🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉 🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026 📣 Call for submissions is open 👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members conference.rainbowr.org

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

New blog post: open-source software packages have surprising problems with the way they calculate weighted medians and other quantiles. www.practicalsignificance.com/posts/weight... #rstats #julialang

New blog post: open-source software packages have surprising problems with the way they calculate weighted medians and other quantiles. www.practicalsignificance.com/posts/weight... #rstats #julialang

In which use cases does #RStats excel for you compared to other languages? If you've done it other ways and speak from experience, even better.

There's going to be a lot of focus on the topline -- that polling was more accurate than in 2016 and 2020 but still biased towards Dems on average by 2.7 pp -- but I want to highlight some of the other findings I found most interesting

take this quiz then tell me you can win over low-info "moderates" on policy it's just vibes all the way down

Packages are essential to the #rstats ecosystem for sharing code, data, and documentation. Join @ellakaye.co.uk's #GESISworkshop to learn how to write your own R 📦 from scratch, covering the whole process from setup to publication More information & registration ➡️ t1p.de/R_Pack_Dev_25

Everything's going great, why do you ask? www.jta.org/2025/10/28/p...

Woot, just submitted another dataset to #TidyTuesday and now there are 5 PRs waiting for Jon to review. I screenrecorded the process, so if you want to see how EASY it is to contribute a dataset to this AMAZING #rstats community, check out this video. youtu.be/Kp7pyYwLcwc

The Python Software Foundation got a competitive US research grant, but it came with a condition that they recant and abjure any diversity and inclusion ideas, on penalty of having to repay the money. Obviously this is not desirable or safe, so no grant. Donations would help them not regret this

I'm an #RStats users, but I know some of the R 📦s I use have reticulate + Python under the hood. Thank you @python.org for standing up for everyone in your community. I've made a small donation, hopefully a lot of small $$ can help fund what's needed.

Really interesting work (and thoughts on experimental design)!

Catch @kylewalker.bsky.social (of tidycensus fame) for the AI • R meetup! 🗺️ Pragmatic development with AI in Spatial, R, and OSS development. 📅 October 29 at 2:30 pm ET Register here: bit.ly/RxAI-join #RStats

@dataindex.us @publicenvirodata.bsky.social and Federation of American Scientists (FAS) have set up a campaign this Halloween season. Nominate your favorite Dearly Departed Datasets now: www.datarescueproject.org/support-dear...

The government shutdown is halting the collection and release of statistics tracking the job market, public health and crop production, as well as other economic indicators. www.axios.com/2025/10/26/s...

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-... 🧵

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

reticulate v1.44 is on CRAN! Positron integration is now enabled by default. Enjoy R and Python REPL consoles powered by concurrent threads in the same process, zero‑copy R↔Python data transfer, and full Variables Pane support. Full changelog: github.com/rstudio/reti... #rstats #python #pydata

This is a good example of why I yell at people for sharing poll results as screenshots/text without linking back to the actual poll toplines. It breaks the chain of information and makes it way easier for bad actors to thrive.

Statisticians Warn House Bill Provision Would Drive up Census Costs While Reducing Accuracy thecensusproject.org/2025/10/22/s...

You should read this wonderful little history of the #tidyverse, by @hadley.nz. It reminded me about my early #rstats days as a PhD student (2011 - 2016), where I was constantly trying out the new things Hadley and crew were cooking up. hadley.github.io/25-tidyverse...

Can you predict when Lou Bega's greatest hit, Mambo No. 5, was released based on the names of all the women mentioned in the song? Weirdly yes. yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-... #databs #rstats

Submit a comment about the CPS Food Security Supplement to dataindex.us (deadline is TODAY - 10/21) bsky.app/profile/data...

Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

I'm excited to share a new version of the Air formatter for #rstats, with support for tabular formatting! Super useful with `tibble::tribble()` calls or `data.table::fcase()`. It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.

This is very important. There are so many people out there who oppose what this administration is doing. Who canceled their Disney subscriptions or called their members or knocked doors or showed up today. Have faith in that and keep showing up where and how you can.

DC’s hottest club is “Pennsylvania Avenue.” It’s got everything, Statues of Liberty, frogs, dinosaurs, resistlib wine moms, grandmas, toddlers ….

There is a dog on the train watching his stories.

Hello Bluesky! We rate DAGs. Some are great. Some are... not so great. But we rate them all. Let's start with a famous powerpoint hairball a.k.a. "the Afghanisdag", presented to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal around 2010. His own rating? 1/10 "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war"

Three observations from this whole discussion: 1. Weights can make a big difference- ignore them at your peril. 2. We need carefully designed data to measure marginalized populations. 3. Actual social scientists sweat these details, while “heterodox” think tank cranks couldn’t care less.

I have a lot of respect for Zolan Kanno-Youngs and @haleaziz.bsky.social and have talked to both many times in the past. That the Times lets them be so blunt about what is happening with the U.S. refugee admissions program is a good sign of how much the Trump admin is not even trying to deny it.

Breaking News: President Trump is considering an overhaul to the U.S. refugee program that would favor mostly white people, documents show.

👀 I have a latenight confession: I was never a twitter person, which means I was never an #rstats twitter person. I benefitted from the wisdom there, but was never a part of it. Were you? What did I miss? What made it great? Gimme your eulogy for rstats twitter so that I can mourn with you #databs

I wrote a paper about "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" 📝 TL;DR to follow in future 😊 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382

I spend years studying the rightward political drift of young men and Consumer Reports just... tweets it out

At UMD our first-year "book" this year is the US Constitution. In-person event on that theme tomorrow: "Birthright Citizenship, Our Evolving U.S. Census, and the Sociological Significance of Who Gets Counted." Wednesday, October 15, from 12:00 - 1:30, Jimenez Hall 0220

At CDC, of about 1,300 laid off, about 740 have been rescinded. Another 600 or so are still fired. That includes a team that does day-to-day operations for a key health and nutrition survey (NHANES). 2/4

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Here more than 5,000 people answered the question below (more than 4,200 via quote replies & >800 comments). Lots of interesting stories! On X, 15 people replied to the same query.

My parents were Republicans because George H.W Bush signed the Americans with Disabilites Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. A generation of people with disabilities went to college, got jobs and lived independently because of IDEA. abcnews.go.com/Politics/spe...

Survey costs drive almost every data collection decision, but are woefully understudied. @aapor.bsky.social, @amstatnews.bsky.social, and @westatofficial.bsky.social are cosponsoring this important workshop on Survey Costs in February 2026! Submit your abstract today! aapor.org/aapor-2026-s...

Exploring some ideas for how to create a macro-free (or macro-light) implementation of the tidyverse in #julialang (get out the jolly roger 🏴‍☠️): www.randy.pub/posts/piracy/

Here are some thoughts about higher education - specifically statistics & research methods - after grading some more papers written with "assistance" from LLMs. 🧵

I have no idea what this will mean on a day-to-day level, other than that it will be very bad for kids and involve many, many lawsuits.

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Thanks to the interesting {capybara} R package, I just came across this nice Hadley Wickham quote: > “He who gives up code safety for code speed deserves neither.”

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

There was a great post by someone saying that choosing to use an LLM for coding is always like choosing to be the hare in the 'hare and tortoise'. You set off quickly but inevitably run into problems. Eventually your counterfactual tortoise self - who did by building knowledge - walks past.