Ilya Kashnitsky

😍 #30DayChartChallenge 2026 Edition In 2026, coding is the same. It would be ridiculous to pretend that LLMs are not better than me at coding, or at least faster. So, this year I decided to participate in the challenge with most of the heavy-lifting done by AI helpers. 🔗 github.com/ikashnitsky/...

“I’ve entered prompts into AI before,” he says. “This is the first time AI entered a prompt into me.” -- a spot on description of the new mode of interaction from @philipbstark.bsky.social. Great read and (as often) good journalism @science.org 🤗 🔗 www.science.org/content/arti...

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We are happy to announce that Skagerrak Demographic seminar now truly lives up to its name. Swedish Demographic Society (demografi.se) joins the initiative and will too organize hybrid meetings under our Nordic umbrella 🙌 @demografi.dk demografi.no

Yesterday was probably my most intense ever running day so far — a personal best in the morning 🏆 and accommodating my 7yo Anna at kids Hans Christian Andersen mini-marathon in the afternoon 🤗

As announced at posit::conf(2026) #ggsql is now, with the release of version 0.5.0, in Beta. I'm so excited for the future of this project. Read all about what the latest version brings you in the release post

😍We were exceptionally lucky at Statistics Denmark to have @thomasp85.com giving a thorough {ggsql} intro, with a focus on motivation and the theoretical foundations 🗣: In the era of LLMs, READABILITY of the code is essential for humans; SQL tops here 🏆 🔗 slides: thomasp85.github.io/2026_ggsql_4...

One of the best examples of age heaping #demography Smth like this: - Who else lives in the household? - Grandpa - How old is he? - Ehm... 85

Fractional counting in #bibliometrics should become the norm, otherwise traditional metrics-based #ResearchEvaluation becomes meaningless too often ⚖ 👀 the example here 👇 blog post: ikashnitsky.phd/2025/ihme-bibl #srats replication using #OpenAlex data: gist.github.com/ikashnitsky/...

Here's an exceptionally interesting #dataviz 👀 🔗 www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/countries... 👤 The author, Iswardi Ishak, produces more of these cool carefully crafted global infographics and shares via @voronoiapp.bsky.social 🤩 🔗 www.visualcapitalist.com/creators/iswardi-ishak

🚨Oh boy! Here is a masterpiece worth reading carefully, saving as a bookmark in a closeby drawer, and taking out this weapon to use in comments whenever you see a legacy usage of ollama 🫂Friends Don't Let Fronts l Friends Use Ollama 🔗 sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-... #foss #llms #ollama #llamacpp

An early morning run interrupted with a rescue mission. The martin bird is safe with the rescue guy who arrived on a huge evacuator. The 1812 service (Animal Protection Denmark; www.dyrenesbeskyttelse.dk) works fast — arrived in half an hour after the call 🙏

This is and impressive and alarming figure. And I'm sure Nature journals, with their normalization of absurd APCs, are to blame here #OpenScience #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing

Today was a happy milestone — the first international guest coming to DST to give a talk at @skagerrak.bsky.social, and not just any guest but @jschoeley.com himself with a brilliant thought-provoking demographic talk and presentation of his brand new demoscapes.org 😍

🌎 Results of all 22 World Cup Finals — at a glance ⚽ #FIFAWorldCup #wc26 #wc2026 #worldcup26

10 years (😱) since my first proper academic paper. That was a tough yet very educational journey; and it's so much easier to deal with the complex and frustrating academic publishing process when the paper in question is a side-kick project, not *the PhD idea* 🙃 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...

On 15th June at 11:00 @jschoeley.com will present his shining new project that he was secretly cooking with the relentless help of silicone friends 😍 🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/839793...

📦 {sjrdata} #rstats package updated to include 2025 journal rankings 🔗 github.com/ikashnitsky/...

Weekly Bluesky posts tagged as #dataviz or #datavis. Highlighting #30DayChartChallenge and #30DayMapChallenge. Are the 30day challenges really so prominent, or so they weigh more heavily in the searchPosts api results?

TODAY in less than an hour Laust Hvas Mortensen is delivering a Skagerrak Demographic Series talk @skagerrak.bsky.social @demografi.dk Title: Broken limits to social science? Foundation models for demography. Please register for the talk here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8d8c1a...

😱 AI will soon take our jobs. Surely you are hearing this claim often enough to dismiss it as fearmongering. The key word is "our". Will it soon grab *my* job? What's really happening in job displacement today? 👇The single most useful AI job revolution explainer sequoiacap.com/article/serv...

Jonas is yet again producing insanely cool interactive demographic #dataviz (jschoeley.shinyapps.io/hmdexp is still the best #shiny app I know of) 😍 Explore demoscapes.org and watch this space, stay tuned for more cool updates 🐟

What is the main reason for premature male mortality in Mexico? @ikashnitsky.phd and Aburto answered this question in 2019 for every Mexican state, every year since 1990 and all ages from 15 to 50. Their rich results are available on demoscapes. demoscapes.org/collections/...

😆 After the last Hard Fork episode (@kevinroose.com & @caseynewton.bsky.social) I couldn't resist trying out Talkie-1930, a chat based on an LLM with information cut-off in 1930. Just imagine you are a time-traveler 🤯 🔗 talkie-lm.com/chat

Damn, do I ever learn that simple fact that (at least in coding #rstats) everything's taking more time than I initially think 🙈😅🙃

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

This is quite unbelievable 😱 China has been unrolling 10k km of high-speed railway every 4 years since 2008 🚀

After I messaged my agent from the train this morning to push a forgotten commit, I figured it was time to submit to CRAN and publish more than a Bluesky post. R is great for building AI agents: #rstats #CodingAgent cornball.ai/posts/r-as-a...