Andrew Kennard @askennard@qoto.org

@HumToTable @eosfpodcast

A large popular platform can be a safer, more diverse & more welcoming space.

I strongly dislike the tendency of people to abscond off into private communities. I don't like places that are not public & open. Mostly facebook groups convinced me that such places can be the most toxic places possible online.

I want a big public square and the intersections that such a place makes possible. I don't just want to talk to math people and tech people. I hate the isolation.

My lab has a brand new webpage. I hope you like it!

https://roylelab.org

#CellBiology

Irene Manton was a pioneer of electron microscopy.

She produced the first diagrammatic reconstruction of the 9+2 microtubular structure of the #cilium in 1952. When she showed her beautiful micrographs at international meetings, the audience would cheer and break into applause.

And she mortgaged her house to buy an electron microscope!

https://www.embrc.eu/newsroom/news/irene-manton-algal-cell-biologist-and-her-electron-microscope

#microscopy @biology #WomenInScience #science

Speaking as someone living in Hungary, to friends in the #USA:

The greatest weapon the system has is outrage fatigue. Doing so many unimaginable things at the same time that people just sigh and go on. Having so many things to protest that you run out of days and hours. Piling on so you start focusing on surviving with your bare mental health day to day.

Pick your cause and stick to it. Support others who focus on different causes. Don't try to do everything at once.

Hi! I'm a bot that shares research papers in EvoDevo (or Evolutionary Developmental Biology).

Currently, I index a few journals in the field and post links to articles that were published recently, one per day.

Since my posts are set to “quiet public”, they don't appear on Mastodon's feeds or hashtags searches. So, please, boost the papers you find worth sharing!

Any feedback is welcome. Thanks :)

#Introduction #EvoDevo #Papers #Research #DevBio #EvoBio

If women gave up every time we got evidence people hate us or just don't even consider us people, nothing would ever get done. So take a minute, feel/"honor" the awful feelings, because they're real, but then we're back to our regularly scheduled program of building the least-worst world we can.

Hi Mastodon! 👋

Dipping my toes here given the situation on the birdsite. I am Editor in Chief of #PLOSBiology, interested in all things science.

A virologist by training, I am passionate about #OpenScience and making publication process a transparent and constructive one.

I look forward to chatting about science, the evolving publishing landscape, traveling, cooking and a bit of everything!

From Weverthon Machado: “📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results.

“I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this!

“ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally”

https://www.weverthon.com/ggreveal/

#rstats #dataviz #ggplot #ggplot2 @rstats #R

I remember seeing research pre-COVID on what kind of internal training engineering firms provided as a function of age and size: basically, histograms showing when firms start structuring learning, when they start hiring people to run training for staff, etc. Can't find it, web search is less useful than it used to be: if you have a link to a specific paper, I'd be grateful if you could post it here. thanks in advance

Retreat To Nowhere: notes on a writing retreat

https://quantixed.org/2024/11/01/retreat-to-nowhere-notes-on-a-writing-retreat/

#development #publishing #LifeOfPI #writing

Our new #preprint changes the way we look at an “extinction vortex” in which a small population loses fitness, causing it to become even smaller https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.25.620329v1.
#MutationalMeltdown #EffectivePopulationSize #EvolutionaryRescue #PopulationGenetics #EvolGenPaper @wmawass @jdmatheson @uliseshmc 1/7

For night 28 of #31NightsOfHalloween #MicrosCreepy,
IT'S ALIVE! These are reanimated cell "ghosts," which are cells that have had their membranes/cytoplasm washed away, leaving the cytoskeleton behind. Adding ATP activates myosin motors, which causes contraction!

Is it possible to have underscore as a character that when moving across text with <Ctrl + arrow> will make the cursor stop (in either RStudio or Positron IDE)? When using snake_case, it would be really handy to have the cursor stop at the underscores ....

#RStats #Python

This week we did a workshop called "Better Spreadsheets" for the Data Science Lab. We talked through the Kara Woo and @kbroman paper "Data Organization in Spreadsheets" and talked about formatting issues. We also demo'ed how these issues affect downstream analyses. #excel #datascience #rstats #python

https://better-spreadsheets.netlify.app/

#RStats #quarto Using quarto reveal.js what are the tricks to make your presentation look good on mobile (small screen) ?

Editing: "it is for a friend" 🥶

@JontyTownson That looks useful. We don't usually add the significance stuff in R because it's too hard! I like this solution - ugly or not!
I didn't explain well, but it is SuperPlots that are the problem! I’m thinking of writing a package to make it easier for folks in my group to generate them.

Centuries ago, I published a manuscript on BioRχiv about the love/hate relationship between variability and robustness in embryogenesis.

And now, it's published in Science! I am so proud 🥳

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh1145

We went through three (3!) rounds of revisions. Although we did not change a comma in the abstract, the revisions improved the quality of the work very much (we nearly doubled the sample size and added an entire figure).

#variability #robustness #embryology #morphogenesis #mouse

I'm sure the answer to this is write something myself. But it would be great if there was a #ggplot solution to:
- show individual points* for categories
- add summary crossbar ± error
- and do faceting
all from one data frame.

* ideally geom_sina from `ggforce` which I love.

The package `ggpubr` is very close, but not quite flexible enough.

#rstats