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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 12/11/2025

Northern lights from Lincoln, Nebraska right now

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 19/05/2025

I'm super excited to announce that Anwyn Gatesy-Davis @anwyngd.bsky.social completed their Master's degree at #UNL! Well done and congratulations! Interested in herding dogs? Stay tuned to find out what factors influence herding dog performance!

Anwyn Gatesy-Davis in cap and gown holding Yoda, a Pembroke Welsh corgi.

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 28/04/2025

Collin Berke is a media research analyst, data enthusiast, and news, sports, and podcast aficionado. He uses data, audience measurement, and marketing research methods to answer questions on how to best reach and engage audiences to enrich lives and engage minds with public media content.

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 28/04/2025

📢 Neb-RUG announcement! 📢 Collin Berke will describe challenges faced and hard truths learned by a small but scrappy data team for the next Nebraska R User Group talk: Failing Upward with R 3:30-4:40pm CDT Tuesday, May 6 Register at www.meetup.com/neb-rug/even... #RStats #DataScience

Alpine grasses with mountains in background. Photo by Tom Swinnen on Unsplash.

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 02/04/2025

Yihui developed knitr, tinytex, xaringan, and many other R packages while a developer at @posit.co. Yihui embodies the classic xkcd cartoon on Dependency--a Nebraskan maintaining critical R packages that most of us use. Attend his talk to thank him for all of his hard work! (2/2) #xkcd

Drawing from an xkcd cartoon showing dozens of precariously placed blocks with text "all modern digital infrastructure" and one small block upon which all other blocks rest with text "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003".

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 05/03/2025

🐶🐕🐩 My colleagues in the Department of Ethology at Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary) are conducting a survey of dog owners. So if you are a dog owner, please consider completing their survey at tally.so/r/nPXKPb. #dogs

Advertisement for study at Department of Ethology, Eotovos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. Image includes face of black and brown dog with its nose buried in a blanket. Text reads: Why do you have a dog? We need your help! This questionnaire is part of a research project conducted at Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary. Our main goal is to identify factors associated with perceived (dis)advantages of sharing life with a companion dog.

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 24/02/2025

Last week, the Nebraska R User Group hosted a presentation by Matt Waite (@mattwaite.bsky.social) on "Talking to LLMs through R". Check out a summary of the talk at neb-rug.github.io/posts/talkin.... #rstats #llms

Black and silver prosthetic hand reaching out to touch a human hand in the style of Michaelangelo's The Creation of Adam.

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 06/01/2025

Dropping my lab's @unlcchil.bsky.social 2024 Wrapped! 🥳🎉 Find out how many dogs enrolled in our database, how many participated in our studies, what our most common dog names and breeds were, and lots of other cool facts about our year! #dogs #wrapped

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 18/12/2024

📦 {flashr} 0.2.0 is out! ⚡ {flashr} creates flashcards for learning #RStats functions or other things. The new version can extract R functions from R Markdown and #QuartoPub documents, which can be used to create flashcard decks. Blogpost: jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/flashr/ @quarto.org

GIF of flashcard slide deck from R for Data Science Chapter 1 showing terms and descriptions for geom_point(), ggplot(), and library().

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 11/12/2024

Interested in upping your ggplot2 game? Check out a blog post on Dr. Heike Hofmann's talk "Extensions to ggplot2 are easy – right?" neb-rug.github.io/posts/ggplot... This was the inaugural talk for the new Nebraska R User Group. Register for future talks at www.meetup.com/neb-rug/ #RStats #DataViz

Black and white orca breaching out of the water. Source: Center for Whale Research (https://www.whaleresearch.com/2024-69)

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 20/11/2024

📢 I'm excited to announce that my new R package {cocoon} is available on CRAN! This package flexibly formats statistical output in a way that can be inserted into R Markdown or Quarto documents. jeffreyrstevens.github.io/cocoon/ #RStats #Quarto @quarto.org

Hex sticker with black border, mint green background, white fuzzy cocoon drawing, and word 'cocoon' in white text on the bottom

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 11/10/2024

More photos (no cats though)

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 11/10/2024

Northern lights outside of Lincoln Nebraska. Bonus: zoom in to the building roof to spot a mountain lion watching us! 😱

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 03/10/2024

Are you an #RStats user in Nebraska? Join the Nebraska R User Group to meetup with like-minded R enthusiasts! Our kickoff meeting will be 4-5:30pm on Tues, Oct 29 in the Center for Brain, Biology & Behavior at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Find out more at neb-rug.github.io. #DataScience #Stats

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 01/05/2024

Ever wonder what a dog is thinking? The ManyDogs Project is an international consortium of canine science researchers using big team science to understand dog behavior and cognition. Find out more at jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/manydo.... #dogs #BigTeamScience #OpenScience

Lots of dogs standing or sitting on or near a ramp.

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 09/04/2024

🚨 New article 🚨 I'm super excited that our systematic review of impulsivity as a behavioral trait in dogs is out! 🐶 The article is freely available (for now) at doi.org/10.46867/ijc... Learn more about it on my blog: jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/impuls... #dogs #impulsivity #meta-analysis

Brown dogs laying down staring a treat nearby

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Jeff Stevens @jeffreyrstevens.com · 10/01/2024

Massive study of dog aging likely to lose funding Organizers hope to save long-running project on canine aging and longevity doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Blond woman wearing gloves examines a black and white dog standing on a table.

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