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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Science Research Weekly episodes:

January 11, 2024Trojan Plants Bearing Vesicles (Season 3: Episode 1)
Get ready for lava-proof ceramics, antibiotic polymers, Trojan horse plant mRNA vesicles, microbiome disturbances in kidney stone formation, Top 10 DO Loop posts from 2023, Mastering Lowess Smoothing in R, and early career grants with no existing preliminary data. Science On.

References:
Disordered enthalpy–entropy descriptor for high-entropy ceramics discovery

A giant stem-group chaetognath

Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of N-methylpyridinium-fused norbornenes to access antibacterial main-chain cationic polymers

The bacterial replication origin BUS promotes nucleobase capture

Plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection

Multi-site microbiota alteration is a hallmark of kidney stone formation

Top 10 posts from The DO Loop in 2023

Mastering Lowess Smoothing in R: A Step-by-Step Guide

Four ways to streamline your R workflows

The 6 steps to finally lose weight (or solve almost any other problem) (with R code)

NIH: Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (clinical trial)

NIH: Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (non-clinical trial)

R Packages:
allofus: Interface for 'All of Us' Researcher Workbench

ARGOS: Automatic Regression for Governing Equations (ARGOS)

MSML: Model Selection Based on Machine Learning (ML)

surveyexplorer: Quickly Explore Complex Survey Data
...more
9min
December 29, 2023Episode 50: Christmas or Break
Get ready for a brief, asynchronous episode today to cover the break over the Christmas holiday. Merry Christmas!
References:
Science News Most Popular Stories 2023

Smithsonian Magazine Most Significant Science Stories 2023

IEEE Top Programming Languages 2023

Top R packages

Exercism

Grants.gov
...more
4min
December 22, 2023Episode 49: Unnaturally Cool
Get ready for unnatural nucleotides, nutrient-blocking gut microbes, a confluence of newsletters and conferences, Effortless Cool in Data Science, and a grant for long-term ecological research. Science On.

References:
A unified Watson-Crick geometry drives transcription of six-letter expanded DNA alphabets by E. coli RNA polymerase

Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking

Registration for useR! 2024

Python Software Foundation - December 2023 Newsletter

Julia Newsletter December 2023

New SAS Training Course: Statistics You Need to Know for Machine Learning

when the hessian matrix goes wacky

A three-arm trial using two-step randomization

A new focus on tidygraph

Effortless Cool Is A Detailed Process – How To Influence, Tell Better Stories, and Become More Persuasive

GitHub: Javascript Interview Questions

NHGRI: Advancing Genomic Technology Development for Research and Clinical Application

NSF: Long-Term Ecological Research

R Packages:
AVGAS: A Variable Selection using Genetic Algorithms

treesliceR: To Slice Phylogenetic Trees and Infer Evolutionary Patterns Over Time

sfd: Space-Filling Design Library

explainer: Machine Learning Model Explainer
...more
5min
December 15, 2023Episode 48: Diamond Doppelgangers and Distant Oceans
Get ready for Japanese mosasaurs, hard-as-diamond materials, cold ocean exoplanets, polychoric correlation, 15 Academic Research Tools, the 10 most popular R books of 2023, and an NSF grant for Emerging Mathematics in Biology. Science On.

References:
A new derived mosasaurine (Squamata: Mosasaurinae) from south-western Japan reveals unexpected postcranial diversity among hydropedal mosasaurs

Synthesis of Ultra-Incompressible and Recoverable Carbon Nitrides Featuring CN4 Tetrahedra

Prospects for Cryovolcanic Activity on Cold Ocean Planets

Discovery of a Drug-like, Natural Product-Inspired DCAF11 Ligand Chemotype

What is polychoric correlation?

what is family-wise error rate?

