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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 16/09/2026

"Thou shalt get only as creative with names as thine own skill with regular expressions." I'm really bad at naming files and really good at regular expressions, so everything is fine right @jennybryan.bsky.social ? 😆

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 16/09/2026

Not @healthandstats.bsky.social finally demystifying what a "skill" is in the last talk of #positconf2026, after it's been mentioned in 1000 times in the last 2 days, and I kept nodding and smiling like "oh yes I definitely know what that is". 😅

Tyson stands by a projected slide with a caution sign.

Slide with a snipped of a workflow in a skill.md file.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 16/09/2026

"I love ggplot2, so I was suddenly overcome with an urge to procrastiplot instead of working on my thesis." - @cynthiahqy.bsky.social 😆😆😆 relatable

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 16/09/2026

Style choices = trust Styling in Quarto = actually pretty easy Heck yeah. shelbylevel.org/talks/stylin... (Shelby Level at #positconf2026)

shelbylevel.org

First Impressions Matter

Styling Data Projects People Actually Want to Use

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 16/09/2026

From @mcmullarkey.bsky.social at #positconf2026: {blendtutor} for popping up R/python exercises with AI-driven feedback! Love the hyper minimal YAML structure to create simple exercises.

$This is a working example 1 Lesson name: "Hello, blendtutor" 2 Language: R 3 exercise: type: "Function writing" 5 prompt: / WriteR code that prints "hello" success_criteria: / - Prints exactly the word "hello" 12m_ evaluation_prompt: / Grade a beginner R exercise: print "hello" The student submitted: {student_code}$

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 16/09/2026

This talk by @tigertang.bsky.social is my favorite of #positconf2026 so far, and is going in my "instant classics" pile: tigertang.org/posit_2026/ It's a super clear, actionable framework for how learning happens and how AI can be used to help not hinder. ✨

A slide with the text: imitate → Internalize → Transfer

A slide with the text: The Mastery Test

Can l
EXPLAIN IT? In my own words.

Can l
CHANGE IT?

When things change,
Can I use it
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On new problems.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 16/09/2026

👏👏👏 to @liomys.mx for calling out the issue of academic works citing the IDE instead of the language/packages!

A slide containing many snippets of text from academic papers saying "analysis was performed with RStudio"

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 15/09/2026

Warm fuzzies listening to @rpodcast.bsky.social pitch R-Weekly to the #positconf2026 audience. 🥰 Eric's positive impact on the community, via his consistent dedication to the blog and highlights podcast, is immeasurable.

Eric Nantz stands at a lectern next to a displayed slide showing an AI generated cartoon of a R superfan.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 15/09/2026

"Data science depends on a lot of context that can't be accessed by an agent. Maybe it lives online somewhere, maybe it's on a piece of paper, maybe it's inside the head of that one coworker who has been there 15 years." - @sara-altman.bsky.social 🙌

Sara Altman on stage, next to a projected slide that says "Data analysis depends on context that is not in the data."

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 15/09/2026

Every time @simonpcouch.com makes a great point in his #positconf2026 Keynote, his earring sparkles extra brightly in the stage lights. 🌟

Simon Couch on stage, next to a projected slide showing an article title from Science journal warning about software errors.

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Browse and search positconf::(2026) posts on Bluesky in this Shiny app tracking the hashtags #positconf2026 #positconf26 and #positconf apps.machlis.com/shiny/positc... Written in R, code similar to what's there is on GitHub at github.com/smach/bluesk...

Screen shot of app showing various filters, table of posts, and icons at top showing that there are 71 posts, 28 unique authors, and 660 likes.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 14/09/2026

Okay last #positconf2026 chirp before I take off for Houston: I'm going to pop up an unofficial "aRts and cRafts" table at lunch tomorrow (Tues). Come by to make #rstats logo earrings/keychains! Seriously I have over 100 and my suitcase is very heavy, please take them. 😝

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 14/09/2026

Every year throughout the year I say "let's meet up at conf!" to people. I mean it 100% sincerely but I am terrible at keeping track of things. If you'll be at #positconf2026 and want to make sure we hang out in meatspace at some point, shoot me a message? 🙏 Can't wait to see my Rfriends!!! 🤩

