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Mark Sellors

@sellorm.com
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Bass, music, R admin and engineering. sellorm.com Music, #rstats, #RinProd and random things. * Consultant at Atorus Research * Canada’s greatest stuntman * Director at Data Orchard * Lead engineer at r4pi.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/11/2025
Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind. They've got to go.
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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 26/11/2025
Pluribus isn’t doing it for me so I’ve started rewatching The Last Man on Earth. Great show and a huge shame they never finished it.
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 06/11/2025
Thanks to a submission from @smachlis.bsky.social the “quarto-social-embeds“ #quarto extension now supports @bsky.app 🎉 Find it here: quarto-social-embeds.sellorm.com #rstats #pydata
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 27/09/2025
I created awesome-blogdown.com 9 years ago, not long after {blogdown} was announced. It seemed like a fun way to help promote the project and its users. People have largely moved on to other tools and the list is stale though, so the website will be gone soon. It was fun while it lasted #rstats
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Data Orchard @dataorchard.org.uk · 04/06/2025
Is it time to use your data skills for something great? We’re looking for an Analytics Engineer to come and join our small but mighty team of experts at Data Orchard CIC. Apply by 7 July:
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Use your data skills for something great. We’re recruiting an Analytics Engineer — Data Orchard
We’re looking for an Analytics Engineer to come and join our small but mighty team of experts at Data Orchard CIC. This is a really diverse and exciting role, you’ll be working on a wide range of…
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 01/04/2025
Episode 2 of Apple TV’s “The Studio” is one of the most incredible pieces of TV I’ve seen. Equal parts hilarious and stressful. Genuinely amazing stuff. #TheStudio #AppleTV
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 24/03/2025
@tayusmusic.bsky.social, where do you guys get your CDs made? Symbiotic was a really nice quality physical release and I have a friend who’s thinking about doing something similar.
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Let's go! Premiering now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtr...
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You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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Jumping Rivers @jumpingrivers.com · 17/02/2025
Abstract submission for the Shiny in Production Conference is now open! We’re looking for insightful case studies from diverse industries and applications. If you've used Shiny to solve real-world challenges, we’d like to hear your story! 📅 Submission Deadline: March 20th #Shiny #RStats
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Shiny in Production 2025: Call for Abstracts
We are excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for [Shiny in Production 2025](https://shiny-in-production.jumpingrivers.com/), to be held on 8th-9th October 2025 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Read on for more details on how to submit your work.
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 13/02/2025
Marshmallows are for team players.
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 30/01/2025
Heads up Expanse fans! #TheExpanse www.polygon.com/tv/516278/ex...
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There’s weird streaming rights issues, and then there’s whatever’s happening with The Expanse
Do streaming services owe us anything?
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 24/01/2025
I do love #TraitorsUK. It’s like clutching-at-straws, the game show.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Donald Trump. An Apology. The new Private Eye is out now
A photo of the front cover of issue 1641 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "ON SHELVES NOW!" The headline reads "DONALD TRUMP: AN APOLOGY." The cover features a mock statement claiming that, in contrast to past descriptions of Trump as "a sleazy, deranged, orange-faced man-baby," the magazine now recognises him as "a political colossus, the voice of sanity, a champion of liberty, and the saviour of the Western world." The parody humorously describes him as "slim, handsome, and young," concluding with a note that "this statement has not been fact-checked."
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 09/01/2025
Another day, another threat from unaccountable billionaires… www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/musk-an...
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Musk and Zuck: Engineering Free Speech
Under the guise of protecting free speech, an alarming alignment between government power and Big Tech’s corporate power is unfolding.
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Peter Gordon 🇺🇦 @gordon.plus · 07/01/2025
He didn't start Facebook to give people a voice. He started Facebook to perv on the girls at his college.
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 07/01/2025
Question for writers of Han/Kanji/Hangul or other script systems based on fixed-width logographs: Usually the layout is naturally a grid due to the full-width nature of the glyphs. But if an alternative script (e.g. Latin) is inserted the grid is disrupted. (1/2)
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Rebecca Barter @rlbarter.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I've turned my intro to R workshop into a free open-access book: The R Workshop 🌟 Perfect for R beginners, with more chapters coming soon! Check it out: www.r-workshop.org Prefer live instruction? Join my 2-day virtual workshop Jan 15-16 via Instats. Details: instats.org/seminar/intr... #rstats
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 01/01/2025
Enquiries progressing nicely. #Cluedo
A list of suspects, probably implements and murder scenes. Several have already been removed
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 31/12/2024
£1.20 for ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... of More’s Utopia with 4 critical essays by Ursula Le Guin and foreword by China Mieville (sale ends 1/1/25)
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Utopia
Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More’s Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and wo...
