Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

🌟 Save the Date! BioC2026 is Coming! 🌟

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ The Bioconductor Conference, BioC2026, will be at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, from August 10-12, 2026.

Join top experts in bioinformatics, data science, and computational biology to share insights and explore Bioconductor's latest advancements.

Stay tuned for registration, speakers, and program details. Visit: https://bioc2026.bioconductor.org/. 🎉

#SaveTheDate #BioC2026 #Bioconductor

"This study implements a multi-year analysis (2019–2023) comparing the performance of Open Access and legacy publishers. Using a set of financial ratios—grouped by profitability, liquidity, efficiency, and solvency, as well as data on firm size (revenues, assets, and employee counts), we assess their financial performance. The results indicate that legacy publishers have enormous scale, stable profitability, and high leverage, but low liquidity and return on equity."

https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/13/4/46

Software Carpentry Python Workshop – Join Us This November!

We’re excited to invite you to our free workshop, open to all!

📅 : 4-6 Nov
⏰ : 9 am-2 pm Eastern Time (UTC -5)
🛜 : Online

This workshop is designed to be interactive and hands-on, providing basic lab skills for those in research computing roles.

Free for anyone to attend—please feel free to share with your friends, colleagues, or communities who might be interested.

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-generated-participants-can-lead-social-science-experiments-astray-study-finds?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News from Science @news-from-science-SciMag

The President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

#HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

Cannot post. Too busy doing ggplot battles.

#RStats #WOMBAT2025

https://www.ggplotbattles.dev/challenges/violin_combo/

“Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests. Run by otherwise ordinary members of the public – many of whom are of retirement age – the groups are a hotbed of hardline anti-immigration and racist language, where online hate goes apparently unchecked.” The Guardian

#SocialMedia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/sep/28/inside-the-everyday-facebook-networks-where-far-right-ideas-grow

How long before the government is selling the National ID Card data to private companies?

How long before private companies are requiring you to use it before they will deal with you?

How long before companies are marrying commercial data with the ID data in order to target you with ads or track your behaviour?

How long before that data is stolen?

#ukpol #idcards

We need an internet archive outside the US! We can't put all our eggs in one basket.

Oh, wait: we *have* an internet archive outside the US. Let's support it.

And now they have an office - a physical presence!

https://flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-sharing-at-the-internet-archive-europe/

https://www.internetarchive.eu/

Looking for a LaTeX symbol, but don't know the command to produce it?
https://detexify.kirelabs.org can help. Draw the symbol, and the app will produce a list of matching symbols.

Incidentally, the tool is written in #Haskell, just like #pandoc.

#TeXLaTeX

Over the weekend I spent some time teaching my daughter CAD. They designed a miniature wooden bookcase which I laser cut last night at Makespace and today they filled it with the miniature books they have been hand painting. #maker #makespacecambridge #books #MiniaturePainting #laser

Expresión gráfica de cómo el reconocimiento de un estado palestino es una lavada de manos.

I've been teaching for a long time and I'm pretty good at it, not to brag or anything. Over my career I have watched autism and learning disabilities (which aren't the same thing) become more discussed, in some cases better addressed and in other cases become more of a source of alarm among my colleges, parents, and education press.

What I have not seen in nearly two decades is any change at all in "how the children are"

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#statstab #421 Sample Size Planning for Statistical Power and Accuracy in Parameter Estimation

Thoughts: AIPE is based on controlling the width of the CI.
Sample size can be computed independent of effect size!

#samplesize #confidenceintervals #AIPE #power #poweranalysis #precision #accuracy #research #design

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093735

Fred Brown, sand artist re-created Banksy’s censored art on the beach of Scarborough, UK 🇬🇧
Simply amazing!

#Banksy #SandArt #UnitedKingdom #Resist #England #MastoArt #NoCensorship

IDEA: "where are they now?" but for big splash papers published in 2000s.

Would be good to i) celebrate breakthroughs that kicked off a rich line of research, ii) follow "what happened next" for papers that weren't quite correct, iii) acknowledge that some big splash papers were ultimately squibs that went nowhere.

Probably you could find examples of all three in a single issue of Nature from 20 years ago. Could be a good exercise with a postgrad class.

#AcademicChatter