purrr 1.2.0 This release tightens up the package by removing long-deprecated functions, making `map_chr()` and predicate functions more type-safe, and requiring a newer version of carrier to make `in_parallel()`...

purrr 1.2.0 out now — mostly removing long deprecated functions but a few small performance nad parallel processing improvements. Learn more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #rstats

stringr 1.6.0 This release deprecates `str_like(ignore_case)` and changes the behaviour of `str_replace_all()` for function replacements. It also introduces `str_ilike()` for case-insensitive SQL-like pattern matc...

And stringr 1.6.0 is out too: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11.... A fairly small release but some handy improvements thanks to tidyverse dev day contributors! #rstats

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

May all your trains be crazy

This is how to have difficult conversations with vaccine sceptics

We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time

This is incredible

Snow Mistake: Correcting Myths in the Mapping of Cholera What if the famous map of Broad Street played no role in determining how cholera spread? Or if John Snow didn't make the storied map?

buzzkill www.maps.com/snow-mistake...

YouTube video by Jenny Richmond datapasta package

The `datapasta` package by Miles McBain allows you to copy and paste data from anywhere into #rstats.

Check out the magic here …

youtu.be/utQmq0M2jQ8

What do you use `datapasta` for?

A screenshot of the anthem (and the introductory text to understand the context): Again, ask yourself: Am I setting or mapping? Now, repeat with me...     🎶 🎶 Columns inside, constants out —   That's what aes() is all about 🎶 🎶   

Working on the latest #ggplot2 [un]charted lesson about “Handling Caveats When Mapping Variables,” I let loose a bit

The sections ended up fun — yes, and maybe a bit silly at times 🤡

Highlight:
a new #aesthetics anthem as a memorable mnemonic 🎶

Out now for members!
www.ggplot2-uncharted.com

Absolutely horrifying.

Note that at the end of the piece we learn that the UN staff member was reportedly beaten to death, not shot from a distance.

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester

They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar

SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

South Korea gender divide update 😲

Young men lean right by 50 points
(74% conservative vs 24% centre-left)

Young women lean left by 22 points
(58% centre-left vs 36% cons)

This is actively bananas. LIGO is doing (literally) Nobel winning work, and you need both of them -- the second one is not a spare or a nice to have; this is like buying a fire engine, but deciding it doesn't need wheels on the left hand side...

A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work

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This is extremely significant. Former 🇮🇱 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2006-9) wrote in a May 22 Haaretz op-ed that Israel is:

🔴 intentionally waging a war of annihilation
🔴 premeditatedly adopting a policy of starvation
🔴 massacring civilians
🔴 making declarations of genocide

A thread:

Manchester United selling Alejandro Garnacho feels inevitable, but is it right?

www.nytimes.com/athletic/637...

Palestinian activist’s home ‘raided’ by Israeli soldiers for appearing in Louis Theroux documentary Issa Amro shares videos of confrontations with balaclava-clad military who he claims ‘want revenge’ after the BBC film The Settlers

This was a very well made film. Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

the best indicator of whether a player has what it takes, the mentality of a winner, is the aggregate wages of their teammate

The great Gordon Lightfoot, gone two years ago today.

“I have several songs that you would think I would get tired of playing,” he once said, “but the opposite is true. .. They have a way of expressing themselves each time, and that expression is automatic.” #RIP 🙏🏼

@benstiller.redhour.com