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 14/09/2026

1 like and this becomes my permanet new look. 💅

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 07/08/2026

Things making me giggle in my work right now: - A debugging practice package using data about beetles - An activity to practice jacknife resampling using name count data about the name "jack" - Teaching about unnesting datasets using data on bird nests #rstats

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

On the one hand, the red card was a terrible call. On the other hand, reversing an unappealable call is terrible for FIFA’s credibility. On the third hand, FIFA never had any credibility, so whatever.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 05/07/2026

While this poem doesn't fully resonate with me today, it's beautifully written, and a good reminder to try to think about the people and ideals worth fighting for, not just on the ones we are fighting against.

sandra_boynton
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July 4, 2025
PATRIA
You do not love her less when her skirts are torn, Her standard bloody, dragging in the mud, Her ankles fettered, chafed, her eyes cast down, Her ghoulish captors dancing her defeat;
This is the time, instead, to love her more, With all the fervency of desperate hope, Which sees, beyond the black horizon, fire That may be battle, or the burst of dawn.
-Keith Boynton
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sandra_boynton My son Keith wrote this powerful sad strangely inspiring poem this morning, and it completely upended me. #IndependenceDay less

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Marisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

With the No. 4 pick the PWHL entry draft, San Jose got its star. Laila Edwards, the first Black woman to play for the USWNT and the NCAA leading scorer from a year ago, fell to fourth on Wednesday and gave San Jose its face of the franchise | @mercurynews.com www.mercurynews.com/2026/06/17/s...

mercurynews.com

San Jose picks Laila Edwards No. 4 overall in PWHL amateur draft

Bay Area’s PWHL team adds gold medal-winning defender in Edwards, who played collegiately at Wisconsin and is already a favorite of women’s hockey fans.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 30/04/2026

I feel like students saying "Thank you" when they hand in their exam is the same as Wesley saying "As you wish", except opposite message. The politeness is nevertheless appreciated. 😆

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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 29/04/2026

This is how to get started with #tidyplots 🚀 tidyplots.org/getstarted #rstats #dataviz #phd

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 29/04/2026

Last week my Data Sci students were asking us profs to assign them places on the "looks like a cinnamon roll/can kill you" chart. This week, in an attempt to overturn her non-cinnamon-roll designation, a student baked us homemade cinnamon rolls. Bribe accepted. 🥰

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 31/03/2026

Pretty dang rad way for us to kick off Spring Quarter!!! Thanks, @hadley.nz , for making the trek to SLO and giving a wonderful talk and thoughtful answers to our questions! 🥰 And thanks to the @calpolyslo.bsky.social Noyce School of Applied Computing for sponsoring this great event!

Hadley Wickham stands behind a podium that says "Cal Poly College of Engineering" and in front of a slide showing a man trying to push a robot genie back into a lamp.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 02/03/2026

Hey #rstats fam, what non-evil hex sticker printer are we using these days? I've tried a few alternatives to "that other one" (🐴) in the past but haven't liked them because: - I want die cut, not sheets. - I want pointy hexagons not roundy ones.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 15/12/2025

Hitting that end-of-quarter point where I just wanna final_grades <- runif(n = 87, min = 70, max = 100)

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 11/12/2025

Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

tiobe.com

TIOBE Index - TIOBE

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 09/12/2025

I love all of this take. Also "frustration tolerance" is a wonderful turn of phrase, and it sounds less intimidating than the one we often use in Education, "productive struggle".

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 09/12/2025

%notin% is coming to Base R! Heck to the yes. We are truly blessed on this day, thank you R Core. 🤩 #rstats

Screenshot of an item in the new R-devel release, that says:

x %notin% table newly in base is an idiom for !(x %in% table) and provided almost entirely for convenience and code readability, from an R-devel suggestion, after many years of private definitions mostly hidden in packages, including in R's tools package.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 09/12/2025

#quarto blog + RSS question: Is there a way to exclude a post from the automatic RSS feed? (Specifically, I want to occasionally put non-R content on my blog but I don't want it to spam to the people who follow for R only...) Gracias in advance hivemind! 🙏

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 06/12/2025

Huge thanks to @posit.co and hosts @mchow.com and @wesmckinney.com for having me on The Test Set!!! posit.co/thetestset/e... My favorite part was learning that I've been pronouncing "pandas" correctly all along. I've never felt more vindicated. And y'all are wrong about candy corn. 😜

posit.co

Episode 11 : Kelly Bodwin — Quarto hacks, AI in the classroom, and why R should stay weird - Posit

