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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

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
SOMEWHERE NEW?
On new problems.

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

Also. Every slide was hand-drawn! 🥹

A hand drawn sketch of a laptop with R stickers and a tshirt saying "stringsAsFactors"

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

Also I will be hiding a handful of these coasters around so keep a sharp eye.

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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 · 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
•
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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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 · 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 · 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

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
uck-with-py thee/
posit

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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

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

It's so hard to give a "teaching how to teach" talk in a way that includes concrete, actionable advice. @ryjohnson09.bsky.social just nailed it. (Pic taken from the floor, because here at #positconf2025 the education sections are popular! 🥳)

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

.... and also a really really cool one that was surprising to me even as an educator. I had no idea videos made *that* much of a measurable impact!

Videos are valuable
Gen Z learning preferences
59%
YouTube
57%
In-person group activities
47%
Learning apps/games
Books (printed)
47%
20
Preference (%)
60
Source: Harris/Peurson poll. 30-minute nationally representative online survey of 2,587 respondents. Subsetted to just Gen Z data.
Q20
Meta analysis,
Video's effect on learning in higher Ed
g = 0.88
Add video to existing content
Replace teaching with video
g = 0.28
0.0
0.5
Effect Size (Hedges' g)
Nontel, M. Geillith, S. Dwlancy, O., Sunders, T. Parker, P., del Pozo Cruz, B., & Lonsdale, C.
2021). Video Improves Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Review. Revicw of Educationsl Research, 91(2), 204-236. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654321990713

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

Incredibly relatable slide from Kene David Nwosu at #positconf2025... (also, first time I've seen Hofstadter's law referenced by someone besides @stat110.bsky.social !)

Videos are expensive
• Time
• Equipment
• Tears

Il The Official Mental Anguish Index™™
A quantitative analysis of suffering

1. Chasing students for late assignments
5
2. R console crashing in the middle of regression
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3. Recording and debugging videos
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Perfect union of Murphy's law and Hofstadter's law

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 17/08/2025

tfw your Spanish father-in-law picks the perfect restaurant without realizing... (cc: @posit.co 😘)

Me standing under a sign reading "El Posit - Restaurant Soatenible"

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 10/08/2025

I've been hyped about @rundel.bsky.social's {parsermd} for a long time, and now that it's Quarto-ready, I shall definitely be building on it! 👷‍♀️🛠️ So many possibilities - like the ability to create a student version and solution version from the same source doc! github.com/rundel/parse...

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 10/08/2025

Huge 👏👏👏 to @calpolyslo.bsky.social WunderKind @visruth.com for his #useR2025 talk on {flourish}! 🌟{flourish} is a Quarto extension for adding highlighting to source code chunks - the successor to {flair} in Rmd. 🔗 V's slides: visruth.com/flourish-talk 🔗 Github: github.com/kbodwin/flourish

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 10/08/2025

Last but very definitely not least in the #useR2025 ⚡️talks: @vincentab.bsky.social showing us the power of {tinytable}! IMHO: {gt} is king for fancy reproducible html tables, but {tinytable} should be the go-to for quick formatting and other file formats. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Vincent stands in front of a slide showing the syntax of a tiny table code snippet.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 10/08/2025

LOVED McCall Pitcher's ⚡️ talk at #user2025 showing how she cleverly used existing ggplot tools to turn her plot into snappy storytelling. Deceptively simple code, but some truly clever ways to tweak the plot! (Is she on here? I couldn't find an acct...)

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 10/08/2025

{hexsession} by @liomys.mx is fun and useful! Produces css/html snippets that tile hex logos nicely, e.g. to showcase your #rstats package projects. 😎 github.com/luisDVA/hexs... #useR2025

Luis stands in front of a slide showing many hex logos tiled on a web page.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 10/08/2025

In the frenzy of exciting #useR2025 talks, I forgot to mention that I also gave my talk. 😆 "Adding models to {tidyclust}", slides here: kbodwin.github.io/Talks-and-Pr... PC: @healthandstats.bsky.social

Kelly stands in front of a alide that reads "expanding tidyclust"

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 09/08/2025

The step that resonated most for me in this talk was "Ownership". @yabellini.bsky.social challenged us to think of the moment where I felt like #rstats was *my thing* and not just something I use. The answer is unequivocally my first #tidyverse Dev Day. 🥰

Yabi stands in front of a slide reading: "never heard of this" to "this is my thing" *
Ownership
"I care enough to take responsibility

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 09/08/2025

2. Community building is a many step process from awareness to belonging. Inclusivity is key at every step. 🌎🌍🌏

Yani stands in front of a slide reading:

Six steps from "never heard of this" to "this is my thing"

L L

Awareness Understanding
Belonging
Identification
Ownership
Access
* Adapted from https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2022/the-pathway-to-inclusion-insight-from-alex-bayleyl

Yani stands in front of a slide reading

Participation model.
Transmissive
Transactional
Convey/Consume
Contribute
Collaborate
Transformational
Co-create
* Based on The USCCE Community Partopaton Model - A framework far member engagement and information n
"TEM commurites. VO

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 09/08/2025

I've been excited for @yabellini.bsky.social's #user2025 Keynote since it was announced!!! Title slide does not disappoint. 🥰

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 09/08/2025

"I believe #rstats is an orchestrator. It's the language that binds your data to all the other tools." - Simon Urbanek, #user2025 (+ bonus silly AI illustration just because I can!)

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 09/08/2025

Case in point: direct 6-line implementation of an attention layer, leaning on torch and luz packages... .... then visualize the predictions (traffic flow in NZ) on a map!

Simon Urbanek stands in from of a slide showing an R function that computes the attention layer of a neural net.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 08/08/2025

Oops hashtag fail in my last post.... #useR2025

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 06/08/2025

I'm pretty stoked about what @visruth.com and I have been cooking up this year.... (Come see his talk at #UseR2025 to hear more... and of course, to get hex stickers while supplies last...)

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 20/07/2025

Memorable #USCOTS2025 moments: zero context edition.

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/07/2025

An absolute banger of a callout from @minedogucu.com in her USCOTS opening session talk. 😂

Example
Suppose that during a recent doctor's visit, you tested positive for a very rare disease.
If you only get to ask the doctor one question, which would it be?
a. What's the chance that I actually have the disease given that I tested positive?
b. If in fact I don't have the disease, what's the chance that I would've gotten this positive test result?
From Bayes Rules! Book

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/07/2025

Finally got our hex tattoos!!! 🤩 Thanks, @healthandstats.bsky.social for going from social media aquaintance to conference and nerd tattoo buddy! Gotta love this weird and wonderful #rstats community. 🥰🥰🥰

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 17/07/2025

The result of being in the "Writing poetry about statistics" workshop at #USCOTS2025 while all my friends are in the Positron one.... (This one's for you @minecr.bsky.social and @posit.co 😘)

Do you want to reposition
all your panes in IDEs?
Is it in your disposition
to set shortcuts on your keys?

Do you hate the imposition
when RStudio full crashes?
Do you want more exposition
of your Git and GitHub caches?

Is your work a composition
of both R code and python?
Then you’re in a great position
To start trying Positron!

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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 18/04/2025

Happy 10-year anniversary to my all-time favorite tweet.

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