Top 15 Academic Research Tools For Scholars And Tutors

The 10 most popular R books of 2023

Edge of Tomorrow: Preparing R Functions for the Unexpected

NSF: Emerging Mathematics in Biology

R Packages:
DFBA: Distribution-Free Bayesian Analysis

dunlin: Preprocessing Tools for Clinical Trial Data

shinyquiz: Create Interactive Quizzes in 'shiny'

TaxaNorm: Feature-Wise Normalization for Microbiome Sequencing Data

simtrial: Clinical Trial Simulation
...more
8min
December 08, 2023Episode 47: Tis the Season for Better Espresso
Get ready for better expresso, quasi-particle monopoles, crocodilian phylogeny, Anthrobots, SAS tips for creating effective statistical graphics, a Git repo for throwaway code, and excitement over the ExCITe grant. Science On.

References:
Moisture-controlled triboelectrification during coffee grinding

Revealing emergent magnetic charge in an antiferromagnet with diamond quantum magnetometry

Corals and sponges are hotspots of reactive oxygen species in the deep sea

Decoupling speciation and extinction reveals both abiotic and biotic drivers shaped 250 million years of diversity in crocodile-line archosaurs

Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells

Food for all? Wildfire ash fuels growth of diverse eukaryotic plankton

Fear extinction is regulated by the activity of long noncoding RNAs at the synapse

Announcing the Release of JuliaHub 6.4 - Package Metrics, Dash.jl Templates, Web App Hosting, and More

10 tips for creating effective statistical graphics

5 new books added to Big Book of R

Shiny Express: Blending the Best of Shiny and Streamlit for Dashboard Development

A Complete Guide to Stepwise Regression in R

Unveiling the Magic of Polynomial Regression in R: A Step-by-Step Guide

Get a Git repo where your team can stow their throwaway data science code!

GitHub: Best-websites-a-programmer-should-visit

GitHub: Elementor

NCI: Exploratory Cancer Immunology Projects and Technologies (ExCITe)

NSF: Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus

R Packages:
fcp: Function Composition

survobj: Objects to Simulate Survival Times

ADTSA: Time Series Analysis

iperform: Time Series Performance
...more
10min
December 01, 2023Episode 46: Good Friends and Bad Graphs
Get ready for the British oral microbiome across history, the catalogue of gamma-ray pulsars, deep mine microbes, the theme() option in ggplot2, friends not letting friends make bad graphs, and a grant on emerging technologies for cancer research. Science On.

References:
Ancient dental calculus reveals oral microbiome shifts associated with lifestyle and disease in Great Britain

The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-Ray Pulsars

A metagenomic view of novel microbial and metabolic diversity found within the deep terrestrial biosphere at DeMMO: A microbial observatory in South Dakota, USA

Spatial autocorrelation

Getting started with theme()

GitHub: FriendsDontLetFriends

NIH: Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Molecular and Cellular Analysis Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research

R Packages:
ivo.table: Pretty Contingency Tables and Frequency Tables

aloom: All Leave-One-Out Models

revert: Reversion Mutation Identifier for Sequencing Data
...more
4min
November 24, 2023 Episode 45: Thanks for All the Keystone Species
Get ready for nanoscale protein traps, enigmatic amoeba, keystone microbes, logarithmic regression in R, and project funding for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Science On.

References:
Stable trapping of multiple proteins at physiological conditions using nanoscale chambers with macromolecular gates
Rhabdamoeba marina is a heterotrophic relative of chlorarachnid algae
Identifying keystone species in microbial communities using deep learning
concepts in linear regression to know before learning multilevel models
Logarithmic Regression in R: A Step-by-Step Guide with Prediction Intervals
R lubridate: How To Efficiently Work With Dates and Times in R
NHLBI: Program Project Applications

R Packages:
semidist: Measure Dependence Between Categorical and Continuous Variables
ggScatRidges: Scatter Plot Combined with Ridgelines in 'ggplot2'
air: AI Assistant to Write and Understand R Code
...more
5min
November 17, 2023Episode 44: Composite Hands and Mitochondrial Medicine
Get ready for composite 3D robot parts, spotting sugar-protein interactions, MIC for mitochondrial health, the R Journal Volume 15/2, avoiding alphabetical order in SAS, font changes in ggplot2, and an NSF grant for organoid systems. Science On.

