It gets lost in these discussions that technically, FY26 didn't really begin until the first CR was passed in Nov 2025, and that those funds were never available to fund projects. FY26 funds were not set until January 2026, and full budget authority was not available to NSF until mid-April, 2026.

Ghana R Users Community The Ghana R Users Community is the national hub for all R User Groups in Ghana. We are dedicated to building a strong, collaborative network of R users through local city chapters, training events,…

Save the date! 🇬🇭 The Ghana R Conference 2026 hits Accra Technical University on July 9th–10th.

This year’s theme: "Transforming the AI Ecospace of Ghana with R Software." Join the community to explore machine learning, data engineering, and digital innovation! 🌐📈 #RStats

Getting started with Pretext slide with picture in picture of David Farmer

Lots of cool work being shared in the @amermathsoc.bsky.social accessibility call. Of course, here's my favorite. PreTeXt.Plus

Carter with his bass in the background, while Hancock in a light suit stands looking at the camera.

Ron Carter & Herbie Hancock by Ed Perlstein, Berkeley, May 1978

I'm listening to my LP of the V.S.O.P. Quintet, a double album recorded live in 1977:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJx4...

Ron Carter, bass
Anthony Williams, drums
Herbie Hancock, piano
Wayne Shorter, saxophone
Freddie Hubbard, trumpet

"Humanizing Defining in Mathematics with Sandwiches" by Katz, Lewis, Bagley, Bockting-Conrad, Ho, Libertini, Owens, Pilgrim, Salomone & Shillito about modeling disciplinary and pedagogical practices.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

PreTeXt.Plus | Author accessible mathematical documents in your browser PreTeXt.Plus is a service that supports the authoring and sharing of PreTeXt documents using only a web browser.

Faculty and students can now create a pretext.plus account without needing an invite when they use their .edu email address! We'd love your feedback at the #pretext-plus channel of mathtech.org/chat!

Sending the follow-up without the attachment too adds and additional dimension if you want a new challenge :). Not that I would know firsthand...

Screenshot of a browser window with an interactive graphic. At the center is the Earth. The Moon is in the upper right, with the line of its orbit drawn across the screen from right to left. A loopy blue line leads from the Earth to a point further along the Moon’s orbit in the upper left, and back to Earth. A circle on the blue path is labeled “Orion”, which is the name of the spacecraft for the Artemis II mission. At the bottom of the screen, four dials show the mission elapsed time, Orion’s velocity, its distance from Earth, and its distance to the Moon.

Artemis Real-time Orbit Website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

While they wait on a fix, they could start a 'Is OneDrive the same thing as SharePoint and if not, why not' discussion.

Wait until they try to use Teams.

Adding a tweak to this: email them and ask for a 30m online chat. Phone calls can be hard sometimes but scheduling a meetup works too. If you're thinking about an idea, write up a 1-2p pitch and include it.

Rush - Countdown YouTube video by RushVEVO

Obligatory Rush for the Artemis II launch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW-8...

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Why lecture?

The Value of Joint Professional Military Education The Naval War College is continually evolving its JPME curricula to meet future warfighting challenges.

For people who actually want to know what senior military education is, and what places like the Naval War College does, here you go. Written last summer by current faculty:

www.usni.org/magazines/pr...

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

VSU Terminates 6 Professors Without Due Process Campus security escorted the professors—five tenured and one tenure-track—to their cars and issued no-trespass warnings. They have received no written explanation for their dismissals.

Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job

It was a lot of fun building this tool! Something that can help faculty with a small but tedious step in preparing an NSF grant proposal: the conflict of interests spreadsheet. Drag-and-drop simplicity ftw 🚤

#rstats Here's a useful guide to creating publication-ready #ggplot figures to journal specifications, which is often quite fiddly.

jaquent.github.io/2026/02/crea...

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Starting to seem that destroying massive amounts of US infrastructure and governance by wishcasting may not actually be all that effective from either a policy or results perspective.

THIS IS TODAY! I AM WEARING A “rage consumes me” sweatshirt with a cute kitty in the flowers.

#heartday #myfavorite

Public Comment Period Open: White House Ballroom Proposal | National Trust for Historic Preservation The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom additi...

Here's your chance to share your thoughts on the 90,000 sf ballroom.

Don't waste it!

ow.ly/LThl50YfoCJ

I’m pretty sure you all needed to see this video of a baby manatee with its mom.

What we're up to.

Absolutely stunner of a kitten needs a new home in the LA area. Do your thing, interwebs.