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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ParBayesianOptimization is back on CRAN. It's a package I decided to maintain after the original author posted on Reddit about the imminent removal and his unavailability few months ago. The issues it had were trivial, so I offered a fix first as PR and now deciding to maintain the fork. #rstats

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 01/10/2026

🦆 DuckDB v2.0.0 ships in a few weeks. Here's an accurate depiction of our CI pipeline building the v2.0.0-dev clients. 🙌 Help us craft a great release by trying out the preview release and reporting any issues that you encounter. duckdb.org/install/?ver...

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Peter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#rstats 4.6.2 "Diversified Portfolio" scheduled for October 29. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.)

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 30/09/2026

I’m pleased to announce that Vol 18 Issue 3 of The R Journal is out now! 🥳 Free & open access, R journal is made possible by our volunteer editors, reviewers + contributing authors. Thank you all! journal.r-project.org/issues/2026-3/ 🧵 20 articles 👇 #rstats journal.r-project.org/issues/2026-3/

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The R Journal: Volume 18/3

Articles published in the September 2026 issue

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Tristan A.F. Long @thelonglab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As I prepare for another early morning #BI393 Biostatistics lecture, came across this deep dive into the history (and errors ?!?) in the well-known "mtcars" dataset! #rstats jengianoulis.substack.com/p/secrets-of...

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Secrets of the classic dataset "mtcars"

Back in time to Sunset Boulevard in the 70s

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Jörg Schmidt @joschkos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The end of Power BI Developers comes sooner than I expected

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In this animated map @milos_gis (a must follow account!) shows us the temperature anomalies across Europe in August 2026. Relive your sweaty August in just 30 seconds!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All writing is rewriting: R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. "R.U.R." stands for Rossum's Universal Robots. The Wild Robot is a 2024 American animated science fiction film. A storm causes a Universal Dynamics cargo ship to lose six ROZZUM robots.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Software engineering as social media On decision fatigue and algorithmic development discindo.org/posts/2026-0...

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Software engineering as social media – Discindo

On decision fatique and algorithmic development

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The shifting bell curve. Every summer since 1941, at every place on land, measured against how much that place's summers used to vary. In 1951–1980, a summer more than three standard deviations hotter than normal covered 0.1% of the land. In 2026 it covered 34%. #dataviz

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The shifting bell curve — summer heat on land, 1941 to now — celsius.earth

In 1951–1980, 0.1% of the world's land had a summer more than 3σ above normal. In 2026: 34%. Watch the whole distribution move, year by year.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've published my rapid learning skill that I use when I don't want AI to just do all the work for me - I use it to learn new codebases & it's saved me, like, a gazillion hours when working on ellmer recently! 🎉 Repo: github.com/thisisnic/ra... Blog post: niccrane.com/posts/rapid-... #rstats #ai

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GitHub - thisisnic/rapid-learning: A skill for rapid learning

A skill for rapid learning. Contribute to thisisnic/rapid-learning development by creating an account on GitHub.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The rust work has completed the uv-ruff-ty python trinity for R with uvr-air-jarl-ry.

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Maximilian Scholz @scholzmx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People of ry, to celebrate my PhD defense, here is 0.11.0. Six new checks: silently ignoring na.rm, returning logical(0) from as.character(), recursive defaults, any() compared to a scalar. And, most importantly, we have a new logo thanks to my lovely mum. github.com/sims1253/ry #rstats

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GitHub - sims1253/ry: A fast static checker for the R language, written in Rust and inspired by astral's ty.

A fast static checker for the R language, written in Rust and inspired by astral's ty. - sims1253/ry

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So I've just been informed that there is a sequel to #SpaceJam. What? And the reviews say it is not so good. OK. Hear me out. Part III: North #American basketball courts are a wasteland. Bad guys have taken over. It is bad. Like, terrible. Most professional players are being kept captive...

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@deeplabcut.bsky.social Hi. I work at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute. I am wondering if anyone of the deep lab cut community would be able to join on a short call with some people at NVI about using it? The institute is considering a project, and we would like to get some introductory talk.

