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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 01/10/2026

The #ggsegverse website how has a proper playground! Served through @posit.co Cloud Connect, a n #rstats session to explore atlases, how to alter their positions, colours etc. An excellent resource to also learn how to use it, as it shows the code. #shiny ggsegverse.github.io/news/2026-10...

The demo app in 2D view. A sidebar on the left holds the atlas picker, a Colour regions by radio set with Example values selected, a Viridis colour scale, a seed slider, and layout and theme pickers. The main panel shows the Desikan-Killiany atlas drawn in eight views, two rows of four, each region filled from a viridis scale. Below the figure a code panel titled The code behind this figure shows the R script that made it, beginning with library(ggseg) and library(ggplot2).

The demo app in 3D view. The sidebar offers Surface, Hemispheres, Add glass brain, Camera and Background controls. The main panel shows an inflated left hemisphere seen from the lateral side, each cortical region a different colour, with a region legend to the right. The code panel below reads library(ggseg3d), then a ggseg3d call with atlas and surface arguments piped into pan_camera and set_background.

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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 23/09/2026

This is the first #TidyTuesday I've done in a while. It can feel impossible to carve out the time to make something that is just okay, when other people are making #dataviz that is really beautiful. What's stopping you from participating? And how do you get past it? #rladies

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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 20/09/2026

This week’s #RLadies curator is @mel-likes-maps.bsky.social.

Alt text: Curator Melissa, Data Analyst at New York State. They want to become better at writing modular code and developing better tests for it.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 18/09/2026

`atlas = dk` stopped working in ggseg 2.0.0. It's `dk()` now, and I owe you the reason: R cannot re-export a dataset from another package's namespace. A function is the honest way to put a name there. 🧠 #RStats l.drmowinckels.io/DVergO

A 3D minimalist illustration comparing an open doorway to a bricked-off door. On the left, an open door glows with teal light, flanked by a giant pair of curved parentheses. Inside the doorway sits a glowing pedestal with a stylized brain outline and a small tag reading "dk()". On the right, a second door is completely walled off with grey bricks and a nameplate reading "dk". Below the doors, code text reads "ggplot() + geom_brain(atlas = dk())

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry along Dolly Parton... That's two amazing icons and humans lost 💔

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 01/08/2026

Yeah, I had sooo much fun making that hex 😊

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 01/08/2026

101 tests passed — then R crashed on exit with a Windows stack-buffer-overrun 🫠 I wrapped Rust's link checker lychee into an R package (rambutan). The whole trip, teardown bug and all: #rstats #rust l.drmowinckels.io/ajLoWM

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 16/07/2026

Its so dang warm! Happy we have AC to cool down. Even forced the cat to stay indoor the last hour so she is out of the worst of it and can cool down.

screenshot of a weather station report showing its 34C, and feels like 39C

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 16/07/2026

I've never tried slint before, are you liking it? React us so well used and commented, I think it was 'easy' for an llm to build something using it.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 16/07/2026

Cairn is very much in its infancy and I'm very happy for contributions and issue filing 😊 I just knew I wanted something not connected to any specific account but was local.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 15/07/2026

I'm an R person who just shipped two cross-platform desktop apps in Rust + Tauri + React — a stack I'd never written before. One built straight in code with Claude, one designed first as a clickable artifact. Story: l.drmowinckels.io/sNeRrN

A modern minimalist desk setup in warm, natural light. On a light wooden surface, a stylized cairn of stacked stones glows with digital, circuit-board patterns. Next to it, an open silver laptop displays a dark-mode productivity dashboard with charts and UI elements labeled "Cairn." A blurred succulent sits in the background.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 03/07/2026

ggseg now draws brains without sf. It installs needing compiled GDAL, GEOS, or PROJ — so it runs on locked-down laptops, HPC clusters, and in the browser (webR/shinylive). Same geom_brain(), identical figures. How & why 👉 ggsegverse.github.io/news/2026-06... #rstats #neuroimaging #ggsegverse

ggsegverse.github.io

sf is now optional: ggseg installs (almost) anywhere – ggsegverse

Athanasia M. Mowinckel

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 02/07/2026

Read this incredibly useful post by Community Engineer Steffi LaZerte if you write prose in Quarto or R Markdown! I begged her to write it so I could duplicate her spellcheck, formatting and grammar linting config. (Also, note that we reset the @ropensci.org account, give it a re-follow!) #RStats

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Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 30/06/2026

Debugging in R is often missed in #rstats curriculums, but it is a minimal investment with huge workflow gains.🐞 Hope you can join us! 🤗

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 23/06/2026

And that they were actively seeking advice from other experts internationally was the best they could do. Noone blamed them for the error, it was devastating, but so many things are.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 23/06/2026

And ofc, being in Norway, the doctors were not afraid of getting sued, neither was the hospital (though it does happen, it's not something in the forefront of anyone's mind). Honesty is valued here, and our country's largest NICU had only seen one other baby with this. Being honest about limitations

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 23/06/2026

It's been 8 years, and they still keep in touch with the primary team they had. They knew from the start that the team were on almost daily calls with specialists in Sweden (we are in Norway) who had at least some experience, so they were open from the start that expertise was hard to find

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 23/06/2026

When my bff lost her baby after 5months of struggle with a very uncommon genetic illness, it was because they had been too aggressive in dialysis. What did the parents want from the hospital staff? To know that they learned something so they knew better for the next baby with the same illness.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 20/06/2026

Hope it works for folks! Gonna attempt a desktop app, for those who find running code intimidating.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 20/06/2026

But I hope some more book enthusiasts will find it useful :) drmowinckels.io/storywell/ #books #storyGraph #bibliophile

