Weekly Recap (March 27, 2026): NSF AI readiness, AGI forecasts, White House AI policy framework, NIH genomics technology, statistical rethinking, context anchoring, #Rstats + Quarto, NOFO graveyard & grant terminations, organ sacks, YYiki. blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec...

LLM agents for biological intelligence across genomics, proteomics, spatial biology, and biomedicine academic.oup.com/bib/article/... 🧬💻🧪

The latest RWeekly issue is out! This week's highlights include @ivelasq3.bsky.social 's @rladiesrome.bsky.social tutorial showing the new features in {dplyr} v1.2.0, and @tylermw.com 's post on Atmospheric Simulation in #RStats. rweekly.org/2026-W13.html

Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data. The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and github github.com/pachterlab/k... Figure 1 shows they key result

I've just made live the updated website that accompanies my R book (www.discovr.rocks) - it's mostly finished: almost all of the chapter solutions/task solutions are done, data are live, updated info about the `discovr` package of interactive tutorials, and it's had a face lift.

rix, my package that leverages #Nix to provide reproducible data science environments for #RStats (and #python and #julia) is in the top 10 starred ropensci packages! that’s pretty cool

The recordings from Shiny in Production 2025 are now available. Talks from speakers around the world on how they use Shiny in R and Python to solve real-world data problems. Watch the sessions: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Just received Josh Starmer's latest book. Great way to dig deeper into some of his videos' concepts! #Stats

#rstats filter_out is good

Last week we released dplyr 1.2.0, but we left off something VERY important 🙂 `dplyr::if_else()` and `dplyr::case_when()` are now up to 30x faster and use 10x less memory! We dive into how we achieved these numbers in this new #rstats post! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

#TidyTuesday week 05, exploring the Edible Plants Database. Code available here: github.com/KittJonathan... #RStats #Plants #Datavis #Code

Inscription faite ! Hâte de participer à ces #RencontresR pour la toute première fois. Il ne me reste plus qu'à soumettre un résumé ☺️ rr2026.sciencesconf.org #RStats #code #conf

This week's Rweekly issue is out! #RStats rweekly.org

#rstats I've given a workshop a few days ago on handling large data (think tens to hundreds of millions of rows) with Polars in Python and in R. Here are my introductory slides: brussels-large-data-r-python.etiennebacher.com And the associated repo: github.com/etiennebache...

#TidyTuesday Week 03 of 2026 - Astronomy Picture of the Day #Rstats #dataviz #planets

Most spoken language families for the 24 countries taking part in the 2025 African Cup of Nations. Code available here: github.com/KittJonathan... #TidyTuesday #RStats #CAN #CAF #football

Just started reading the course materials from @physaliacourses.bsky.social on Genomic data (github.com/loukesio/dat...) by @bioinformatician.bsky.social, and already learned a couple valuable #tidyverse tricks! - how to use "names_pattern" in pivot_longer() - change labels using labeller() #RStats

First #tidytuesday for 2026! Decided to re-create my #github contributions heatmap for 2025. Code available here: github.com/KittJonathan... #Rstats #datavis #code

Hi #rstats friends! 👋🏽 Checkout our newest blog that displays how to create beautiful and reproducible river maps! 🗺 🔗: waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/nhd-viz... #nhdplusTools #dataRetrieval #ggplot #dataviz

{report} #rstats package version 0.6.2 is now on CRAN! MANY bug fixes in this version! Including corrected duplicated text outputs and dramatic speed increases for brmsfit models (which used to refit the model entirely every time). easystats.github.io/report/ With the @easystats.github.io team

The latest #Rweekly issue is out ! rweekly.org #Rstats #news

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

What's new this week in AI, data science, bioinfo: LLMs for learning to code, #Rstats updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), RAG, layoffs & AI, DuckDB for data science, Anthropic+Iceland, AI in science, AI in drug discovery, Nextflow & pathogen surveillance doi.org/10.59350/28g...

Part 1: "What AI chatbots are actually doing under the hood". www.gilesthomas.com/2025/08/what...

