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
@gringene The problem is not with the dog (who probably got scared as well), but rather the owners, who should not leave a puppy off lead, especially if they know they like fast moving things. And yes that is very much normal puppy behaviour. They should have put the dog back on lead when they saw you approaching. Yes it's a pain having to do that whenever someone swings by, but having a dog is a responsibility and proper training is as well. It takes a lot of time, effort and treats, but it's worth it.
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“the difference between a significant p-value and a non-significant one is not necessarily significant.”
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As #MothersDay approaches in the UK, it would be great if pubs/cafes/restaurants/etc offered their deals to all women and not just mums. For many, the exclusion just makes a crappy day that bit harder. Remember, it isn’t always by choice.
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Pre Self: what fraction of a journal’s papers are preprinted?
https://quantixed.org/2024/03/09/pre-self-what-fraction-of-a-journals-papers-are-preprinted/
@tamiel I am soooo waiting for that to happen to us and for someone to suddenly realise that relying on external companies like that is not a viable solution. Luckily we have independent university servers so it really won't be a problem, but I particularly loath the whole Office365 suite...
@bigfishrunning @TimWardCam @Loukas this reminded me of this excellent (and scary) piece on welfare fraud risk calculation in Rotterdam https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/
@lwaldron what really drives me crazy is that journals aren't retracting these papers. Surely retracting made up data should be only in their own interest to show how rigorous they are. Keeping there is what gives them reputational damage.
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Interesting, interesting!
'Our findings suggest that current genomic language models (gLMs) do not offer substantial advantages over conventional machine learning approaches that use one-hot encoded sequences. This work highlights a major limitation with current gLMs, raising potential issues in conventional pre-training strategies for the non-coding genome.'
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Postdoc position! We're a new research group at @IJMonod, Paris, interested in the cellular secretory landscape and its re-organisation during fibrosis.
Join us, and play a central role in shaping our vision in the coming years!
DM/email for questions
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7592-ISHRAO-003/Default.aspx?lang=EN
@rmounce Yet, when you suggest more hours should be dedicated to teaching experimental design, you find so much resistance ...
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Gelman: "a lot of studies just shouldn't be done". too much noise, too poor an experimental design.
Researchers need to start simulating what data they are expecting to collect before they collect it.
@CellySally @steveroyle Blocking time for those is super easy. Sticking to that plan... a bit more complicated!
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"Benchpress" would be a good name for a #LifeOfPI blog, so #Albumsx3ThemePaper for Tuesday will be a blog post, added to my reading list only this morning
The author Terry McGlynn notes we use our calendars to mark out time for meetings & teaching but not for reading, thinking, planning, writing, reviewing.......
Trying to block out time for these things highlights the unfeasibility of our workloads
Terry suggests solutions.
tl;dr: it ain't easy.
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My only comment on Gemini is that y'all take everything seriously when it offends white people when we've been yelling about issues for how long and when has a product ever been pulled and when has there ever been this type of shock and media attention?
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It's such a pleasure when I get to ask a former PhD student for help on a current project—because it's an area that she knows better than I do.
In other words, I succeeded when she was my student.
@kofanchen This is a very good idea. The specific nature of this particular assessment might make it a tad difficult to implement but I can think of other use cases for sure! Thank you!
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The CEO of Exxon just said "we've waited too long" to tackle climate change. He blames "society" and "activists" from keeping Exxon from working on this.
Yes, Exxon. Yes, Exxon. Yes, Exxon: the corporation that for decades has been spending millions to slow progress on climate change, despite its own research showing the problem was urgent.
He said:
"We've waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions.... Frankly, society, and the activist — the dominant voice in this discussion — has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."
What the fuck is this — some sort of dark and twisted joke?
The interview is here:
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/29/exxon-ceo-to-world-climate-isnt-our-fault-now-pay-the-price/
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Are you interested in cell #heterogeneity ? Would you like to work on understanding how single, heterogeneous cells work together to generate coordinated population responses using a mix of bioinformatics, wet-lab experiments and mathematical modelling?
Then come and do a PhD with us in sunny* Edinburgh!
This PhD programme will also enable you to develop your #teaching skills by participating in teaching activities at our joint institute in Haining, China to eventually work towards a fellowship from the Higher Education Academy!
Any questions just drop me a message and I'll be happy to clarify any doubts!
*well, today at least
@jonny @joss If I could boost this multiple times I would. I've seen institutions and grant/job applications specifically asking for IF of papers and/or asking for 'x papers with IF>y' as a tenure/promotion requirement. I have even heard 'too bad you published in <very decent and actually quite famous journal>, it would have been better not to have that on your CV. This is (part of) what drives bad science and often it's driven by entitled people who don't realise they got lots of high IF papers because they come from 'big name's laboratories that have the political power to publish anything wherever they want.
I think we all know too many examples of very shaky science published in big journals...
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- he/him
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
