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:

May 17, 2024R-Code with a Shotgun (Season 3: Episode 20)
Get ready for a cotton candy planet, 3D printing bristleworms, robotic ‘SuperLimbs’, Bioconductor 3.19, dire direction to document your R code, and playing Doom on Shiny. Science On.

References:
An extended low-density atmosphere around the Jupiter-sized planet WASP-193 b

Ribosomal DNA copy number variation associates with hematological profiles and renal function in the UK Biobank

Dynamic microvilli sculpt bristles at nanometric scale

Structural anisotropy results in mechano-directional transport of proteins across nuclear pores

Systematic epigenome editing captures the context-dependent instructive function of chromatin modifications

Robotic “SuperLimbs” could help moonwalkers recover from falls

funGp: An R Package for Gaussian Process Regression with Scalar and Functional Inputs Rank, order, and sorting

Bioconductor 3.19 Released

Shiny for Python Shinylive: How to Run Shiny for Python Apps Without a Python Server

Documenting My Code … For Me

Treemaps In R

If Doom runs everywhere, it must run on Shiny

R Packages:
srcpkgs: R Source Packages Manager

EXPAR: Fitting of Exponential Autoregressive (EXPAR) Model
...more
8min
May 10, 2024IceCube in a Glass of Quantum Gravity (Season 3: Episode 19)
Get ready for magnetic water cleaning microbots, myelin regeneration, the search for quantum gravity, visualizing missing values in SAS, and a grant for transformative cancer research. Science On.

References:
Magnetic Microrobot Swarms with Polymeric Hands Catching Bacteria and Microplastics in Water

Small-molecule-induced epigenetic rejuvenation promotes SREBP condensation and overcomes barriers to CNS myelin regeneration

Search for decoherence from quantum gravity with atmospheric neutrinos

Journal of Statistical Software Volume 109

Visualize patterns of missing values

R Meets Hardware

Notes on Citing R and R Packages

NSF: Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences

Fanconi Cancer Foundation - AACR NextGen Grant for Transformative Cancer Research

R Packages:
MIMER: Data Wrangling for Antimicrobial Resistance Studies

SurvEval: Methods for the Evaluation of Survival Models

rmdl: Language to Manage Many Models
...more
5min
May 03, 2024Of Cosmic Glitches and Waffle Sketches (Season 3: Episode 18)
Get ready for picky archaeal parasites, a cosmic glitch in gravity, super sticky adhesive, Volume 15/4 of The R Journal, sketchy waffle charts, Super Saiyan Data Skills, and a Department of Defense grant for cancer. Science On.

References:
Selective lipid recruitment by an archaeal DPANN symbiont from its host

A cosmic glitch in gravity

Fibrillar adhesives with unprecedented adhesion strength, switchability and scalability

The R Journal: Volume 15/4

Estimate a proportion and a confidence interval in SAS

R/Medicine is coming June 10-14, 2024 – See Top Five R Medicine Talks from Previous Years

Guide to Remove Legends in ggplot2 in R Programming

Sketchy waffle charts in R

Super Saiyan Data Skills: Mastering Big Data with R

DoD Peer Reviewed Cancer, Idea Award

R Packages:
karlen: Real-Time PCR Data Sets by Karlen et al. (2007)

boggy: Real-Time PCR Data Sets by Boggy et al. (2010)

SpatGC: Bayesian Modeling of Spatial Count Data
...more
7min
April 26, 2024Cnidarian Nightlight (Season 3: Episode 17)
Get ready for friendly giant viruses, the ancient origins of bioluminescence, sneaky bacteria, R codename Puppy Cup, a Super Mario Bros. explanation of R piping, and grants for rare cancer research. Science On.

References:
A giant virus infecting the amoeboflagellate Naegleria

Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia

Burkholderia thailandensis uses a type VI secretion system to lyse protrusions without triggering host cell responses

[Rd] R 4.4.0 is released

Navigating the Data Pipes: An R Programming Journey with Mario Bros.

NIH: Pathway to Independence Award

NIH: Small Business Transition Grant For Early Career Scientists

DoD: Rare Cancers, Concept Award

GenScript Life Science Research Grant Program

R Packages:
slap: Simplified Error Handling

RobRegression: Robust Multivariate Regression

donutsk: Construct Advanced Donut Charts
...more
6min
April 19, 2024It’s Raining Antibiotics! (Season 3: Episode 16)
Get ready for umbrella antibiotics, staring into the nanovoid, blue-whale-sized ichthyosaurs (maybe), and astrodynamics knot theory applications. Science On!

References:
Streptomyces umbrella toxin particles block hyphal growth of competing species

Beyond nothingness in the formation and functional relevance of voids in polymer films

The last giants: New evidence for giant Late Triassic (Rhaetian) ichthyosaurs from the UK

Applications of knot theory to the detection of heteroclinic connections between quasi-periodic orbits

Distributions with specified skewness and kurtosis

How to Make Mobile Apps with R Shiny

R Packages:
filters: A "Snake_case" Filter System for R

relcircle: Draw Regulatory Relationships Between Genes
...more
5min
April 12, 2024Dark Stars and Metastatic Microbiomes (Season 3: Episode 15)
Get ready for the pan-cancer microbiome, auto-parameterizing 3D printing, Bergmann’s rule busted for dinosaurs, and Proca stars made out of dark matter. Science On!

