iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 04/10/2026

Did a (very scientific, much unbiased) poll of the audience at the <<Empirical Methods in the Age of AI>> conference I just attended. Here were the results! hai.stanford.edu/events/empir...

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 30/09/2026

Our "A Few Goodmen" paper now has some serious competition, coming from the many Katherines of the world. arxiv.org/pdf/2404.00732

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A coauthor is someone who can introduce entirely new reasons for why the paper isn't ready

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just found out a seemingly good website to learn how to program for beginners... And then there's a "using = is poor style" in the wild... I will die on that hill: using '=' is actually good! #Rstats

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 01/07/2026

Recommended reading if you feel you’ve lost your way , or if you’re having more fun than ever

Code that fits in your head by Mark Seamann

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 v0.7.0 now available on CRAN 🎉 This is big release, with loads of new features. Same tiny footprint, though ;-) Short highlight thread below, borrowing examples from our gallery: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/bubble-quakes.R

https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/simpsons-paradox.R

https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/barplot-meat.R

https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/spineplot-titanic.R

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David Van Dijcke @packlesshepherd.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of @reviewer3com.bsky.social, Refine.ink, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to Gemini 3.1). Costs <$2! Live @ coarse.ink. Plug in paper, @openrouter.bsky.social key, and email. #econsky

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Arthur Turrell @arthurturrell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This looks like a spectacular public good #econsky (Full disclosure: @packlesshepherd.bsky.social is a co-author but my main skin in the game is maybe we'll finally finish our paper together now...) github.com/Davidvandijc...

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GitHub - Davidvandijcke/coarse

Contribute to Davidvandijcke/coarse development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

arg! I wish R packages had better error messages! Now they can, thanks to my newest #Rstats package, {arg}! 😉 {arg} produces clean, simple, error messages for checking function arguments, similar to {checkmate}, {dreamerr}, and {chk}, using {cli} formatting.

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Clean and Simple Argument Checking

Checks function arguments, ideally for use in R packages. Uses a simple interface and produces clean, informative error messages using cli.

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

BTW, that's what {dreamerr} does. It's just one function, the syntax is harder to learn, but is also quite powerful (see second example).

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 27/03/2026

JUMPSCARE! #RStats

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Alex @s3alfisc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I am very excited that PyFixest 0.50.0 is on PyPi, including a new graph-based solver for demeaning that makes fixed effects estimation in PyFixest significantly faster for "sparse" fixed effects structures.

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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Very excited for this Friday's Chamberlain Online Seminar, where we'll muse about "The Future of Econometrics." Check out this panelist lineup! Friday 3/27 at Noon ET. Come see! t.co/pE1gZCMI7a

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Hey #rstats & #econsky: fixest v0.14.0 is out! In particular, it fixes a very annoying, false positive, warning message regarding the positive definiteness of the VCOV (when clustered). Please update! github.com/lrberge/fixest cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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fixest: Fast Fixed-Effects Estimations

Fast and user-friendly estimation of econometric models with multiple fixed-effects. Includes ordinary least squares (OLS), instrumental variables (IV), generalized linear models (GLM), maximum likeli...

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

jokes aside, it's really stg I'd like to implement

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

It will come some day: you just have to make amz pay me haha

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

kudos btw, it looks cool!!!! I love the :switch

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

With that project, I must say that my C++ skills and knowledge went to the roof... I thought I was decent in C++, but after that I realised how little I knew! Were you good at Rust already? Did you see the same gains? It seems to me AI kills learning (for advanced K), but I may be wrong.

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Gosh I've spent too much time developing one... I just should have waited 😅

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

#rstats I've been testing out `arf`, a new R console written in Rust. Early days, but a v. smooth experience so far. Much simpler to install and link from VS Code than radian, for example, with better features too. github.com/eitsupi/arf

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GitHub - eitsupi/arf: Alternative R Frontend — a modern R console written in Rust

Alternative R Frontend — a modern R console written in Rust - eitsupi/arf

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Haha Grant, you couldn't wait for the fixest update :-) Beginning of the week CRAN's fixest version will have a brand new citation :-)

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Dang what's that accent?! First time I'm submitting to arxiv... there's a learning curve 😅 thanks :-)

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 30/01/2026

One of the most important statistical packages made in Econ in the last decade

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Sebastian Krantz @sebkrantz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I'm excited to share the release and rOpenSci publication of dfms 1.0 (docs.ropensci.org/dfms), a high-performance, feature-rich implementation of Dynamics Factor Models for R, supporting mixed-frequency estimation and news decomposition for nowcasting. See also blog post: sebkrantz.github.io/Rblog/

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Dynamic Factor Models for R

Efficient estimation of Dynamic Factor Models using the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm or Two-Step (2S) estimation, supporting datasets with missing data and mixed-frequency nowcasting applic...

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Research Notes of the AAS in particular, which was set up to handle short, moderated contributions especially from students, is getting swamped. Often the authors clearly haven’t read what they’ve submitting, (Descriptions of figures that don’t exist or don’t show what they purport to)

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Things are grim. But in more frivolous news... @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical. Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/ #rstats [1/2]

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dbreg

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors? Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value. Thanks!

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European Commission - Have your say

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Cool project! Soon we'll be putting an enclosure for our house: I'll ask you for tips!

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 18/01/2026

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

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Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

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Margaux Saltel @margauxsaltel.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Happy anniversary to my most successful tweet in 2020 The creator didn't like it :D (RIP my account since)

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Félicitations!!! Je ne connaissais pas : c'est compliqué de postuler (je suis moi même contributeur) ?

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks for the resource: it looks very nice!

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

At the beginning of my teacher's career I taught mostly for the best students in the class. As I get older, I can see I'm lowering my standards and teach more and more for the weaker students. I also grade more generously as time passes. => is this a common pattern? Or is it just me? I'm curious.

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks! I knew the other but not this one! Good to know!

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks Alex, that's a great ref indeed!

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks a lot Achim: that's exactly the target's level! Just went through the intro: tis great!

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks! But starting with the shell, they'll be off right away :-D I wish I has sciencepo students!!!

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks for the references: I'll have a look at the mit gnl prog, it might be the one! I'll also link them to your course.

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks for the ref. Very nice course website btw!

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Some context: I do teach an intro to R programming class, and it goes smoothly for the students with some prior programming knowledge. However I have some (admittedly weak, but with goodwill) students with no experience in programming and I feel it's an uphill battle to teach them anything.

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Any good ressource for LEARNING PROGRAMMING for students who know NOTHING about programming (really nothing)? It would be great in R/python (final obj. is data analysis). Any help appreciated! Thanks! @andrew.heiss.phd @gmcd.bsky.social @kylefbutts.bsky.social @vincentab.bsky.social

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🦀🐚

Two-panel cartoon
1. A small hermit crab praises the shell of a Purple-ringed Topsnail.
2. A year later, a hermit crab, having grown larger and inherited the shell, is grateful.

The atmosphere somehow feels like a law of nature.

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

lol, we're big bluey fans at home!

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Happy `tinyplot` v0.6.0 (codename "Thanksgiving") release day to all those that celebrate. Some new features, but mostly bug fixes and internal improvements. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats

Example of dodged pointrange (tiny)plot, with aligned ribbons layered on top.

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do. Tell me the rules you break! I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

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