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Mike Thomas @mike-thomas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Packed and ready for #PositConf2026. See you soon Houston 🤠

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Whoops, my tagging method didn't quite work! 🚲 Madison bike crashes @haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy y 🗿 Atlas of Stone @deepalikank.in ank.in 🏫 Repeated measures ANOVA @statsandr.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & jonathankitt.bsky.social 🙏

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Episode 240 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🔬 Jarl 0.6.0 Updates @etiennebacher.bsky.social 📰 Package docs with altdown (Bjarke Hautop) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏 #rstats #databs #podcast

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We invite #RStats users to contribute to a fund dedicated to helping the family of Tomáš Kalibera following his untimely death in April. Find out more and donate here: www.r-project.org/foundation/k...

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R: Tomáš Kalibera Family Fund

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Matan Hakim @matanhakim.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thanks Eric and Mike @mike-thomas.bsky.social for your kind words, and for taking my thoughts as a place for discussion rather than as criticism🙏 I think the more we enter this era, the more we need to use meta-cognition like in my post, as this is our advantage over current LLMs.

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Matan Hakim @matanhakim.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A few weeks ago @rpodcast.bsky.social was walking through @smachlis.bsky.social's AI coding tips on R Weekly Highlights, with @mike-thomas.bsky.social alongside him, and he said one small thing in passing that I have been turning over ever since. 🧵

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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 26/06/2026

Interviewing pro tip: even if you have wired the LLM in using voice to text and have it listening to the call, I can still tell if you are reading off the screen when you talk to me. jfc, kids.

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Mike Thomas @mike-thomas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Wrote a little something that I’ve been thinking about / working on for the last couple of months. IMO, securing your agentic AI tool(s) unlocks your ability to run fast (safely) with them. blog.ketchbrookanalytics.com/posts/2026-0...

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Reflections on AI and Security – Ketchbrook Analytics Blog

How Hardening Our Security Posture Has Allowed Us to Move Faster with Agentic AI

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Episode 225 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... ✨ {shiny.webawesome} (M.B. Anand) 📊 {ggplot2} hidden gems @nrennie.bsky.social 📃 Typst support in {knitr} @yihui.org h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & the wacky curator 😆 #RStats #databs

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Issue 2026-W19 Highlights

If Shiny wasn't awesome enough, a new toolkit is bringing the awesome to new heights! Plus a handful of ggplot2 functions that can immediate impact common…

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 17/04/2026

Yay, @rpodcast.bsky.social and @mike-thomas.bsky.social are back! Their absence made it feel like there wasn't much news out of #RStats in the last month or so 🙃

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Miles McBain @milesmcbain.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years. pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g... Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣

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Introduction to gglite

A visualization in gglite is built by composing independent layers:

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Episode 222 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤔 Choosing LLMs with vitals @smachlis.bsky.social 👀 Pick a license (VP Nagraj) 📍 Git commits, mark your stitches @masalmon.eu h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏 #rstats #databs

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Issue 2026-W09 Highlights

Choice is good, but sometimes you may want a little help! Our first two highlights showcase approaches you can take to inform your next LLM for analyses…

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 19/02/2026

Man I really need to go back and watch this show again

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 06/02/2026

It’s called R

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Mike Thomas @mike-thomas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Coffee & @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com to start the day… it’s a good Wednesday

Computer screen showing Zoom event where JD Long is speaking, with coffee mug sitting in front of the screen.

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Tyler Burch @tylerjamesburch.com · 16/02/2026

Live look in at my code somehow not throwing any errors in prod

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 09/02/2026

nanonext 1.8.0 is out - R now has a streaming HTTP/WebSocket server with bundled TLS. Runs alongside Shiny in the same process. We're already using it at Posit to explore new real-time capabilities. #Rstats #tidyverse tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02/nanonext-1-8-0/

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nanonext 1.8.0

nanonext 1.8.0 adds a low-level streaming HTTP/WebSocket server to R's web infrastructure, with TLS support, new async primitives, and redesigned documentation.

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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 28/01/2026

"LLMs [only] do a great job at interpreting plots that _don't_ contradict their expectations—it's sort of antithetical to the spirit of science." - @mike-thomas.bsky.social. Thanks for the coverage, yall! More on @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's bluffbench eval: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...

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LLMs interpret plots well, until expectations interfere - Posit

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A new year of R Weekly Highlights begins with episode 217! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤝 Polyglot to pluralism @emilyriederer.bsky.social 📚 RAG knowledge store setup @jumpingrivers.com 📦 tinyshinyserver (Lars Bernhardsson) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats #databs

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Issue 2026-W03 Highlights

It's a new year of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode we learn of the positive intellectual diversity impacting R and Python communities, a great…

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Announcing Risk 2026 (Feb 18–19) - 2-day, 100% online For anyone using R to measure, report, or mitigate risk (finance, insurance, healthcare, climate, cybersecurity, supply chain, etc.). Keynote: JD Long, author of R Cookbook. Tickets $25/$50/$70. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website #rstats

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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

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Mike Thomas @mike-thomas.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Pushed a bug fix to {migrate} for all of the risk analytics folks out there 🚀

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Ben Schneider @bschneidr.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R. I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

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RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R - The R Blog

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

mutagen was started six (!!) years ago, and has taken a little while to get rolling. I admit I haven't contributed much beyond the hex 😅 we truly appreciate the highlight, @batoolmm.bsky.social, @mike-thomas.bsky.social, and @rpodcast.bsky.social! Check it out here: github.com/gvelasq/muta...

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

A milestone for #rstats: FDA expands accepted eCTD file formats for R packages, based on joint work between industry, FDA, and the R Consortium Submissions WG. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/expand... #fda #regulatory #clinicaltrials

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The R Consortium is excited to announce James “JD” Long as keynote speaker for R!sk 2026, our new online event on using R for risk. Join us Feb 18–19, 2026! It's not just for insurance—if you use R in climate, healthcare, lots more... Details: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats #risk

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Episode 214 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🕵️ {mini007} multi-agents (Mohamed El Fodil Ihaddaden) 🏎️ Jarl @etiennebacher.bsky.social 🎨 {rbranding} (Willy Ray & Andrew Pulsipher) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #databs

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Issue 2025-W48 Highlights

Prepare to deploy multiple LLM-powered agents for your next (secret) missions with mini007, a new contender to the high-performance linter tools with…

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

R!sk 2026 is coming. Online event from R Consortium, Feb 18–19, 2026, for anyone using #rstats to model and manage risk. CFP open now: talks, lightning talks, panels, tutorials due Dec 7, 2025. Details + submission: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... #risk #datascience

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