Science Research Weekly

By Mark R Williamson

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 Fund... more

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The podcast currently has 172 episodes available.

Science Research Weekly episodes:

January 17, 2025Antivenom from Scratch (Season 4: Episode 2)
Get ready for long-lasting DNA lesions, DNA nanorafts, de novo antivenom, a second look at SAS blog posts, working with colors in R, and K-type award from the NIH. Science On.

References:
Prolonged persistence of mutagenic DNA lesions in somatic cells

Stretching and immobilizing a single DNA molecule on a glass surface using pressure flow in a microchannel for super-resolution imaging

Morphology remodelling and membrane channel formation in synthetic cells via reconfigurable DNA nanorafts

An evolutionarily conserved metabolite inhibits biofilm formation in Escherichia coli K-12

De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins

12 blog posts from 2024 that deserve a second look

Working with Colors in R

NCI: Pathway to Independence Award

NIDDK: Small Grant Program for K01/K08/K23/K25 Recipients

R Packages:
parttree: Visualize Simple 2-D Decision Tree Partitions

rwlifetable: Estimation of Life Tables Using Rolling Windows

ProtE: Processing Proteomics Data, Statistical Analysis and Visualization

PSpower: Sample Size Calculation for Propensity Score Analysis

ggstackplot: Create Overlapping Stacked Plots

hhmR: Hierarchical Heatmaps

bnns: Bayesian Neural Network with 'Stan'
...more
10min
January 10, 2025Year of the Mollusk (Season 4: Episode 1)
Get ready for RNA lanterns, fungal batteries, punk rock mollusks, supercharged hornworts, the top 10 DO LOOP posts of 2024, vanishing sentences in R, and a Trailblazer award from the NIH. Science On.

References:
A modular platform for bioluminescent RNA tracking

3D Printed Cellulose-Based Fungal Battery

Redox-activatable inhalable mucoadhesive proteinic nanotherapeutics for targeted treatment of lung cancer

New Silurian aculiferan fossils reveal complex early history of Mollusca

Electrical signaling and coordinated behavior in the closest relative of animals

Repetitive injury induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer’s disease by reactivating HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model

Hornworts reveal a spatial model for pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanisms in land plants

Diverse plant RNAs coat Arabidopsis leaves and are distinct from apoplastic RNAs

Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake

Top 10 posts from The DO Loop in 2024

Your Classifier Is Broken, But It Is Still Useful

Little useless-useful R functions – Vanishing sentences

NIH: Trailblazer Award for New and Early Stage Investigators

NSF: Enabling Discovery through GEnomics

R Packages:
ellmer: Chat with Large Language Models

utf8ify: Format Text Using Unicode

creepyalien: Puzzle Game for the R Console
...more
12min
December 27, 2024 The Close of 2024 (Season 3: Episode 48)
Get ready for a recap of the best scientific articles from 2024. Science On.
...more
6min
December 13, 2024Expect the Unexpected (Season 3: Episode 47)
Get ready for mass-shifting quasiparticles, deep sea predatory amphipods, tiny asteroids, cancer-related datasets in R, and a systems biology grant for better crop production. Science On.

References:
Semi-Dirac Fermions in a Topological Metal

Insect Mitochondrial Genomics: A Decade of Progress

A new large predator (Amphipoda, Eusiridae) hidden at hadal depths of the Atacama Trench

JWST sighting of decameter main-belt asteroids and view on meteorite sources

7 New Books added to Big Book of R [7/12/2024]

NIH: HEAL Initiative-Early-Stage Discovery of New Pain Targets Within the Understudied Druggable Proteome

NSF: Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology

NSF: Life and Environments Through Time

DOE: Systems Biology Research to Advance Bioenergy Crop Production

R Packages:
OncoDataSets: A Comprehensive Collection of Cancer Types and Cancer-Related Datasets

TransProR: Analysis and Visualization of Multi-Omics Data

warehouseTools: Heuristics for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem in Warehouse Layouts
...more
6min
December 06, 2024Messy Disease Busting (Season 3: Episode 46)
Get ready for mosquito busting, tuberculosis busting, the Tapestry whole exome sequencing study, the Journal of Statistical Software Volume 111, a messy R package, and a grant for tissue engineering on the International Space Station. Science On.

References:
Chromobacterium biopesticide overcomes insecticide resistance in malaria vector mosquitoes

How fast are viruses spreading in the wild?

Environmental fungi target thiol homeostasis to compete with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

A Large-Scale Decentralized Whole Exome Sequencing Study for Clinical Practice, Research Discovery, and Genomic Education

A dry Venusian interior constrained by atmospheric chemistry

Journal of Statistical Software Volume 111

A historical method of generating random normal variates

Positron vs RStudio – is it time to switch?

Introducing the {messy} package

NCCIH: Natural Product Mid Phase Clinical Trial

NSF: Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology on the International Space Station

R Packages:
messy: Create Messy Data from Clean Data Frames

RCNA: Robust Copy Number Alteration Detection (RCNA)

epiparameterDB: Database of Epidemiological Parameters
...more
7min
November 29, 2024Tumors and Gas Giants (Season 3: Episode 45)
Get ready for cancer growth rates, the interior of Uranus and Neptune, the November Juliahub Newsletter, and a grant on biomedical informatics. Science On.

