Kevin Ushey

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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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A screenshot of a statistics tutorial made with R, quarto and webR

Still fascinated with #webR and its potential for teaching stats

Here students can play (even from their phones) and find out themselves how the p-value depends on sample size

pakillo.github.io/LM-GLM-GLMM-... #rstats

Epic: are we production yet · Issue #63 · quarto-dev/quarto-markdown We need to check against many large sites to get a good sense for the impact of this new syntax in practice. autogenerated qmd quartodoc-generated sites (tbd meet with @machow) sites quarto.org Shi...

Quarto friends! I need your help:

We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact.

1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q...
2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

YouTube video by Joe Lynch Boards of Canada "Olson" on a 1959 PDP-1 Computer

What I'm listening to today: "Olson"

Boards of Canada arranged to play on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. The PDP-1 doesn't have sound, but it does have front-panel light bulbs for debugging, so they rewired the light bulb lines into speakers to create 4 square wave channels

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

YouTube video by hbomberguy Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response

"hello and welcome back to hell"

clearly i was so upset about this that I couldn't even spell "bug" correctly

An image from NYT Game's Spelling Bee, erroneously claiming that "tibble" is not a word.

Filling a big report immediately #rstats

I suspect the issues described are fixed in the latest daily builds of RStudio, available at dailies.rstudio.com/rstudio/cucu.... We're hoping to prepare a patch release from this branch within the next couple of weeks.

I can't stop myself from bundling various fixes to other, unrelated issues in my PRs. I start working on a bug fix, find other bugs along the way, and then fix them all together as I go. And suddenly the resulting PR is a confusing mess because of all the unrelated changes.

it's me, i'm son #positconf2025

"The diagonal is a good place to be."

I am appreciating the brutal honesty from @pipinghotdata.com in her talk about {renv} #positconf2025

We should have a fix for this in the latest daily builds, and we're planning to prepare a patch release as soon as we can. dailies.rstudio.com

Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility Fourteen staff were hospitalised and 75 cats and dogs evacuated.

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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

This gives me hope!

We have issued a Standing Order for the COVID-19 vaccine, making it easier for WA residents to get vaccinated. Read more at doh.wa.gov/newsroom/doh...

mirai 2.5.0 mirai - minimalist async evaluation framework for R - brings production-grade parallel and distributed computing to the ecosystem.

tidyverse blog: mirai 2.5.0

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

This milestone release delivers enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry, reproducible parallel RNG, and key user interface improvements.

We’ve also packed in twice as many changes as usual!
#Rstats #tidyverse

if there's one uniting principle for the #rstats community, it's that everyone here wants to do good

everything is terrible but at least the #rstats community is still one of the best

Paging @infinitescream.bsky.social for comment

California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California

And not a moment too soon.

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

a similar back injury left me unable to tamp the coffee for my morning espresso. i'd never felt so old and defeated

whoops! looked at something the wrong way and now my neck is going to be sore for a week

Making libcurl work in webassembly We explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy.

Making libcurl work in webassembly

https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-curl/

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.

Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0 The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing!

Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems.

Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance.

Read more at:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

stop scrolling and look at this bee. thank you