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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Less than a month away from teaching one of my favorite things with one of my favorite people at one of my favorite conferences. Hope you'll join @cwick.co.nz and me at the "Practical Quarto" workshop at posit.co/conference! #quarto #rstats #python #opensource

Promotional image for the "Practical Quarto: Patterns, templates, and tooling" workshop at posit::conf(2026), featuring headshots of instructors Charlotte Wickham and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel. The conference is in Houston, Sep 14-16.

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverse

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Tidy Dev Day 2026

Join us for a full day of collaborative open source work — whether you're a seasoned contributor or making your very first pull request.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 23/06/2026

Do you love maps? Of course you do! With the latest release of #ggsql we now support spatial plotting directly from your database. As a cherry on top, the release also provides powerful in-layer aggregation. Read all about it on the blog

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ggsql 0.4.1: Spatial plotting and in-layer aggregation

ggsql 0.4.1 adds support for spatial plotting and data aggregation within layers. Read all about the new features in this release post.

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Tiffany Timbers @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

In case you missed it last week, @minecr.bsky.social any my paper on "Ten simple rules for teaching data science" is now out in @plos.org Computational Biology: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Ten simple rules for teaching data science

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Posit @posit.co · 08/04/2026

We are thrilled to announce that Positron Server is now available for academic use via JupyterHub! This gives students a robust #RStats & #Python data science IDE without needing a local install or new infrastructure. Learn more: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 06/04/2026

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

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What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto

We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Whipped up a fun little quarto revealjs extension. Add fun little iOS styled messages with full fragment support github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 20/03/2026

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Kermit the frog screaming with excitement

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Posit @posit.co · 18/03/2026

We’re thrilled to welcome Sara Altman and Simon Couch of the Posit AI Core team to the #positconf 2026 keynote stage! They’ll be sharing a practical, hype-free look at how AI is being thoughtfully integrated into the tools you use every day. ✨ See what’s next for AI in open source: pos.it/conf

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It’s difficult to come by joy these days, this puts a smile on my face.

Four copies of the R for Data Science book: one in English, one in German, one in Korean, and one in Chinese.

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 20/02/2026

You're doing awesome work and we want to hear your stories! Submit a talk for posit::conf(2026) - Today is the last call for talks!

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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

📣 The useR! 2026 committee invites global R users and developers to submit abstracts for talks, panels, posters, and tutorials! Submissions are peer-reviewed based on content and balance. You're welcome to apply! Find more at: user2026.r-project.org/call/ #useR2026 #DataScience #Poland #Warsaw

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Harriet Mason @harriet-mason.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN! harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in... You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

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Susan Vanderplas @srvanderplas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I wrote out the whole exhausting narrative of what's happened at UNL over the past 2.5 months, including the videos, the memes, and a fair bit of snark. srvanderplas.github.io/posts/other/... The Board of Regents decides our fate in 2 days.

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Program Cuts and The Yo-Yo of Hope and Despair – Susan Vanderplas

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 13/11/2025

testthat 3.3.0 out now! This is a massive release with tons of improvements including better failure messages, new expectations, improved snapshotting, new vignettes, and much much more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... Post includes some thoughts on developing an #rstats package with Claude Code.

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testthat 3.3.0

testthat 3.3.0 brings improved expectations with better error messages, new expectations for common testing patterns, and lifecycle changes including the removal of `local_mock()` and `with_mock()`. I...

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Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We're hiring an open-source #python developer focused on modeling APIs! tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #numpy #scipy #scikitlearn

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Python Open-Source Developer

Posit is hiring a Python open-source developer to create more data analysis tools.

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Susan Vanderplas @srvanderplas.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Well, it's official. #UNL Chancellor Bennett submitted his final proposal and it includes eliminating the #statistics department. budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget... Guess it's time to go look for jobs. Anyone looking for a couple of very talented #datavis researchers?