References:
A pan-cancer analysis of the microbiome in metastatic cancer

Human brain small extracellular vesicles contain selectively packaged, full-length mRNA

Online Measurement for Parameter Discovery in Fused Filament Fabrication

An integrated metagenomic, metabolomic and transcriptomic survey of Populus across genotypes and environments

Global latitudinal gradients and the evolution of body size in dinosaurs and mammals

Proca stars with dark photons from spontaneous symmetry breaking of the scalar field dark matter

Journal of Statistical Software Volume 108

The Truth About Tidy Wrappers

R Packages:
IRR2FPR: Computing False Positive Rate from Inter-Rater Reliability

WayFindR: Computing Graph Structures on WikiPathways

CARMS: Continuous Time Markov Rate Modeling for Reliability Analysis
...more
7min
April 05, 2024The Birds Are Up to Something (Season 3: Episode 14)
Get ready for neoavian phylogenetics, marvelous metafluids, the search for dark photon dark matter, normalization and scaling in R, Highcharts for interactive and animated charts, and a grant on rare diseases. Science On.

References:
A region of suppressed recombination misleads neoavian phylogenomics

Shell buckling for programmable metafluids

First Results from a Broadband Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter in the 44 to 52 μ eV Range with a Coaxial Dish Antenna

Add a second axis to a SAS graph

6 New books added to Big Book of R

A Practical Guide to Data Normalization in R

Scaling Your Data to 0-1 in R: Understanding the Range

R Highcharts: How to Make Animated and Interactive Data Visualizations in R

NCATS: Preclinical Proof of Concept Studies for Rare Diseases

R Packages:
CoreMicrobiomeR: Identification of Core Microbiome

scimo: Extra Recipes Steps for Dealing with Omics Data
...more
5min
March 29, 2024Starquaking in My Boots (Season 3: Episode 13)
Get ready for the smallest starquake, migraine risks in young stroke, tardigrade biostasis, too many colors spoiling the graph, Bioconductor Conference 2024, and a subset of Department of Defense grants on human health. Science On.

References:
Protective effect of PDE4B subtype-specific inhibition in an App knock-in mouse model for Alzheimer’s disease

Expanding the frontiers of cool-dwarf asteroseismology with ESPRESSO

Association of Traditional and Nontraditional Risk Factors in the Development of Strokes Among Young Adults by Sex and Age Group: A Retrospective Case-Control Study

Labile assembly of a tardigrade protein induces biostasis

CRTFASTGEEPWR: A SAS Macro for Power of Generalized Estimating Equations Analysis of Multi-Period Cluster Randomized Trials with Application to Stepped Wedge Designs

too many colors spoil the graph

Bioconductor Conference 2024

DoD Peer Reviewed Medical, Investigator-Initiated Research Award

DoD Peer Reviewed Medical, Discovery Award

AAAAI Foundation Award to Sustain Research Excellence

R Packages:
CvmortalityMult: Cross-Validation for Multi-Population Mortality Models

flexOR: Flexible Odds Ratio Curves

glmMisrep: Generalized Linear Models Adjusting for Misrepresentation

biopixR: Extracting Insights from Biological Images
...more
8min
March 22, 2024Your Brain on Cosmology (Season 3: Episode 12)
Get ready for leafhopper cloaking technology, the question of a dark matter-less universe, life at the extremes of inactive hydrothermal vents, not caring about the Levene’s test, and a grant on brain changes across longer time spans. Science On.

References:
Geometric design of antireflective leafhopper brochosomes

Testing CCC+TL Cosmology with Observed Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Features

Inactive hydrothermal vent microbial communities are important contributors to deep ocean primary productivity

Exploring Andean High-Altitude Lake Extremophiles through Advanced Proteotyping

Two-dimensional materials by large-scale computations and chemical exfoliation of layered solids

assumptions of linear models are about errors, not the response variable

Here is why I don’t care about the Levene’s test

NIH: New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R01)

NIH: New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R21)

R Packages:
xega: Extended Evolutionary and Genetic Algorithms

tidyrates: Tidy Epidemiological Rates

calmr: Canonical Associative Learning Models and their Representations

ggbrick: Waffle Style Chart with a Brick Layout in 'ggplot2'
...more
4min
March 15, 2024Gastronomical Gallivanting (Season 3: Episode 11)
Get ready for bile acid modification, Pizza Pi, pre-print propensity using R, and a grant on misfolding proteins. Science On.

References:
High-quality semiconductor fibres via mechanical design

Trabectedin derails transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair to induce DNA breaks in highly transcribed genes

The underappreciated diversity of bile acid modifications

Newsletter March 2024 - Genie Builder Beta Launch - Create Web Apps and Dashboards Easily

Pizza pi

My Simple Understanding of Total Effect = Direct Effect + Indirect Effect (via Mediator)

Mastering Random Sampling in R with the sample() Function

Pre Self: what fraction of a journal’s papers are preprinted?

NIH: Exploring Proteogenomic Approaches to Unravel the Mechanisms of Mis-Folded Protein Accumulation in Tauopathies

R Packages:
glmpermu: Permutation-Based Inference for Generalized Linear Models

corrmeta: Correlated Meta-Analysis
...more
4min

FAQs about Science Research Weekly:

How many episodes does Science Research Weekly have?

The podcast currently has 172 episodes available.