@posit.co Positron Server is now free for academic JupyterHub with a teaching license. Students get a full data science IDE (Python/R, debugger, data viewer) in-browser, no install needed. blog.jupyter.org/positron-ser...

Interested in giving Positron a try? 🚀 We just launched a free, self-paced learning path covering: 🔹 UI navigation 🔹 Working with data 🔹 Running & managing code 👉 Start here: academy.posit.co/path/introdu... #DataScience #Positron #RStats #Python

Check out the blog post Wasim and Cindy Tong wrote announcing the GA launch: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07... Give it a try and let us know how you get on!

Positron's Jupyter Notebook Editor Is Now Generally Available

The Positron Jupyter Notebook editor is now generally available, bringing a first-class notebook experience with built-in environment management, interactive data exploration, streamlined version cont...

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The Positron Notebook Editor is out of beta and ready for all your notebook workflows! I am super proud of the work the team did to build this notebook experience from scratch. Something we decided was necessary to have a fantastic notebook experience for data science.

Neat. Positron now recognizes a pyproject.toml, offers to build an environment with one click using uv 🚀 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and I am so pleased to share what's in it! 🥳 Some big features we've been working on for a while (the editor for `.ipynb` notebooks, the Packages pane, Posit Assistant) all came out of preview this month: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

The latest release of Positron leverages `uv` to make getting started with Python as easy as a single click 👾 I wrote up a lil blog post on the places Positron elevates `uv` to help with Python workflows. You can read it here: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

Positron + uv: Python setup in one click

Exploring the Positron features that use uv to enable Python installation and management.

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Latest version of Positron can open xlsx files in the data viewer(!) and it has a dropdown menu now for previewing different formats of #QuartoPub documents And—most importantly, but also from a few weeks ago, so less new—the plots panel can pick up dimensions from chunk options!!!! #rstats

Posit has joined the Jupyter Foundation! 🎉 @jupyter.org has powered interactive computing across our tools for years, from Notebooks to the kernels behind Positron. Now we're helping fund the infrastructure and community that keep it thriving. Read the blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

We don't get much media coverage, but its bad out here. Its still only June and every day the sky is orange and every few days we're seeing towns evacuated.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

Wildfires over the past week have charred the Southwest. Three firefighters died on Saturday and others were injured while helping fight wildfires on the Utah-Colorado border. trib.al/dp0dwy4

Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Air 0.10.0

Air 0.10.0 is here! This release rounds up everything new since 0.8.2: a new `assignment-style` option, tighter Positron and RStudio integrations, installation via uv and friends, pre-commit support, ...

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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

Join us in about an hour to hear from @jasminedaly.bsky.social about how she uses Claude Code for #rstats work!

Julia Silge@juliasilge.com · 2mo ago

Join the SLC RUG next Tues, June 23 about how @jasminedaly.bsky.social uses Claude Code in her work as an #rstats consultant! I'm really excited to learn more at this session 💫 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

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

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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It seems like LLMs are getting much better at faithfully describing data visualizations that show surprising trends. With @sara-altman.bsky.social on the @posit.co open source blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

AI Newsletter: LLMs are getting much better at interpreting counterintuitive plots

Model releases from the last couple months have shown a large jump in capability on our bluffbench eval, which measures agents' ability to faithfully describe plots showing surprising results.

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Jasmine! Is! Excellent! As a human, as a data person, as a community member. Yes yes yes. Also, the SLC RUG (#rstats user group) is wonderful and usually VIRTUAL (this one is), which means you need not be in Utah to attend. And I don't think you need me to tell you Julia is a delight 🥰

Julia Silge@juliasilge.com · 2mo ago

Join the SLC RUG next Tues, June 23 about how @jasminedaly.bsky.social uses Claude Code in her work as an #rstats consultant! I'm really excited to learn more at this session 💫 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

Join the SLC RUG next Tues, June 23 about how @jasminedaly.bsky.social uses Claude Code in her work as an #rstats consultant! I'm really excited to learn more at this session 💫 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

Me, Myself & Claude: Part 2 - Building for Others, Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Our June Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event. From our speaker: In 2025, I [shared the concept of "vibe engineering,"

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I want to publicly thank @jcheng5.bsky.social for being willing to write this post, laying out how our AI tooling has evolved (including those eyebrow-raising product names)! 😅 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

A brief and biased history of Posit data science agents

What we learned from Positron Assistant and Databot

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When we started working on Positron, we began by asking "what did we always want to do in RStudio, but couldn't"? Years of community upvotes on RStudio's issue tracker helped us form that wishlist. Here's how some big ideas made their way to Positron: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

RStudio's Top Feature Requests ... In Positron

Many of the most upvoted RStudio feature requests are already implemented in Positron, and we explore ten of them.

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Fable 5 is the new highest scorer on bluffbench! The eval measures models' ability to accurately describe plots that show counterintuitive patterns. Six months ago, the strongest models were still in the single digits. simonpcouch.github.io/bluffbench/

The user interface in the new Posit Assistant is one of the best and most intuitive I've seen for using AI tools for editing code. This will be excellent for students and researchers already familiar with RStudio. This is a brilliant harness and user experience for using AI for data science 🎉

The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and I am so pleased to share some of what's in it! 🙌 Read about how we improved startup performance, the ongoing migration from Positron Assistant to Posit Assistant, and more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

I've just tried Posit Assistant on the free plan and must say, I'm impressed. Using the super-cheap Gemma 4 26B model (10% cost of Sonnet) on free plan it worked instantly. Hats of to the #posit team for integrating this into RStudio and allowing people to test with free plan!

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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This week on my substack: what is an agent open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi....

What is an agent?

Conversations, turns, rounds, tools, agents and more!

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Must read. How Price could so misunderstand Drucker is well beyond me, thankfully Henry is on the case

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

AI Isn't Management. Try Explaining That to Matthew Prince

At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!

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In the last year, @posit.co has released one agent called Positron Assistant and another called Posit Assistant, which is kinda confusing. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I sat down to talk about how these agents compare and where they're headed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9P2...

Comparing Posit Assistant and Positron Assistant

YouTube video by Posit PBC

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Gemma 4 is now available for Posit AI subscribers! We've priced the model at a tenth of the per-token cost of Claude Sonnet, and are really impressed with its performance for quick data analysis tasks. posit.co/blog/gemma-4...

Gemma 4: A new, budget-focused model in Posit AI

Gemma 4 is

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We’re excited to launch the Posit Open Source website! 🚀 We’ve unified 15+ years of tools, 900+ blogs, and 1,600+ videos in one place. Explore it here: opensource.posit.co Huge thanks to the team: @cwick.co.nz Greg Swinehart @hadley.nz @ivelasq3.bsky.social @jeroenjanssens.com