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Arsenic Worms and Medication Turns (Season 5: Episode 32)


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Get ready for deep-ocean oxidation dates, no giant impact for Jupiter’s core, common meds making antibiotic resistance worse, arsenic-mineralizing marine worms, the July 2025 Top 40 new CRAN packages, a plea for PyPAN: the Python Package Archive Network, and a grant on aging mammalian tissues in vitro. Science On.


References:

  • Mid-Devonian ocean oxygenation enabled the expansion of animals into deeper-water habitats
  • No dilute core produced in simulations of giant impacts on to Jupiter
  • The effect of commonly used non-antibiotic medications on antimicrobial resistance development in Escherichia coli
  • A deep-sea hydrothermal vent worm detoxifies arsenic and sulfur by intracellular biomineralization of orpiment (As2S3)
  • July 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
  • How many parameters does GPT-5 have?
  • Python needs its CRAN
  • The European Bioconductor Conference
  • NIH: Aging Mammalian Tissues In Vitro
  • NIH: Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (non-clinical trial)
  • NIH: Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (human subjects)


R Packages:

  • ham: Healthcare Analysis Methods
  • multideploy: Deploy File Changes Across Multiple 'GitHub' Repositories
  • SampleSizeCalculator: Sample Size Calculator under Complex Survey Design
  • tidypopgen: Tidy Population Genetics
  • mlspatial: Machine Learning and Mapping for Spatial Epidemiology
  • gwas2crispr: GWAS-to-CRISPR Data Pipeline for High-Throughput SNP Target Extraction
  • ggdiceplot: Dice Plot Visualization for 'ggplot2'
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Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson