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 159 episodes available.

Science Research Weekly episodes:

September 27, 2024Artificial Silk, Real Volcanoes (Season 3: Episode 37)
Get ready for deep sea microbes desperately seeking iron, the identity of interesting invertons, rare earth elements from volcanos, spinning artificial spider silk, new entries to the Big Book of R, and a grant on translational research against fungal pathogens. Science On.

References:
Microbial iron limitation in the ocean’s twilight zone

Intragenic DNA inversions expand bacterial coding capacity

Soil and water pollution and cardiovascular disease

Silicate and iron phosphate melt immiscibility promotes REE enrichment

Overexpressed Artificial Spidroin Based Microneedle Spinneret for 3D Air Spinning of Hybrid Spider Silk

Outbreak-associated Salmonella Baildon found in wastewater demonstrates how sewage monitoring can supplement traditional disease surveillance

5 Books added to Big Book of R

Mastering Data Transformation in R with pivot_longer and pivot_wider

NIAID: Discovery and Development of Novel Therapeutics for Select Fungal Pathogens

R Packages:
EFAfactors: Determining the Number of Factors in Exploratory Factor Analysis
...more
5min
September 20, 2024The Morality of Regression Models (Season 3: Episode 36)
Get ready for dancing nano-machines, mitochondrial energy for cancer-fighting T cells, synthetic microbial community design, why stepwise regression is evil, and nominations for the Genetics Prize. Science On.

References:
Synthetic flagella spin and contract at the expense of chemical fuel

Intercellular nanotube-mediated mitochondrial transfer enhances T cell metabolic fitness and antitumor efficacy

A new era of synthetic biology—microbial community design

JuliaHub Newsletter September 2024

Two ways to specify how SAS displays missing values

How to Analyze Your Data Faster With R Using summarytools

Stepwise selection of variables in regression is Evil

NSF: Molecular Foundations for Biotechnology

DOD: Glioblastoma, Hypothesis Development Award

Gruber Foundation: The Genetics Prize

R Packages:
R4HCR: R for Health Care Research

ggalign: Align Multiple 'ggplot' Objects
...more
5min
September 13, 2024Drop the Bose (Season 3: Episode 35)
Get ready for 2D Bose glass, high-altitude microbes, a wobbly inner exoplanet, free intro SAS resources, an R versus Gleam matchup, and a Biotechnology grant from the NSF. Science On.

References:
Observing the two-dimensional Bose glass in an optical quasicrystal

Microbial richness and air chemistry in aerosols above the PBL confirm 2,000-km long-distance transport of potential human pathogens

TOI-1408: Discovery and Photodynamical Modeling of a Small Inner Companion to a Hot Jupiter Revealed by Transit Timing Variations

Journal of Statistical Software Volume 110: Issue 8

8 free resources to start your SAS journey

Is a value in a vector? Use the ELEMENT function

How to Use lapply() Function with Multiple Arguments in R

How to webscrape in R?

Side by Side Comparison – Gleam vs R

NSF: Biomedical Research Initiative for Next-Gen BioTechnologies - SynBio Control

R Packages:
GenomicSig: Computation of Genomic Signatures

survSAKK: Create Publication Ready Kaplan-Meier Plots

ggfigdone: Manage Modify 'ggplot' Figures using 'ggfigdone'

lab2clean: Automation and Standardization of Cleaning Clinical Lab Data

ggvolcano: Publication-Ready Volcano Plots
...more
6min
September 05, 2024Science Smashups (Season 3: Episode 34)
Get ready for fungal robots, jittered moons, salt giants, human food microbiomes, the Python Developers Survey, and improving chart axes in R. Science On.

References:
Sensorimotor control of robots mediated by electrophysiological measurements of fungal mycelia

Giant impact on early Ganymede and its subsequent reorientation

Tip extension and simultaneous multiple fission in a filamentous bacterium

The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis

Trophic interactions of sharks and crocodylians with a sea cow (Sirenia) from the Miocene of Venezuela

Human genomic DNA is widely interspersed with i-motif structures

Unexplored microbial diversity from 2,500 food metagenomes and links with the human microbiome

Journal of Statistical Software Volume 110

Python Developers Survey 2023 Results

Top 15+ Statistical Analysis Tools For Data Science

Mastering grep() in R: A Fun Guide to Pattern Matching and Replacement

Five ways to improve your chart axes

R Packages:
biostats101: Practical Functions for Biostatistics Beginners

pooledpeaks: Genetic Analysis of Pooled Samples

ggreveal: Reveal a 'ggplot' Incrementally
...more
8min
August 30, 2024Rogue Planets and Meandering Mitochondrial DNA (Season 3: Episode 33)
Get ready for robust rogue planets, nuclear mitochondrial DNA segments, silicified blood, SQL of the Rings in R, DataCamp free access week 2024, and an Informal STEM Learning grant from the NSF. Science On.

References:
The JWST/NIRISS Deep Spectroscopic Survey for Young Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets

Somatic nuclear mitochondrial DNA insertions are prevalent in the human brain and accumulate over time in fibroblasts

Improving normothermic machine perfusion and blood transfusion through biocompatible blood silicification

Get your codebase lint-free forever with lintr

Exploring the Top 5 pharmaverse Packages

Top 25 R Packages (You Need To Learn In 2024)

SQL of the Rings: One Language to Query Them All (with R)

DataCamp Free Access Week | Aug 26 – Sept 1

NSF: Advancing Informal STEM Learning

NSF: Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award

R Packages:
DataSum: Comprehensive Data Summarization for Statistical Analysis
...more
6min
August 23, 2024What is the Antimatter with You? (Season 3: Episode 32)
Get ready for droplet protocell theory, and antimatter hypernucleus, antimicrobial peptides from the human gut microbiome, DataCamp AI literacy events for free, and a grant on housing program participation and chronic disease risk. Science On.

