We just released a blog post about something I'm very excited about: Great Docs. Post is in the *new* Posit Open Source site:
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...
Great Docs is a #python pkg for creating beautiful Python package websites. We make it easy to use but also give you lots of options.
Can't wait for the Indian general election in 29. If only opposition parties were putting in the work.
This is a really neat idea but I'll never remember the commands, so I created a little `git-recon` bash script that runs them in series, complete with some ascii bar plots.
gist.github.com/gadenbuie/46...
And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official".
We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...
We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort:
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"The microinverter syncs with your home’s electrical grid, meaning your appliances will automatically use the free, sun-generated power before they start pulling expensive electricity from your supplier."
www.independent.co.uk/extras/indyb...
Next step is emails from companies offering to turn it into a book, podcast, or other assorted media. What's sad is their testimonials are often developing country folks who are more in need of credibility in global academia.
An academic poster with code output, plots and tables. The header is a dark purple color (i think.. im bad with colors) and the body of the document is a light grey. There are white floating blocks in the body with text that details how someone can install this poster template and use it.
I made a Typst + Quarto template for academic posters. It lets you embed/render code output inside your poster, so that if you ever make a code update you don't need to spiral into screenshot-copy-paste hell. I'm really loving Typst!
repo codeberg.org/edenian-prin...
#quartopub #typst #rstats
Years ago (2006) I photographed a female Bare-necked Fruitcrow in Amazonian Peru. I assumed it was building a nest with mycelial cords (rhizomorphs) of what looks like Brunneocorticium corynecarpon (a crust fungus). But I never saw the nest, until today... 1/5 macaulaylibrary.org/asset/623557...
An infographic showing a world map in the Spilhaus projection, with the six marine flyways (Altantic Ocean, North Indian Ocean, East Indian Ocean, West Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean). Text reads: 'Marine flyways are the major routes migratory seabirds regularly use to travel between their breeding and non-breeidng areas.'
🚨New Open Access Paper🚨
Using the marine flyways concept to accelerate ocean conservation published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
OA paper➡️ doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#BLScience #seabirds
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Homepage of the R Mailing List Archives showing a search bar, three popular lists (R-help with 398,500 messages, R-devel with 63,425, and R-package-devel with 12,125), and a full directory of core lists and special interest groups.
29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it.
Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data.
r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com
I increasingly suspect these people might be statists not out of philosophical principle or cost-benefit analysis, but simply because they enjoy wielding power and behaving cruelly to outgroups.
🔍 The 2026 International RSE Survey will close in just a few days. If you haven't done so already, hurry up an have your say by Friday 20 March.
- Find out more about the survey and how to participate at lnkd.in/ejTXEsFY
Four complex equations shown in a grid, with their LaTeX representation shown above and the rendered expression below
Some of the test cases for the native LaTeX math expression parser and renderer I've been working on for textshaping which will soon bring native math equation rendering to #rstats and marquee
We are very excited to have launched the establishment process for a global professional society for infectious disease dynamics. Join us!
I had (kinda jokingly?) wondered if there was a Skill that helps write Skills... and there is!
From the Anthropic Skills marketplace: github.com/anthropics/s...
Another robo-grouse drop. If you didn't see the thread yesterday (quoted below), I am looking for unusual examples of hidden Markov models to use as examples in a new lecture I am writing
If you read German, I highly recommend @tobischolz.bsky.social recent piece on Raisina Dialogue and what it means in the broader context:
Even granted that the Home Office makes ministers at least 50% more evil, there’s something unnerving about Mahmood’s performative cruelty
My article in @thediplomat.com discusses what the United States' recent decapitation of #Iran’s leadership following the earlier abduction of #Venezuela’s leader means for Asia. A summary of the key points in the comments: @chasiapacific.bsky.social thediplomat.com/2026/03/amer...
Well damn, this is cool.
Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre-Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea | Chia et al., 2026 | Ecology Letters
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.
Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Deliberately misleading/disingenous.
A quick plug for juliapackages.com/p/mixedmodels (by Doug Bates and phillipalday.com -- similar capabilities to lme4 but **much** faster
I'd love to see 2.75 M geese. Who doesn't love geese, don't even have to be Snow geese.
I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users.
Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI.
Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡
rworks.dev/posts/claude...
🆕 BLOG POST
There’s so much more to spatial downscaling today than classic LM or kriging. In my new blog post, I show how flexible and powerful GAMs can be for this task. #rstats #dataviz
➡️ dominicroye.github.io/blog/canary-...
"This is not strategic autonomy. It is a risk multiplier. The question is not whether India can afford to alienate either the US or Israel; it is whether India can afford a West Asia engulfed in war.
If this truly is “not an era of war,” then Modi must act as if he believes his own words."
What a spineless worm, was it really that hard to stay out of it?
Thats it's mostly unnecessary. Our RSE team has developed a soft no-CRAN, R-universe first strategy after bad experiences with CRAN. My own (from a previous job) have been fine, but have heard it's often not great.
Otoh, I recently submitted to the Julia registry in error and had a good experience!
At least with the Iraq war, they prepared a dossier
