After an invite to join conda-forge arriving once a month for the past ten years, I've now received 50 emails disinviting me in the past two days.

What's new in R 4.6.0? Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes in the April 2026 release of R 4.6.0.

New blog post about R4.6 #rstats

www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n...

#rstats #datascience

Ever been handed a data process with zero documentation and told to just figure it out? That's exactly what Reproducible Analytical Pipelines are designed to prevent. Russ Hyde explains how.

Check out the blog post here: jumpingrivers.com/blog/reproducible-analytical-pipelines/

Pushed my kids attempts right off the fridge door

March Meetup - 'Why AI isn't taking my job' and 'Building Reliable AI Systems', Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup **Please note the change of address!** Welcome to our March 2026 meetup hosted by [Parallax](https://parall.ax/) @ The Elbow Rooms. Please see the directions provided on t

Checkout this Meetup with Leeds Data Science Meetup: meetu.ps/e/PNXhF/rmsg...

Hosting Leeds Data Science tonight. Come down!

But if I wasn't, I'd go to see Steve Davis playing synths in Liverpool.

Is AI taking your job, or just changing it?

Leeds Data Science Meetup — tomorrow, 24 March, 6 pm @ The Elbow Rooms, Leeds. Two talks, food included.

RSVP here: www.meetup.com/leeds-data-s... — 95 already in!

#DataScience #AI #MLOps

Accessibility often gets lost once dashboards become interactive.

This post shows how to use {ellmer} to generate dynamic alt text for ggplot2 charts in Shiny apps, keeping screen reader users aligned as plots change.

Read more: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/ellmer-...

Leeds Data Science Meetup | Meetup Meet with students, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs who are interested all things Data Science related! This is an exciting time for coders of every type in Leeds, so join us!We are sponsored...

We're still buzzing from last night ✨

Our January meetup on Operational AI and Modern Data Governance had great talks, thoughtful questions & a brilliant crowd.

Thank you to Mark Pybus, Boyang Chen, and everyone who joined us.

Join the community for future events: www.meetup.com/leeds-data-s...

Thanks for including Myles' RAG post this week @rpodcast.bsky.social

January Meetup - Unleashing Operational AI and Modern Data Governance, Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup **Please note the change of address!** Welcome to our first meetup of 2026. We are pleased to announce that our meetups will now be hosted by [Parallax](https://parall.ax/

Accountable for AI outcomes? Success depends less on models and more on how systems behave once users, data, and constraints show up.

Our first Leeds Data Science Meetup of 2026 covers operational AI and modern data governance.

📅 Jan 20 · Leeds

🔗 Register here: www.meetup.com/leeds-data-s...

Well it took a long time to work out it should have been MyForm(data=...) rather than MyForm(obj=...). So many moving parts. #python #flask

@warringtonruncorn.com youre on 6 music

Well, the L-Sit is a beast

Love a math rock gig.
Its like a nerdy, dancing, moustache party

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Tell me #rstats of this tiedye-verse that is so celebrated.

If we renamed your enclave, could the PD hyperkrumlin limit (4) be broken? This longstanding, but theoretical limit, is based on the sugar-sauce barrier, and many of you know I've long been a critic. Surely, honeypot-prefixing would PD-bump the lowliest Weir or the felicitous Shadsworth

Nonetheless, Hoo Hole, is nearly PD 3.9, with a similarly heaving SQ of 0.935.

But SQ isn't PD-complete, because clearly *casters are higher PD than their burly hirsute, high SQ, *chester counterparts.

Lest we forget, the Sauciness Quotient

On the train back, I was contemplating the Pontefractal Dimension of UK place names. You know, the hidden variable underpinning whimsicality, bumpkinerry, catname-acceptability, and mirth-rising.

Paper due soon

Playing the foundations of Electro Swing to my 6yo.

What's this called, dad?
Erm, erm ... booty swing, hon.

Mining the Beckipedia, an old @drob.bsky.social post #rstats #beck

Digital Identities 25 Next steps for digital identities in the UK

Why should I, a voter and taxpayer working with digital identity, have to pay over £300 to listen to and discuss the government's plans for digital identity online?

Delia Derbyshire with reel to reel players diorama.

Suzanne Ciani with Buchla synth diorama

Daphne Oram with oramics machine diorama

Wendy Carlos with moog and cat (moog and mog?) diorama

Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani, Daphne Oram and Wenday Carlos - diy card dioramas from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com
fun summer projects for people who want to stay cool!

I've been out of bioinformatics for a while. Did they ever have Omic-Con? Who went as McClintock?

@jumpingrivers.com

Manchester R Meetup! June 2025., Thu, Jul 3, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup ***\-\-\-\-\-\- Welcome\, Manchester R Users\! \-\-\-\-\-\-*** Welcome! As before, the event will be brought to you by **Datacove**. We are a Data and Analytics Consultanc

Talking at Manchester #rstats meetup tonight. There will be maps, geology, plesiosaurs, software design and pizza / beer.

meetu.ps/e/Nx6kN/rmsg...

(First new talk in a year, still under edit)

Also Mark Webster is talking about {autodb} cran.r-project.org/web/packages...