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Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska

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Jonathan @jmcphers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

My keynote about data science tools at posit::conf is now online! I originally meant it to be a talk about Positron, but as I was writing it, it took a left turn through the history of RStudio and into the philosophy of tool design & how to build stuff for people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...

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10 Years of Data Science Tools...and What Happens Next (Jonathan McPherson) | posit::conf(2025)

YouTube video by Posit PBC

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family: - `filter()` to keep rows - `filter_out()` to drop rows - `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers Read more and leave feedback here: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

Example of using `filter_out()` on the `penguins` dataset, showing how it is much easier than `filter()`, especially with `NA`s

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Susan Vanderplas @srvanderplas.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

If you're following the #UNL #statistics saga (proposed for elimination based on bad stats), you might find the seminar we gave yesterday interesting... youtu.be/fUk2R0UYWpA It was weird to rail against someone for an hour, but strangely cathartic, and the #datavis seems to have been effective?

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics seminar "The Metrics" on November 6, 2025

YouTube video by Chris Bilder

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 06/11/2025

🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉 🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026 📣 Call for submissions is open 👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members conference.rainbowr.org

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– rainbowR conference

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Susan Vanderplas @srvanderplas.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Hopefully, today the #statistics department finds out what the acad prog cmte will recommend to the chancellor. The next step is the #nebraskaRegents. We have a letter-writing campaign to show this set of cuts is politically unpopular and will hurt the state. actionnetwork.org/letters/one-... 1/2

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I just got this email from ChatGPT. Is anyone really worried that people are holding off until they have "a plan or the perfect question" to use these tools?! Or was this reaction-bait that I fell for?

Email from ChatGPT with the following text:

Start with any question
Chat now
You don’t need a plan or the perfect question to use ChatGPT.
Just start typing whatever’s on your mind — a half-baked idea, a random question, a weird "what if."
ChatGPT is built for all of it.
No pressure. No perfect prompts. Explore ideas, create images, write stories, and summarize files in just a simple conversation.
Best,
The ChatGPT Team

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Next week! I am giving a webinar on "Automating Repetitive Reports with Quarto" as part of the 2025 MAPOR Fall Webinar Series! Save serious time and eliminate errors by letting Quarto do the heavy lifting 🏋️ I would love to see you there 💚💛💙 www.mapor.org/2025-mapor-f...

Automating Repetitive Reports with Quarto, 2025 MAPOR Fall Webinar Series.

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

These companies must be using the same crazy survey provider. What is this?!

Survey with the question "How likely are you to recommend [solidcore] Durham to a friend or colleague?" Options 0-10 are arranged in a very bizarre order with 0 at the bottom 1-9 in three rows with numbers starting on the right on each row, and a much bigger 10 button on top.

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

What is it @github.com @githubeducation.bsky.social? Am I faculty or am I not faculty? Why do you keep asking me the same question, after saying you won't ask for 2 years, and then not believing my answer?

GitHub educator benefit application -- Apprived on May 25 and August 28 for 2 years, then asked to reverify on Sep 11 and denied, approved again September 27 and then denied three times again on the same day.

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We Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 20/09/2025

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ivelasq3.bsky.social!

Alt text: Curator Isabella Velásquez, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Posit. Recently gave a workshop on survey analysis at the useR conference; is updating a book called Data Science in Education Using R.

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Posit @posit.co · 26/08/2025

Do you like cleaning data? According to @rdpeng.org, it was a big part of a data scientist's job 10 years ago, and he misses it! On the latest Test Set, Roger discusses changes in the field and what to focus on now that AI is taking over rote tasks. Listen: thetestset.co, Spotify, Apple Podcasts

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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Tidying and sorting pictures, I've found this one: The Latinx at #useR2025

Yani, Andrea, Rocio, Luis, and Claudia were smiling and seated around a table under the shade of trees after useR2025 finished.

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Love my useR! 2025 👩🏻‍💻Thanks to @jayanigamage.bsky.social #rstats #user2025

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Jonathan Kitt @jonathankitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Great video by @minecr.bsky.social. I finally gave Positron a try! #RStats @posit.co #IDE #code www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndq2...

