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Pol Solé Navais @polsolenavais.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📣📣📣 We are hiring a PhD student in reproductive genetics! The candidate will join our computational efforts to map the genetics behind pregnancy loss from both the fetal and maternal sides, working with a large pregnancy loss cohort and a new sequencing effort that we are launching. #PhD 1/3

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Doctoral student in Medical Science - reproductive genetics and bioinformatics

Doctoral position in Medical Science Project title: The role of aneuploidies and fetal and maternal genetics

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Luis D. Verde Arregoitia @liomys.mx · 01/10/2026

🎨 formatted spreadsheets can now make the round trip in R. {forgts} reads a formatted .xlsx file into a gt table, and the new {gtxlsx} package by J.M. Garbuszus writes it back out with fills, fonts, and colors #rstats post available in English and Spanish luisdva.github.io/rstats/round...

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Round-tripping formatted spreadsheets with forgts and gtxlsx

From spreadsheet to gt and back again

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Jonathan Carroll @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Oh, no! My R package {safespace} is in a broken state - won't someone (new to PRs) help me fix it??? I'm renewing my offer to guide newbies through the R package building / fixing / reviewing process during Hacktoberfest - see this post […]

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember asking in a lecture I took during PhD called Immunology of Exercise: what are the most universally pro-health and anti-health factors? Pro-health: exercise Anti-health: cigarrettes

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 25/09/2026

IKEA names its sofas after Swedish places, and most of its armchairs follow the same rule. IKEA Sweden sells 64 of them right now, and I put every one on a map. Pick a sofa or armchair and see where it comes from! karaman.is/ikea-place-n... #dataviz #maps

A web page titled "The IKEA place-name map". On the left, a dropdown has MALMKÖPING selected. Below it is a photo of a beige 3-seat sofa priced from 7 295 kr, and it is placed in Flens kommun, Södermanlands län. On the right is a map of Sweden with dots for sofas, armchairs and places that have both. Most dots are in the south, and Älmhult, IKEA's home town, is marked with a red cross.

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Emil Uffelmann @euffelmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New preprint 🧵 Nagelkerke's R² is widely used to report polygenic score performance for binary traits, but it depends on prevalence and case fraction, so you can't compare it across diseases or studies. We derive a simple conversion to the liability scale. 👇

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

3 key skills in the era of software development with generative AI, @wesmckinney.com tells #PositConf2026: Judgment - deciding what's worth doing Taste - recognize what makes it good Agency

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me too! Great presentation, @liomys.mx , congrats!!!

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Chat vs. workflow vs. agent evaluation in a medical evaluation (patient) context, shows that for this context agent means better quality by the lowest cost. Extracted from the great presentation by Timothy Keyes at #positconf2026. #positconf

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love the intro video of #positconf2026! Happy to have contributed to a small part of it, by telling my story and my "what if". Congrats to the team for the amazing work!

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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are recruiting for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Biomedical AI to open up new frontiers at the interface of genetics, biochemistry and the use of population-scale data to guide development of therapeutics! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Come do some blue sky research w/ me & @cfoguet.bsky.social 😁

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 13/09/2026

I’m on my way to #PositConf2026! Stoked to see old friends, make new friends, and show off some of the cool things we’ve built since last year! Here’s a sneak peek: I made a shinychat conf concierge to help you catch all your favorite talks! bit.ly/posit-conf-c...

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posit::conf(2026) Schedule Assistant

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My calendar is ready for #positconf2026 next week! Excited to see what's coming! PS: I'll split in two for some talks, no problem :its-fine-emoji:

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Note on using Gemini Pro for paper references: First, it hallucinated on the year and journal, making it up for a preprint paper. Second: it got wrong the order of authorship for a second paper with the same team, repeating the order of the first paper. Folks, review your AI results.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 17/11/2025

I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!

We strongly suggest using the following labels:

praise: Praises highlight something positive. Try to leave at least one of these comments per review. Do not leave false praise (which can actually be damaging). Do look for something to sincerely praise.
nitpick: Nitpicks are trivial preference-based requests. These should be non-blocking by nature.
suggestion: Suggestions propose improvements to the current subject. It’s important to be explicit and clear on what is being suggested and why it is an improvement. Consider using patches and the blocking or non-blocking decorations to further communicate your intent.
issue: Issues highlight specific problems with the subject under review. These problems can be user-facing or behind the scenes. It is strongly recommended to pair this comment with a suggestion. If you are not sure if a problem exists or not, consider leaving a question.
todo: TODO’s are small, trivial, but necessary changes. Distinguishing todo comments from issues: or suggestions: helps direct the reader’s attention to comments requiring more involvement.
question: Questions are appropriate if you have a potential concern but are not quite sure if it’s relevant or not. Asking the author for clarification or investigation can lead to a quick resolution.
thought: Thoughts represent an idea that popped up from reviewing. These comments are non-blocking by nature, but they are extremely valuable and can lead to more focused initiatives and mentoring opportunities.
chore: Chores are simple tasks that must be done before the subject can be “officially” accepted. Usually, these comments reference some common process. Try to leave a link to the process description so that the reader knows how to resolve the chore.
note: Notes are always non-blocking and simply highlight something the reader should take note of.