It’s happening again in November. 30 days and 30 themes for maps. Take part, learn something new and have fun. That’s what #30DayMapChallenge is about 🌎

Le monde de l'infiniment petit.

I'm in the middle of preparing slides for an "Introduction to R" course. Thought I'd use a figure to explain element recycling in vectorized operations. #RStats #course #learn

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

The latest issue of @rweekly is now live! https://rweekly.org/2025-W39.html This week's highlights: ✏️ All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents by @rOpenSci 🈂️ I Vibe Coded an R Package by @jonocarroll ☑️ Quality Control for Scanned Multiple-Choice Exams by […]

Rweekly issue #38 is out. This week's highlights include: R6 interfaces (@jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social) and ggplot2 (@nrennie.bsky.social) #Rstats #code #reading rweekly.org

Great video with @tanyashapiro.bsky.social and @cedricscherer.com walking us though using {ggiraph}. Plus, there's a plot with some #DrWho data :-) #data #Rstats #code www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj...

We are pleased to announce the 2025 Table Contest and Plotnine Contests! These events celebrate great visual displays of information by way of tables and plots, all made possible by open-source software. We can't wait to see what you create! #RStats #Python Learn more: posit.co/blog/announc...

Great video by @minecr.bsky.social. I finally gave Positron a try! #RStats @posit.co #IDE #code www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndq2...

Episode 208 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... ✨ Positron Assistant for creating R packages @stephenturner.us 📰 LLM-powered guide to Posit Conf 2025 agenda @ivelasq3.bsky.social & Sam Parmar h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonmcalder.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #DataScience

New video by @3blue1brown.com! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-5... #AI #DeepLearning #Video

Insighful article by @nrennie.bsky.social, still thinking about switching from RStudio to Positron. I'd be happy to have your thoughts about Positron! I'm currently coding mostly in #RStats, but I've been using more #Python lately. #RStudio #Positron #IDE #coding

Wow ... I'd never come across this use of with(), which allows combining the pipe and computing a correlation coefficient. Thanks to @mansthulin.bsky.social for explaining this in his fantastic book www.modernstatisticswithr.com! #Rstats #code #neverknew

This post by @tanyashapiro.bsky.social reminds me I have to update the datardis package. Maybe a #tidytuesday around this year's #DoctorWho day (late November).

{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/

ROFL = Real Outliers Fatally Lanced TLDR = Too Lazy; Didn't Research SMH = So Many Hypotheses BRB = Bayes ... Really, Bayes? IMHO = Is My Hypothesis Obvious? DND = Distribution Not Defined FAFO = Fanciful Analysis of Four Observations JC = Jointly Comical NFI = Never Forget Independence

📊Looking to re-decorate your #dataviz office? Y ou need Boxplot Shelves!

The latest issue of #Rweekly is out ! Curated by @rpodcast.bsky.social rweekly.org/2025-W24.html #RStats #reading #coding

Issue 2025-W23 of @rweekly is now live! Highlights this week: 🤖 Computer vision with LLMs in R by @Posit 🧰 Easy tool calls with ellmer and chatlas by @Posit 🎨 Porting my favorite RStudio color theme to Positron by @ivelasq3 As always, keep sending your pull requests of new #rstats :rstats […]

The latest R Weekly issue is out! rweekly.org #rstats #newsletter

A {ggplot2} course with two dataviz wizards 🧙? To say I'm excited about this would be an understatement. 🎉🎉🎉 #rstats #dataviz #course #learning

Un nouveau livre de @bjnnowak.bsky.social !

The latest #Rweekly issue is out! #Rstats #code #reading rweekly.org

The latest issue of #Rweekly is out, curated by Sam Parmar (parmsam.github.io/quarto-site/) #Rstats #reading rweekly.org

The latest issue of #rweekly is out, thanks to @colinfay.bsky.social ! #rstats #code #reading rweekly.org

@3blue1brown.com's videos are always very clear, and also very enjoyable to watch! #math #pi #normal youtu.be/cy8r7WSuT1I?...