Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org
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Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE).
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python.
My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population.
I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.
Joined Oct 2022
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I really like the idea of microPublications. This one is an intriguing observation:
https://www.micropublication.org/journals/biology/micropub-biology-000737
I’m sure many labs have some interesting results tucked away that suit this format.
Wow, we've reached new heights... just got a #spam email from a #predatory journal using anti spam-filter techniques straight out of the 90s... (which obviously work with the crappy spam filters our uni uses...)
I have created a little R #Shiny interface to deconvolute #luciferase assay data.
This is based on Brown 2008 - Inferring gene expression dynamics from reporter protein levels (but does not include volume correction)
The app also reports initial rate, maximum and decay rate
It is available here, for anyone to enjoy, modify etc
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Anyone know a good review paper / learning resource for building gene regulatory networks #GRN from #scATACseq #ATACseq and/or #scRNAseq data?
Thanks!
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It's time to vote for Inkscape's 1.3 About Screen Contest!
We're proud to present an amazing gallery of entries: 🖼️
54 entries by 43 #Inkscape artists!
Thanks to all who entered!
Community vote open from
Mar. 20 (0:00 UTC) to Mar. 26, 2023 (23:59:59 UTC). 🗳️
https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-13/
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At the local primary school, the children sing a Mother’s day song with the lyric
“My mum’s ever so clever. She may not have a degree,
But she can help with my homework and that’s what matters to me.”
After many complaints the school have agreed to change the lyric (hooray!). To:
“… even though she’s got a degree,”
Which simultaneously makes having a degree sound bad and also shaming Mum’s without degrees.
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Further damage to the dysfunctional academic career system in Germany: The government has just presented its reform of the fixed term contract law (#WissZeitVG).
After years of #IchbinHanna protests, the max. length of fixed contracts for postdocs has been reduced to 3 years. The cynical argument: Careers become more predictable, because 3 years after your PhD, it's either professorship, third party funding, or exit.
The lack of a broader tenure track system makes this a devastating development.
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Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.
@Aschniedermann and then postdocs leave academia for industry... guess why!
@clathrin My guess is we now get people from other institutes within the University, who would have not come in person otherwise (campus is on different areas of the city)
@clathrin We're running hybrid seminars and I think overall we're back at pre-COVID numbers. Probably 50/50 in person/online
@malwaretech I think it is quite interesting though, in that it shows that most exams are badly designed. It's also interesting that GPT4 is still very bad at English Literature and English Language...
This should really push us towards improving the quality of assessments.
What I really find scary in the GPT4 white paper is section 2.9 'Potential for Risky Emergent Behaviors'.
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Random first trial post: today, March 14th, is the 29th anniversary of the Linux 1.0 announcement.
Of course, there are other arguably more important dates in Linux history, but this is one of them.
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RT @Apeer_micro
Learn how feature learning works in CNNs
Want to know the technique that gives #DeepLearning an edge over #MachineLearning?
Read our blog to find out.
https://hubs.la/Q01F6Nvp0
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Ready to give Fedora Linux 38 a test? The beta release is here!
#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource
Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-38-beta/
Just finished reading this very interesting #review about #analysis of #scRNAseq data from different #species.
"Cross-Species Analysis of Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data" - Schafer - Front. Cell Dev. Biol 2019
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2019.00175/full#B5
@BorisBarbour @clathrin @richardsever Absolutely, I have put a note on PubPeer, but no response so far!
@vicgrinberg "Elogio dell'imperfezione" ("In Praise of Imperfection" in the English translation) by Rita Levi-Montalcini.
It looks like the English version is out of print, but you can find it used.
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I hoped this bingo card would have become outdated because people would have started to know that these are myths. Sadly, this isn't the case.
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""The honors thesis must be a *single author* document written by the student."
Rules like this represent an antiquated approach to #science and harm the undergraduate researchers involved by teaching them that science is done by isolated individuals & that it's appropriate to not credit all contributors to a project.
Of course students should lead the work & writing of their honors thesis, but there's a difference between leading & doing it alone. We should teach science as it is practiced.
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Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE).
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python.
My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population.
I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.
Joined Oct 2022