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

As a previous co-organizer for R-Ladies Seattle, I know how long a little help can go. That’s why I’m so excited that Posit is supporting community conferences and local meetups! Please share this with an organizer who wants to feed folks some pizza while learning about data science tools 🍕

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Come join me for a all new slidecrafting workshop! 2 hours of all new content, teaching you to go from zero to hero in quarto slides! It is free and open to anyone, very minimal quarto knowledge required, we are starting with the basics! pos.it/slide-wrkshp #quarto #slidecrafting

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Slidecrafting Workshop with Emil Hvitfeldt

This will be a 2-hour workshop (with a short break) led by Emil Hvitfeldt all about making great slides in Quarto! Wed, Aug 12, 2026 12:00 PM EDT

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wenchangyue.bsky.social @wenchangyue.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

10 colour palettes I reach for in research charts — curated, and most are colourblind-safe. Categorical + sequential: Okabe-Ito, Paul Tol, Tableau 10, viridis, cividis, magma. Skip default tab10 and rainbow/jet. Which do you swear by? Anything I'm missing? #DataViz #ColorPalette #SciComm

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

TIL that .callout blocks in quarto can be collapsed using {.callout-note collapse="true"}. So useful when you need a long text like an introduction to be included, but you want to avoid excessive scrolling to get to the main data in the report. #quarto #rstats

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I love that #rstats introduced me to some social sciences and economics people. The studies I come across by because of this are quite interesting! I would never see any of this in my biomedical sciences bubble.

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Ryan Hernandez @rdhernand.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Science Bluesky is now much better than Science Twitter is… but I still miss peak pre-pandemic Science Twitter.

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This benckmark does not express how better Claude Code is than the other models on top. Apparently, the reasoning of Opus 4.6 being better makes all the difference. (I've tested it for some bioinformatics data analysis in the last hour and the difference is brutal, even Sonnet vs. Gemini-any).

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

There is a subtle difference in transforming a vector into a file using writeLines() or write.table(col_names = F, row.names=F): the latter allows quotes in the output. It makes a lot of difference for file paths, for example. #rstats

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

R/Medicine conf is so good. I'm not in medicine, and it doesn't matter. It's always great!! #rstats

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I could never unlearn base R to know how it feels like to do ds stuff with tidyverse only. But I've mentored (tutored) people that did it all with tidyverse, and that took courses 100% taught with tidyverse. I think the biggest proof that sth works is: are ppl acheiving what they want with it?

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

But, of course, anyone can learn anything! And tidyverse makes data science in R much easier. Base R and tidyverse are not excludent, they are complementary. #rstats #tidyverse

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I just thought that, since I started learning R from ta book that was fully in base R, even the plots, this basic understanding I had helped me get pandas easier than I believe would be for newer R learners that did not need to know base R.

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

OMG the proportion this post took. This is NOT a hateful post for tidyverse. I love tidyverse! It is only a person pov while doing more stuff with python pandas*. As @nrennie.bsky.social pointed out, polars is more similar to the tidyverse.

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It is much easier to understand python code for data science if you know a bit of base R than if you only know tidyverse. #rstats #python

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Luis D. Verde Arregoitia @liomys.mx · 20/02/2026

English version now available luisdva.github.io/rstats/RRstu...

Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Using quarto with python is a whole new experience. It is *not* a simple switch of languages (if you're an R user like me).

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I use Google Slides. It is much easier to organize the disposition of figures and text boxes than by using quarto. In quarto, I would need to google (or ask an LLM) how to move a figure, or adjust the layout by writing everything. Dragging and droping, and seeing it right away is simpler.

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DMM Journal @dmmjournal.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We also have a separate programme for the Global South. If your idea is selected, we will bring the event to your region. #BiologistsWorkshops Details: www.biologists.com/workshops/pr...

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thanks for the explanation! Very interesting, indeed. Will check it out in my next trip to the US!

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Is there any buzzfeed-like quiz out there yet to figure out which AI model is the best for you? It would be fun.

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

How come, a mushroom coffee? Does it taste more like coffee or more like mushrooms? I am a coffee lover, wouldn't trade it for anything, but I am very curious about this exquisite drink you posted about!

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

{ellmer} 10/10 in stability to extract structured from unstructured data using #gemini API. I used type_object() to set the desired output, and json to set the input. I'm still experimenting with LLM API calls, but so far it was much better error-wise than a python script with schemas. #rstats

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Guys, you need to come up with a better strategy of getting rid of robots. I lose half of my day recognizing buses, bikes and stairs.

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Creating a package to organize my work, instead of just reloading functions from scripts, was the best thing I did so far this year. #rstats

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Posit @posit.co · 23/01/2026

2 weeks left to take the stage at posit::conf(2026)! 🎤 Share your work on R, Python, open-source, or any topic the community would love. Can't make it to Houston? Apply for our virtual track! It’s a great way to reach the global community. Apply here: posit.co/blog/posit-c... #positconf2026 #rstats

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging. erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...

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Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again!

Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

If you'd like your files to be ordered by "last modified" in the explorer, you can append the following config to your settings.json: { "explorer.sortOrder": "modified" } Works both in #positron and in #vscode.

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