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Episode 7: Life, the R-Universe, and Everything

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Get ready for an exploration of the R-Universe, simulated octopus tentacles, effects of Vitamin D and exercise on health, fossil wings and fins, statistical conferences to set your calendar by, and a very special 23rd birthday.  Science On.

References:

  • Energy-shaping control of a muscular octopus arm moving in three dimensions
  • Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life
  • Origin of the propatagium in non-avian dinosaurs
  • Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving depression, anxiety and distress: an overview of systematic reviews
  • MoBIE: a Fiji plugin for sharing and exploration of multi-modal cloud-hosted big image data
  • 3D printing of living structural biocomposites
  • Network expansion of genetic associations defines a pleiotropy map of human cell biology
  • A shape-shifting nuclease unravels structured RNA
  • Systematics and Phylogenetic Interrelationships of the Enigmatic Late Jurassic Shark Protospinax annectans Woodward
  • Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia: Effects of sex, APOE, and baseline cognitive status
  • JuliaHub Newsletter February 2023
  • Bioconductor Conference 2023
  • PhyloPic
  • R 4.2.3
  • R-universe
  • January 2023: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
  • Happy 23rd Birthday R!
  • NIH: Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics (R01)
  • NIH: Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics (R21)
  • NIH: Genomic Community Resources (U24)
  • CDC: Clinical and Applied Research Strategies for the Prevention and Control of Fungal Diseases
  • USDA: USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spatial Statistics for Continental-Scale Soil Health Modeling
  • TSC Alliance: 2023 Grant Cycle
  • CHEST: COPD Research Grant
  • CHEST: Young Investigator Research Grant

    • R-packages:

    • aihuman: Experimental Evaluation of Algorithm-Assisted Human Decision-Making
    • reactCheckbox: Checkbox Group Input for 'Shiny'
    • treediff: Testing Differences Between Families of Trees
    • rutledge: Real-Time PCR Data Sets by Rutledge et al. (2004)
      • ...more
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