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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 6
Showdown in Tokyo-3
Rei II
The positron beam and Ramiel's intertwining
November 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kevinushey.bsky.social
Positron finally catching up to RStudio 😉
jmcphers.bsky.social Jonathan @jmcphers.bsky.social · 2d
Positron 2026.11 adds an object explorer! It's like our data explorer, but for hierarchical rather than rectangular data.

It works great with all kinds of lists, models, dicts, and JSON and has support for deep searching, sticky scrolling, and inspecting.

More: positron.posit.co/release-note...
Positron's Object Explorer viewing deeply nested data imported from JSON.
November 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
ngescreenshot.bsky.social
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 6
Showdown in Tokyo-3
Rei II
Unit 01 firing the positron rifle
November 9, 2026 at 1:30 AM
ngescreenshot.bsky.social
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 6
Showdown in Tokyo-3
Rei II
The positron beam piercing Ramiel
November 9, 2026 at 4:00 AM
andrew.heiss.phd
🎉 You can move #rstats up to the top of the the interpreter startup list in Positron now, which speeds things up a ton for non-Python people 🎉
The language order setting in Positron, with R moved before Python
November 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
ngescreenshot.bsky.social
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 6
Showdown in Tokyo-3
Rei II
Unit 01 and the positron rifle
November 9, 2026 at 1:00 AM
ngescreenshot.bsky.social
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Episode 6
Showdown in Tokyo-3
Rei II
Misato and Ritsuko looking at the positron rifle
November 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
jmcphers.bsky.social
Positron now has its own MCP server: bring your favorite coding agent extension or run one in the terminal, and the MCP gives it the ability to work alongside you in the IDE. Here's how to try it w/ your agent of choice and some stuff it can do:

opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-11...
Bring your own agent to Positron with the Positron MCP
Positron 2026.10 adds an experimental MCP server that lets third-party agents like Claude Code and Codex see your data, plots, and consoles, and work alongside you in the IDE.
opensource.posit.co
November 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
realpython.com
Spot what's wrong with a CSV before you write any cleanup code.

Positron is a free IDE for data science. Its Data Explorer lets you look over the data first, and your fixes go in a script or notebook you can rerun.

realpython.com/positron-ide...
Positron IDE: A Hands-on Python Tutorial – Real Python
Learn how to use Positron IDE for Python data analysis: clean, visualize, and explore data manually or with the help of AI.
realpython.com
November 7, 2026 at 5:00 AM
catabush.com
Another win for the RStudio over Positron truthers
corncobanalysis.bsky.social World’s Biggest Stagflation Truther @corncobanalysis.bsky.social · 6d
NYT Editors: "We need a splashy video for our front page polls to gin up excitement today"

Pollster: "Sir, I am on RStudio 12 hours a day. That is what you pay me to do."

NYT: "HOLY SHIT I'm sending a film crew right now."
November 2, 2026 at 7:46 PM
labickle.bsky.social
Andrés borracho: *se muere *
Yo borracha: *se pone a ver vídeos de cómo funciona una tomografía por emisión de positrón único*
November 7, 2026 at 3:16 AM
jeremy-data.bsky.social
Transformative elections in the US and a new capability to set an R preference in Positron. Good week!
November 6, 2026 at 10:35 PM
jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
The latest issue of @rweekly is now live!

https://rweekly.org/2026-W46.html

Highlights this week:
- 💧水 mizu: thread-speed parallel R and Python over shared memory by @shikokuchuo
- 🤖 Bring your own agent to Positron with the Positron MCP by @jmcphers
- 🧹 Modelling cell-type proportions in […]
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November 9, 2026 at 11:18 AM
andrew.heiss.phd
(though I just set mine to manual for those rare times where I do use it)
Positron settings: "[python]": { "interpreters.startupBehavior": "manual" }
November 6, 2026 at 7:25 AM
ryanscharf.com
lol i just was googling to see if positron had a mcp server and found out they posted a blog post *3 hours* ago

opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-11...
Bring your own agent to Positron with the Positron MCP
Positron 2026.10 adds an experimental MCP server that lets third-party agents like Claude Code and Codex see your data, plots, and consoles, and work alongside you in the IDE.
opensource.posit.co
November 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
tjmahr.com
much cozier now. thanks!
screenshot of my rstudio-skinwalking positron setup
November 5, 2026 at 8:14 PM
jennybryan.bsky.social
I am so excited about this new way to say "I'm more of an #rstats person" in Positron. My only contribution to this was regularly lamenting how Python felt preferred by Positron's interpreter UI, due to alphabetic ordering (P before R) and the tendency to have a gazillion Pythons and just one R.
andrew.heiss.phd Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 3d
🎉 You can move #rstats up to the top of the the interpreter startup list in Positron now, which speeds things up a ton for non-Python people 🎉
The language order setting in Positron, with R moved before Python
November 6, 2026 at 6:13 PM
josiah.rs
Positron extension in the works 👀
Screenshot of positron with a plumber API in the file buffer and on the right is a ricochet extension.
November 3, 2026 at 1:54 AM
numbereightball.bsky.social
Bueno, técnicamente lo de que un positrón se puede ver como un electrón viajando atrás en el tiempo
November 8, 2026 at 11:20 AM
jmcphers.bsky.social
Positron 2026.11 adds an object explorer! It's like our data explorer, but for hierarchical rather than rectangular data.

It works great with all kinds of lists, models, dicts, and JSON and has support for deep searching, sticky scrolling, and inspecting.

More: positron.posit.co/release-note...
Positron's Object Explorer viewing deeply nested data imported from JSON.
November 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
tjmahr.com
not until they let me have the text editor on the left and both side bars on the right and they let me opt projects out of python crap. (stop looking for an interpreter!)
Try Positron! Move from question to insight to analysis, model, or application faster than ever before. Positron is our next-generation, free IDE made specifically for data science and analysis with Python and R.
November 5, 2026 at 7:32 PM
smachlis.bsky.social
Great news!! It was annoying to have Positron keep looking for and loading a Python interpreter when all I wanted to do was run an R script. And definitely slowed things down. #RStats
andrew.heiss.phd Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 3d
🎉 You can move #rstats up to the top of the the interpreter startup list in Positron now, which speeds things up a ton for non-Python people 🎉
The language order setting in Positron, with R moved before Python
November 6, 2026 at 8:28 PM
queenofprinces.bsky.social
I just need the other Boss Rush rewards lmao

Positron Rifle...
November 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
coreyspowell.bsky.social
By isolating a single positron (anti-electron), physicists can perform sensitive tests to see if antimatter behaves like a perfect mirror-world version of regular matter.

They managed to keep the positron from touching any matter for *months*--an amazing feat. 🧪

physics.aps.org/articles/v19...
Radial probability distributions for a positron in the different quantum states of its cyclotron motion: ground state (left), first excited state (center), and second excited state (right).
November 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Hypergeometric positron
November 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM