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:

October 18, 2024Short Chaos (Season 3: Episode 40)
Get ready for regularity in the three-body problem, microbiome analysis tools, and tidy integration of large language models. Science On.

References:
Isles of regularity in a sea of chaos amid the gravitational three-body problem

R Packages:
holobiont: Microbiome Analysis Tools

pwr4exp: Power Analysis for Research Experiments

tidyllm: Tidy Integration of Large Language Models
...more
2min
October 11, 2024Slap a Hype Sticker on It (Season 3: Episode 39)
Get ready for bathroom viruses, Brauer’s Height Zero Conjecture solved, holographic direct sound printing, plant robots, interactive SAS procedures, and the top R datasets for exploratory data analysis. Science On.

References:
Phage communities in household-related biofilms correlate with bacterial hosts

Brauer's Height Zero Conjecture

Holographic direct sound printing

Plant Robots: Harnessing Growth Actuation of Plants for Locomotion and Object Manipulation

Interactive procedures in SAS

How to Combine Two Data Frames in R with Different Columns Using Base R, dplyr, and data.table

Top 10 R Packages for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

R Packages:
eDNAjoint: Joint Modeling of Traditional and Environmental DNA Survey Data in a Bayesian Framework

usdatasets: A Comprehensive Collection of U.S. Datasets
...more
6min
October 04, 2024Not Today, Supervillains (Season 3: Episode 38)
Get ready for tuberculosis-killing plants, turtles with backpacks, remote detection of nuclear reactors, radon risk for childhood leukemia, Python trends, and Choosing the Right Chart in R. Science On.

References:
An O-methylflavone from Artemisia afra kills non-replicating hypoxic Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings

Remote reactor ranging via antineutrino oscillations

Increased frequency of repeat expansion mutations across different populations

Domestic radon exposure and childhood cancer risk by site and sex in 727 counties in the United States, 2001–2018

PTPRZ1-targeting RNA CAR T cells exert antigen-specific and bystander antitumor activity in glioblastoma

Python 3.13 and the Latest Trends: A Developer's Guide to 2025 - Live Stream Event

Choosing the Right Chart: A Personal Guide to Better Data Visualization

R Packages:
midoc: A Decision-Making System for Multiple Imputation

contrastable: Consistent Contrast Coding for Factors

kappaGold: Agreement of Nominal Scale Raters with a Gold Standard
...more
6min
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

FAQs about Science Research Weekly:

How many episodes does Science Research Weekly have?

The podcast currently has 172 episodes available.