April 2026 will bring a new #Ubuntu 26.04, a new #Rstats release 4.6.0 and a new #BioConductor 3.23. And ... as the "future is unevenly distributed" we already have #r2u running 26.04. See 'zero to tidyverse': 10 sec, 107 files, 1 command. #r2u. Fast. East. Reliable. Pick All Three.

This looks like a great resource!

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

#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)

I've been working on something fun! When you process #QuartoPub notebooks at sub-millisecond speed, you get *instant* previews as you type, and you can render massive websites in mere seconds. 🤯🚀 #Quarto #RStats

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

How much does it pay to publish an open access academic book? Read this thread for my story and 💲💰 amounts. 🧵 www.routledge.com/9781032908724

I have been using the book in my data analytics class since 2021 and it is great. I am particularly excited about the fact that the new version is using the `marginaleffects` package for the Working with models chapter

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

1/ Sorry for double-posting from X. Sharing a new working paper for the Year of the Horce 🐎: "An AI-assisted workflow that scales reproducibility in empirical research" (bit.ly/repro-ai) w/ Leo Yang Yang

I wrote a #RStats wrapper around the Hydra config management system. It's a super powerful and convenient tool to organize and use configs like keys, tuning parameters, paths, etc. I'd love it if you could tell me what works well and what doesn't. Thanks! vincentarelbundock.github.io/hydraR

Noah is an *excellent* R package developer. This looks very interesting.

This is the most current one! I'm on team {tinytable} for pretty much everything nowadays

You can now use LLMs to learn about any chapter of my 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑀𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 book, or any function in the `marginaleffects` package for R or Python. Check out the cool demo video below (sound on). Install here: github.com/vincentarelb... #marginaleffects #RStats #pydata

"Model to Meaning" just received a super generous review in JASA. Check it out! (I'm blushing 😊) Reminder: You can get the paper copy from CRC, and the full **free** version will remain online forever at marginaleffects.com www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We actually show in the model that because our best estimates of statistical power are fairly low, even if literally 100% of our hypotheses are in fact correct we still must have extreme selection against nulls

Check out the new paper! And please please please send us both gut reactions and harsh criticism.

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

One of the most important statistical packages made in Econ in the last decade

Things are grim. But in more frivolous news... @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical. Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/ #rstats [1/2]

Finished teaching my new Advance Stats for Psych graduate course today with a heavy emphasis on both DAGs and shifting away from coefficient interpretation and towards models as prediction machines. Both went great! The latter was extremely helpful for logistic regression (for obvious reasons 😵‍💫)!

My poster got allocated prime real estate at the conference: High traffic, captive audience.

There is a new-ish Python package, moderndid, that implements almost all of the "modern" DiD estimators: github.com/jordandekler...

Look under your tree! 🌲 🎁 There's a major #rstats #rdatatable release waiting! A tremendous thanks to all involved and especially those contributing to some major (performance-maintaining!!) rewrites around the non-API issue. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

We're doing the final sprint, and I think we're able to send the PDF of the forthcoming Bayesian Workflow book to the publisher in the next two weeks (500+ pages), which would mean it would be published some time next year

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Any good ressource for LEARNING PROGRAMMING for students who know NOTHING about programming (really nothing)? It would be great in R/python (final obj. is data analysis). Any help appreciated! Thanks! @andrew.heiss.phd @gmcd.bsky.social @kylefbutts.bsky.social @vincentab.bsky.social

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

One of the things that has been on my to do list for a very long time, is building a gallery of all of the charts I've made across #TidyTuesday, #30DayChartChallenge, #30DayMapChallenge, and other miscellaneous projects 📊 And it's finally here! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/viz-gallery/ #DataViz #RStats

Coding tip of the day: make sure you leave informative comments in your code

#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter. Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds. Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more. Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...

Our py-econometrics org has a new package: `maketables` is now installable from PyPi! You can create regression tables for PyFixest, statsmodels, linearmodels, and save them as html, latex, or word. github: github.com/py-econometr... docs: py-econometrics.github.io/maketables/

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

I am very happy that 𝗣𝘆𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝟬.𝟰𝟬.𝟬/𝟬.𝟰𝟬.𝟭 is now available on PyPi! The release includes a few technical changes and exciting new features =)

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

What are the chances of winning by a single vote in an election with 11K voters? It happened last night in our local municipal election!

I just ordered @vincentab.bsky.social 's epic new book Model to Meaning. This project is one of the most exciting recent developments in data science. The book & #rstats / #python package show how to understand your model *within* its real-world context/use case. www.routledge.com/Model-to-Mea...

Question, if you were including something like this 👇in a report or paper, would you label it as e.g. "Table 1" or "Figure 1"? Or something else? (assuming whatever software you're using let's you pick either) #DataViz #RStats

Looks like Christmas came early this year 🤩 @vincentab.bsky.social

Say I wanted ~9k USD to buy out the teaching time of a prof (a brilliant coauthor of mine) so he can work on creating a validated ground truth dataset for a challenging data extraction and labelling task that current public LLMs (e.g. GPT5) have not yet saturated. Who do I pitch?

duckdb-mlpack 0.0.2: mlpack is now a duckdb community extension Bringing mlpack machine learning to duckdb SQL dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10...

I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so... Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...

The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background. youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...

Look what arrived in the mail today! It's my copy of the pink book of marginaleffects by @vincentab.bsky.social #rstats