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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 49m

no LIBBY is the best... this is going to become a pretty boring thread 😂

Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 1h

Libby is the BEST

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 1h

oooo I am in that drob presentation too!

that makes me happy - thanks for sharing!!

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 1h

Me too! I found #rladies via #rstats twitter. I was amazed that I could ask a very naive question, go have a shower, and by the time I got back some very kind and generous person had answered it. I would be great to recreate that vibe here.

hey newbies! we want to help you with your questions!!

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

docs.google.com

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 5d

I am open to the idea that there are people who don't have and don't want to gain the skills to engage directly with their data but every single day that I do I learn the answer to a question you'd never even think to ask unless you were personally staring into the abyss of an uncleaned dataset.

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 4d

⬇️ truth!!

workshop materials and blog posts really just make googling faster for future me

Tanya Shapiro @tanyashapiro.bsky.social · 5d

rifling through my old workshop materials to remember how i did that cool thing in R with tables.

oh, you thought my workshops were for you? friends, make no mistake - i am the primary beneficiary of my own teaching content.

if you happened to learn something too, that's just a bonus.

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 8d

A lot of people with these qualities left academia because you didn't reward us or understand when we were blocked by others but y'all aren't ready to have that conversation I guess

Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 8d

The Nobel Prize is the wrong way to think about science.

My heroes aren't the people with the endowed chairs at the Ivies. They are the people who do the hard work, day in and day out, and who would take a bullet rather than inflate research findings or block others' competing research.

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 9d

hey gabby- do you have data you would like to curate for #TidyTuesday? The functions in the TidyTuesdayR package make it SUPER easy to make a pull request. Check out Jon's instructions here...

dslc-io.github.io/tidytuesdayR...

And let me know if you need a hand, happy to help!

Curating a Dataset

dslc-io.github.io

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 22d

The curse of knowledge is a real thing and this post is hilarious.

Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 22d

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

anniemueller.com

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WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · Aug 24

Students use #ChatGPT to do their homework, so how can teachers design effective courses so they actually learn anything at all?

Register before August 31st to get early bird tickets! wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work...

#RStats #AI #LLM #DataScience

WOMBAT 2025 - Invited Talk

Jenny Richmond - Rethinking data science education in the age of genAI

29-30 september 2025, Naarm/Melbourne
womabt2025.numbat.space

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 23d

Super excited to head to
Melbourne next week for WOMBAT. Two days of data science tutorials and talks and new #rstats data friends!

Join us!! It’s not too late to register!!

WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · 23d

WOMBAT 2025 is just 1 (one!) week away. If you haven't register already, time is running out! 🕰️

wombat2025.numbat.space

#RStats #DataScience #BusinessAnalytics #DataViz

WOMBAT 2025

29-30 September Naarm/Melbourne

wombat2025.numbat.space

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 23d

This is SO awesome, “shut up and code” were some of my favourite @rladiessydney.bsky.social events. Set a timer, code for a bit, when the timer goes off chat about problems, try to help each other, usually just commiserate… super fun

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · 25d

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ivelasq3.bsky.social!

Alt text: Curator Isabella Velásquez, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Posit. Recently gave a workshop on survey analysis at the useR conference; is updating a book called Data Science in Education Using R.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 28d

The Pac-Man Rule should be adopted at all conferences and meetups - it's so much more welcoming!

Also an excellent use of a pie chart! 📊

Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 28d

Remember the Pac-Man Rule! Leave a gap for people to join your conversation!

#PositConf2024 #RStats

Remember the Pac-Man Rule. Invite new people into your groups, make new friends, and build a community full of people who feel included.

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 27d

RTing myself to make sure we're keeping our 👀 open. What @jcheng5.bsky.social found via databot was cool but a) *Joe* (not databot) found it by noticing that the bot mentioned a weird thing, and b) we don't know how many people found it and didn't point it out to me.

#PositConf2025 #RStats #dataBS

Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 28d

* no human told me about it before Joe. I can't say for sure that no human caught it. A lot of the people examining #TidyTuesday data are more likely to assume they're wrong than to assume I'm wrong. Still a very compelling example but I want to make sure we don't forget who we are 😊

A drawing of an airplane with red dots showing where airplanes that came back from bombing runs got hit, an example of survivorship bias

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · Sep 15

There is even a Shiny app to keep track, thanks to @smachlis.bsky.social

apps.machlis.com/shiny/positc...

posit::conf(2025) Bluesky posts

apps.machlis.com

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · Sep 12

This is fun!

Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · Sep 12

Launch day 🚀

We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!

Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!

Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

Chartle - A daily chart game

Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart

chartle.cc

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Henley Passport Index data is interesting. I was curious about the relative rankings of the United States and Singapore and found that you get a bit of a different story if you plot ranking vs. visa free countries. #TidyTuesday #rstats

code available here: jenrichmond.github.io/tidytuesday/...

This line chart tracks passport power rankings from 2006-2025 for the US (blue) and Singapore (red), where lower numbers indicate stronger passports.
The US passport declined dramatically from rank 1 in 2006 to rank 10 in 2025, with brief recoveries but an overall downward trend. Singapore showed the opposite trajectory, improving from around rank 8-11 in the early years to consistently holding the #1 position since 2020.
The chart illustrates Singapore's rise to the world's most powerful passport while the US faces potential exclusion from the top 10.

This line chart shows the number of visa-free countries accessible to US (blue) and Singapore (red) passport holders from 2006-2025.
Both countries started with significant differences in 2006 (US at ~129, Singapore at ~122) but followed similar upward trajectories until 2017, when both reached around 185-187 visa-free destinations. Since 2017, Singapore has consistently exceeded the US, reaching ~194 countries by 2025 while the US declined to ~182.

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · Sep 12

The issues on github are full of dataset suggestions that just need a little work to get them ready for a pull request.

github.com/rfordatascie...

Check out the issues- write an intro or pull together the metadata and submit a PR to help keep #TidyTuesday going.

Many hands make light work!

github.com

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · Sep 12

One more thing.. remember how @jonthegeek.com was asking for help in creating a bit of a runway of #TidyTuesday datasets... you don't even need to find a new dataset to help.

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Henley Passport Index data is interesting. I was curious about the relative rankings of the United States and Singapore and found that you get a bit of a different story if you plot ranking vs. visa free countries. #TidyTuesday #rstats

code available here: jenrichmond.github.io/tidytuesday/...

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · Sep 12

Big thanks to @beesm.bsky.social for helping me curate the #TidyTuesday data this week.

If you have an idea for a dataset but lack the skills to get it, just ask for #rstats help!

Brenden showed me how to use `httr` to access data via an API and how to wrangle JSON data and it was SUPER fun!

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Posit @posit.co · Sep 10

Are you an RStudio user thinking about trying Positron? We put together some resources to help with the transition.

Learn how to import your keybindings and handle projects while gaining a more flexible environment for both #RStats and Python.

Check out the guide: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

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