You can't spell market without "mark"

point of discussion: have we considered perhaps that the markets are stupid

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍 A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

Day Counter xkcd.com/3228/

COLLABORATIVE WRITING

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

Until an LLM can feel this it can never truly write

Quick post on "NASA Elements of Engineering Excellence" vickiboykis.com/2026/04/05/n...

Like. Come on. Science is cool, and scientists are cool

Just picked up @adamjkucharski.bsky.social’s “The Rules of Contagion” and am already glad I did, because now I know that abracadabra was prescribed against malaria 🦟

I got native dev containers working in Positron! Blog post forthcoming, but for now, here's a minimal repo showing how it works: it uses Quarto and Typst and Docker to make a little PDF report github.com/andrewheiss/... (Positron documentation: positron.posit.co/dev-containe...) #rstats

It takes a tough nurse to make you understand the Monty Hall problem

DID YOU KNOW that experimental support for #devcontainers was added to #Positron all sneaky-like in December? Setting url: positron://settings/dev.containers.enable Dev containers (experimental) docs: positron.posit.co/dev-containe... (includes known issues) 🪲 Bugs? 👉🏼 github.com/posit-dev/po...

Introducing 🌳tarborist: a VS Code extension providing tree-sitter powered static analysis of {targets} pipelines with target info on hover, tar_map() autocompletion, cycle detection, and upstream/downstream info/links #RStats Github: github.com/tylermorganw... OpenVSX: open-vsx.org/vscode/item?...

(Re)discovered the Pac-Man example in the documentation for ggplot's coord_radial() (ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/co...), so I zhuzhed it up a bit for class #rstats

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

Did you know you (yes, YOU!) can contribute to base R? Base R is the foundation of everything #RStats. If you’ve ever found a bug or thought of an improvement, you can help shape the language. Join @ellakaye.co.uk on the Posit Data Science Lab tomorrow to learn how to get started! pos.it/dslab

My keen knowledge of statistics tells me these feet are merely suffering from survivorship bias.

I'm looking for a post-doc to help organize Bayesian Data Analysis course avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A... (200 students) and to do research on Bayesian workflow users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... at Aalto www.aalto.fi/en, Finland. Background in Bayes needed. Up to five year contract possible.

Code Window 1.0.0 for Quarto is here. Add window-style decorations to your code blocks: macOS traffic lights, Windows buttons, or a plain title bar. Hotfixes: Filename and code-annotations for Typst/PDF in Quarto 1.9. github.com/mcanouil/quarto-code-window #Quarto #Typst #TechnicalWriting

And formally, according to our law, Depose him

subgroup analyses

The most relieving 6 words that you can ever read in an email:

Searching for a postdoc opportunity? CAUSALab is reviewing applications for the T32 Training Program in Comparative Effectiveness Research for Suicide Prevention (Funded by NIMH, T32 MH125815). 🔗 Apply: form.jotform.com/201476846966... Learn more in comments. #causalinference

#rstats I'm glad to announce Jarl 0.5.0! Jarl is a very fast R linter, written in Rust. This release brings many improvements and fixes. See the blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2026-0... And the full changelog: jarl.etiennebacher.com/changelog 🧵 to highlight some features below (1/4)

Causal isn’tference: when you don’t make your identifying assumptions clear or don’t bother to argue for them

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

Don’t Do Difference In Differences (DDDID), cheers, guido

Book of “Why not”

Anyone else spoiled by R's pkgdown and find python's mkdocs or sphinx a bit tedious and config-heavy. Check out @richmeister.bsky.social 's awesome new {great-docs} as a batteries-included alternative to spin up an effective docs site in <15 min! 1/n 🧵 github.com/posit-dev/gr...

Quarto v1.9 is out! We'll have an announcement blog post soon, but quarto.org/docs/download/ has the main highlights, including: - PDF accessibility in latex and typst - llms.txt support - third-party engine extensions Give it a whirl, and thanks!

#rstats 4.6.0 "Happy Hop" scheduled for April 24. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.)

why can't we just have nice things without these dorks taking them

Tired: They‘re NPCs Wired: I’m an NPC

Oooh, I'm intrigued by this new table syntax in #QuartoPub 1.9

A new pre-print, led by one of the many students I am lucky to work with. It describes an extension of g-computation for studying causal effects on recurrent events (eg, hypertension) where there are competing events (eg, death) arxiv.org/abs/2603.10169

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

Did you know that arXiv is exploring to add Typst? The world's largest preprint archive faces unique challenges to keep science open. Join arXiv veteran Norbert Preining and learn what's ahead for arXiv and Typst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZl...

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

Why am I like this?

If you use #QuartoPub for any PDF documents for teaching and you need to meet impending PDF accessibility rules, upgrade to v1.9, add format: typst: pdf-standard: ua-1 to the YAML front matter, and it'll work!

@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so

If you are unsure of how to spell mnemonic, here is a handy mnemonic:

quoth @jennybryan.bsky.social, someone has to write a for loop, but it doesn't have to be you

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.