Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

Advantages of submitting first to the @biorxivpreprint : as an editor, I can share the entire paper with prospective reviewers to entice them to review it.

Let me tell you: this is a massive deal. Finding reviewers willing to commit to submit a review "soonish" (less than 2 months) is becoming tough.

#ScientificPublishing #academia #preprints

I'm thinking about the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) principles of data. Much of our data is Western blots. Amongst colleagues, we were discussing how hard it would be to make it 'findable' which would require metadata schema, but I'm reconsidering it now.

I found a German paper from 2015 that has not really been cited and is more theory than practice. I wonder if anyone is actively working on this?

I'd be happy to participate.

#Opensource #metadata

I've been made redundant from my job, effective tomorrow.

So... if you know anyone who's in need of a bioinformatician to work remotely on small bioinformatics projects, please let me know.

'Correlation is not causation: this simple and uncontroversial statement has far-reaching implications. Defining and applying causality in biomedical research has posed significant challenges to the scientific community. In this perspective, we attempt to connect the partly disparate fields of systems biology, causal reasoning, and machine learning to inform future approaches in the field of systems biology and molecular medicine'

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44320-024-00041-w

#statstab #132 P-Values are Random Variables

Thoughts: Ever-confusing, p-values are the bain of intro research method students. Maybe simulation is the key.

#stats #education #pvalues #NHST #simulation #edutstadon
#psychology #statistics

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27644033

Sharing is caring!

#OpenScience practices (e.g. preprints) increase the impact of research articles as measured by citations. #preprint from Giovanni Colavizza and colleagues.

#preLight prepared by Priyanka Pant, Katarzyna Lepeta, Shalini Roy Choudhury & Reinier Prosee

#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/an-analysis-of-the-effects-of-sharing-research-data-code-and-preprints-on-citations/

#sharing #preprints #code #data # collaboration #science #ResearchCulture

I cannot stress enough how good the Atkinson Hyperlegible font is: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

It's very pleasing on the eyes and it helps everyone understand and read your text, plus - it's completely free, even for commercial purposes!

What's not to love?

#accessibility #fonts

Reproducing bioimages and data analysis is a problem in the scientific world. No guidelines on how to do this, nor do journals have any recommendations for authors, until now! We have teamed up from around the world and developed a checklist to help make science reproducible👇

http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07005

Reboosts appreciated

#Netzfund

Basically I feel a little silly even posting this, because to me it's obvious. It's like there is a big red button that says "Fascism" and I'm like "do I really need to say that I think pushing that button is a terrible idea?"

But just in case? Under no circumstances should we push the big red button.

Elect Biden again and proceed to make him *miserable*

Better than being too miserable to get anything done.

#Introduction Hello. I'm a law prof, a philosopher, a progressive. I've deactivated #twitter and am searching for a new place to learn and to think out loud. #politics #law #democracy #elections #art #literature #history #science #books

#preprint alert 🚨
Can Large Language Models solve common #BioImageAnalysis coding tasks? And which #LLM performs best? 🙃🤓
Great collaboration with Christian Tischer, Jean-Karim Hériché and Nico Scherf
🔬🖥️🅰️ℹ️🤝🚀
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.19.590278v3