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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
hey #rstats people: my package of choice for sea surface temperature data is rerddap (and I use the OISST dataset, usually) how do you generally access land surface temperature data, and which dataset do you use? (I need a few decades at least, ideally 70s/80s to near-present day)
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James Bland @jamesbland.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Just over 6 hours of logging. microcontroller --> Google Sheet --> #Rstats It will be interesting to see what happens when my favorite person waters the plant, but that will probably be a while, because it was watered just before I started logging.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 17/12/2024
V good by @hetanshah.bsky.social on AI and public services, esp the idea the bar should be set extremely high for good quality evidence on costs & benefits. AI products are often rolled out in private sector without this, with the consequences you might expect www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
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Tony Blair is wrong – AI will not magically solve our public services
Too many people might be left out of its revolution.
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 16/12/2024
I was worried we were going to be the only people in this 40th anniversary showing of Gremlins! #Gremlins
The screen of a cinema. A knee in brown trousers dominates the foreground. The heads of two other movie-goers can be seen in seats in the middle
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 16/12/2024
I gave a talk last year on getting started with APIs for data scientists. For some reason, I've only just got round to posting it on my blog. blog.sellorm.com/2024/12/16/a... #RStats #dataBS #PyData
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Intro to APIs For Data Science | sellorm
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 15/12/2024
Pepper says “Hi”.
A black cocker spaniel lies on a rug facing the camera. Her front legs extend forwards and you can just see the tip of her tongue poking out of her mouth.
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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 14/12/2024
😭 Nooo! You have to track sample probabilities and use multiple importance sampling to balance BRDFs, lights, and environment maps for unbiased convergence, or your rendering will be biased AND noisy! 🤪 haha denoising makes renderer go brrr #RStats #rayrender
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Kara Woo @karawoo.com · 12/12/2024
Folks doing #adventofcode in #rstats, what's been your MVP function this year? For me it's which(arr.ind = TRUE).
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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 12/12/2024
WIP #RStats package to go with my favorite Markdown nitpick/advice: start a new line after each sentence! ✂️ Please try out {aeolus} on Markdown documents and report any bug. 🙂 github.com/ropenscilabs...
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GitHub - ropenscilabs/aeolus: New lines after sentences in Markdown
New lines after sentences in Markdown. Contribute to ropenscilabs/aeolus development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Sean Lopp @loppsean.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Day 10! Data engineers + Pydantic classes = goodness. youtu.be/f_XfLTlHS-s
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30 Days of Orchestration - Day10
YouTube video by Sean Lopp @ Dagster Labs
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 06/12/2024
Ever wanted to create a 3D model for printing with #rstats? Of course you have! Read about my experiments here: blog.sellorm.com/2024/12/06/d...
A 3D xmas tree ornament in the shape of the R programming language logo
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Jeff Hollister @jhollist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just realized the bluesky may not be aware that you can access dad jokes (via the icanhazdadjoke API) directly in #rstats with the {dadjokeapi} 📦!
Image showing an R Console with the following in it:  dadjokeapi::groan()
If you want a job in the moisturizer industry, the best advice I can give is to apply daily."
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 05/12/2024
My #SpotifyWrapped was incredibly boring, but it did remind me to recommend the band “Tarantula AD” to anyone who’s a fan of cinematic soundscapes.
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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"Prompt injection and supply chain vulnerabilities remain the main LLM vulnerabilities but as the technology evolves new risks come to light including system prompt leakage and misinformation." www.csoonline.com/article/5754... #Security #LLMs #GenAI
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10 most critical LLM vulnerabilities
Prompt injection and supply chain vulnerabilities remain the main LLM vulnerabilities but as the technology evolves new risks come to light including system prompt leakage and misinformation.
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Josiah @josiah.rs · 05/12/2024
My team is hiring!! Are you a Geospatial nerd? Interested in 🧮 Algorithms ⚡️ C++ 🏹 ML + AI 🎲 Statistics? @ me if you have questions :) #gischat #rstats #cpp #python #databs www.esri.com/careers/4536...
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Software Development Engineer II - Spatial Statistics Job | Esri Career Opportunity
If you are passionate about quantitative algorithms and spatial data science techniques, join Esri's highly collaborative and innovative Spatial Statistics team as a Software Developer. We’re looking...
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Rebecca Barter @rlbarter.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you want to look at all columns of a tibble (which has the somewhat annoying habit of only showing you as many columns as you have space for), just pipe it into print(width = Inf): df |> print(width = Inf) #rstats
Printing a data frame (tibble) in the R console, where 3 columns are hiddenThe output of df |> print(width = Inf) which prints all columns of a data frame (tibble) in the R console
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Kevin Patrick O'Brien @kobriendublin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Agricultural Shows and Village Fetes * Dog Shows * Tug of Wars * Colouring Competitions * Best Dressed Competitions * Brass Bands * Animals in Funny Costumes * Ice Cream Vans * Magic Shows for the kids * Sheep Shearing Competitions Tech Confs need to buck up their game!! #pydata #rstats #julialang
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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
You know when you move into a new house and you have to sweep away the dead spiders, deal with the leaky tap, work out what that weird damp smell is? That's what we need to do here. Curate your space. Block liberally. We can make this space pleasant and respectful.
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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Episode 187 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📱 Native Mobile Apps with R(!) @colinfay.bsky.social 📣 Expanding Bluesky network @stephenturner.us 📦 S7 & Options @josiahparry.com h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social @tonyelhabr.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #DataScience #V4V
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Issue 2024-W48 Highlights
What a way to close out the month of November with this batch of highlights! The ultimate teaser for the first-ever native mobile Shiny application (and…
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barqueira @lbarqueira.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Micromapping Flying over "Terreiro do Paço" in Lisbon, 🇵🇹Portugal. Buildings dataset from #overturemaps Most buildings do not have heights available, since Overture Maps is still a very new project. Credits: @kylewalker.bsky.social #Rstats #dataViz #gis #lisbon #rspatial
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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#30DayMapChallenge · Day 27 · Micromapping. Almost there...this is Lombard Street, San Francisco. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
A visualisation of Lombard Street in San Francisco
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I'm trying to work out how drunk this sounds. it's AT LEAST two bottles.
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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of [being a Royal Society fellow] is diminished by the fact it is shared with someone who appears to be modelling himself on a Bond villain"
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Jumping Rivers @jumpingrivers.com · 25/11/2024
Our Shiny in Production Conference will take place on 8-9th October 2025! 🎉 Super Early bird tickets are now available—don’t miss your chance to secure your spot. Visit the website to learn more about the timeline and explore the schedule. #rstats #DataScience #ShinyinProduction
shiny-in-production.jumpingrivers.com
October 2025
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R in Pharma @rinpharma.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We are thrilled to share all talks from the 2024 R/Pharma conference are available now! 📽️ Over 60 presentations ⭐ Keynotes on emerging use of AI by @jcheng5.bsky.social, Tala Fakhouri, and Christina Fillmore 🌏 First-ever APAC track! Visit www.youtube.com/c/RinPharma today! #RStats #rinpharma
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R in Pharma
R/Pharma is a nonprofit focused on delivering a scientifically & industry oriented, collegial event focused on the use of R in the development of pharmaceuticals. The conference covers topics includin...
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 25/11/2024
This is Pepper and she absolutely will not rest until the dishwasher door is closed once more.
A small black cocker spaniel site on a kitchen floor looking forlorn. She’s not actually forlorn, she just really wants to lick the things in the dishwasher and isn’t allowed to.
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Tom Saunders @tomsaunders.me · 24/11/2024
Want to dip your toe into #programming? This free 6 hour intro to #Rstats online curriculum is a great entry point and we get good feedback when teaching it to researchers. Don't worry about the 'for ecologists' bit, that's just the flavour of dataset. #academicsky #research #science
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Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists: Summary and Setup
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 19/11/2024
⚠️ The #DataBill will unleash AI ⚠️ Being stripped back is the right to human review over automated decisions – even if they have life-changing impacts. Life mustn’t be haunted by the ghost in the machine. Sign and share our petition to keep human review! ✍️ ⬇️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ai...
Petition: AI Says No; People, not machines should oversee life-changing decisions.
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R4Pi @r4pi.org · 22/11/2024
What R packages from CRAN should we add to our repo full of sweet, sweet pre-built packages next? #rstats #RaspberryPi #R4Pi
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Mark Sellors @sellorm.com · 22/11/2024
The approach to Strasbourg cathedral last week as the Xmas decorations were going up.
Nighttime scene looking down an old street towards a huge old catherdral structure looming in the distance. Lights illuminate the tower and an ornate window in the cathedral. The foreground is brightly illuminated by street lights and it’s possible to make out the shapes of trumpeting angels suspended above the street.
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