🚨 Big news for the R Community! The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested $450,000 in the R Foundation to strengthen R’s sustainability, security, and modernization. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/sovere... #rstats #opensource #datascience

📢 I've decided to do regular 2-3 mins video updates of latest authoritarian antics of Trump administration on YouTube & TikTok. Have been inspired by reading how many people get their news there and how dominated it is by the right. www.tiktok.com/@profchristi... www.youtube.com/@ProfChristi...

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

This only happens to you once

Proposals for contributed talks & posters are now being accepted for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting! The world meeting will take place in Nagoya, Japan between 28 June and 3 July, 2026. Proposals may be submitted here: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...

Some fun news: We're hiring! Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. Closing date 13 October 2025; link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q

My University has decided to close the #Statistics department along with several others. The public comment form opened up today: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu... Please feel free to explain how problematic it is to close a department teaching #datascience #rstats #python in this day and age.

EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model. Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

I’ve just gone and re-read the Zen of Python and I reckon Tidyverse in R does a much better job of living up to these principles than trying to do stats in Python! especially readability > density, errors should not be silent, and don’t guess in the face of ambiguity mail.python.org/pipermail/py...

New blog post #Python needs its CRAN brodrigues.co/posts/2025-0...

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

Universities for North East England (UNEE) has issued a statement on the Global Talent Fund. More information can be found on our website: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

An interesting thread was spawned by this post. Yet _not one comment mentions the inferior license_. It may not be open source (as e.g. understood by the #Debian Free Software Guidelines) as it limits how you can deploy it. Tricky. So at U of Illinois we stick with RStudio Server for now. #rstats

I am pleased to announce that together with some friends, we are organising a workshop on Non-Reversible MCMC Sampling, taking place at Newcastle University from 8–10 September 2025. Details on the programme and registration can be found at the workshop website (sites.google.com/view/probai-...).

Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED

Tukey xkcd.com/3104/

Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer: Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit. I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/

🎨 Excited to release diffuseR - an R implementation of the diffusers library! ✨ txt2img and img2img generation 🚀 No Python dependencies 📦 SDXL & SD2.1 models. More coming soon! What will you create? #RStats #AI

UK universities are in the top 3 in global reputation. But they are losing money, cutting programmes, and laying off staff. International students are the safety net—and it’s being pulled away.

Monash University has made many positions available specifically for young and early career researchers who would like to take some time away from the USA. These are case by case, not advertised. So if you are interested or know anyone interested have them get in contact with someone at Monash.

*crab-walked

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

#rstats folks: If you have a habit of updating your library after an R upgrade by copying the old one and run update.packages(). --> DON'T DO THAT <-- Especially not with 4.5.0. You will overwrite base packages with ones from a previous version and as these are not on CRAN, things go bad.

You call it an ifelse statement, I call it a lightweight, agentic decision module operating within a deterministic inference framework

Me to my students today: look you really shouldn't fit a fifth degree polynomial to your data that's almost never appropriate The US stock market on the very same day:

Wonderful April Fools joke thread for those who missed it!

Warwick's Statistics department has recently come by funding for a few additional PhD scholarships for the coming year; details of funding still available are at warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/stat... if anyone is in the market for a PhD position starting in October 2025.

Hey #rstats! 👋 As part of my first consulting venture, I'm excited to share 2 in-person workshops in Brisbane on April 14 & 15: "Quarto for Scientists" and "R Package Essentials". Bonus: When you sign up, you'll get a free one-hour video consult with me for code review, writing, or data analysis! 🚀💡

Finally, there were various comments from viewers about how universities are just ivory ideas discussing abstract ideas and of no use to society. This was my defence of university & higher education

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

The #tidyplots paper is now published in iMeta 🎉🥳🔥 Whenever you use tidyplots in your published work, consider citing doi.org/10.1002/imt2... 🙏 #rstats #dataviz #phd

Erm, what's that you say Google? 🤔 #rstats

KLAXON 🚨: Indie SAGE has come out of retirement to release a new short report standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the sciences! DEI is not just the right thing to do, it *improves* the quality of the science. Please read and share. independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2

I will be one of the supervisors on this. Please pass on to any UK students who may be interested.

This is now on CRAN! cran.r-project.org/package=math...

New fun #rstats 📦 {maths.genealogy} is at genealogy.louisaslett.com Plot maths PhD genealogical ancestry 🎓 and find shortest paths. Uses data from the amazing mathgenealogy.org project via WebSocket server by github.com/davidalber Feedback and bug 🐛 reports (github.com/louisaslett/...) welcome!