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libbyheeren.bsky.social
new #dplyr filtering function who dis 😍 meet filter_out()!

👍 GO PUT A THUMBS UP ON DAVIS'S TIDYUP THINGY ON GITHUB TO SHARE MY ENTHUSIASMMMM!! #rstats #databs

And, you know, provide your thoughts on this newly-proposed function if you have them 😌
A screenshot of code that uses the dplyr function called filter, which is built to include rows, in order to exclude them instead. The result also filters out rows where values are NA, which isn't helpful usually. It then shows the messy code you'd need to use to not exclude those NAs, and compares it to some very clean code using a newly proposed function called filter_out, which does not exclude NAs. Libby has drawn silly illustrations all over this screenshot, like yucky faces for dropping NAs and a smily face saying, "new filtering function?"
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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fedtfupofthemall.bsky.social
19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...
For the first time, Catholic sisters return land to a Tribal nation
"This return represents more than the restoration of land — it is the restoration of balance, dignity, and our sacred connection to the places our ancestors once walked."
19thnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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posit.co
The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉

This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.

Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats
ggplot2 hex with tada emoji. Text: Join the v4.0.0 release party with Teun van den Brand and the ggplot2 extenders, Oct 3 at 3pm Et, bit.ly/join-gg-extenders
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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kellybarnhill.bsky.social
I did an outdoor yoga class in a minneapolis park the other day. And my husband is, right now, playing softball in a Minneapolis park. My son is, right now, standing on dock fishing for northern pike, also in a Minneapolis park.

Stephen Miller doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 15
Stephen Miller: "We have communities all across this nation that 20 years ago, before the era of open borders, were completely peaceful, completely stable. Look at a place like Minneapolis. Post mass migration they're unsafe, they're violent, you cannot use the public parks."
July 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
drogle.bsky.social
[Note that I am not "standing up" for Julie here, she is more than capable of doing that herself. I am, however, as Julie and @simonmonysmith.bsky.social have asked of us, speaking up when I hear something offensive or inappropriate.]
July 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
drogle.bsky.social
(see Julie's 16-Jun and 12-Jul Substacks, and many discussions on YOUR show). Please just STOP saying "stalk", "follow" will suffice in that context. Thanks.
July 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
drogle.bsky.social
of this is in the "The World's Biggest Ego Collides with the World's Oldest Institution" podcast). The use of the word "stalk" here is inappropriate generally, but especially in reference to an indigenous woman given the long history (continuing to present day) of abuse indigenous women have endured
July 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
drogle.bsky.social
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social, I am a huge fan of the "We're Still Here" segment. I have tried to reach out to you in a non-public manner but without success, so I am asking you here to please STOP asking @juliefrancella.com how YOUR listeners can STALK her (the latest example
July 15, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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drkatfish.bsky.social
"Like lobster to Maine and salmon to Alaska, whitefish is one of the signature animals in Michigan's history"

But after decades of slow decline, the fish are now on the brink of collapse in most of Lakes Michigan + Huron in part due to invasive mussels #GreatLakes www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...
Iconic whitefish on edge of collapse as Great Lakes biodiversity crisis deepens | Bridge Michigan
Few fish are as synonymous with Michigan as whitefish. Pushed to the edge by invasive species, their struggle is the tip of a cataclysmic species collapse that could change our way of life.
www.bridgemi.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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cscheid.net
Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer:

Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit.

I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/
June 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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alexlatzka.bsky.social
Fun and wide-ranging conversation about Wisconsin fisheries on WPRs Larry Meiller show today. Hat tip to the more well-spoken colleagues who joined me @maxofthenorth.bsky.social www.wpr.org/shows/larry-...
Fish research and regulations; an app for finding fish safe to eat; and worry for land trusts groups in Wisconsin
A panel of DNR fish biologists join us to answer the question, “How’s the fishing?” Then, we talk to an associate professor of epidemiology about an app tribal members use to find fish safe to eat. Th...
www.wpr.org
May 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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andrewrypel.bsky.social
Listen to Jay Darling, in his own words, talk a little about the cooperative research units. Really smart, forward looking people built these things a long time ago, and they been a huge gift to our ecosystems, professions, and country.

youtu.be/Bd2kHoFMFSA?...
May 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
drogle.bsky.social
A new v0.10.0 of #fish #rstats package #FSA is at CRAN. Growth modeling (i.e., find starting values and displaying eqns) and handling size structure length categories and standard weight eqns have been substantially modified. New demo and explainer articles are at fishr-core-team.github.io/FSA/
Simple Fisheries Stock Assessment Methods
A variety of simple fish stock assessment methods.
fishr-core-team.github.io
May 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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canepaoneto.bsky.social
mpmsim: An R package for simulating matrix population models

#Rstats #openaccess
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
mpmsim: An R package for simulating matrix population models
Matrix population models (MPMs) are widely used in ecology and evolution to explore population dynamics, including assessing management impacts and extinction risk. In comparative studies, MPMs ca...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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nrennie.bsky.social
🚨 New blog post! 🚨

If you want to learn about:

🎨 How to define colours in R
📊 Choosing palettes for plots
🛠️ Generating your own colours

Read this ➡️ nrennie.rbind.io/blog/colours...

#DataViz #RStats #ggplot2 #RLadies
Working with colours in R | Nicola Rennie
Whether you're building data visualisations or generative art, at some point you will likely need to consider which colours to use in R. This blog post describes different ways to define colours, how ...
nrennie.rbind.io
January 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
drogle.bsky.social
I want to publicly thank @gaborcsardi.org for patiently helping me with my issue re: Quarto articles on a website created with a pkgdown GitHub action that I posted about last week. The solution is at forum.posit.co/t/help-with-... Thank you Gabor!!!
Help with Quarto "Articles" in pkgdown and with GitHub Action
I have a package ("FSA") where I have used a pkgdown website built through a GitHub action for sometime. I am trying to add "articles" (not vignettes) developed with Quarto (not rmarkdown). I started ...
forum.posit.co
April 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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nytimes.com
President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.

Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
A snorkel diver gliding near a school of lime green fish in shallow water. Text reads: "Trump Opens a Huge Marine Protected Zone to Commercial Fishing." Photo credit: Ian Shive/United States Fish and Wildlife Service
April 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
drogle.bsky.social
I am trying to get Quarto (not rmarkdown) "articles" (not vignettes) for my package website using "pkgdown" and its GitHub action. I "followed" readily available sources w/ no success (failures mentioned here forum.posit.co/t/help-with-...). Any recs for beginning-to-end tutorials for this. #rstats
Help with Quarto "Articles" in pkgdown and with GitHub Action
I have a package ("FSA") where I have used a pkgdown website built through a GitHub action for sometime. I am trying to add "articles" (not vignettes) developed with Quarto (not rmarkdown). I started ...
forum.posit.co
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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hmorzaria.bsky.social
Firings at NOAA Fisheries will ultimately hurt fishing communities. The effects of climate change will continue even if we stop studying them.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Trump's NOAA firings leave Northwest workers in 'purgatory'
Fisheries scientists who were fired by the Trump administration say they've been living in limbo as their work is sidelined.
www.seattletimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
drogle.bsky.social
Lots of sh** going on, but this (though I am late to see it) killing in northern WI of Wolf 813 and how it impacted the Anishinaabe researchers who had been working with her for many years got to me. They are still investigating!! #JusticeFor813

wolvesofdouglascountywisconsin.com/2025/01/06/p...
More Than Just a Wolf. A Short Film: Wolf 813.
At approximately 02:00 AM on December 25, 2023, a retired DNR Conservation Warden  and pro-wolf hunt advocate shot a wolf at his door. Ron Nordin, Jr., a Wildlife Technician for Red Cliff Tribe, go…
wolvesofdouglascountywisconsin.com
April 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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jumpingrivers.com
New version of R is out!

Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 — from new language features to graphics updates and more.

📝 Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n...

#rstats #Rprogramming #opensource
What's new in R 4.5.0?
Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes that have been introduced in R 4.5.0.
www.jumpingrivers.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
New paper!

Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should.

This is the *first* paper in the peer reviewed scientific literature to explain how Bluesky works and how to use it for #SciComm 🧪🦑🐠

academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
Social media for fisheries science and management professionals: How to use Bluesky and Instagram, and why you should
ABSTRACT. Social media tools have revolutionized how people communicate with one another. A 2018 paper in Fisheries summarized the use of Twitter, Facebook
academic.oup.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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simonmoyasmith.bsky.social
We told you.
It was never a matter of if, but when it’ll spill.
Btw, this isn’t the first spill.
Anyway, we fucking told you…
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Apr 8
The Keystone pipeline system, which carries crude oil from Canada to the U.S., was shut down on Tuesday morning because of an oil spill in southeastern North Dakota, government and company officials said. The spill was confined to a field, and a nearby stream was isolated as a precaution.
Oil Spill in North Dakota Prompts Shut Down of Keystone Pipeline
The spill was confined to a field, and a nearby stream was isolated as a precaution, officials said.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM