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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/10/2026

The Canadian author was lauded for a ‘bold and inventive oeuvre’ that ‘has created new forms for contemporary literature’: ft.trib.al/z1BzqB6

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you are processing a pdf where you know there's nothing useful after page 12 try pdf_text(path)[2:12] before using a chat_genAI$chat_structured to save tokens

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you are processing a pdf where you know there's nothing useful after page 12 try pdftools::pdf_text(path)[2:12] before using a chat_genAI$chat_structured to save tokens #pdftools #ellmer

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16/09/2026

I made it through my #PositConf2026 talk! The Design of Everyday #RStats Functions. Slides here: stbl.wrangle.zone/slides/every... The underlying 📦 {stbl} is on CRAN!

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Posit @posit.co · 17/09/2026

posit::conf(2026) is outta here! 👋 From Wes McKinney's AI keynote to Quarto slides, Shiny apps, & termite colonies, Day 2 was radical. Share your photos and reflections with the hashtag #PositConf2026 ❤️ See you in Seattle Sept 13-15 for posit::conf(2027). Until then, keep it real!

A speaker wearing glasses, a black t-shirt, and dark jeans stands on a brightly lit stage during a presentation. Behind him, a large textured wall is illuminated in warm orange light, displaying white text that reads "posit conf(2026)". The silhouettes of audience members are visible in the dark foreground.

A crowded conference hall filled with people sitting at round tables during a lunch or networking session. Feather banners with numbers and the phrase "Birds of a Feather" mark different table sections throughout the room. In the foreground, several attendees are seated around a circular table with plates of food and drinks, engaged in conversation.

A woman wearing a pink conference t-shirt and a man with glasses leaning over a small round table at an event booth. The woman is holding a smartphone and smiling while looking at it with the man. On the table sits an open laptop facing away from the camera, along with small promotional materials. In the background, a large dark blue banner displays branding for "Posit Assistant" and "Positron" along with the text "Work as fast as you think."

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Posit @posit.co · 15/09/2026

"The machine will make bad decisions, or will not even know that it's making decisions." Posit CEO Tareef Kawaf on what starts breaking when we stop checking the output. New episode of The Test Set, coming soon.

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 15/09/2026

Wow, we had some BAD technical difficulties at our #positconf26 talk today 😩 but I put up the demo videos here for folks to check out! 👀 juliasilge.github.io/posit-conf-2...

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SQL as a first-class language in your data science IDE

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This week's #TidyTuesday data is from the Dead Sea Scrolls digital library 📖 I created an interactive Voronoi diagram showing the number of images of manuscripts found in different locations 📊 #DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats

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Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Houston, we have lift-off at posit::conf(2026) 🤠 This year I'm honored to share the stage with the talented @jadeynryan.bsky.social to tell the evolution story behind our project collaboration, Dirt Data Reports. We are going live tomorrow, Sept 15th @ 3:40pm CT. Look forward to seeing you there!

"Template -> Package -> App: Meeting Users Where They're At" - a talk presented by Jadey Ryan and Tanya Shapiro at posit::conf(2026) in Houston. The talk will take place in Lanier Ballroom J on Tuesday, Sept 15th @ 3:40pm CT.

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ok, in the previous weeks i had to record a talk and finishing some projects I'm done with both and I feel relaxed but i wish they were not simultaneous

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've been in a bubble but after a 1:1 I got a good sense of what to change also extra motivation

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A little levity to start the week

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Posit @posit.co · 12/08/2026

If you're going to invest in your skills this fall, spend a day working through a real problem with the person who wrote the package. Seven workshops at posit::conf(2026), September 14 in Houston. posit.co/conference #RStats #Python

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Give 'em the old razzle dazzle

Photo of a little blue penguin standing on top of a rock with one leg swinging out to the side.

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Me: the most important thing is feedback Them: we have feedback Me: FFS!!!!!

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Be around kind nerds. It's the way. I love just learning new and random things that I'd likely never otherwise bump into! Just casually chatting with an #rstats or #python data person will inevitably surface a package, a library, a method, SOMETHING I've never heard of and it's the besssstttt.

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Posit @posit.co · 16/07/2026

Trying to get approval to attend posit::conf(2026)? We put together a guide with a customizable email template you can send to your manager. Join us in Houston, September 14 - 16. posit.co/conference Approval Guide: irp.cdn-website.com/d4d6e48c/fil...

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So, in the following weeks i'll be speaking in spanish, english, snd arabic

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 02/07/2026

A coding agent is only useful if it can run whatever code the task demands, but a tool that runs arbitrary code is just as dangerous as it sounds! So how do you stop an agent from making mistakes you can't easily undo? Read more at: tidydesign.substack.com/p/help-my-co...

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Help! My coding agent can run code

A coding agent is only actually useful if it can run whatever code the task demands, but a tool that runs arbitrary code is just as dangerous as it sounds! So how do you protect ourself with guardrail...

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I love this wolf so much. Before there were derpy dog memes, there was this derpy wolf.

