Mason Posner

ggplot2 4.0.0 A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

43 years ago today
When punk met hip hop 🤝
The Clash and Kurtis Blow at the Akron Civic Theater, August 17, 1982

#punk #punks #punkrock #hiphop #theclash #kurtisblow #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Who has gone out on a limb to challenge Trump?

Lots of federal district court judges.

Whom did the Supreme Court choose at this moment to rein in (having passed on doing so under Biden)?

Federal district court judges.

No better way to build morale in the military than forcing troops to march down largely empty streets in a thunderstorm to celebrate a draft dodger’s birthday

My tiny undergrad college town!

DaniocellDesktop logo, depicting a fish on a laptop screen.

If you love Daniocell, but wish it could generate analyses specific to YOUR genes & cell types of interest, check out DaniocellDesktop - a new point-and-click app for Mac and Windows that enables reanalysis of the Daniocell data without programming: daniocell.nichd.nih.gov/desktop/ (1/4)

Welcome to the Midwestern neighborhood!

Yes.

This is like someone whimpering about the mean streets of the Upper East Side or the Hamptons, of Marin or Atherton, of Potomac or McLean, of 02138.

S Miller is an embarrassment to all Californians.

"We are speaking on behalf of hundreds of NIH staff who are standing up together to say: WE DISSENT.

I am so scared about doing this but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only gonna get harder to speak up."

Thank you to Dr. Jenna Norton and NIH scientists for your courage!

My NEI funding is for that front part of the eye, which is the part that causes the most blindness in the world.

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

“Punishing campuses by cutting health research funding would destroy the equivalent of one-quarter of annual gross domestic product in the US.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

McSweeney’s gets it.

I'm asking a favor of everyone here.

Please click this AEVR/NAEVR (vision research advocacy group) link to oppose Schedule F Reclassification of Federal Science Roles by the Trump administration: www.votervoice.net/NAEVR/Campai...

It will help you auto populate fields to your elected reps.

Done

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

#zebrafish | Kevin Thiessen, Ph.D. A while back, I put together a Bioinformatics Bootcamp for #zebrafish researchers. Here are some of the helpful links & resources that I've come across in my search: Disclaimer: This is not a...

Cross-posting from LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/kevin-...

These are useful (and free!) websites that I found in my search for all things #zebrafish as part of my Bioinformatics Bootcamp. If there’s enough interest, I may do a blog post on the Node. Enjoy!

I wish you all the best in your search!

Great to hear from you Nancy! Yes, things are good. Hope the same for you.

NIH just cancelled the STEP-UP summer research program and they alerted students today.

One of my students accepted their offer, turned down other REUs, and is now screwed for this summer.

Supporting medical science in the USA The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...

Very good description of how the Trump administration is dismantling US science and harming public health, and a message that we can't acquiesce. Supporting medical science in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Tidy Plots for Scientific Papers The goal of tidyplots is to streamline the creation of publication-ready plots for scientific papers. It allows to gradually add, remove and adjust plot components using a consistent and intuitive…

📊 tidyplots: Publication-Ready Plots for Scientific Papers
By Jan Broder Engler — Create clean, consistent, and accessible plots in R with intuitive syntax. Great for scientific publishing!

🔗 Package: buff.ly/AEeUq0Z
🔍 Examples: buff.ly/vFpLqna

More R resources 👉 buff.ly/MSQa1kh

#RStats #DataViz

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

If you feel like being inspired by a big law firm, here's the opening to Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his executive order targeting the firm. It still is amazing other firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research | CNN The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate ...

The budget proposal eliminates:

NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research office

Stops funding regional climate data, climate competitive research or sea grant programs

Severely defunds the Natl Ocean Service & the NMFS

www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c...

This sounded even more ridiculous in the original North Korean.

The United States Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the United States off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government's contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.

Wow!

Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S.

The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles.

VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

5 Ohio State University international students have visas revoked by Trump administration Ohio State University is the latest college to report having international students whose visas were revoked by the Trump administration.

We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting & treatment of international students is completely unacceptable. International students are core members of the Buckeye community and we won’t be silent as they are scapegoated in this way

www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...