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Science Research Weekly
By Mark R WilliamsonScience
Science Research Weekly episodes
- Convergence Research or Bust (Season 3: Episode 4)
Get ready for blockchain for biology, ancient microbe metabolisms, false vacuum decay evidence, angles vs. slopes, and a grant on convergence research. Science On.
References:
- Three-dimensional nanoscale metal, metal oxide, and semiconductor frameworks through DNA-programmable assembly and templating
- Emergence of metabolic-like cycles in blockchain-orchestrated reaction networks
- Aspects of the biological carbon cycle in a ca. 3.42-billion-year-old marine ecosystem
- Phylogenomic insights into the first multicellular streptophyte
- False vacuum decay via bubble formation in ferromagnetic superfluids
- Angles vs slopes: The statistics of steepness
- The Art of Estimation in R: Confidence Intervals Demystified
- 6 Benefits of R {targets} for Data Science Workflows
- NSF: Growing Convergence Research
R Packages:
- labeleR: Automate the Production of Custom Labels, Badges, Certificates, and Other Documents
- labelr: Label Data Frames, Variables, and Values
- gbm3: Generalized Boosted Regression Models
- NVAR: Nonlinear Vector Autoregression Models
5 min - Science is Coming Up Sixes! (Season 3: Episode 3)
Get ready for an ancient black hole, capturing the complexity of fragile ocean life, the magnetic map of the Milky Way, Six not-so-basic R functions, the Six degrees of Hadley Wickham, and a grant on agricultural genomes to phenomes. Science On.
References:- A small and vigorous black hole in the early Universe
- Contrast Agent-Free 3D Renal Ultrafast Doppler Imaging Reveals Vascular Dysfunction in Acute and Diabetic Kidney Diseases
- An in situ digital synthesis strategy for the discovery and description of ocean life
- Improved prediction of bacterial CRISPRi guide efficiency from depletion screens through mixed-effect machine learning and data integration
- Disentangling microbial networks across pelagic zones in the tropical and subtropical global ocean
- Tomographic Imaging of the Sagittarius Spiral Arm's Magnetic Field Structure
- charting a path to statistical confidence and mastery
- Six not-so-basic base R functions
- Six degrees of Hadley Wickham: The CRAN co-authorship network
- Creating automatically dozens of calendar notifications (with R)
- USDA: Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative
R Packages:
- neonPlantEcology: Process NEON Plant Data for Ecological Analysis
- NGCHM: Next Generation Clustered Heat Maps
- scientific: Elegant Scientific Themed Reporting for 'Markdown'
- MetaNet: Network Analysis for Omics Data
- treestats: Phylogenetic Tree Statistics
- r2fireworks: Enhance Your 'Rmarkdown' and 'shiny' Apps with Dazzling Fireworks Celebrations
9 min - Science, Roll Out! (Season 3: Episode 2)
Get ready for rolling ringbots, cancer cannibalizing cells, the R Journal Volume 15/3, a new Bioconductor website, a beginner's guide to probability distributions in R, and an EPA grant to reduce air pollution in schools. Science On.
References:
- New Soft Robots Roll Like Tires, Spin Like Tops and Orbit Like Moons
- Hyperactive Rac stimulates cannibalism of living target cells and enhances CAR-M-mediated cancer cell killing
- Microbiome homeostasis on rice leaves is regulated by a precursor molecule of lignin biosynthesis
- Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus uses chimeric fibre proteins to recognize and invade a broad range of bacterial hosts
- R Journal Volume 15/3
- Blog posts from 2023 that deserve a second look
- Bioconductor
- Retrieving Data From The Bottom Of The Ocean
- Unveiling the Smooth Operator: Rolling Averages in R
- Probably More Than Chance: A Beginner’s Guide to Probability Distributions in R
- Goodbye Complicated Dropdowns: Welcome to the New Era of Human Readable Filters
- Financial Assistance is Available for Your R User Group in 2024!
