Last plasma donation of 2025! #DonateBloodSaveLives #DonorFeet Please consider becoming a donor in 2026!

I just spent the last week cooking and baking for my family and it was all just my way of saying I love you. There's nothing better than when my family eats the food I make them and they leave the table sated and happy.

What's your new year's resolution? Mine is 3840x2160

You've found yourself in the empowering-yet-very-painful part of R's C API! @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social has a great page on the functional API see yutannihilation.github.io/R-fun-API/ and then there's this wonderful (though terse) resource on the R-API aitap.codeberg.page/R-api/

And, as always, there's R's C API Bible™: Writing R Extensions (cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/...) Anything mentioned in here was canonically "API" but that's changing with this fun new push! :)

RSMF grant and the STF grant are both providing the R Foundation and the #rstats community a solid opportunity to modernise the infrastructure and lay the ground work for the next 10 years of language roadmap while mentoring new R Core members and enabling the community to participate directly.

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH

Using unemployment rates, disaggregated by education, in a modified #SahmRule, shows that low-educated groups experience recessions months prior. Data shows unemployment rates for many economically vulnerable groups have been rising. 🚨New Working Paper🚨 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #EconSky

Humbled and truly grateful for all of the work and collaboration in this last year. Looking forward to more in 2026! What do you say, #rstats, ready to go even bigger in 2026?

Fantastic! $650k awarded via the Research Software Maintenance Fund for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R”—mentoring new contributors, modernizing R’s dev infrastructure, and strengthening the R Foundation. r-consortium.org/posts/650K-f... #rstats

The Trump Administration's plan to dismantle the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is senseless & dangerous. It would weaken weather forecasting, climate research, & the science that keeps people safe. We urge that this plan be abandoned. Call Congress to #SaveNCAR today. buff.ly/7ka1BQA

These are the kinds of stories that I just love from the @rconsortium.bsky.social. Helping people analyze and communicate results from complex datasets? YAY! Help support the stewardship of public lands with data driven decision making? Hell YEAH! #rstats

WTAF?! Why would we dismantle a preeminent institution that is important not only for atmospheric research but also for our national security? This makes zero sense.

Gergely Daróczi on reviving Budapest Users of R Network (BURN) + using R with Strava data for daily insights—his personal diabetes story. r-consortium.org/posts/revivi... #rstats #opensource #strava #rprogramming

You have the opportunity to make of yourself whatever your imagination and the tech will support.

Local women crochet/knit woolly PJs for rescued vulnerable, ill and formally abused elephants to shield them from the nighttime cold, Elephant Conservation Care Center, India #UnravellingWomensArt

Texting with a friend tonight whose children are aghast at 80's fashion. My first reaction was, "Wait a minute, I freaking rocked the 80's!" Wish I'd known it at the time.

There's still time! CFP deadline is Dec 14! R!sk 2026 welcomes talks about risk in all areas where it’s an impactful element in your work—from healthcare and climate to cybersecurity, supply chain, and beyond. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... #rstats #opensource

China PharmaRUG’s 2025 highlights: R for modern, regulated clinical reporting—hybrid events, APAC talks, plus momentum on validation + AI governance. Read: r-consortium.org/posts/bridgi... #rstats #pharma

So excited about this win for the R Foundation and R Core team. The @rconsortium.bsky.social gets to play a small role in supporting these efforts. 2026 is already shaping up to be another amazing year for #rstats. Congratulations!

R-Ladies Zurich is growing an inclusive R community in the middle of a shifting tech and startup landscape. Luisa Barbanti, organizer of R-Ladies Zurich, shares how they’re nurturing new leaders, keeping events relevant for new and long-time R users. r-consortium.org/posts/growin... #rstats

You will be visited by three spirits

This is at the core of our mission: providing a neutral space for industry, academia, and government to collaborate in addressing issues that impact the whole community and provide improvements and/or enhanced experiences for the community. #rstats

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Karachi R User Group is building an R ecosystem from scratch—driven by energy, commitment, and volunteer effort, with support from the R Consortium RUGS program. Read the full story: r-consortium.org/posts/a-firs... #rstats

It's here...Your 2025 Merriam-Webster Wrapped! ⬇️

Four Christmas movies that I love to watch over the holidays. People always argue Constantine isn't a Christmas movie but stopping the birth of the anti-christ is close enough for me. 🤣

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

The albums that topped my year. #SpotifyWrapped. www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

Connecting pharma professionals, master’s students, and R users in one local community! Ronak Shah and the Pune R User Group are using campus-based and hybrid meetups supporting India’s fast-growing pharma + R ecosystem. r-consortium.org/posts/connec... #rstats #opensource #pharma

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

C'mon, #rstats, take a chance on our new event and tell us all about the work you are doing with risk measurement, modeling and reporting. It's going to be so much fun!

We took part in a hackathon hosted by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, with support from @databricks.bsky.social Our very own Myles Mitchell worked on solar PV household energy data, and his team finished first in a close match! 🎉 Thanks to the organisers and everyone who joined!

One thing you can count on is that all CFP deadlines are going to be at the end of a weekend 🤣 We got your back #rstats!

Hey there, it's time to donate plasma again - Thanksgiving edition. Hope you and your family are doing your part to support a healthy blood supply. #DonateBloodSaveLives #DonorFeet

This is very exciting!

THIS! SO VERY MUCH THIS!

The sponsorship of R user groups around the world is core to the mission of the @rconsortium.bsky.social. It's a privilege to be able to share the efforts and stories in the #rstats community.

R is thriving in Cleveland! We spoke with Alec Wong from the Cleveland R Users Group about career planning, hiring in an AI world, and building bridges with local Python and open data communities. Read more: r-consortium.org/posts/expand... #rstats #opensource

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Hard agree. The Roberts court ushered in the end of democracy. Threw the doors wide open with Citizens United and never looked back.

#weekendgoalsmet 🥰

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

Help us kick off a whole new event! Get your proposals in, #Rstats! This one is going to be fun 😀

Just another example of the work our members support. #Rstats, whether your company is a member or not, you can get involved with working groups and committees. Of course, you can also submit a proposal to build something cool for the community. #ISCGrants

Introducing bluffbench, a new tool to evaluate how well LLMs actually see data plots. When we trick LLMs with secret #RStats transformations, they can miss the visual contradiction. bluffbench helps us measure this "blind spot" in AI coding agents. Learn more: posit.co/blog/introdu...

So, #rstats, do you work on ways to analyze or measure risk? There are so many different types of risk and if you are out there working with it - please consider giving us a proposal for our conference in February of 2026. CFP is open now. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...