Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

Anyone using minKNOW v 22.10.10? I've got a base caller problem... Guppy not recognised (Its the GPU version). Other people on the release notes page reporting the same.

* Can I install standalone Guppy and point minKNOW at it somehow?
* Or should it run if i disable live basecalling?

Tech support haven't answered me yet but I assume it's a proper problem if multiple users affected 😅
#ONT #nanopore #MinION #sequencing

This is big. Eight UK #universities are acting in concert to adopt #RightsRetention #OpenAccess policies. Their public statement comes out tomorrow. (#paywalled)
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-access-accord-weaken-publishers-negotiating-position

The action comes from the N8 Research Partnership universities — Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, and York.

Thanks and congratulations to them all.

#AcademicMastodon @AcademicChatter

Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/20/sajid-javid-calls-for-patients-to-pay-for-gp-and-ae-visits

I just set up couple of shiny servers, one at home and anoter in my cloud service provider. The process is quite easy but I had to mix up a few sources so, I decided to document it in my blog.

@rstats #rstats #debian #nginx #foss

https://blog.rwhitedwarf.com/post/deploy_shiny_on_debian/

Our Bird Buddy spotted a great spotted woodpecker! 🐦❤️ #birdbuddy

The Smithsonian has made over 4 MILLION images open source! You can create, copy, distribute, etc. This is amazing!

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

I just signed up for @CedScherer 's January 26 two-hour workshop "Color Palette Choice and Customization in R and ggplot2". Only $20, and all money goes to support Ukraine. 17:00 CET/ 11:00 ET

https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine?pli=1

#rstats #ggplot #ggplot2 #dataviz #tidyverse

@rstats

"Adapting College Writing for the Age of Large Language Models Such as ChatGPT: Some Next Steps for Educators"

Writing this with the amazing Lauren Goodlad of
@CriticalAI helped me clarify what I support out of all the possible courses of action. https://criticalai.org/2023/01/17/critical-ai-adapting-college-writing-for-the-age-of-large-language-models-such-as-chatgpt-some-next-steps-for-educators/

What do you think of the suggestions?

#AIED #AIEthics #GPT3 #LLMs #HigherEd

Researchers often choose a sample size based on resources they have or are willing to invest. In those cases, the smallest effect size that can be statistically significant (or "The Minimal Statistically Detectable Effect") is determined by the alpha level and your sample size. https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/power.html#minimaldetectable Taking into account the minimal statistically detectable effect size should make you reflect on whether a hypothesis test will yield an informative answer.

“Braverman (..) added that “we have a problem with people exploiting our generosity, breaking our laws and undermining our system”.”

Exploiting generosity?
Breaking laws?
Undermining the system?

She might as well be taking about BJ

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/14/suella-braverman-wont-apologise-to-holocaust-survivor-for-calling-migrants-invasion?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.

An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.

It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Atkinson

Here's where you can read about the font and download it: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

#Accessibility

Via @tombofnull

I recently migrated my whole bibliography and PDF management system from a single references.bib BibTeX file to Zotero and I'm super happy with the transition! Here's a guide to why + how to do it + an example of using Zotero with R Markdown / #QuartoPub https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/01/08/bibdesk-to-zotero-pandoc/

Governor Pritzker just signed the Protect Illinois Communities Act, which immediately bans the sale and distribution of assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and switches in IL. #illinois #momsdemandaction

My daughter’s class’s parents WhatsApp group tonight… get your kids the bivalent booster! As Brooklyn goes, so does the country like a month later!

Statistician needed to pilot a scheme to change the future of academia. Feb-July £22k part time to check reproducibility of results from provided data for to-be-submitted papers in psychology at University of Sussex. contact: dienes@sussex.ac.uk

I thought of pulling one of those dots at a time, and that's how I made a function called backtrackR.
backtrackR takes as input the name of the library you're curious about and plots a diagram of all the packages that get loaded in the background once you load that library. Here you can see 3 examples of libraries used in the code.

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#Rstats #dataviz

Hey! An update. I've actually made such a Bioinformatics-centered server (see the message I'm replying to!). You can join here: https://discord.com/invite/arPBahn8N6

Boosts are very welcome, even if you're not interested. Thank you!

I'm going to re-tag this: #bioinformatics #discord #algorithm #datascience #tools #r #python #genomics #transcriptomics #multiomics #lab #collaboration #academia #computerscience #biology #science

Hey are you an #RStats user on Windows? Have you ever been frustrated you can't copy and paste the path to files and folders into an R string without getting an error about escaped characters?

THE ANSWER:

Put the letter r right before the opening quote for the string to disable "character constants" and turn it into a "string literal". Like this

myPath = r"c:\MyDir"

See the letter r chilling there, OUTSIDE the quote? That's the magic trick.

@rstats