- EPA: Grant Funding to Address Indoor Air Pollution at Schools
- NSF: Research in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
R Packages:
- Apoderoides: Prioritize and Delete Erroneous Taxa in a Large Phylogenetic Tree
- bscui: Build SVG Custom User Interface
- dittoViz: User Friendly Data Visualization
- tidyMC: Monte Carlo Simulations Made Easy and Tidy
- tidyplate: Transform Microplate Data into Tidy Dataframes
6 min - Trojan Plants Bearing Vesicles (Season 3: Episode 1)
Get ready for lava-proof ceramics, antibiotic polymers, Trojan horse plant mRNA vesicles, microbiome disturbances in kidney stone formation, Top 10 DO Loop posts from 2023, Mastering Lowess Smoothing in R, and early career grants with no existing preliminary data. Science On.
References:
- Disordered enthalpy–entropy descriptor for high-entropy ceramics discovery
- A giant stem-group chaetognath
- Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of N-methylpyridinium-fused norbornenes to access antibacterial main-chain cationic polymers
- The bacterial replication origin BUS promotes nucleobase capture
- Plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection
- Multi-site microbiota alteration is a hallmark of kidney stone formation
- Top 10 posts from The DO Loop in 2023
- Mastering Lowess Smoothing in R: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Four ways to streamline your R workflows
- The 6 steps to finally lose weight (or solve almost any other problem) (with R code)
- NIH: Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (clinical trial)
- NIH: Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (non-clinical trial)
R Packages:
- allofus: Interface for 'All of Us' Researcher Workbench
- ARGOS: Automatic Regression for Governing Equations (ARGOS)
- MSML: Model Selection Based on Machine Learning (ML)
- surveyexplorer: Quickly Explore Complex Survey Data
9 min - Episode 50: Christmas or Break
Get ready for a brief, asynchronous episode today to cover the break over the Christmas holiday. Merry Christmas!
References:- Science News Most Popular Stories 2023
- Smithsonian Magazine Most Significant Science Stories 2023
- IEEE Top Programming Languages 2023
- Top R packages
- Exercism
- Grants.gov
4 min - Episode 49: Unnaturally Cool
Get ready for unnatural nucleotides, nutrient-blocking gut microbes, a confluence of newsletters and conferences, Effortless Cool in Data Science, and a grant for long-term ecological research. Science On.
References:
- A unified Watson-Crick geometry drives transcription of six-letter expanded DNA alphabets by E. coli RNA polymerase
- Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking
- Registration for useR! 2024
- Python Software Foundation - December 2023 Newsletter
- Julia Newsletter December 2023
- New SAS Training Course: Statistics You Need to Know for Machine Learning
- when the hessian matrix goes wacky
- A three-arm trial using two-step randomization
- A new focus on tidygraph
- Effortless Cool Is A Detailed Process – How To Influence, Tell Better Stories, and Become More Persuasive
- GitHub: Javascript Interview Questions
- NHGRI: Advancing Genomic Technology Development for Research and Clinical Application
- NSF: Long-Term Ecological Research
R Packages:
- AVGAS: A Variable Selection using Genetic Algorithms
- treesliceR: To Slice Phylogenetic Trees and Infer Evolutionary Patterns Over Time
- sfd: Space-Filling Design Library
- explainer: Machine Learning Model Explainer
5 min - Episode 48: Diamond Doppelgangers and Distant Oceans
Get ready for Japanese mosasaurs, hard-as-diamond materials, cold ocean exoplanets, polychoric correlation, 15 Academic Research Tools, the 10 most popular R books of 2023, and an NSF grant for Emerging Mathematics in Biology. Science On.
References:
- A new derived mosasaurine (Squamata: Mosasaurinae) from south-western Japan reveals unexpected postcranial diversity among hydropedal mosasaurs
- Synthesis of Ultra-Incompressible and Recoverable Carbon Nitrides Featuring CN4 Tetrahedra
- Prospects for Cryovolcanic Activity on Cold Ocean Planets
- Discovery of a Drug-like, Natural Product-Inspired DCAF11 Ligand Chemotype
- What is polychoric correlation?
