WEBINAR NEXT WEEK! Topological Data Analysis in R Register now! Integrating popular techniques from topological data analysis (TDA) into common statistical workflows in R. For non-specialist researchers and analysts! Full details here: r-consortium.org/webinars/mod... #rstats #opensource

🚀 NEXT WEEK! Apply for an R Consortium Technical Grant by Oct 1, 2025. Grants fund projects that strengthen the #rstats ecosystem. Example: volcalc — streamlining chemical volatility research - r-consortium.org/posts/unlock... Details + apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects... #opensource

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats

Get funding for your R project! 🚀 R Consortium tech grants support open-source tools + community initiatives. ⏰ 2 weeks left to apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects... Past grantee: “Straightforward, smooth, and helpful. Highly recommended.” – Andreas Neudecker #rstats #opensource #rprogramming

Curious about the types of projects that the @rconsortium.bsky.social funds with our grant programs? Register for this one and look at the work done to build new/updated packages for integrating topological data analysis into your R workflows. #rstats

NeurIPS 2025 financial assistance and volunteer applications are now open for both San Diego and Mexico City! The deadline for both applications is 1 Oct AoE. See neurips.cc/Conferences/... for more details.

Birthday plasma donation 🎁🎉 A gift that every community can use, every day! #DonorFeet #DonateBloodSaveLives

Everyone who is not a pundit has thought exactly this.

On Feb 24, I gave a lecture at UW explaining what my team's decade-plus research on online rumors during crises reveals about the right wing "bullshit machine." Fittingly, a lightning strike impacted the original audio. Here's a fixed version w/ the full transcript: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiG...

Upcoming R Consortium webinar: 👉 How to Use pointblank to Understand, Validate, and Document Your Data 🔗 r-consortium.org/webinars/how... Learn how pointblank helps you explore datasets, validate tables, and document variables. #rstats #opensource

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Apply now 🚀 R Consortium Technical Grants open until Oct 1, 2025 “ISC feedback helped me structure my proposal—great opportunity for funding & support.” — Emmanuel Blondel (#rstats geospatial pkg author) 🔗 Apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects...

Look, I just want all of the #rstats peeps out there to know - this is why the @rconsortium.bsky.social exists. We direct money to projects that directly support the R language and community. Apply and engage with others who are just as enthusiastic and committed to this language as you are.

Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay. If you or someone you know is dealing with suicidal ideation, please consider using the resources on www.iasp.info/wspd/. The world is a better place with you in it. Please ask for help and know that things will change.

From R Consortium Silver Member Oracle: Oracle R Distribution 4.4.1 Now Available with Enhanced Performance r-consortium.org/posts/oracle... #rstats #Oracle

🚀 TOMORROW! R Consortium webinar: Unlocking Collaborative Power with Git, GitHub CI/CD & LLMs in Pharma Learn how: • GitHub enables collab • CI/CD cuts errors with automated QC • LLMs go beyond rule-based checks 📅 r-consortium.org/webinars/unl... #RStats #ClinicalTrials #Pharma #OpenSource

🎯 R User Group Finland: Reviving Communities Through Practical Projects Vicent Boned and Marc Eixarch transformed an R user group by focusing on real-world applications - from music to Helsinki real estate analysis r-consortium.org/posts/spotif... #rstats #opensource #datascience #community

Farm workers in Washington state are calling on you to support the first UFW backed boycott in nearly 20 years! #BoycottWindmillMushrooms

Great post from Acting Census Director @ronjarmin.bsky.social about Census's long experience learning how best to combine survey, administrative, & private data to improve efficiency and reliability & about directions for future innovation. www.census.gov/newsroom/blo...

If you are part of a distributed team and you have stakeholders outside of your org, you do not want to miss this webinar! Members of the @rconsortium.bsky.social Submissions working group are going to share with you the programmatic and operational side of their collaboration. #rstats

Hi there 👋 It's that time of the month again for donating plasma. Thanks to Bloodworks Northwest for making it so easy to give back to my community! #DonateBloodSaveLives

Hi there, #rstats! Another week gone. The R+AI submissions deadline is still Sept 5th. We've confirmed our keynote speaker. We are really excited & looking forward to telling you all about it. However, first things first - please submit your proposals! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

At the Renaissance Faire in Snohomish. The raptor show was lovely. Such amazing birds.

