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Announcing spopt-r: spatial optimization for regionalization, facility location, and market analysis in R. My all-time favorite Python package is PySAL's spopt - and until now, it did not have an R equivalent. Get started here: walker-data.com/spopt-r

Great opportunity to join us at JHU!

#rstats blogdown/netlify users: you might have received an email saying your site will go away because something something prerendering. If you go to the check link in the *comments* of the linked page (not the one in the text) it will likely tell you there's no problem because your site is static🎉

Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience

This looks like fun for somebody!

Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...

The 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings are in Boston August 1-6, 2026. The Survey Research Methods Section is still accepting applications to the student paper award until 2026/01/15! Please share with your networks! #statssky

Everything about these sentences and photos is just cartoonishly insane

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 8 , 6 pm CET titled Inference for non-probability samples with nonprobsvy package in R by @mberesewicz.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

I dropped Spotify a long time ago because they signed an exclusive contract with Rogan. Looking like a good choice.

2025 was a massive year for me as an R developer. This past year I've branched out and focused on bringing interfaces to some of the most exciting geospatial technologies to the R community. Here's a summary:

Working with big spatial data sets in #rstats? You should try {duckspatial}. The dev version of #duckspatial (soon on CRAN) uses #duckdb to perform super fast and memory efficient spatial operations cidree.github.io/duckspatial/... In a benchmark against, {sf}....

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"What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025..."

This !@#$% year in review: the wrecking ball that was February 2025 brought the abrupt end to many Institute of Education Sciences contracts for data collection, evaluation and research. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut... 🧵

Hey folks! I built a Canadian trade database to practice what I'm learning about DuckDB. The database includes all Canadian imports and exports from 1988 to present as per Statistics Canada. Here's a blog post I wrote with more details: joshpersi.github.io/blog/posts/0... #rstats #duckdb

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

In seriousness X is really bad and a lunatic controls the algorithm and people’s social temperature there. I do not understand why people keep using it.

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

We are hiring a Research Assistant Professor within the Survey Methodology Program, located in the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Click on the link below for more details, and join an outstanding group of faculty! apply.interfolio.com/179362

Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R. I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

is there a good citation discussing recent Gelman/Vehtari/etc style choices of prior? like what's on the Stan wiki but in the form of an academic paper? github.com/stan-dev/sta...

There's still space on the starter pack! If you're a statistics/data science or adjacent person living in/are from the pacific region and you want to be added, just let me know (DMs are OK) #statssky #datascience #databs

A reminder, no one is making you use his AI-slop-filled, disinformation vector of a social media site and rewarding him for his campaign of mass death. If you use X, you should feel bad about that and make more moral life choices.

Any #rstats rtists (or admirers) out there selling or sharing prints? I’m also in the market for stats-related or generative art prints for an office space

New Research Paper Shows 90% of US Adults Don't Know How Many R's Are In The Word "Strawberry"

I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Yes but this month our random number generator is winning and therefore we must feel superior, have you learned nothing from The Sports.

R Consortium applauds the R Foundation & R Core on receiving a major new investment in R’s future. More than $650K (£499,981.21) over 24 months for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R,” modernizing infra, governance & mentoring new contributors! www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...

All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by @aloctavodia.bsky.social and Noa Kallioinen while I was on vacation). The video links are listed in the schedule at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...

I wrote a long thread about contributing to base R, highlighting the resources and opportunities provided by the R Contribution Working Group. contributor.r-project.org #RStats

Is there an #rstats best practices for including a shiny app in an R package? I see mastering-shiny.org/scaling-pack... by @hadley.nz and github.com/daattali/ddpcr by Dean Attali (couldn't find his handle!) - just curious on understanding best practices, bunding data, app, and the www folder etc.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

Huge thanks to @posit.co and hosts @mchow.com and @wesmckinney.com for having me on The Test Set!!! posit.co/thetestset/e... My favorite part was learning that I've been pronouncing "pandas" correctly all along. I've never felt more vindicated. And y'all are wrong about candy corn. 😜

We're getting a native R %notin%!! "after many years of private definitions mostly hidden in packages" 😂😂 #rstats #databs

We really need a word for this phenomenon of guys feeling the need to use podcasting to justify hanging out

Okay, I just did this and it is soooo worth it! #rstats

There have been question-wording survey experiments almost since the dawn of modern polling. Modern technology also lets you give a text or video treatment in the context of a "survey." Still, I think this might be a temporary era of cheap respondents ended by AI's that can beat attention checks.

The man who inspired Australia's teen social media ban literally did this:

SCOOP from me + @makenakelly.bsky.social: despite recent reports, DOGE isn’t dead—it’s actually everywhere. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/what-i...

Miracles are for Sundays. Monday through Friday, improving public schools requires 1% solutions, sweat, and shoe leather. Old schoolers remember the baller 1990s move in states testing in grades 4 and 8: retain 3rd and 7th.

In which horses are more common than zebras and this isn't a reason to oversample notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/12/01/h...

For the avoidance of doubt: does svyglm() use robust standard errors? Yes! notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/12/01/d...