Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 12, Dropping the PepHammer. Get ready for ancient soft sponges, astronomical biosignature spotting via grouped planets, the Epidemiology of AI, crop management via smartphone, an examination of NIH funding outputs, dropping the PepHammer, asking if AI agents save time for scientists, and a grant on specialty crops. Science On.

References:

• A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal
• Pearling drives mitochondrial DNA nucleoid distribution
• p21+TREM2+ senescent macrophages fuel inflammaging and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
• An Agnostic Biosignature Based on Modeling Panspermia and Terraforming
• Visplot: A visibility plot and observation scheduling tool for
• astronomical observatories
• AI-assisted writing and the reorganization of scientific knowledge
• The Epidemiology of Artificial Intelligence
• The Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE)
• Image-based leaf SPAD value and chlorophyll measurement using a mobile
• phone: enabling accessible and sustainable crop management
• Comparing the outputs of intramural and extramural grants funded by National Institutes of Health
• PepHammer – a lightweight web-based tool for bioactive peptide matching and identification
• My Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDs
• Why Most Time Series Models Fail Before They Start
• Do AI coding agents save scientists time?
• Using R to Teach R: Lessons for Software Development
• Specialty Crop Research Initiative
• What is a Specialty Crop?
• Translational Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Science Café Mini-Grant

R Packages:

• glm4: Fitting Generalized Linear Models Using Sparse Matrices
• tinyrox: Minimal R Documentation Generator
• baseverse: Modern Base-R Functions
• tidyfun: Tidy Functional Data Wrangling and Visualization