Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

Shout out to the pro-science folks here and on twitter who admonished me for leaving and told me (1) I was letting down the cause and (2) by leaving I was playing politics instead of doing science.

No. A bully runs that house, and I'm walking out the door. You have no right to tell anyone to stay with an abuser and put up with threats to their own safety.

Unless you've weathered three years of death threats for your public health advocacy, keep it to yourself.

#introduction Hi, first toot! I'm a scientist and secular humanist. I love reading (fantasy and sci-fi but anything really), clouds, timekeeping, moose, the 80s, and classic rock music. Causes include the planet, human trafficking, and US blue wave 🌊

Tis the season to be marking

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@mcaleerp and I collected together all our ideas for making feedback and engaging students in using that feedback to make some tools that we and others can use go make better and useful feedback, but also tools to help student to use that feedback.

Access our article here:
https://osotl.org/index.php/osotl/article/view/42

#sotl #feedback #assessment #teaching

Wow, this paper on #scRNAseq and differential expression methods is an eye opener. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25960-2

Nice overview of methods and relatively easy to understand explanation of what is wrong with certain, especially single-cell-specific, methods.

Of great help in my own scRNA-seq efforts. Should probably have read this earlier. Now, back to R I go. 😅

#statistics #rnaseq #limma #edgeR #DESeq2

As a blind individual, I have to say that #Caturday on #Mastodon is far far more enjoyable then at #Twitter, where the vast majority of cat photos are not described.

It is also been fascinating for me to hear descriptions written by those who sent the image, immediately followed by Apple image recognition’s attempts to describe the same image. Only rarely does that add anything to the ALT, & often directly contradicts it.

There is no auto magical solution to image description. It is something best done by a human, for only that human can explain the “why” of the image: the reason that image was chosen to speak so eloquently without words for those who can see it. ALT allows you to provide those words.

Pride in history can be detrimental to progress. It can make people delusional that they’re special relating to times they didn’t exist in. The reality of those times is often translated to them as one-sided stories where they imagine themselves to be the heroes. They get stuck.

"More than our rank".
This is an initiative that every university would do well to join, regardless of its ranking.
Indeed, each institution, for various reasons, many of which are its own, is worth much more than the rank assigned to it by a limited, indigent and ideologically connoted system of indicators.
https://inorms.net/more-than-our-rank/

It only takes a few lines of #python code to gain insights from scientific images.

They are just a click away if you are not into coding - ask me about it.
#deeplearning #bioimageanalysis #microscopy

Why? I really started believing in federated platforms (again). That’s what the internet was and should be. I must take the sacrifice for this belief, despite loving the Twitter community.

The slides for my recent intro to open science (OS) talk, including 5 things about OS that everyone should know

➡️ https://osf.io/zy2pc ⬅️

1. OS practices accelerate scientific discovery
2. Adopting OS practices can make you a more competitive job/grant applicant
3. Data sharing is on a continuum (it doesn’t have to be either fully open or fully closed)
4. Take it one step at a time, you don’t have to learn every skill at once
5. Your future self will thank you for adopting OS practices