Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

🎉 Announcing Calepin 🎉 A new tool to create computational notebooks and static websites, built on Typst. Write code and prose directly in your .typ files, then publish them as documents or as a full website. vincentarelbundock.github.io/calepin/ 1/6 🧵 #Rstats #Pydata #Typst

I got tired of answering AI questions and the misconceptions, so I wrote a quick FAQ. 20 questions, 90% understanding, intentionally brief: nabeelsiddiqui.net/blog/2026-05... #AI #HigherEducation #AcademicIntegrity #EdTech #Teaching #AcademicSky

AI FAQ for Confused Academics

A quick FAQ for academics and administrators making decisions about AI. 20 questions, 90% understanding, intentionally brief.

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Linear Regression: A Visual Introduction to (Almost) Everything You Should Know 👉 mlu-explain.github.io/linear-regre... By @jdwlbrv — a must-read for anyone into #rstats, #dataviz, #datascience, #machinelearning, #LinearRegression, and #stats.

Linear Regression

A visual, interactive explanation of linear regression for machine learning.

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Remember that class I taught this semester: AI for the Humanities? I've just published the syllabus, reading list, and all the assignments on @kcommons.bsky.social. Come and get them! #openaccess #citepedagogy works.hcommons.org/collections/...

I am entering the Research Software Engineer Data Competition put on by the Software Sustainability Institute. If you have time, please vote for me through the following form: lnkd.in/dRcQ5agZ You can read my paper entry here: lnkd.in/dUNVX9Ji #rstats #digitalhumanities

Exploring large image collections as navigable spaces: ImageSpace by Nabeel Siddiqui turns thousands of artworks into interactive visual maps—powered by CLIP embeddings, clustering, and browser-based rendering. A compelling direction for digital art history and AI-driven cultural analytics […]

Happy to see that the DH 2025 Awards (lnkd.in/e-phYq-C) has given an honorable mention to the Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship Edited Collection by Michael Donnay and Anna-Maria Sichani.Check out my essay in the collection here: lnkd.in/ej5-EKrT #digitalhumanities

Check out my new software ImageSpace, a modern replacement for PixPlot for exploring image collections using AI. The output is a static site you can host anywhere: tinyurl.com/2zj4szkd #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #DHMakes #OpenSource #AcademicSky

⚡️Lightning round! Brooke is here at CTDH to discuss Digital Humanities in our community. Listen to her speak in Room 30101 at 9 am! 🔮Learn more about Sourcery: https://sourceryapp.org/ 🔎For CTDH: https://ctdh.io/schedule/ #DigitalHumanities #Academia #CTDH #Sourcery

A reminder that My Cultural Analytics in R book is available. More on the way hopefully!: www.amazon.com/Cultural-Ana... Please repost or let me know if you have any questions. Also am taking bookings for workshops if anyone is interested. #rstats #statistics #digitalhumanities

📦 Just released tidylens – an R package for image-first analysis in film studies and digital humanities! Tidy outputs. One row per image. No Python deps. github.com/nabsiddiqui/tidylens #RStats #DigitalHumanities #FilmStudies #OpenSource #AcademicSky #DataScience

GitHub - nabsiddiqui/tidylens: Tidy image analysis toolkit for digital humanities and film studies.

Tidy image analysis toolkit for digital humanities and film studies. - nabsiddiqui/tidylens

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📦 Just released tidylens – an R package for image-first analysis in film studies and digital humanities! Tidy outputs. One row per image. No Python deps. github.com/nabsiddiqui/tidylens #RStats #DigitalHumanities #FilmStudies #OpenSource #AcademicSky #DataScience

GitHub - nabsiddiqui/tidylens: Tidy image analysis toolkit for digital humanities and film studies.

Tidy image analysis toolkit for digital humanities and film studies. - nabsiddiqui/tidylens

github.com

New scam journal alert for #DigitalHumanities! Digital Humanities and Society Studies - not just predatory, but fully AI-generated with fake authors (or in at least one case, a recognizably stolen name). The publisher's been flagged before as being shady, but this journal is particularly egregious.

❔ Have you read and valued a Programming Historian lesson? 💡 Ever thought about writing one? Share a method or tool that you know well, and help others to learn. 🔗 tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog 📩 Send us your proposal by 15 February 2026 #CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities

And btw, the CFP for English-language @proghist.bsky.social is now open! 🌍 Want to translate and/or localize this or another lesson? 📩 You can send your proposal by 15 February 2026 #CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities Learn more: tinyurl.com/open-call-20...

❔ Which digital methods have you applied or adapted in your humanities research? 🗣️ Our English edition seeks new lesson proposals. 🔗 tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog 📩 Send us your proposal by 15 February 2026 #CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities

There are students at the library day trading crypto...when you have student day trading in a library, pretty sure that is a sign of a bubble.

Really though #VR was a fad. It probably still is, but I got a Meta Quest 3 the other day, and it is the most fun I've had with electronics in a while. Now to figure out If there is a #rstats library to create AR visualizations.

My NEW BOOK: Narrative & Generative AI! lnkd.in/grQN77uW Curious how AI systems like ChatGPT are transforming storytelling? #GenerativeAI #StorytellingWithAI #NarrativeAI #AIResearch #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalCreativity #AIandCreativity

Read up! 👇

Nabeel Siddiqui@nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My Cultural Analytics in R book came out. More on the way hopefully!: www.amazon.com/Cultural-Ana...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations. Statistics involves lots of matrix operations. R is a language for statistics... hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx #Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social

We’re hiring an Asst Prof of Instruction in Digital Humanities/Data Science with BSDS + English @UTAustin. Teach Python/R for Humanities, build DH projects, mentor capstones. Starts Fall 26. Repost & share widely. Apply by Dec 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/175750 #DigitalHumanities #DH

what is full stack feminism? new @dhquarterly.bsky.social piece by Caroline Bassett, Kylie Jarrett & @swebb.bsky.social on intersectional feminist #digitalhumanities ✨ dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000... #dh @fullstackfeminism.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social @sussexdigitalhums.bsky.social

Oh no. How could anyone have seen this coming?

Kevin Carey@kevincarey1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It was obvious from the start that turning over a public institution of higher education to dimwit ideologues would end in tears. These people are a bunch of incompetents who can't do anything but tweet. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Texas is the most freedom of speech.... The mostest

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

🚨Job ALERT🚨! My old postdoc is available! I cannot emphasize enough how much a life-altering position this was for me. It gave me the experience that I needed for my current role. As a postdoc, I was able to define my projects and acquire a lot of new skills as well as refine some I already had.

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

Interested in a rainbowR Conference?

rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...

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