber.bsky.social to get us in the mindset for the new year! Monica Gerber is a Data Science Manager at @fredhutch.bsky.social and an Openscapes Mentor. openscapes.org/blog/2025-01... #OpenScience #KinderScience

So true. Show him this and he'll lose interest