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

practicing a presentation I'm alone and I got nerveous! Also, my cat decided to play around they are wired to do that when there's a camara on....

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Schrödinger's security check 🤦

Screenshot of Cloudflare security check with both success and failure messages.

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I feel like i'm no longer relevant Despite i created the whole Digital area. Carried it on my shoulders fornover five years...

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I feel like a dinosaur I believe after this... There will be no more me....

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Well She is not a tech savy She bought his speech on vibe coding; a non tech guy I try to warn her But i feel closer to be out than ever I believe i'll be done before this year ends....

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/06/2026

Many forget this, and we all suffer for it.

You wouldn't download a dataset without reading the data quality notes

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Posit @posit.co · 29/06/2026

Data science by day. 80s party by night. posit::conf(2026) wraps day one with retro arcade games and a live cover band in Houston. September 14–16. conf.posit.co/2026/sessions

posit conf 2026 Houston Sept 14-16 Register Now

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thanks to code-first, open-source tools, LLMs are REALLY good at making Shiny apps. But, how good are they at making **good** Shiny apps? 🤔 This is the sort of question that Shiny QA Engineer Karan Gathani is thinking about. And he'd like to discuss it with you tomorrow at the Data Science Lab!

Evaluating LLM-generated Shiny apps. Join us with Karan Gathani Tues, June 23 at 12pm ET, pos.it/dslab

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Managed to snap a photo of this fuzzy little bee with its face covered in pollen yesterday 🐝 #Photography

Photograph of a bee in a yellow flower. It's face is covered with yellow pollen.

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

the closing button occupies less than 2% of the area and yet, frequently, I accidentally close the tab

screenshot of a chrome tab running spotify

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Arguing with claude sounds like a couple's fighting in whatsapp

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Definitely do not miss any chance you get to learn #rstats with @ivelasq3.bsky.social 😌😌😌

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 17/06/2026

A massive congrats to R Core for this great honour. R has been the foundation of my career and it wouldn’t have been possible without years of work from them.

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

If you're still wondering about the slick new functions in dplyr 1.2.0, join me for a "Working smarter with dplyr 1.2.0" redux with R-Ladies Abuja! 📅 Wednesday, 24 June 2026 🕐️ 6pm WAT 🔗 www.meetup.com/rladies-abuj... See you there! ⚒️ #RStats

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Working Smarter with {dplyr} 1.2.0, Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Discover how the latest features in **{dplyr} 1.2.0** can help you write cleaner, faster, and more maintainable data transformation workflows. This session explores practic

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

here i am, explaining about Significant Figures and the issue of multiplying numbers with four and two decimals.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It's very revealing of a number of things. 1) Are you the only real person who exists? 2) Can you be moderately inconvenienced for 15 seconds without losing your temper? 3) Does might always make right? If the answer is yes to any of those, whoops, you're a right winger!

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A lot of care (and coffee) went into crafting this month's newsletter. I hope you find it valuable 🥰

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"Do you want to look smart or do you want to learn something?" CGates

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It has been interesting learning and implementing RAG with #LangChain to create: an agent in a chat bot using Google Cloud a multiagent in #shinyapps , combining R and python, to handle maps, graphs, and text. yes, for the multiagent, Claude has been helpful for designing a proper prefix.

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"Git worktrees" is a pretty new term to me (I've only heard about them in the context of AI), so I'm very excited that @schloerke.com will join @libbyheeren.bsky.social and me tomorrow to show off how they work and how you can use them for agentic coding! Register here: pos.it/dslab

git worktrees join us with Barret Schloreke Tues, May 26 at 12pm Et pos.it/dslab

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It has been interesting learning and implementing RAG with #LangChain to create: an agent in a chat bot using Google Cloud a multiagent in #shinyapps, combining R and python, to handle maps, graphs, and text. yes, for the multiagent, Claude has been helpful for designing a proper prefix.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This isn’t even about AI - this is just straight-up misogyny.

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Posit @posit.co · 19/05/2026

We’re excited to launch the Posit Open Source website! 🚀 We’ve unified 15+ years of tools, 900+ blogs, and 1,600+ videos in one place. Explore it here: opensource.posit.co Huge thanks to the team: @cwick.co.nz Greg Swinehart @hadley.nz @ivelasq3.bsky.social @jeroenjanssens.com

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Just remembering the falsely delicious undergrad feeling of analyzing data curated specifically to demonstrate a certain relationship or outcome, followed by the sinking, squelchy feeling of uncertainty when collecting real data on my own that turned out to contain nothing but noise #databs #rstats

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 16/05/2026

Want to learn infographic design? Our new data visualization specialist, Manuel Bortoletti, does fantastic diagrams, geospatial visualizations and graphs. He's teaching a two-week course in June in New York. I'd highly recommend it. Details here: coopertype.org/events/advan...

Diagram of the earth's wandering magnetic field

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Mikaelmm @mikaelmm.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

some in the office thinks "coding is no longer needed because genAi does it all" I don't agree, because of specific tasks or features, or infrastructure. I start using it as a companion, not letting do the whole work or without surveillance. conflicted

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