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Science Research Weekly
By Mark R WilliamsonScience
Science Research Weekly episodes
- Organisms 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
7 min - A 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
6 min - It 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'
7 min - Monster 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
5 min - Short 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
2 min - Slap 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
6 min - Not 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
6 min - Artificial 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
5 min - The 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
5 min - Drop 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
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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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