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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 21/09/2026

Meta: “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform (topics that are central to Woolf’s work) are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” and are filtered out. “ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they cover ‘social topics’

Facebook and Instagram ads mentioning ‘civil rights or feminism’ are filtered out, Meta tells theatre

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

oh, this year #hacktoberfest has a changed format. hacktoberfest.com/fests/ also map pretty empty in half of europe. anyone in oslo thinking about a fest?

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Find a Fest | Hacktoberfest 2026

Search Hacktoberfest 2026 Fests by name, city, or country, or find the one nearest you on the map.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#rstats story in three parts. In December '25, someone reached out on Reddit for transferring ownership of an R package. I offered a PR with a fix that would resolve the issue they had, but then the author disappeared, deleting the post, and the package got removed from CRAN. 1/2

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#rstats many years ago I made a package as work-for-hire. I just realized by checking out the excellent r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com that i am still listed as maintainer. Does anyone know what happens in this type of cases?

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

hey @christophscheuch.bsky.social with the un data portal being made available i made a small contribution to your r-datacommons package. are you still maintaining that?

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Map projection that's equal-area for the whole world but transitions to Mercator (conformal) on zoom www.benjoffe.com/map

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A New Equal-Area Map for Interactive Computer Use

Seamlessly transitioning to Mercator upon zoom

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New post, on the epidemiology of the recent OpenAI agent attack, and how it compares to other contagious threats: kucharski.substack.com/p/how-does-t...

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How does the epidemiology of the OpenAI agent attack compare with other contagious threats?

Transmission, timescales and the theory behind effective malware

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 26/08/2026

.@ducklabs.com is joining Amazon Web Services (AWS), expected to be effective by early Sept. This move gives DuckLabs the resources and reach to bring #DuckDB, DuckLake, and the Quack protocol to many more developers and orgs – while keeping our commitment to OSS Read the full announcement here:

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DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source

DuckLabs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.

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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

An extremely fast R package manager, written in Rust. The R equivalent of uv for Python. · GitHub github.com/nbafrank/uvr

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Happy to have contributed.

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Claude: You’re absolutely right to push back on that!

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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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novica @novica.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

is #positron always reinstalling pyrefly? i am for sure removing it each time i got prompted.

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thank you for sharing! We squeezed in a shoutout for your new site in our latest episode 🎉

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Very interesting. One of the most fun projects I've worked on was honey birds data wrangling some 4 years ago.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hey #rstats anyone else seeing this when devtools::submit_cran()? packageVersion('devtools') [1] ‘2.5.2’ on R 4.6.1

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@rpodcast.bsky.social maybe this is worth mentioning on the podcast: With so many new tools for R, maybe difficult to follow all. So tracked at one place: r-devs.com. Also, arch linux packages for all of them: github.com/novica/aur-p...

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New R Tooling

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...

Deleted UK Government code repositories

Total deleted repositories: 1526
Organisations affected: 56

See RECENTLY_DELETED.md for the most recently deleted repositories.

Organisation Deleted Repos % Deleted
hmrc 195 9.8%
nhsdigital 169 33.8%
SkillsFundingAgency 154 22.7%
informatics-lab 154 100.0%
UKHomeOffice 101 7.5%
ministryofjustice 74 2.8%
ONSdigital 66 4.3%
moj-analytical-services 65 75.6%
ukwa 47 46.1%
dwp 46 6.7%
UKGovernmentBEIS 43 27.4%

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The cathedral in Mexico City now has its own AI which, among other things, can apparently explain how to do a bubble sort in python.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tap water > Bottled water

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am getting these "Migrating your shinyapps.io account to Connect Cloud" emails, but I see no place on the posit cloud webpage where I am supposed to click to migrate? Anyone managed to do it?

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Tony Corke @matterofstats.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If a monk tells his boss about what's been happening at the monastery is that an example of updating a prior?

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 15/07/2026

I'm an R person who just shipped two cross-platform desktop apps in Rust + Tauri + React — a stack I'd never written before. One built straight in code with Claude, one designed first as a clickable artifact. Story: l.drmowinckels.io/sNeRrN

A modern minimalist desk setup in warm, natural light. On a light wooden surface, a stylized cairn of stacked stones glows with digital, circuit-board patterns. Next to it, an open silver laptop displays a dark-mode productivity dashboard with charts and UI elements labeled "Cairn." A blurred succulent sits in the background.

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