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 05/12/2025

We gave our Data Science students a project to identify which photos were taken by me vs by my co-teacher, based on a provided training set. Instead of refining their model, they are reverse image searching to identify the locations, and matching this to what they know about our recent travels. 😆😆😆

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

the lesson of zohran mamdani walloping one of the most racist campaigns in modern us history on the largest turnout since 1969 is that democrats need to move to the right

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 14/10/2025

Despite all the uncertainty right now in American Higher Ed, our department is hiring! jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/55... Happy to answer any questions you have - it's a wonderful place to work. 🥰 (Note: this is a tenure-track TEACHING position, not a good fit for research-only goals.)

jobs.calpoly.edu

Cal Poly - Details - Tenure Track Position - Statistics

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@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.

Airplane diagram with red dots marking where planes are shot

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 24/09/2025

Another week, another magical #rstats gift from Emil. 🥰

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 19/09/2025

One final heartwarming moment from #positconf2025: dropping my students off at Tidy Dev Day! 😍 Three talented #rstats programmers coming your way, #tidyverse! Now back to reality - thanks for another beautiful week of learnings and Rfriends. 🏴‍☠️💙

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/09/2025

Best slide caption of the conference. @kjhealy.co is a font of sass ans I am HERE for it. 😅

A slide of the famous "Napoleon's armies" visualization, with the caption "I am legally required to show you this."

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/09/2025

"Sometimes the data doesn't follow the trend and you see a failure pattern. Of course, we mean a failure of the world. Our theory has not failed, because our theory includes the possibility of failure patterns." - @kjhealy.co at #positconf2025 😆😆😆

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/09/2025

Could this {uv} solution recommended by @juliasilge.com be the answer to the personal hell that is "Import Error: no module named 'numpy'" ? #positconf2025

Managing Python environments
• First tool that really caught my attention was pyenv
• I am now all in on uv
uv venv
uv pip install -r requirements.txt
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posit

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/09/2025

I feel seen listening to @grrrck.xyz talking about making his own Beamer theme in grad school. RIP Kelly's Personal Beamer theme (2015-2017), killed by discovering RMarkdown. 🪦

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/09/2025

Shannon's slides are always so unbelievably clear and helpful!!! github.com/shannonpileg... I'm having "Ohhhhh that's what that means" moments every 10 seconds here. #positconf2025

github.com

GitHub - shannonpileggi/practical-renv: A posit::conf(2025) talk.

A posit::conf(2025) talk. Contribute to shannonpileggi/practical-renv development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/09/2025

"This talk is for potential {renv} users and frustrated {renv} users." - @pipinghotdata.com It me. I am all ears. 👂

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/09/2025

We took the @rdatatable.bsky.social hex stickers to see their real-life mascots! If you're at #positconf2025, come by the #rdatatable Birds of a Feather at lunch today to chat about the future of the package and get some swag! 🦭💛🖤

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 17/09/2025

I loved the "Hmmmmmm" in the crowd when @jcheng5.bsky.social showed this data quality problem uncovered by the #positron Databot tool. No human caught this during the Tidy Tuesday for the data. I've been skeptical of AI for data analysis, but this is an extremely compelling use case. 🫣

A slide showing that some rows of data have been systematically shifted left, leaving a missing data column and incorrect column alignment.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 17/09/2025

" @hadley.nz is made mostly of code and polite enthusiasm." = most accurate descriptor ever written by a language model. 😆 On the other hand, I'm not convinced @jcheng5.bsky.social truly has "teeth made of reactive inputs" ... 🦷 #positconf2025

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 17/09/2025

The thing that struck me most is that even if you take away the code-writing necessity, knowing what to ask the bot for requires so much expertise. Steps like "These points are overplotted, can we fix that" or "Let's look at only the top 50 restaurants" are incredible non-obvious to beginners...

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 17/09/2025

The always delightful @k-bott.bsky.social shares the educational principles of Posit Academy for teaching professionals in the wild: Practice that is: 💫 Repeated over time, 💕 relevant to their domain, 🪜 within their reach, and 👯‍♂️ conducted in a community. #positconf2025

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