Positron’s Quarto support is really quite robust and it’s full of nice little features like previewing a citation using whatever bibliography style your document is using (Chicago, APA, etc.) when you hover over a citation key: …or knowing about the different headings inside your document for tab-completed cross references: …or even knowing about those headings in other documents in a project: That’s all neat, but for long-form writing, like

We’re very excited to introduce the new rOpenSci Champions! This cohort will participate in the program and carry out their work in Spanish, allowing us to continue strengthening the open science and research software development community in this language. We’re excited about the projects they’ll be developing, which tackle real-world challenges across diverse disciplines and regions of Latin America.

Nos alegra muchísimo presentar a las nuevas personas que se suman como Campeones y Campeonas de rOpenSci. Este grupo experimentará el programa y trabajará en español, lo que nos permite seguir fortaleciendo la comunidad de ciencia abierta y desarrollo de software de investigación en este idioma. Nos llenan de entusiasmo los proyectos que van a desarrollar, que abordan desafíos reales desde distintas disciplinas y territorios de América Latina.

Here are some of the most interesting R packages I’ve discovered among the 2025 releases. These are especially useful for demographic statistics, teaching, and time series correlation analysis.

All your dreams are made, when you’re chained to the lesson and the teaching trade. Was that lecture, lab or lesson just a dream? Exactly what did you learn from the experience? When you reflect on it, how will you tell yourself and others the stories of your study? The stories students tell about what they have learned, the teaching they experience and research they are exposed to are a key part of the story of every University.

Expanded from a post on X, which I felt didn’t do a good job expressing all of what I meant.

This is the June issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Two blogs were added in June. Welcome everybody!

Geflüchtete sind in vielfältige transnationale Netzwerke eingebunden. Im langen Sommer der Migration nutzten viele diese Kontakte für die Flucht, wie auch dieser Beitrag zeigt. Inzwischen leisten viele in Deutschland lebende Geflüchtete wichtige Unterstützung für Angehörige in Kriegs- und Krisengebieten.

It crept out quietly under cover of darkness, but I’m pleased to say that today saw the publication of a new paper: Van der Linden, Tom T. P., Michael P. Taylor, Amy Campbell, Brian D. Curtice, René Dederichs, Lucas N. Lerzo, John A. Whitlock, D. Cary Woodruff and Emanuel Tschopp. 2025. Introduction to Diplodocoidea.

Jay Odenbaugh reviews From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics, edited by William C Bausman, Janella K Baxter &

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