This was a fantastic talk - highly recommend!

Screenshot of reports showing status of childhood immunization in Colorado

I'm writing a blog post on making high-quality reports with Quarto and Typst like the ones we recently made for the Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Center.

Anything in particular you want to know about how we make reports like these? #rstats

🌊 a chance to learn how to use a whole pile of amazing NASA Earthdata tools in cloud.

NASA logo to left of Openscapes logo

Registration open (free!) for "A welcome to NASA Earthdata and earthaccess". Expand your knowledge and use of NASA Earthdata, building on momentum behind the earthaccess python library and workflows in the Cloud.
November 13 & 14, 10am - 1pm PT.
Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/champions#ch...

Heat map of travel efficiency, updated

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

I tried using AI to help me "speed up" my writing process. I hated every second of it. (I know, "duh")

I dislike reading AI slop, so I don't use AI to write stuff that isn't code. But, while I love writing, I am not fast at it, & I let ✨capitalism✨ convince me that I should maybe SPEED UP.

🧵 1/n

bliki: Frequency Reduces Difficulty "If it hurts - do it more often". Good advice if the amount of pain raises exponentially with the time between actions, such as for integrating software.

BTW this "Frequency Reduces Difficulty" post from @martinfowler.com is the origin of the mantra "if it hurts, do it more often" (at least, it's where I learned it). It's amazing how broadly this applies.

martinfowler.com/bliki/Freque...

Three phrases that capture some of the tidyverse team culture:

Everybody takes out the trash

We suffer so users don’t have to

If it hurts, do it more often

Posting for my #spatial friends!

Play Games in the Console Games that can be played in the R console. Includes coin flip, hangman, jumble, magic 8 ball, poker, rock paper scissors, shut the box, spelling bee, and 2048.

@alxrh.bsky.social's lightning talk was excellent!! So impressive to get the crowd laughing in a ✨pre-recorded✨ talk. #PositConf2025 pkg.rossellhayes.com/player/

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

Screenshot of Positron documentation page showing release notes with "Positron is out of beta!" headline, featuring highlights about stable releases, daily builds, migration guides, and Positron Assistant AI integration features.

GitHub pull request page titled "Bump to FIRST STABLE RELEASE 🎉 #108" showing a merged pull request with deployment preview information and contributor activity timeline.

Congratulations to Posit on the Positron IDE exiting beta!

This is huge for #python and #rstats data scientists - having a unified, modern IDE that speaks both languages fluently. Can't wait to see how this accelerates data science workflows!

Try it out here: positron.posit.co/download.html

air 0.7.0 (new formula) by coatless · Pull Request #228899 · Homebrew/homebrew-core R formatter and language server written in Rust Have you followed the guidelines for contributing? Have you ensured that your commits follow the commit style guide? Have you checked that there...

R devs can soon `brew install air` for lightning-fast formatting! ⚡

Submitted Posit's Air formatter built with Rust to Homebrew + wrote up the process since I always forget how to create formulae 😅

📝 blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...
🔧 github.com/Homebrew/hom...

#rstats #homebrew

I have an #rstats package idea that doesn't exist but I need for my work.

So I decided to try something new.

I fed Claude Opus 4 the state-of-the-art literature on this topic using Research.

I had it craft the *ideal* prompt to pass to Claude Code to one-shot the package.

A balloon wall featuring the logo of the R package 'future.' The logo is a dark blue hexagon outlined in black, with the word 'FUTURE' in bold yellow-orange letters below a stylized orange comet. Small yellow dots are scattered around the background, and the URL 'futureverse.org' curves along the bottom. The hexagon is surrounded by a grid of light blue balloons.

The future package turns ten today 🥳 To celebrate, I’ll start a blog series covering recent improvements that set us up for new, exciting ways for writing concurrent #RStats - neater than what our trusty workhorses future.apply & furrr offer

www.jottr.org/2025/06/19/f...

#parallel #futureverse

💯

this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created

📣 Openscapes Reflections starts Monday!
5 hrs over 4 weeks to get unstuck in your data science workflows and learn GitHub for publishing & project management. Openscapes Reflections is an open data science coaching program for researchers and those who support research.
openscapes.github.io/booklet/

A composite of the Openscapes logo, the NASA logo, the NOAA fisheries logo, the 2i2c logo, and the JupyterHub logo

Openscapes Community Call Tues Apr 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. Experts from @2i2c.org, NASA Alaska Satellite Facility, NOAA Fisheries, CryoCloud, Openscapes, share what they're building.
Registration (free) openscapes.org/events/2025-...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

6 logos. top row: NASA, Openscapes, NOAA Fisheries; bottom row: 2i2c, JupyterHub

Community Call April 22: What we’re learning about cloud costs for Earth science workflows in our JupyterHub. @andyteucher.bsky.social (Openscapes), Alex Lewandowski (NASA ASF), Yuvi Panda (2i2c) sharing their experiences & what they're building.

Details: nasa-openscapes.github.io/news/2025-04...

a very quick guide to some Zarr datasets for #RStats (I've been using this successfully in Linux, no luck in Windows and probably I'm assuming too-recent a GDAL, but it's worthwhile for anyone wanting to move past the classic limitations)

gist.github.com/mdsumner/3f6...

Looks like someone took it upon themselves to update the product descriptions in at least one Toronto location.

(Via Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/ontario/co... )

That’s fantastic Tracy! Such important work - so happy for you, they’re lucky to have you

As access to scientific communications remains crucial, I'm excited to share I've joined openRxiv as Interim Chief Operations Officer to help launch the organization. It's already been amazing working with @richardsever.bsky.social & John Inglis & team & I'm grateful to be part of this next phase. 💚

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

I’m currently giving @kagi.com a try and I like it a lot

Even on very niche searches, it gives me high quality results and very little to no AI slop

So far, I find it better than Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo

A service worth paying for

Hidden Job Market Skills Scientists Possess Many federal scientists have lost their jobs. However, they possess several marketable skillsets beyond the lab or field..

I hope this helps someone
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Just a little thread on (some) of my favourite charts I've made. 🧵

I knew you could usually get away with it, but didn’t realize R CMD check actually skips it!