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

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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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...

Ten simple rules for teaching data science

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From @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social & @minecr.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for teaching data science | #Education #Bioinformatics #DataScience #PLOSCBTSR CC/ @carpentries.carpentries.org | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Ten simple rules for teaching data science

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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...

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/)

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

Posit@posit.co · 6mo ago

Good news: The posit::conf(2026) Call for Talks has been extended to Friday, February 20! Join us in Houston to share your work with the R & Python community. 🎤 Speakers receive: Professional coaching, free conference pass, travel assistance Submit your 20-min talk proposal: pos.it/conf-talk-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

"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874 A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!

Ten simple rules for teaching data science

Teaching data science presents unique challenges and opportunities that cannot be fully addressed by simply borrowing pedagogical strategies from its parent disciplines of statistics and computer scie...

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A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish https://github.com/kip-dili/kip (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661897)

GitHub - kip-dili/kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish.

A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish. - kip-dili/kip

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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

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.

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.

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

Python Open-Source Developer

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

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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?

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...

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

YouTube video by Posit PBC

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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...

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?

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

YouTube video by Chris Bilder

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🌈 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

– rainbowR conference

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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

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?

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...

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

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel@minecr.bsky.social · last yr.

This is up there with the craziest survey design I’ve seen.

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?