TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Still fascinated with #webR and its potential for teaching stats Here students can play (even from their phones) and find out themselves how the p-value depends on sample size pakillo.github.io/LM-GLM-GLMM-... #rstats

Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

What I'm listening to today: "Olson" Boards of Canada arranged to play on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. The PDP-1 doesn't have sound, but it does have front-panel light bulbs for debugging, so they rewired the light bulb lines into speakers to create 4 square wave channels www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

"hello and welcome back to hell"

Filling a big report immediately #rstats

it's me, i'm son #positconf2025

"The diagonal is a good place to be."

I am appreciating the brutal honesty from @pipinghotdata.com in her talk about {renv} #positconf2025

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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

We have issued a Standing Order for the COVID-19 vaccine, making it easier for WA residents to get vaccinated. Read more at doh.wa.gov/newsroom/doh...

tidyverse blog: mirai 2.5.0 www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... This milestone release delivers enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry, reproducible parallel RNG, and key user interface improvements. We’ve also packed in twice as many changes as usual! #Rstats #tidyverse

everything is terrible but at least the #rstats community is still one of the best

And not a moment too soon.

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

whoops! looked at something the wrong way and now my neck is going to be sore for a week

Making libcurl work in webassembly https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-curl/

This thread is incredible.

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

stop scrolling and look at this bee. thank you

*Another* blog post about @posit.co's Positron! Its Remote Explorer feature lets you connect to other computers via SSH, including locally-running Docker containers, which means you can write and run code in version-locked #rstats environments! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...

Rcpp 1.1.0 on CRAN: C++11 now Minimum via Regular Semi-Annual Update Seamless R and C++ Integration dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/07... #rcpp #rstats /cc @kevinushey.bsky.social @enchufa2.es

the mazda rx4 is the best car, and for one simple reason: it is the first car in the mtcars dataset

I am now at the "USB" level of hating computers, after learning the hard way about USB tier limits.

I think we can all stop pretending NYT is the paper of record now.

If you are writing shell scripts, it is very important to have a helper function 'yay', called at the end, to celebrate its unexpected successful completion.

I think there's going to be a lot of "current and former smokers" lining up for their vaccinations this winter.

schumer's pen is ripping through the page of the sternest letter he has ever written

asked chatgpt to estimate how many Americans will die this year without COVID-19 vaccines available

I had to download an app to enable the microphone on my webcam and dear lord I hate computers

can someone at the FDA tell rfk jr that you will remove fluoride from the water, but spend your time removing fluorocarbons instead. thanks

cancel your NYT subscription and give your money to a paper that actually deserves it.

much efficiency. very savings. wow

Can someone at the CDC please sit RFK Jr. down and make him watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIc...

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

It's utterly bonkers that even in an election where CPC is likely to have >40% of the popular vote, LPC is still outpacing them. Last time we had even one party breaking the 40% mark was in 2000!

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

Feeling a lot of love for my country tonight. What an unbelievable reversal of fortune. 🇨🇦

IT IS OFFICIAL CBC NEWS IS PROJECTING A LIBERAL PARTY GOVERNMENT

I don't know how many Canadian leftists chose to vote strategically, and held their nose and voted for the Liberal party, but if you did, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Canada will remain a safe, welcoming place for our trans friends and family.

Dear Canadians: Please, please, from the bottom of my heart, please vote in today's election. Take it from a USian. Polls can be off, high turnout does *not* mean your side is winning. Your vote is more needed than you know. I am not allowed to vote. I hope in the next election, I will be able to.

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

DELTARUNE Chapters 1-4 will be released on June 5th as a launch title for Nintendo Switch 2! It's also coming to Steam, Switch, PS4, and PS5 the same day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDzg...

We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson – software architect at Posit – as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)! If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this! Join us Sep 16-18 in Atlanta. pos.it/conf

friendly reminder that if you're sitting on the other side of the world and wish you could help, you can support the Ukrainian war and recovery efforts at u24.gov.ua

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