References:
High-density sampling reveals volume growth in human tumours

Phase separation of planetary ices explains nondipolar magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune

Juliahub Newsletter November 2024

NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

R Packages:
autoslider.core: Slide Automation for Tables, Listings and Figures

evolved: Open Software for Teaching Evolutionary Biology at Multiple Scales Through Virtual Inquiries

scatterbar: Scattered Stacked Bar Chart Plots

TimeDepFrail: Time Dependent Shared Frailty Cox Model
...more
3min
November 22, 2024Organisms on the Extreme Edge (Season 3: Episode 44)
Get ready for pre-metazoan stem-cell transcription factors, Precambrian ecdyozoans, hyperarid microbes, a native mobile app for R, and a grant to study dirty mouse models. Science On.

References:
The emergence of Sox and POU transcription factors predates the origins of animal stem cells

An Ediacaran bilaterian with an ecdysozoan affinity from South Australia

Inside the Atacama Desert: uncovering the living microbiome of an extreme environment

Regression Models: How do you know you need a polynomial term?

You’ve Been Waiting for Native Mobile Apps with R? The Wait Is Over.

Bioconductor 3.20 Released

NIAID: Leveraging Microbial Exposure for Improving Mouse Models of Human Immunity

NICHD: Small Research Grant Program

R Packages:
cellularautomata: Cellular Automata

sampledatasets: A Collection of Sample Datasets

RegrCoeffsExplorer: Efficient Visualization of Regression Coefficients for lm(), glm(), and glmnet() Objects
...more
7min
November 15, 2024A Prokaryotic Dance of Plastics and Electricity (Season 3: Episode 43
Get ready for ancient galaxies, bacterial plastic, electrical-shock therapy for pathogens, PyCon 2025, and grants from cancer to microbes to math, and back again. Science On.

References:
Accelerated formation of ultra-massive galaxies in the first billion years

Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the production of pyrone and pyridine dicarboxylic acids

Bioelectronic drug-free control of opportunistic pathogens through selective excitability

PyCon US 2025 Kicks Off

How to Subset a Data Frame in R: 4 Practical Methods with Examples

How to Use the Tilde Operator (~) in R: A Comprehensive Guide

NCI: Exploratory Grants in Cancer Control

NCI: Cancer Prevention and Control Clinical Trials Grant Program

NIH: Microbial-based Cancer Imaging and Therapy - Bugs as Drugs

NIAID: Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Interdisciplinary Research Units

NSF: Emerging Mathematics in Biology

R Packages:
rOCEAN: Two-Way Feature Set Testing for Multi-Omics

textAnnotatoR: Interactive Text Annotation Tool with 'shiny' GUI

epicmodel: Causal Modeling in Epidemiology

tidyplots: Tidy Plots for Scientific Papers
...more
6min
November 01, 2024It Came from Interstellar Space! (Season 3: Episode 42)
Get ready for the dark energy-black hole connection, depression-busting magnets, deep space carbon, sinus-limited sea crocodiles, a “Pile of Leaves” in R, InterviewAce, and a basic instrumentation grant from NIH. Science On.

References:
DESI dark energy time evolution is recovered by cosmologically coupled black holes

A novel dual-site OFC-dlPFC accelerated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression: a pilot randomized controlled study

Detection of interstellar 1-cyanopyrene: A four-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

Mineralization of fluoropolymers from combustion in a pilot plant under representative european municipal and hazardous waste combustor conditions

Skull sinuses precluded extinct crocodile relatives from cetacean-style deep diving as they transitioned from land to sea

R 4.4.2 is released

JuliaHub Newsletter October 2024

Automate the creation of a range attribute map in SAS

10 New Books added to Big Book of R + R community on BlueSky

The Ultimate Guide to Creating Lists in R: From Basics to Advanced Examples

Free Interview Prep Tool for Data Professionals by 365 Data Science

NIH: Basic Instrumentation Grant (BIG) Program

R Packages:
bfpwr: Power and Sample Size Calculations for Bayes Factor Analysis

ShinyWizard: An Interactive Wizard to Design, Build, and Deploy R Packages Demo Presentation

GitStats: Get Statistics from 'GitHub' and 'GitLab'
...more
7min
October 25, 2024Monster Meteorites and Miniscule Grappling Hooks (Season 3: Episode 41)
Get ready for Paleoarchean giant meteorite impacts, electro-agriculture, bacterial grappling hooks, correlograms in SAS, and grants for the Human Virome Program. Science On.

References:
Machine-guided design of cell-type-targeting cis-regulatory elements

Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean surface environments and life

Electro-agriculture: Revolutionizing farming for a sustainable future

Mechanism of bacterial predation via ixotrophy

The correlogram: Visualize correlations by fitting angles

Human Virome Program: Developing novel and innovative tools to interrogate and annotate the human virome

Centers for Accelerating Phage (Bacteriophage) Therapy to Combat ESKAPE Pathogens (CAPT-CEP)

R Packages:
SUMO: Generating Multi-Omics Datasets

statforbiology: Tools for Data Analyses in Biology

plotscaper: Explore Your Data with Interactive Figures

MixLFA: Mixture of Longitudinal Factor Analysis Methods

TensorTools: Multilinear Algebra
...more
5min

FAQs about Science Research Weekly:

How many episodes does Science Research Weekly have?

The podcast currently has 172 episodes available.