Hello there, #rstats, I know y'all are enjoying the last weeks of summer and I am just reminding you that the deadline for submissions for the @rconsortium.bsky.social #R+AI conference is September 5th. Please take a moment and share your proposal with us! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

Hope you're registered for this one, #rstats!

A wonderful talk! I learned so much! @yabellini.bsky.social is amazing 🤩 Building community is so important and this talk gave us great frameworks for doing it and measuring our results! Thanks 🙏

It's time for the last keynote at #useR2025 😭 At least it's Will Landau to close us out with a great talk!

Our last day of #useR2025 is here and we're starting it off with Frauke Kreuter. Be sure to watch the live stream! user2025.r-project.org/program/in-p...

Building code gets easier every day with AI. Building code that truly matters to users remains the real challenge. At @user-conf.bsky.social virtual, I’m sharing how to ship only what matters. See it here: youtu.be/e4H28G2J05U?... #rstats #opensource

This morning Simon Urbanek is kicking things off and Yanina Bellini Saibene will close us out for the day. You can live stream their keynotes on YouTube: - Simon's keynote - 9 am ET: www.youtube.com/live/8je9tZB... - Yanina's keynote - 5 pm ET: www.youtube.com/live/CTTvTQ-... #rstats #useR2025

Starting this morning with Simon Urbanek and Michael Kane at #useR2025 #rstats

What a great kickoff to #useR2025! A keynote by @hadley.nz, a poster session, and an #R-Ladies+ reception. Great job by the organizers here at Duke.

Hey there ##rstats! Welcome to #useR2025

You can watch Hadley's keynote at this link: www.youtube.com/live/ctc2kx3... #useR2025

Looking forward to this talk tomorrow! #useR2025 #rstats shout out if you're going to be in Durham tomorrow!

SAS ➡️ R in Pharma Webinar 🗓️ Sept 9 • 9:00am PT / 12:00 ET Gabriel Brock, ProCogia Discover how a regulated pharma pipeline built on a proprietary SAS function was rebuilt in open-source R—and why a rigorous evaluation is a must for compliance. Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sas... #rstats

More than 70 million Americans are directly enrolled in Medicaid. But all 330 million of us rely on a health care system that Medicaid helps fund and sustain. In a very real sense, we are all “on Medicaid.”

Awesome program and looking forward to seeing a bunch of you in Durham! #rstats #useR2025

Watching Robopocalypse: The Musical from Puppeteers For Fears at Wild Buffalo in downtown Bham. So fun!

So excited for this one! The Submissions working group continues to make amazing progress. This webinar will give us a look at the processes and tools they are using to bring this virtual team together for Pilot 5.

What makes an R user group thrive? Julia Silge shares lessons from building a technical and inclusive #rstats community in Salt Lake City — from approachable meetups to deep ecosystem ties. Building data communities! 🔗 r-consortium.org/posts/julia-... #opensource bsky.app/profile/juli...

It's that time again. For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine -related questions below in response to this post, and I will of my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc July 2025 edition.

What's up with the US international investment position? Understanding the balance of payments is essential, but difficult. Playing with the data yourself helps a lot. My slides for this year's finance summer school try to make that easy, #rstats code included: benjaminbraun.org/teaching/fin...

Ross Ihaka, co-creator of #Rstats, reflects on growing up Maori 🌿 in rural New Zealand 🇳🇿 and how he discovered his passion for data youtu.be/LY3FOLZ_Zpk?...

Still working on that proposal for R+AI? The CFP deadline is September 5th. We want to make this inaugural event a great time for everyone. Don't miss out on your chance to say, "I presented at the first one!" #rstats #AI r-consortium.org/posts/r_plus...

We're a few hours away from this presentation from the JPMA! I hope y'all have time to sign up and attend! #rstats and OSS adoption in Japanese pharma should be a great and informative webinar.

Hey #rstats if you're following me for @rconsortium.bsky.social news, you can go straight to the source now! We're on Bluesky! We'll be leaving that other place in September.

You can now use @type and @mcp in your #rstats package documentation to generate an MCP from your functions on devtools::document(). github.com/devOpifex/mcpr

Today's newsletter: The Wall Street Journal says ChatGPT had a "stunning moment of self reflection." NBC says Grok "issued an apology." This lazy language isn't just bad writing — it's helping tech companies dodge responsibility for real harm. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

We are so excited to partner with the Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association (JPMA) to present the results of the 2024 survey on how pharma in Japan is adopting open-source software. Please join us! #rstats #pharma #Japan r-consortium.org/webinars/ope...