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 20/06/2026

Since I mainly read audiobooks, I know the books I read are already in a digital catalogue, so I dont want to manually add them to my profile. Since the other options I found for syncing were stale or didnt work for me, I vibe coded a python CLI to do it.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 20/06/2026

Storywell is here to help out! Audible sync works quite well, and imports from Goodreads and several other services are verified working. Some services are still very experimental, since I dont have accounts to truly test on.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 20/06/2026

Do you use The StoryGraph to catalogue the books you read, and find it cumbersome to sync the devices you read from to the website? drmowinckels.io/storywell/ #books #storyGraph #bibliophile

Promotional banner for Storywell — "Sync your shelf" service that pulls every finished book from Audible, Goodreads and more and marks them read on The StoryGraph.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 19/06/2026

that means both you locally, and on CI, can decide if you want to run the heavier long-running tests. This will also skip them on CRAN.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 19/06/2026

you could add _conditinal_ testing. so that those computations dont run _every_ time you test, but just on CI or something like that? That would make local development faster. If using testthat, you could create a custom `skip_if_` function that checks for an envirnment variable.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 19/06/2026

Well, it all comes down to what you are testing. Parallelizing if you are using testthat v3 could help.. but it all comes down to what the tests actually do. If you are doing heavy computations or bootstrapping or something that inherently takes time, hard.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 11/06/2026

Extremely proud and excited that @ropensci.org's community manager @yabellini.bsky.social has been selected for a @sovereign.tech fellowship! It's a much-deserved recognition of her work making #rstats open to all, and a key endorsement of community-building as a fundamental pillar of open-source.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 06/06/2026

I had a package _deeply_ using plotly, basically a wrapper to a 3d mesh plot. I managed to switch it to a js htmlwidget this year in stead. yeah sure, I lost some cool extra plotly features, but totally worth it imo, given how hard plotly maintenance became.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 06/06/2026

Plotly is not going to actively support #rstats (if they even truly ever did) so if go with the alternative.

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 02/06/2026

New post on the R-hub blog! "Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat" ✨ By @frick.ws + myself, reviewed by @etiennebacher.bsky.social blog.r-hub.io/2026/06/02/j... #RStats

Meme of a kitten attacked by monsters. The text says "Everytime you use Claude for something a CLI can do, a kitten dies"

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 02/06/2026

You could make a quarto website, absolutely! But I like the flexibility of Hugo more. So combining Hugo and quarto for me is a powerhouse.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 01/06/2026

Quarto's `hugo-md` format wraps every figure in raw HTML, so Hugo's image render hook never fires on them. Fifteen lines of Lua + one line in `_quarto.yml` and every figure comes out as clean `![alt](src)` markdown instead. l.drmowinckels.io/WgOEMR

A simplified diagram showing a Quarto qmd document on the left flowing through a Lua filter labelled figure-to-markdown into a Hugo theme on the right, with the figure being converted from HTML to a clean markdown image syntax.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/05/2026

Wish I could! Long COVID makes video calls and meeting people supert draining. But please do share it! If anyone is making things that builds binaries in their worktrees, make sure they cleanup!

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/05/2026

its not just me!! And this was my first time trying rust, so I didnt really understand that I was leaving behind all these things. And even more confused with Mac storage classified it as "system storage" XD

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/05/2026

I don't use PA, just a Claude plugin in positron. I've found it's just better that way.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/05/2026

I've been using work trees alot lately and they are so powerful when using many agents at once. But also, remember to cleanup! I just released 150gb of space from rust build work trees 😅

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/05/2026

Built on Rust + Tauri 2 + React. Same binary doubles as a CLI. Stats are 100% local — no telemetry, no cloud, no analytics. Apache 2.0. Public beta (0.0.1), so feedback welcome.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/05/2026

Turns out: a long way. And that's the part I find genuinely interesting beyond the app itself — what a non-Rust-expert and a current LLM can ship together when the discipline is right.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/05/2026

This is my first developer-wellbeing app, so it doubled as a chance to test a more modern architecture (Rust + Tauri 2 + React) and to see how far Claude and I could get co-developing something where I'm genuinely not the language expert.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/05/2026

Why? Part need, part experiment. I'd been using Stretchly and wanted more from it — more configurable scheduling, named profiles, better "don't interrupt me" detection — but I wasn't going to learn its stack to extend it.

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 26/05/2026

I have been quiet a while, but now I'm showing why: First beta of Entracte is out today 🎬 A cross-platform break reminder I've been building — for anyone whose desk job has them staring at a screen too long without realising. entracte.drmowinckels.io #LMM #Claude #Tauri #Rust #breakReminder

entracte.drmowinckels.io

Entracte

Cross-platform break reminder app, named after the theatre interval between acts.

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RLadies+ @rladies.org · 23/05/2026

Diversity is our strength 💜 From meetups to mentoring, from first scripts to production pipelines — we're here for each other. Reflecting the inclusive community we've always been, now more visible than ever. rladies.org/programs/ #RLadies #RStats #Community

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Brian Helsel @bchelsel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I’m excited to meet this cohort of scientists committed to learning R. I’m especially looking forward to the diverse research interests this group will bring and seeing how participants use R to solve real-world problems in lifestyle and brain health research. #RStats

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RLadies+ @rladies.org · 21/05/2026

Making visible what's always been true. Underrepresented genders are part of this community — and always have been. Our new name RLadies+ makes that clearer than ever. Join us → rladies.org #RLadies #RStats

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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 21/05/2026

Gribouille v0.1.0: a Grammar of gGraphics for Typst. Modelled on ggplot2, drawn on cetz. Declare plots with aes, geom-*, facet-wrap and themes; compose hoists a shared legend. One toolchain, data straight to PDF. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #typst #rstats #grammarOfGraphics #ggplot2 #cetz

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