Nabeel Siddiqui
nabsiddiqui.bsky.social
Nabeel Siddiqui
@nabsiddiqui.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at Susquehanna University. https://nabsiddiqui.net
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations.
Statistics involves lots of matrix operations.
R is a language for statistics...
hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx
#Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social
R Interface to Apple's MLX library for GPU-accelerated arrays
An R interface to Apple's MLX library, allowing array operations on Apple Silicon GPUs and CPUs. Features include shared memory between the chips, CUDA support, lazy evaluation and automatic different...
hughjonesd.github.io
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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We’re hiring an Asst Prof of Instruction in Digital Humanities/Data Science with BSDS + English @UTAustin. Teach Python/R for Humanities, build DH projects, mentor capstones. Starts Fall 26. Repost & share widely.

Apply by Dec 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/175750
#DigitalHumanities #DH
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November 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Oh no. How could anyone have seen this coming?
October 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Texas is the most freedom of speech.... The mostest
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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🚨Job ALERT🚨! My old postdoc is available!

I cannot emphasize enough how much a life-altering position this was for me. It gave me the experience that I needed for my current role. As a postdoc, I was able to define my projects and acquire a lot of new skills as well as refine some I already had.
September 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
Interested in a rainbowR Conference?
rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...
docs.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The Pink Book of #MarginalEffects (aka Model to Meaning) ships next week and I've got a backlog of Zoolander memes.

Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline.

#RStats #PyData
September 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities
September 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities
September 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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You saw or you made something awesome related to Quarto either with #ObservableJS, #RStats, #Python or #JuliaLang?

Please submit a suggestion issue to #AwesomeQuarto

PS: if you like this list, star it and share it 😉

github.com/mcanouil/awe...

#Quarto #DataScience #QuartoPub
GitHub - mcanouil/awesome-quarto: A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome!
A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome! - mcanouil/awesome-quarto
github.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept!

🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods
🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science
🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Search UCL Jobs
Find the latest UCL job opportunities here.
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Apparently a real thing that we have to explain to people now:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats
An R package for working with generalized additive models
Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.
gavinsimpson.github.io
August 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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This is how to get started with #tidyplots 🚀

tidyplots.org/getstarted

#rstats #dataviz #phd
July 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Had a great time at #DH2025. Safe travels to everyone!
July 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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I was today years old when I discovered the {memes} R package—you can make your own #memes right from R! 🤯😂 #RStats #DataHumour

🔗 Read more about the package here:
GitHub - sctyner/memer: A tidyverse compatible package for creating memes in R using the magick package.
A tidyverse compatible package for creating memes in R using the magick package. - GitHub - sctyner/memer: A tidyverse compatible package for creating memes in R using the magick package.
github.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I feel I know how older generations feel with computers because my office phone was disconnected, and I honestly have no idea how to get it to work again.
July 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Harvard launches Institutional Books 1.0, a public domain dataset for AI with 242B tokens from 394M scanned pages and 983K books in 254 languages, supporting open research and language diversity. #AI #MachineLearning #NLP #OpenData #Harvard #Dataset #AIResearch #DigitalHumanities
June 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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Another piece of #digitalhumanities infrastructure bites the dust: https://constellate.org/docs/constellate-sunset
Constellate
The new text and data analysis service from JSTOR and Portico.
constellate.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM