Why do so many interventions target parents or children directly, enforcing the belief that they did something wrong? Is wealth redistribution the only valid intervention?
When we started working on Positron, we began by asking "what did we always want to do in RStudio, but couldn't"?
Years of community upvotes on RStudio's issue tracker helped us form that wishlist. Here's how some big ideas made their way to Positron:
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
If you want to keep up to date with super cool developmental research, give a follow to @milestoneslab.bsky.social!
#StatsPubs No matter how many times you read it, this paper on hierarchical GAMs keeps giving. Clear model explanations together with R code (mgcv). So useful!
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
Thanks for writing @ericjpedersen.bsky.social, D. Miller, @gsimpson.bsky.social @noamross.net
What drives human curiosity? Is it a need to balance stimulation — or something we learn over time?
In our 🚨 new preprint, we show that learning reinforces curiosity, especially for related content.
osf.io/9bw6j_v2
w/ Jane Mok, @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social , Caroline Marvin, Daphna Shohamy
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If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.