webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly

The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections. n.pr/4hzSuJ0

He was banned by betting sites, and filed for bankruptcy. Then he relapsed on Kalshi

The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.

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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/

I spent 24 years at FDA reviewing the statistics in NDA and BLA submissions. Now I write The Significant Difference: what FDA's reviewers see, and what sponsors need to know. Short, practical, from the reviewer's side of the table. www.thesignificantdifference.com

Could be a game changer for diverging color palettes

David Aerne@meodai.bsky.social · 3w ago

CuspHanger 0.4.0 gives you control over the lightness steps, in the form of a bezier curve or any other function. meodai.github.io/cusphanger/

Investigative records paint the picture of a professor who took financial and personal advantage of his students for years – from manipulating them into paying him rent to making them clean up after his dog – and grew vengeful when they spoke out about his alleged crimes.

Tennessee researcher heads to court amid claims of theft, forgery and revenge

In May 2025, Tennessee authorities were preparing to arrest a university math professor for allegedly soliciting university donations from his students and pocketing the money.  Middle Tenness…

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I've been going back and forth between the Zed and Cot editors and have found that I prefer Cot for most things. For the one language I needed syntax highlighting for (Typst) that was not built-in to Cot, Claude quickly wrote the Cot plug-in needed.

Frank Harrell@f2harrell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The best editors I've found are Zed and Cot Editor

Weekend reads: The afterlife of retracted articles; ADA denies it censored opinions; a ‘twisted phantasmagory’ of ghostwriting

Weekend reads: The afterlife of retracted articles; ADA denies it censored opinions; a ‘twisted phantasmagory’ of ghostwriting

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake refe…

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Nice paper about ordinal regression and why computing sample means on ordinal data is usually a good idea. #StatsSky #Statistics

Solomon Kurz@solomonkurz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At a basic level, I think this depends on what you care about. If you want quick pubs for a grade or a promotion, just do t-tests. If you are interested in your data, learn how to fit and interpret ordinal models.

Five researchers at Norway’s national gender incongruence clinic are appealing a university committee’s finding they committed “gross negligence” and scientific misconduct after the group published studies using the medical records of more than 1,000 minors.

Researchers appeal misconduct finding over studies of trans youth

Oslo University Hospital Five researchers at Norway’s national gender incongruence clinic are appealing a university committee’s finding they committed “gross negligence” and scientific misconduct …

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What a wonderful article about an inspiring collaboration of female mathematicians across the ages. Thanks to @nytimes.com for publishing it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

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Nice to see coverage of Bayes and ethics --

Måns Thulin@mansthulin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking for a book that covers both statistics and R programming? Check out my book Modern Statistics with R! Coding, visualisation, regression, ML & more. 📖 Read it for free: www.modernstatisticswithr.com 📚 Get printed copies: tinyurl.com/mswrbook #Rstats #statistics #datascience #machinelearning

Excellent @nathanihoff.bsky.social - not only are doubly robust procedures' confidence intervals not robust but point estimates may not be worth the effort. Hope you can compare w/ flexible semiparametric models, which give further advantages to one-step modeling approaches. fharrell.com/post/cpm

Nathan Hoffmann@nathanihoff.bsky.social · last mo.

My paper "Double robust, flexible adjustment methods for causal inference: An overview and an evaluation" is out in Social Science Research. Spoiler: In simulations, double robustness appears less important than flexibility, and OLS does pretty well! 🧵👇 1/7 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

All white, all male. This was unacceptable so recently.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · last mo.

Another day, another all-male lineup behind Trump in the Oval Office

I find it hard to believe that a company like #Google doesn't stick to official names on its maps. They were obscenely quick to respond to the random musings of the tangerine tyrant. Very disappointing

David Colquhoun@davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · last mo.

Shame on Google -they used to care about accuracy. Now they can't wait to lick the boots of the delusional felon

Reread my blog post on the biggest problem in statistics. On re-read, I still don't think it is terrible (other than the typos and things). So I'll repost. timcdlucas.github.io/the-biggest-...

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#rstats I'm glad to announce Jarl 0.6.0! Jarl is a very fast R linter, written in Rust. This release brings many improvements and fixes. See the blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2026-0... And the full changelog: jarl.etiennebacher.com/changelog 🧵 to highlight some features below (1/5)

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology should be ashamed.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 2mo ago

Ivan Oransky, one of the experts who spoke with ProPublica for this story, said he has encountered other cases where journals failed to retract a study after a university made such a request. “You have a situation where the fox is guarding the henhouse,” he said.

A rapidly increasing number of published articles rely on analyses produced via the TriNetX platform. However, TriNetX users don’t get full access to the information in the platform, muddying the truthfulness of any analyses of the data and compromising the integrity statements offered by authors.

Guest post: The uncomfortable truth an explosion of papers reveals about authors’ access to data

wildpixel/iStock The involvement of independent academic researchers in examining data and conducting analyses is central to producing trustworthy research. Because of this, many journals require a…

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The gold standard for producing PDF documents (especially books and journal articles) has been LaTeX. @typst.app re-engineered the entire process in an incredibly elegant extensible way. On my MacOS LaTeX (TexLive) takes 9.1GB of disk space. Typst takes 43MB. Not a misprint.

1/2 This is cool! The main reason that html is not a complete solution (and why the R tinytable package is also important) are that pdf is required for (1) manuscript submission to journals and book publishers (2) documents sent to government agencies, e.g. #Statistics appendices for FDA. #RStats

Yihui Xie@yihui.org · 2mo ago

I just came back from summer vacation, and would like to announce a tiny new R package I developed recently: {lt} yihui.org/en/2026/07/l...

If you want to try Gribouille (still in development) for your graphics using the grammar of graphics. I would love some feedback (or bug reports). m.canouil.dev/gribouille/

Gribouille

Create elegant graphics with the Grammar of Graphics for Typst.

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The more I use @typst.app for producing pdf files (haven't gotten much into html production yet) the more I love it. I'm finishing, with Claude's help, major updates to the #RStats Hmisc and rms packages that add full Typst support.

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...

Highly interesting and important reads, as always.

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 2mo ago

Weekend reads: Tragic news on former Cambridge prof; A ‘never AI’ research company was AI after all; OpenAI’s math breakthroughs don’t add up

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Can everyone stop using the term "real world data" and just be precise about setting, participants and interventions? grandroundsinurology.com/the-reality-...

All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)

Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

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Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 2y ago

All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - #Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/ - #Regression and Other Stories at avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/ - Active Statistics at avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatis...