Alex Weber @weberam2@social.cleverlibre.org

Staff resign en masse at an Elsevier-run journal to start their own non-profit OA journal. Big props to @themitpress for helping them. Hopefully we’ll see more like this.

🎩 to @tdverstynen for the pointer

https://imaging-neuroscience.org/

Scientists are moving from X-itter. Almost half have opened accounts with Mastodon, the highest of all the other social networking sites according to a Nature survey.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

“A coming-soon version of Shinylive for R will provide a much better user experience for getting fully client-side R Shiny apps up and running . . . I believe Shinylive with webR integration will pave the way for providing a user-friendly method to build and deploy containerised R Shiny apps, running on WebAssembly.” - @gws at @Posit
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/08/webr-0-2-0/
#rstats #RShiny #Shiny #webR @rstats

So Jordan Peterson’s publishers couldn’t actually find any praise for his latest “bonkers” book, so they just snipped out phrases from reviews completely out of context… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66520089?fbclid=IwAR2HXBAgl8-Nu5IPAFO7ihMccRyY3oelAcKipW8NkozOUt8OCEHL73xrL5w_aem_AWmhQdShdvbp3W0hVr6FwHIt49Ob_LiXBJ-R74XCqhnv12wOlZjvAbebFNnEm9ACiew

Let's stop dependency hell: launching pixi

https://prefix.dev/blog/launching_pixi

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://prefix.dev/blog/launching_pixi

#programming #python #release #rustlang

Fosstodon is by far the most popular Mastodon instance handling #rstats toots! . . . at least according to my analysis of posts over the last 7 days.
It's also seen a 6-fold increase in users and a MASSIVE jump in hosting costs. @fosstodon users who are able: We can help our overworked volunteers & moderators starting at $1 (US) per month!
To become a monthly sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/fosstodon
What's happening in our instance: https://hub.fosstodon.org/more-upgrades-twitter-storm/
@fosstodon @rstats #FundFosstodon

ICYMI: 12 ggplot2 extensions to help you up your data visualization game with simpler code. Plus some extra bonus ones at the end!
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3667496/12-ggplot-extensions-for-snazzier-r-graphics.html
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #InfoWorld @rstats