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Exploratory Data Analysis with R in Positron

YouTube video by Posit PBC

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 20/08/2025

We still have spots available for tidyverse dev day on Sept 19: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07.... Please come along to contribute to the tidyverse and have a bunch of fun along the way! It's open to all, but is most convenient if you're coming to posit::conf or live near Atlanta #rstats

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Tidyverse developer day 2025

Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

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RSS Teaching Statistics Section @rss-teach.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

ICOTS 12 (virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/e/icots12) have announced their keynote speakers: Prof Mine Çetinkaya–Rundel – Duke University Prof Dianne Cooke – Monash University Em Prof Sir Peter Donnelly – Genomics PLC, University of Oxford Prof Rob Gould – UCLA Dr Elena Proden – UNITAR

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OA Virtual conferences

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Posit @posit.co · 19/08/2025

Level up your data science skills this September at posit::conf(2025)! Learn to tell a better story with data in our "Data Talks" or "Mastering Data Visualization with ggplot2" workshops. Join us! Register now: posit.co/conference/ 📅 Sept 16–18 | Atlanta #RStats #ggplot2 #PositConf2025 #DataViz

Data Talks: How to make your data science accessible. A conference poster for posit conf (2025) featuring speakers Acacia Duncan and Blythe Coons.

Mastering Data Visualization with ggplot2: Latest Techniques and Best Practices. A conference poster for posit conf (2025) featuring speakers Thomas Lin Pedersen and Teun Van den Broek.

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Harriet Mason @harriet-mason.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Just finished at #useR2025 and had a great time! Especially because I had an opportunity to present ggdibbler. The slides from my talk are available here: harriet-mason.github.io/talk_useR-20... (Although they are a bit confusing out of context)

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Visualising Uncertainty with ggdibbler

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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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Tyson Barrett @healthandstats.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

@rundel.bsky.social gave us insights into using both {parsermd} (well established, tested) and {markermd} (newer and used some vibe coding) that makes extracting info the actual documents of quarto/rmarkdown files *very easy* (extremely useful for teaching/grading/checking) 🤩 check it out! #useR2025

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Jayani Lakshika @jayanigamage.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Wrapped up #useR2025 👩‍💻 Feeling inspired to explore Positro and dive into tools like Air, chores, hexsession, arrow, and sparsvctrs. Also made a tile of my R package collection with hexsession 📦✨. Thanks to everyone who made this event such a great learning experience 🙌 #rstats #RCommunity

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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Now Will Landau is presenting his Keynote at #useR2025 about targets and pipelines in #RStats  cc: @ropensci.org

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

So happy to talk about our work on sparsity at #useR2025 today! Slides for anyone interested emilhvitfeldt.com/talk/2025-08...

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sparsity support in tidymodels, faster and less memory hungry models

Showcasing better sparsity support in tidymodels

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Final day of #useR2025 started with an incredible keynote by Frauke Kreuter followed by a rich Q&A, more awesome talks before and after lunch, and we're soon going to be wrapping the whole thing up with what I'm sure will be yet another must-see keynote, by Will Landau. #rstats

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I had a blast at #useR2025. Here are my slides on `tinyplot`. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig... (Rendering of the title slide is a bit off on mobile. I'll fix when when I get sec.)

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tinyplot –

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

If you've been curious about Air and you're at #useR2025, come watch @lionelhenry.bsky.social and me talk all about it at 1pm in Penn 2!

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 10/08/2025

Frauke Kreuter giving a deeply informed and rousing defense of the U.S. federal statistical agencies and community at #user2025, with a clear-eyed view of its challenges user2025.r-project.org/program/in-p...

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Frauke Kreuter LMU Munich / University of Maryland – useR! 2025

Government statistics—and the data behind them—are the backbone of scientific research and evidence-based policymaking. Yet chronic under-funding, fragmented systems, and the spread of low-cost synthe...

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