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.

Amplifying the message. Cringing at the reality.

Sometimes I just pretend I'm back at uni and believe everyone sees it the same way I do. open.spotify.com/track/34A8HV...

@chuckwendig.bsky.social made me cry. Thank you, Chuck Wendig.

Welp, time for plasma donation 4 of 12 for the year. I hope y'all are doing what you can to support your local blood supply. It is a LOCAL supply! #DonateBloodSaveLives #DonorFeet

R Consortium technical grants deadline coming up May 1 The R Consortium funds projects that strengthen the R ecosystem’s technical and social infrastructure. Help build the R community! Full details here: r-consortium.org/all-projects... List of previous projects: r-consortium.org/all-projects...

It's "the wall" all over again.

R/Medicine 2026 is next week! Register now! Just one of the great lineup of workshops and demos: "You Should Probably Map That: Introduction to Geospatial Analysis in R" Anjile An, Weill Cornell Medical College rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #geospatial

"Introduction to R for Clinical Data" Led by Richard Hanna, Data Science Supervisor with the Cell and Gene Therapy Informatics Team at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia At R/Medicine 2026, May 5-8! Register today! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials

R/Medicine 2026 covers R being used across the full health data workflow - from clinical data entry and REDCap pipelines to reproducible reporting, large-scale analysis, and AI-assisted tools. Register today! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #clinicaltrials #healthdata #datascience

Quote of the Week: “[Chatbots] can be really good at the care and feeding of a delusion.” - unnamed source archive.is/nPGWB

The new tech bro vice 😵‍💫

R/Medicine Hackathon is tomorrow! Focusing on the {teal} package, a framework for building interactive exploratory data analysis applications in clinical trials. Beginners welcome, registration for R/Medicine required. Sign up, prep, and all the deets here: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...

Next week! A Pharmaverse hackathon ahead of R/Medicine 2026 Work on {teal}, a framework for interactive exploratory data analysis apps for clinical trials. Beginners welcome. R/Medicine 2026 registration required. Hackathon: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...

Are you going to PAGE in Drubovnik in May? You're going to want to attend the nlmxr2 training. Register today! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/simulation...

It is a privilege to be able to support #rstats events around the world. Our limited funding means we have to pick and choose when I would love to give more money to everybody. If your company uses R, maybe they could become an RC member and give us money so we can do more for the community!

2 weeks... why is it always 2 weeks?

@murray.senate.gov and @cantwell.senate.gov and @adamsmith.house.gov Y'all need to be saying loud and clear to the media and military command: These threats from POTUS are war crimes and the POTUS and SecDef should be disobeyed if these orders are given. Call your GOP colleagues and reconvene NOW!

Open source in R - don’t know where to start? Start TOMORROW! R Consortium webinar (Wed, April 8): “Make your first R open source project contribution with git, forks, and PRs” 👉 Register here: r-consortium.org/webinars/mak... Build real experience. Collaborate globally. Contribute to R.

really like this quote from john bingham the goat on citizenship from 1867

We know, we're late. There's been a lot of changes this year. We appreciate your patience and look forward to seeing your proposals, #rstats!