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Science Research Weekly
By Mark R WilliamsonScience
Science Research Weekly episodes
- Science 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
8 min - Rogue 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
6 min - What 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
6 min - An 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
6 min - R 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
7 min - My 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
6 min - What 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
6 min - Selfish Gene Warfare (Season 3: Episode 27)
Get ready for alarm-ringing bacteria, dark comets, weaponized introns for inter-viral competition, random walks in R, and taxonomic names in R markdown. Science On.
References:
- Pneumococcal competence is a populational health sensor driving multilevel heterogeneity in response to antibiotics
- The dynamical origins of the dark comets and a proposed evolutionary track
- An intron endonuclease facilitates interference competition between coinfecting viruses
- JuliaHub Newsletter July 2024
- Exploring Random Walks with TidyDensity in R
R Packages:
- glam: Generalized Additive and Linear Models (GLAM)
- taxnames: Formatting Taxonomic Names in Markdown
4 min - Dinosaur Loki and the Seven Rs (Season 3: Episode 26)
Get ready for missing ocean nitrification, DNA transformation with IMPRINT, a Loki-inspired dinosaur discovery, Psychology in the Big Book of R, A timeline of R's first 30 years, and a grant on the gut microbiome for human health. Science On.
References:
- Rhizobia–diatom symbiosis fixes missing nitrogen in the ocean
- A cell-free transcription-translation pipeline for recreating methylation patterns boosts DNA transformation in bacteria
- Lokiceratops rangiformis gen. et sp. nov. (Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae) from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Montana reveals rapid regional radiations and extreme endemism within centrosaurine dinosaurs
- The extremotolerant desert moss Syntrichia caninervis is a promising pioneer plant for colonizing extraterrestrial environments
- Juliacon 2024 Presentations Featuring Juliahub speakers
- seven steps for data cleaning
- Big Update to Big Book of R (new look, new chapter, new books)
- A timeline of R's first 30 years
- Something a little different: Hexbin maps
- DoD: Kidney Cancer, Postdoctoral and Clinical Fellowship Award
- DoD: Toxic Exposures Translational Research Award
- Biocodex Microbiota Foundation American grant
R Packages:
- icpack: Survival Analysis of Interval-Censored Data
- simdata: Generate Simulated Datasets
- gggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics
- Imneuron: AI Powered Neural Network Solutions for Regression Tasks
- rush: Rapid Parallel and Distributed Computing
- semlrtp: Likelihood Ratio Test P-Values for Structural Equation Models
- tinyplot: Lightweight Extension of the Base R Graphics System
7 min - Crispy Secrets of the Tardigrades (Season 3: Episode 25)
Get ready for waves on Titan, glassy gels, tardigrade CRISPR gene-editing, a waking black hole, Race for Your Life in R, the Genie App Competition 2024, and a grant on precision probiotic therapies.
References:
- Signatures of wave erosion in Titan’s coasts
- Glassy gels toughened by solvent
- Plasma proteomics identify biomarkers predicting Parkinson’s disease up to 7 years before symptom onset
- Aging atlas reveals cell-type-specific effects of pro-longevity strategies
- Single-step generation of homozygous knockout/knock-in individuals in an extremotolerant parthenogenetic tardigrade using DIPA-CRISPR
- Astronomers see a massive black hole awaken in real time
- R 4.4.1 is released
- The Python Language Summit 2024
- Genie App Competition 2024 for Prizes
- R Gganimate: How To Make Stunning Chart Animations With Ggplot2
- Mind the Gap: Using R/exams to Ease the Transition into STEM Studies
- The 6 Most Fundamental Functions for Data Cleaning with R
- NIH: Enhancing Mechanistic Research on Precision Probiotic Therapies
R Packages:
- easyORtables: Easy Odds Ratio Tables
- gmfamm: Generalized Multivariate Functional Additive Models
- plotor: Produces an Odds Ratio Plot from a Logistic Regression Model
- rioplot: Turn a Regression Model Inside Out
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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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