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Episode 21: Eukaryote Fell Down and Broke Its Crown

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Get ready for air-quality environmental DNA, multiple British spinosaurids, a lost branch of the eukaryotic family tree, bioinks for space, GLM proselytizing, and Small Business Innovation Research grants. Science On.


References:

  • Air-quality networks collect environmental DNA with the potential to measure biodiversity at continental scales
  • Buckling Metamaterials for Extreme Vibration Damping
  • Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent sediment oxidize petroleum alkanes
  • Isolated tooth reveals hidden spinosaurid dinosaur diversity in the British Wealden Supergroup (Lower Cretaceous)
  • Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown
  • Bioinks for Space Missions: The Influence of Long-Term Storage of Alginate-Methylcellulose-Based Bioinks on Printability as well as Cell Viability and Function
  • Python 3.11.4, 3.10.12, 3.9.17, 3.8.17, 3.7.17, and 3.12.0 beta 2 are now available
  • Visualize the Spearman rank correlation
  • Update to Data Science Software Popularity
  • Why GLMs should be a priority when teaching statistics
  • How to improve your storytelling with R
  • Simulating confounders, colliders and mediators by @ellis2013nz
  • NIAID: New Innovators Awards
  • USDA: 2023 SPSD Collaborative Soil Science Research
  • NSF: Small Business Innovation Research/ Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I

    • R Packages:

    • ami: Checks for Various Computing Environments
    • rtms: R Toolkit for Mass Spectrometry
    • gptzeror: Identify Text Written by Large Language Models using 'GPTZero'
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      Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson