David Rach

Dual-figure chart with #r2u cumulative donwload in mullion on the left, hitting 68 millions, and average weekly download (on a log scale) coming up on 100lk/week as we hit 3.49 million in the short month of February.

#r2u had its first 'three point five million packages delivered' month in Februaru (outside that two-day Sep 2023 outlier) bringing the total to over 68 million #CRAN #Rstats packages shipped as #Ubuntu .deb binaries.

#r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

FlowCLOc, a New Tool for Selecting the Most Appropriate Antibodies in Flow Cytometry
www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/27...

Hello #rstats folks, can anyone point me towards a good resource on how to set up/retrieve existing Google analytics account data and bring it into R? Not my usual #rstats niche, currently reading through the GoogleAnalyticsR vignette but post authentication not seeing any accounts or properties.

Balrog roaring while being on fire. He's a big ol fire guy.

Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.

Wow this scoring chaos seems to be an extreme case of what I say about many ad hoc analyses: no derivation of method from a clear scientific theory, no assessment of statistical properties, and decades pass before someone notices. This happens in biology too, so let’s not pick on psychology only

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a cartoon opossum is standing on a dirt road and saying `` thank you '' . ALT: a cartoon opossum is standing on a dirt road and saying `` thank you '' .

That is all for now, we are excited to finally be getting started, astounded by the worldwide interest, glad that so many have chosen to join us, and looking forward to helping everyone get started on their own learning journeys. 7/7

Feel free to share the course with anyone you feel may be interested ( #CytometryInR ). Everyone is welcome regardless of prior flow cytometry or coding experience. To be added to our mailing list, complete the original signup form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 6/7

Since everyone will need to get R and the other software installed on their computer and working correctly before the course starts up, we have made some pre-course walk-through tutorials available to hopefully make the process easier. These can be found at umgcccfcsr.github.io/CytometryInR... 5/7

Each week, all course materials for the upcoming week will be released on Sunday 2200 EST (Monday 0300 GMT+0) via our GitHub repository (github.com/UMGCCCFCSR/C... ). We will also be using it's Discussion page as a community forum for questions and to dive in more depth 4/7

UMGCCC FCSR University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Flow Cytometry Shared Resource

We will cover one topic for one hour each week. To accommodate different schedules, we will live-stream via YouTube (www.youtube.com/@CytometryInR) on Tuesday 2200 EST (Wednesday 0300 GMT+0), Wednesday 1600 EST (Wednesday 2100 GMT+0) and Thursday 1000 EST (Thursday 1500 GMT+0). Recordings? Yes! 3/7

It has been in the works for quite a while, is focused around #flowcytometry data, and is the course that I wish had been available back in 2020 when I got thrown into the R deep-end. Schedule and course rationale can be found here: umgcccfcsr.github.io/CytometryInR...

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Excited to officially announce our free "Cytometry in R" mini-course, aimed at coding beginners, will be starting up the first week of February! 🥳 It will be offered both online and in-person at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. 1500 people have signed up!!! #flowcytometry #rstats #quarto 1/7

Unmixing Spread Estimation Based on Residual Model in Spectral Flow Cytometry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701929v1

(It also (optionally) plays a gong sound 🤣)

The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" (2nd ed) is up!

solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/

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#rstats

At CYTO, it’s the people who make the experience unforgettable. Colleagues become friends, mentorships take shape, and a community comes together around a shared passion for cytometry.

When anyone scans the codes, they get the following notice. This was about a week of being up. I will go open up an issue in case it is a third party API thing.

Thanks Libby! Neither did I. Didn't find any obvious mentions in the documentation either after the fact, so kinda shocked given its on CRAN and no complaints about this aspect on the GitHub issues page.

Thanks Sivuyile!

The CYTO 2026 abstract deadline is TODAY. This is your last chance to show off your research and join the global cytometry wave in West Palm Beach! Submission deadline: December 15th at 11:59pm ET.

Submit today: www.cytoconference.org/abstracts.html

Flow Cytometry Cores/Shared Resource Facilities at various institutions often accept external users, billing by hour. UofU's page: flowcytometry.cores.utah.edu (not familiar enough with y'alls area to know how far the other universities cores would be relative to SLC).

Basics of Flow Cytometry E-Course - YouTube This playlist includes our Basics of Flow Cytometry E-Course in various languages. For more content like this, please visit our website at https://learning.i...

Our English and Mandarin versions of our Basics of Flow Cytometry E-Course are now available free on YouTube!

Check it out and make sure you like and subscribe to stay updated as we release additional educational content along with this course in additional languages!

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Next May, the Computational Cytometry Summer School returns to Ghent for its 3rd edition.

Sofie Van Gassen explains what participants can expect from this intensive hands-on program.
https://tinyurl.com/msmzk74f

Apply before 16 December 2025 ⚠️

📢 We are taking applications for our Postdoctoral Fellows Program at Harvard/DFCI!

🔹Join a research group in our department
🔹Co-mentoring opportunities with 2+ faculty
🔹Collaborate with investigators beyond our department
🔹Salary starts at $75K

Apply here: t.co/B7SLZzQFKu

Merry December folks!

Wanna know your most used and co-dependent geoms this past year?!

I've built "Spotify Wrapped" for {ggplot2} that produces you an interactive story and analytical tools for your geom usage! #rstats

Build your own report by following the docs:
gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapp...

Bought my laptop back in 2020, and #plannedobsolescence be dammed, I will use it until it disintegrates. Just swapped out the dying battery, and not worrying about finding the charger after 10 minutes unplugged is nice! Similar story for last years RAM upgrades and #Linux dual-boot.

Autofluorescence imaging reveals the impact of cryopreservation on T cell metabolism and activation response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.688556v1

Maybe it’s a little over optimistic, but I legitimately feel like the fabled Year Of the Linux Desktop™ is really coming.

How I got unstuck with Python (Julia Silge, Posit) | posit::conf(2025) YouTube video by Posit PBC

My talk from posit::conf earlier this fall on getting unstuck with #Python is now available to watch!

- Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩
- I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌

youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE