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A barn-burner! Do give it a watch - Yani spoke so well about the way she has expertly built community at @ropensci.org

Drop #691 (2025-08-07): Short & Sweet The post expresses strong discontent regarding Perplexity.ai’s partnership with Truth Social, viewing it as empowering misinformation and contributing to societal division. The author shares …

Drop #691: Short & Sweet

The post expresses strong discontent regarding Perplexity.ai's partnership with Truth Social, viewing it as empowering misinformation and contributing to societal division. It concludes with a resolute rejection of the platform.

dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/08/07/d...

This 216-mile race through central Oregon is one wild trip: Peak Northwest podcast Snow, raves and midnight runs on the wild Cascade Lakes Relay.

This is the 300th (THREE HUNDREDTH) episode of Peak Northwest, which is incredible and insane and I can hardly believe it. Thanks to everyone who's ever listened, whether it was one episode or 300!

USDA uses AC/DC, Scarlett Johansson movie scene to scare away wolves Researchers have chased off predators in Oregon and California with drones equipped with loud speakers, blasting the sounds of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and an argument between actors in the movie “Marriage Story."

Researchers have chased off predators in Oregon and California with drones equipped with loud speakers, blasting the sounds of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and an argument between actors in the movie “Marriage Story."

The Portland area is $10M closer to its only earthquake-ready bridge If the “big one” hits, none of the city’s bridges would survive. Multnomah County is working to fix that.

If the “big one” hits, none of the city’s bridges would survive. Multnomah County is working to fix that.

In the latest episode of The Test Set, @wesmckinney.com talks funding #OpenSource, building trust in dev communities, and the "community over code" mindset.

Plus, get an overview of #Positron, the new polyglot data science IDE 💻

🎧 Listen at thetestset.co, on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts

Jobs - Crossref Help us achieve our mission to make research outputs easier to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse. We’re a small but mighty group working with over 20,000 members from 160 countries, and we have thou...

ICYMI @crossref.bsky.social has more #job positions and more blog posts:
- Product Manager vacancy
- DevOps Engineer vacancy
- Technical Support Contractor
Visit: www.crossref.org/jobs/
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Push alert for a Nazi blog

Screenshot of the blog called NatSocToday

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

Morloc code highlighted in VS Code

#Morloc #VSCode extension is alive!

Thanks to @j23414.bsky.social for helping with the setup!

new vcr release v2! vcr helps record & replay HTTP interactions in #rstats tests. Major update w/ better defaults, enhanced security, new local scoping tools & improved debugging. Huge thanks to @hadley.nz for the majority of work on this release

📋 github.com/ropensci/vcr...
📚 docs.ropensci.org/vcr

new webmockr release v2.2.0, an #rstats pkg for stubbing & setting expectations on HTTP requests. webmockr is no longer integrated with docs.ropensci.org/vcr/, & should make dev of both vcr & webmockr easier

📋 Release notes: github.com/ropensci/web...
📚 Docs: docs.ropensci.org/webmockr

new crul release v1.6.0. crul is an HTTP client for #rstats This update aligns with recent webmockr and vcr releases - mocking is now handled through R6 client classes instead of the mock() function.

📋 Release notes: github.com/ropensci/cru...
📚 Docs: docs.ropensci.org/crul

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

"San Francisco-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?"

www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

🌟 Huge thanks to everyone who joined the first virtual #morloc #hackathon yesterday!

We spent the day beta-testing the Morloc language, smoothing out install issues and running our first programs together.

🚀 Morloc execution is now tested on Linux, MacOS, and Windows (via WSL)!

Orange cat getting belly rubs

Caturday belly rubs

Why this Portland neighborhood has become the ice cream capital of Oregon For anyone looking to sample Portland’s best frozen treats, this ice cream corridor is not only convenient, it’s vital.

For anyone looking to sample Portland’s best frozen treats, this ice cream corridor is not only convenient, it’s vital.

Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US | CNN There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.

Vaccine refusal, encouraged by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has now led to the worst U.S. measles outbreak since the disease was classified as eliminated in 2000.

This was preventable. Vaccines save lives and prevent hospitalizations that are physically, mentally, and financially draining.

Photo of Emi Tanaka. A smiling woman with dark hair and glasses looks directly at the camera. She has a smile strong enough to make her squint. She is wearing a light-colored sweater over a dark top, with pearl earrings visible.

Photo of Nima Hejazi: A man with curly dark hair and a light beard smiles subtly at the camera. He is wearing a light blue collared shirt under a textured brown jacket. Cherry blossoms are visible and slightly out of focus in the background.

So glad to have @emitanaka.org and @nimahejazi.org join our editorial board for @ropensci.org's software peer review!

They’ll help ensure rigorous, friendly, open peer review for software in statistics and data science.

ropensci.org/blog/2025/06... #rstats

do you write the ALT text manually?

Interesting read about limiting #rstats package dependencies: recology.info/2018/10/limi... (via www.tinyverse.org, via brodrigues.co/posts/2025-0...). @sckott.bsky.social shares some useful tips on how Base R can be helpful.

everything is fine

Judge overseeing the NIH grant cuts lawsuit:
"I've just come across this database called Grant Watch which is rather intriguing. Everybody seems to look at [it] for the data concerning NIH grants... This is like a physician's desk reference."

👏 well done @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net

For the #rstats nerds: 405 is "Method not allowed". That is why R 4.0.5 was nicknamed "Shake and Throw", due to this piece of dubious pedagogy:

www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1978...

Workshops Cascadia R Conference is an R conference serving the Pacific Northwest region (Alaska/British Columbia/Washington/Oregon/California).

🌍 Want to make maps in R?

Check out Intro to GIS and Mapping in R at Cascadia R Conf!

🗓️ June 20
📍 Portland, OR
👩‍🏫 With @brittanysbarker.bsky.social + Carrie Preston

Great for beginners or anyone curious about spatial data + R.

🔗 cascadiarconf.com/workshop/

#RStats #GIS #SpatialData #datascience

Nice work Jamie 👌

Mount St. Helens 45 years later: These headlines captured a gripping drama before the eruption Ash plumes, tremors and moments of eerie silence dominated the front pages of The Oregonian in 1980.

I dug through the @oregonian.com archives to pull the paper’s 1980 front page coverage of Mount St. Helens in the months before the big eruption. The unfolding drama had me on the edge of my seat.

😞 Scott's team is joined by a couple of hundred others at Harvard as of today. For NSF, see them all at grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html . For NIH, please submit! grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h...

R-universe now also builds and checks binaries for ARM64-linux (both R-release and R-devel). To install Linux binaries, see our docs: docs.r-universe.dev/install/bina...

Clicking on the check summary opens the results table (which is getting pretty large) and shows status+timings for each platform.

Keeping your personal data safe Why government agencies don’t just share everything they know about you with every other government agency.

The DOGE vision for government technology involves centralizing Americans’ private data. But this isn’t a new idea: it’s one that has been considered, reconsidered, and left alone many times over the years—for good reasons.

where do the badges get stripped from the README in posit pkgdown repos? e.g., testthat.r-lib.org and googlesheets4.tidyverse.org - is it tidytemplate ?