A massive congrats to R Core for this great honour. R has been the foundation of my career and it wouldn’t have been possible without years of work from them.
which will happen first?
1. USG authorizes Fable to be released again
2. Open source releases a Fable-equivalent
Have you seen MATILDA (matilda.fss.uu.nl)? Which stands for Measurement, Analysis & Theory for Intensive Longitudinal Data. MATILDA is a website with educational articles that help researchers align theory, measurement, and analysis when studying processes using intensive longitudinal data.
Why do I do this to myself?
I have 8 meetings today…
I have a very simple, very effective solution to having too many things to do: prioritisation paralysis
I mean, at this point, he is his own parody
Ahem..
www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
Yes, self promotion sucks, academics, but if you don’t do it nobody will find out about your work. The point is to publish and be read, not publish and hope you are discovered by fate, lifted out of a humble and pure obscurity so that you may be both famous and retiring
Today we celebrate the awarding of the prestigious Rousseeuw prize to the R Core team in recognition of their 30 years of dedicated work on R and in recognition of the massive impact of R on the scientific community rousseeuwprize.org/2026 #RStats