References:
Did the exposure of coacervate droplets to rain make them the first stable protocells?

Observation of the antimatter hypernucleus 4/(anti)Λ(anti)H

Mining human microbiomes reveals an untapped source of peptide antibiotics

State of Julia 2024

How to write a SAS macro to emulate recursion (and why you shouldn't)

Join DataCamp for a Month of Free Data & AI Literacy Events

lapply vs. sapply in R: What’s the Difference?

grep() vs. grepl() in R

More on Adjusting Saturated Multivariate Linear Models

NIH: Analysis of Existing Linked Datasets to Understand the Relationship between Housing Program Participation and Risk for Chronic Diseases and Other Conditions

R Packages:
armadillo: An 'Armadillo' Interface

survivalPLANN: Neural Networks to Predict Survival

tidychangepoint: A Tidy Framework for Changepoint Detection Analysis
...more
6min
August 16, 2024An Order of Boba-seq with Extrachromosomal Genes on the Side (Season 3: Episode 31)
Get ready for extrachromosomal genes, boisterous Boba-seq, cell death by metal, visualizing your life in weeks in R, and an Indoor Air Research Award from the American Lung Association. Science On.

References:
De novo gene synthesis by an antiviral reverse transcriptase

Barcoded overexpression screens in gut Bacteroidales identify genes with roles in carbon utilization and stress resistance

Ferroptosis Inducing Co(III) Polypyridine Sulfasalazine Complex for Therapeutically Enhanced Anticancer Therapy

Implement five sampling methods in the SAS DATA step

R tidymodels: A tidyverse Like Ecosystem for Efficient Machine Learning in R

Your Life in Weeks

An R User’s Guide to Other Programming Languages

FDA: Clinical Trials Addressing Unmet Needs of Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases

NIDA: Animal Genomics Program

NSF: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology

American Lung Association Indoor Air Research Award
...more
6min
August 09, 2024R You Ready for Charcuterie? (Season 3: Episode 30)
Get ready for a nanoparticle banket to warm Mars, the genomic complexity of schizophrenia, parasitic archaea, iterable strings via charcuterie in R, typewriter-style images in R, and a grant on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. Science On.

References:
Feasibility of keeping Mars warm with nanoparticles

Thymidylate synthase disruption to limit cell proliferation in cell therapies

Three-dimensional shape of natural riblets in the white shark: relationship between the denticle morphology and swimming speed of sharks

Schizophrenia genomics: genetic complexity and functional insights

The parasitic lifestyle of an archaeal symbiont

Circular RNA in cancer

JuliaHub August 2024 Newsletter

Poisson regression in SAS

Fit, simulate, fit: How models can collapse after generations of recursive fitting

{charcuterie} - What if Strings Were Iterable in R?

Cluster Sampling in R: A Simple Guide

Spatial analysis with geostan

Creating typewriter-styled images in R

NIA: Deciphering the Impact of RNA Modifications on Brain Aging and AD/ADRD

NHGRI: Advancing Genomic Technology Development for Research and Clinical Application

NSF: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

R Packages:
samplr: Compare Human Performance to Sampling Algorithms

amVennDiagram5: Interactive Venn Diagrams

wmwm: Performs Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test with Missing Data
...more
7min
July 26, 2024My Alias is SuperRex (Season 3: Episode 29)
Get ready for supermassive black hole mergers, ultrarare disease diagnoses, dark oceanic oxygen, super-sized T. rex, aliases for R expressions, and a grant for educational materials on scientific rigor. Science On.

References:
The Cambrian Odaraia alata and the colonization of nektonic suspension-feeding niches by early mandibulates

Self-Interacting Dark Matter Solves the Final Parsec Problem of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers

Next-generation phenotyping integrated in a national framework for patients with ultrarare disorders improves genetic diagnostics and yields new molecular findings

Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor

Estimation of maximum body size in fossil species: A case study using Tyrannosaurus rex⁠

JuliCon 2024 Recap

plotting individual values within multiple groups together with their means

Text Styling With ggplot2

NINDS: Materials to Enhance Training in Experimental Rigor

R Packages:
aka: Define Aliases for R Expressions
...more
6min
July 19, 2024What Are You LUCA-ing At? (Season 3: Episode 28)
Get ready for virus-enhanced cancer, mammalian functional diversity across the ages, characteristics of the Last Universal Common Ancestor, autocorrelation in R, and research awards from Sony. Science On.

References:
Endogenous retroviruses mediate transcriptional rewiring in response to oncogenic signaling in colorectal cancer

Unique functional diversity during early Cenozoic mammal radiation of North America

Saturation genome editing of BAP1 functionally classifies somatic and germline variants

The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system

Python Software Foundation - July 2024 Newsletter

How to Extract Substring Starting from the End of a String in R

Calculating Autocorrelation in R

NIH: Building Sustainable Software Tools for Open Science

NSF: Engineering Research Initiation

Sony Research Award Program

R Packages:
rplanes: Plausibility Analysis of Epidemiological Signals

SCIntRuler: Guiding the Integration of Multiple Single-Cell RNA-Seq Datasets

WES: Tools for Analyzing Wastewater and Environmental Sampling Data
...more
6min

FAQs about Science Research Weekly:

How many episodes does Science Research Weekly have?

The podcast currently has 159 episodes available.