References:
Vision-controlled jetting for composite systems and robots

Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities

Fluorogenic Photo-Crosslinking of Glycan-Binding Protein Recognition Using a Fluorinated Azido-Coumarin Fucoside

A drug-like molecule engages nuclear hormone receptor DAF-12/FXR to regulate mitophagy and extend lifespan

The R Journal Volume 15/2

Tip: Avoid alphabetical order for a categorical axis in a graph

the difference between standard deviation and standard error

How to Change Fonts in ggplot2 with Google Fonts

A classifier that's very accurate (and deep)

Data Analysis in R for Becoming a Bioscientist

GitHub: TIL

NSF: Biocomputing through EnGINeering Organoid Intelligence

R Packages:
cookiemonster: Your Friendly Solution to Managing Browser Cookies

PAICE: Phylogeographic Analysis of Island Colonization Events

BayesGmed: Bayesian Causal Mediation Analysis using 'Stan'
...more
7min
November 10, 2023Episode 43: Invasion of the Paleobionics!
Get ready for the new field of Paleobionics, molecular beasts, virus-attaching viruses, Jurassic planets, the 2023 Python Developers Survey, free DataCamp and 365 Data Science courses, and an NSF grant for designing synthetic cells beyond the bounds of evolution. Science On.

References:
Soft robotics informs how an early echinoderm moved

Distinctive microfossil supports early Paleoproterozoic rise in complex cellular organisation

CHARGED “MOLECULAR BEASTS” THE BASIS FOR NEW COMPOUNDS

Simultaneous entry as an adaptation to virulence in a novel satellite-helper system infecting Streptomyces species

Oxygen bounty for Earth-like exoplanets: spectra of Earth through the Phanerozoic

A big step for little particle accelerators

Join the Python Developers Survey 2023: Share and learn about the community!

4 ways to display an inset that contains statistics on a SAS graph

R Shiny Modules: How to Create Your First R Shiny Module

How to Make a Data Science Portfolio Website (in Under 15 Minutes with R)

365 Data Science courses 100% free until November 20

Data Camp Free Week

NIH: Exploratory Clinical Trial Grants in Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

NSF: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models

NSF: Designing Synthetic Cells Beyond the Bounds of Evolution

R Packages:
qeML: Quick and Easy Machine Learning Tools

Spectran: Visual and Non-Visual Spectral Analysis of Light

SillyPutty: Silly Putty Clustering
...more
8min
November 03, 2023Episode 42: Life, the Near Infrared, and Everything
Get ready for the sunken remains of a planet, long-lived fish, near infrared detection on Uranus, R and Bioconductor updates, and NASA grants for life in space. Science On.

References:
Moon-forming impactor as a source of Earth’s basal mantle anomalies

Centenarian lifespans of three freshwater fish species in Arizona reveal the exceptional longevity of the buffalofishes (Ictiobus)

Detection of the infrared aurora at Uranus with Keck-NIRSPEC

[Rd] R 4.3.2 is released

Bioconductor 3.18 Released

Scanning QR codes in R

Approaches to Calculating Number Needed to Treat (NNT) with Meta-Analysis

How to Load SAS Files in R: Transitioning from SAS to R with Seamless Data Integration

NOSI: Using Targeted Degradation of Protein and non-Protein Targets for the Development of Novel Anti-Infectives

NOSI: Chronic Inflammation of the Oral Cavity - An Agent for Oral Mucosal Disease

NASA: Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)

NASA: Transport Phenomena Research at the International Space Station to Benefit Life on Earth

NASA: NSF/CASIS Collaboration on Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology on the International Space Station (ISS) to Benefit Life on Earth

R Packages:
portion: Extracting a Data Portion

Rnanoflann: Extremely Fast Nearest Neighbor Search

SurvSparse: Survival Analysis with Sparse Longitudinal Covariates

tRigon: Toolbox for Integrative Pathomics Analysis

defineOptions: Define and Parse Command Line Options
...more
7min

FAQs about Science Research Weekly:

How many episodes does Science Research Weekly have?

The podcast currently has 173 episodes available.