Over 100 recorded talks from posit::conf(2025) are now available on YouTube

Andrew Heiss: LLMs are bad and dangerous for learning how to code in this class (Data Visualization with R). The R Data Scientist November 4 2025 : R ecosystem updates, workflows & techniques, ggplot2 visuals, mapping with R, Shiny testing and QA, academic research. R Weekly 2025-W45 : Pledging my time, neon ghosts, Bioconductor release.

WIRED recently published a special AI issue at wired.com/ai-issue . Here are all the stories from that issue.

The Bioconductor 3.22 release is now available. It includes 2,361 software packages, 435 experiment data packages, 926 annotation packages, 29 workflows, and 6 books. This cycle adds 59 new software packages, 6 new experiment data packages, 2 new annotation packages, and 1 new book, along with many updates across the existing ecosystem. A few themes stand out for people working in genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, and spatial omics.

MIT Technology Review : Biodiversity: A missing link in combating climate change Science : At futuristic meeting, AIs took the lead in producing and reviewing all the studies . Nextflow plugin registry: registry.nextflow.io . posit::conf(2025) Quarto workshop materials . At posit::conf(2025), Posit hosted two Quarto workshops: Branded Websites, Presentations,

Bruno Rodrigues: A Polyglot Data Science Pipeline with rixpress . This post demonstrates the power of the rixpress R package to build, orchestrate, and execute a fully reproducible, polyglot data science pipeline.

I used Google Docs in a recent paper I led because I had collaborators across the US, UK, Jersey, Denmark, and Mauritius, and Google Docs is infinitely better than Word online / O365 at collaborative real-time editing. I’ve used Zotero for over a decade for reference management, and I used it for this paper.

GPU Support in Bioconductor . GPU acceleration enables faster and more scalable analysis workflows, especially for tasks like deep learning, image processing, and large-scale genomics. Bioconductor is developing better support for maintainers authoring GPU-capable packages, including adding a new Nvidia GPU build machine, new release and devel (Nvidia) GPU software builds, GPU-aware containers, and a biocViews GPU term.

I recommend subscribing to Claus Wilke’s newsletter, Genes, Minds, Machines. I’ve linked to many of his essays in recent weeks. This one was a good read. Now that I’m back in academia and will be taking on Ph.D. students in my lab, this was good advice for me to read, as a future mentor.

In cybersecurity, defenders have to get everything right. Cyber defense must patch every vulnerability, secure every endpoint, anticipate every exploit. Attackers, by contrast, only need to find one overlooked flaw. That imbalance, which has shaped decades of cyber conflict, has a biological analogue.

The most recent release of Positron (2025.10.0 build 199) has a few updates to the data explorer. Among other things, the actions you take in the data explorer like filtering and sorting can be converted to code: dplyr code for data frames, and SQL for DuckDB datasets.