- what is family-wise error rate?
- Top 15 Academic Research Tools For Scholars And Tutors
- The 10 most popular R books of 2023
- Edge of Tomorrow: Preparing R Functions for the Unexpected
- NSF: Emerging Mathematics in Biology
R Packages:
- DFBA: Distribution-Free Bayesian Analysis
- dunlin: Preprocessing Tools for Clinical Trial Data
- shinyquiz: Create Interactive Quizzes in 'shiny'
- TaxaNorm: Feature-Wise Normalization for Microbiome Sequencing Data
- simtrial: Clinical Trial Simulation
8 min - Episode 47: Tis the Season for Better Espresso
Get ready for better expresso, quasi-particle monopoles, crocodilian phylogeny, Anthrobots, SAS tips for creating effective statistical graphics, a Git repo for throwaway code, and excitement over the ExCITe grant. Science On.
References:
- Moisture-controlled triboelectrification during coffee grinding
- Revealing emergent magnetic charge in an antiferromagnet with diamond quantum magnetometry
- Corals and sponges are hotspots of reactive oxygen species in the deep sea
- Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs
- Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells
- Food for all? Wildfire ash fuels growth of diverse eukaryotic plankton
- Fear extinction is regulated by the activity of long noncoding RNAs at the synapse
- Announcing the Release of JuliaHub 6.4 - Package Metrics, Dash.jl Templates, Web App Hosting, and More
- 10 tips for creating effective statistical graphics
- 5 new books added to Big Book of R
- Shiny Express: Blending the Best of Shiny and Streamlit for Dashboard Development
- A Complete Guide to Stepwise Regression in R
- Unveiling the Magic of Polynomial Regression in R: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Get a Git repo where your team can stow their throwaway data science code!
- GitHub: Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit
- GitHub: Elementor
- NCI: Exploratory Cancer Immunology Projects and Technologies (ExCITe)
- NSF: Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus
R Packages:
- fcp: Function Composition
- survobj: Objects to Simulate Survival Times
- ADTSA: Time Series Analysis
- iperform: Time Series Performance
10 min - Episode 46: Good Friends and Bad Graphs
Get ready for the British oral microbiome across history, the catalogue of gamma-ray pulsars, deep mine microbes, the theme() option in ggplot2, friends not letting friends make bad graphs, and a grant on emerging technologies for cancer research. Science On.
References:
- Ancient dental calculus reveals oral microbiome shifts associated with lifestyle and disease in Great Britain
- The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-Ray Pulsars
- A metagenomic view of novel microbial and metabolic diversity found within the deep terrestrial biosphere at DeMMO: A microbial observatory in South Dakota, USA
- Spatial autocorrelation
- Getting started with theme()
- GitHub: FriendsDontLetFriends
- NIH: Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Molecular and Cellular Analysis Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
R Packages:
- ivo.table: Pretty Contingency Tables and Frequency Tables
- aloom: All Leave-One-Out Models
- revert: Reversion Mutation Identifier for Sequencing Data
4 min - Episode 45: Thanks for All the Keystone Species
Get ready for nanoscale protein traps, enigmatic amoeba, keystone microbes, logarithmic regression in R, and project funding for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Science On.
References:
Stable trapping of multiple proteins at physiological conditions using nanoscale chambers with macromolecular gates
Rhabdamoeba marina is a heterotrophic relative of chlorarachnid algae
Identifying keystone species in microbial communities using deep learning
concepts in linear regression to know before learning multilevel models
Logarithmic Regression in R: A Step-by-Step Guide with Prediction Intervals
R lubridate: How To Efficiently Work With Dates and Times in R
NHLBI: Program Project Applications
R Packages:
semidist: Measure Dependence Between Categorical and Continuous Variables
ggScatRidges: Scatter Plot Combined with Ridgelines in 'ggplot2'
air: AI Assistant to Write and Understand R Code
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A weekly overview of helpful scientific research topics and the successor of the podcast Statistics Weekly. Every week, I will cover 3 topic areas: Research Articles, Research Tools, and Research…
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