I once wrote Dante had Beatrice; Orwell had Stalin; for political writers their muses are not the good things. Wrote this in one sitting today.

How do you find an R package when you don't know its name? Kylie Ainslie's The Warehouse lets you search 23,000+ CRAN, Bioconductor & GitHub packages by task — with AI-assisted discovery. r-consortium.org/posts/the-wa... #RStats @kylieainslie.bsky.social #opensource

I have a couple of cooking projects for the week. Used the raspberries for a compote and I will be using that to make pastries. I also got myself the ingredients for Dubai chocolate. I am going to play around with candy and also a baked sweet. Should be fun and challenging to keep it all sugar free.

The nlmixr2 Working Group continues to expand what open-source R tooling can support in pharmacometrics: admixr2 fits PK/PD models to published aggregate data (literature mean±SD, published NLME models, joint study fits) via nlmixr2/rxode2. r-consortium.org/posts/fittin... #RStats #Pharmacometrics

Spent some time on Lake Shannon today. First time there and the lake was really quiet. Only 1 power boat that we saw once and a couple of paddle boards. Lovely day 🌞

Git (by xkcd)

Had a six mile float on the Skagit River today. A beautiful day and a great experience with Skagit Float. Highly recommend 🥰

From the interwebs

The Bellingham Bells - college players keeping their skills sharp in summer league play. Such a great summer tradition for us.

It's that time of month again 🤩 Time for the monthly plasma donation! 6 of 12! #DonateBloodSaveLives

How should researchers combine multiple expert judgments when consensus is hard? In a new R Consortium blog post, David P. Wilkinson and Elliot Gould introduce {aggreCAT}, an open-source R package for mathematically aggregating expert judgments. r-consortium.org/posts/introd... #RStats

New! Nicolas Nguyen discusses planr, the supply chain R package he developed, available on CRAN - planr moves planning work from spreadsheets into reproducible R workflows for projected inventories, constrained demand, more. r-consortium.org/posts/supply... #RStats #SupplyChain #OpenSource

This generated 500 registrations and hit our limit. So, if you missed out or just want to see it again... #rstats

Visiting our favorite bar in Lorain, Ohio

More from the amazing R/Medicine committee. Don't miss out, #rstats!

A lot of folks aren’t distinguishing clearly between “AI figured X out” and “AI helped write code that enabled us to figure X out”. They are very very different.

Read the latest from the nlmxr2 working group! #rstats #opensourcr

Hi there from the Bellingham Bloodworks Northwest donation center! It's the monthly plasma donation 5 of 12! #DonorFeet. #DonateBloodSaveLives

We all need these two types of folks in our life: 1) one’s who call us on our bullshit, 2) folks who are better than us but consider us peers. Those two are necessary, but not sufficient.

A bonus round for all of you from our amazing #RMedicine organizing committee. Hope you can join us, #rstats!

One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.

R Consortium Executive Director Terry Christiani explains why open source packages, documentation, standards, and public examples strengthen the foundation AI tools depend on. r-consortium.org/posts/open-s... #RStats #OpenSource #AI @terrychristiani.bsky.social

📢 The call for submissions for LatinR 2026 has been extended! There’s still time to share your projects, experiences, and work with the R community in Latin America 💜 🗓️ New deadline: June 1 🔗 latinr.org 💬 Official languages: Spanish, Portuguese, English 📍Medellín, Colombia #rstats

“I don’t find him amusing in real life, but he’s amusing in my play,” ... “I started this because I read that 14 million people will possibly die because Elon Musk ended U.S.A.I.D. It took the Nazis maybe five or six years to accomplish that.” Mr. Reed acknowledged that his humor is very dark.

One of the vendors for the @rconsortium.bsky.social interviewed me for their newsletter this week so, of course, I had to write a blog post about it. randomactsoftourism.com/building-the...

The ongoing collaboration among pharma members and non-members in the working groups is a great example of the power the #rstats community can create and share across industry sectors. It is a privilege to provide a platform for government and industry to experiment with processes and technology.

R Consortium working groups are a great on-ramp into the R community. New from nlmixr2: reflections on an invited seminar with FDA quantitative clinical pharmacology reviewers, focused on open source tools, reproducibility, and regulatory readiness. blog.nlmixr2.org/blog/2026-04... #rstats

IKR?!

Saving some lives at Bloodworks Northwest on this Mothers’ Day, and the local supplies could definitely use a boost. Every pint is needed—please consider helping out if you can! 💖

Same.

I loved them, too. Always interesting to think about your research topic and the many different ways you could approach it by simply using the Dewey Decimal System. Found so many good adjacent sources that would add to my understanding and pleasure, if not the assignment.

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

R/Medicine 2026 starts with 2 days of in-depth demos and workshops TOMORROW! There's still time to register! Full program here: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #healthcare

Here's another watercolor I made for myself a few years back. Big hearts to everyone it might resonate with. 💜

First day on the lake of the season 🥰

This week! R/Consortium 2026! May 5-8, 100% virtual 2 days of in-depth, hands-on demos and workshops, then 2 days of Keynotes, Talks, Lightning Talks - Ask questions, connect directly with speakers and peers rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #opensource #healthcare

#Libraries #Librarians

We need TAs for in-person workshops for the Cascadia R Conference on June 26 in Portland - you get free conf reg for your service! Check out the workshops at DM me if interested: cascadiarconf.com/workshop/ @cascadiarconf.bsky.social #R #PDX #CascadiaRConf #Rlang #Shiny #Rust #GIS #Quarto #GitHub

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

roxygen2 8.0.0 out now: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... ! So many goodies in this release including S7 support, tons of R6 improvement, a new config style, fewer dependencies, and so so many bug fixes #rstats

Come join our team!

If there is one thing you cannot take from R is the creative hexagons! Also, a new R library for processing H3 hexagonal spatial indexing into DuckDB 👇🏼 cidree.github.io/duckh3/index... #rstats

We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and brown voters. The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated — it guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.

Right? RIGHT!?

One of the most consequential civil rights decisions came down from the Supreme Court today gutting the Voting Rights Act. Black people and allies are gutted and enraged. And Bluesky is doing… this.

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

People need to be "hair on fire" with this decision. This is SCOTUS opening the gates to the destruction of US election integrity. This is fulfillment of GOP projection.

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.