Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

This is insane - a 48 hour time lapse of chick embryo neurons on the move https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-small-world-in-motion-competition/developing-neurons-connecting-the-opposite-side-of-the-central-nervous-system #Nikon #SmallWorld

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It can happen to the best of us.
#academia #research #science #scifi

Finally fixed my app that plots null and alternative distributions and power for an independent t-test https://shiny.ieis.tue.nl/d_p_power/. I use this a lot in education to 1) teach that p values are uniformly distributed if there is no effect 1/5

Fantastic talk by Joe Cheng at #positconf2023 on using #shiny with #quartopub.

I've made an #rstats Quarto book demo with a wasm-embedded shiny app to demonstrate how class boundaries change with the complexity of natural splines.

Sources: https://github.com/topepo/shinylive-in-book-test

If you've like me, you've found the "how much pain are you in on a scale of 0-10" question annoying to answer because everyone's 0-10 varies so much. Well, I wanted to share the new DVPRS pain scale, which defines 0-10 by how much it's impairing your life.

https://www.health.mil/News/Articles/2022/10/13/DVPRS-pain-scale

Coworking next week!

Theme: Creating nice command-line interfaces with cli

Tuesday October 3rd 14:00 European Central (12:00 UTC)

Join @Drmowinckels and @steffilazerte

- General coworking
- Read up on making nice command line interfaces with [cli](https://cli.r-lib.org/)
- Update some scripts or packages to include cleaner and effective interfaces
- Chat with Athanasia and other attendees and discuss strategies

https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2023-10

#RStats
@rstats

Our first time using @PeerCommunityJournal -- why would anyone pay for-profit publishers when you can get stuff out OA for free? Literally the same peer review, literally the same article.

If you're a researcher and don't know PCI yet, check them. This is the future.

https://peercommunityin.org

Hey there! 👋🏽

I'm a biomedical engineer and informaticist curious about all intersections of data and society 💡

I work in #Philly at the Penn Urban Health Lab on #RSpatial projects centering urban nature, racial justice, and health equity 🌱

I'm also an #RStats educator passionate about #DataLiteracy and #FOSS as tools to build power in communities ✊🏽

You can learn more about me at https://silviacanelon.com, and I hope to learn more about you here! 🦣

#introduction

What could go wrong?
#genomics #bioinformatics
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.08.556814v1

@sellathechemist it's simple: hardly any publisher use LaTeX for the production version of the paper s. Rather, they pass perfectly fine TeX through (proprietary) software, which sometimes fails epically.

Having published with APS throughout my PhD, I was very surprised to find out that Nature recommended sending in submissions in MS Word format.

This, en passant, reminds us of how utterly exploitative scientific publishing is. Kudos to Sci-Post and JS Caux for trying to make some right out of this wrong.

Finally made an #ImageJ macro to generate rotated zoom boxes!

--> Want to publish images? Use our #checklist to ensure all image data is understandable!

Today out @springernature
@naturemethods - wonderful home, its so pretty in its final form! 😍

Joint effort of 54 authors, some are on here too:
@NadiaHalidi
@ALMicroscopi3S
mycroscopy@mstdn.science
@LaurePlantard
@bethcimini

READ ARTICLE:
https://rdcu.be/dl9Z8

#Bioimaging #Images #ScienceCommunication
#scicomm #BioImages #Microscopy #dataviz #images #Image #ScienceMastodon #Science

China Unleashes AI-Powered Image Generation For Influence Operations https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/china-ai-image-generation/

So now that I have X-ited Twitter for good and settled in the #Fediverse, it is time to renew my #introduction, or rather my #introduction thread.

I am a physics scholar, vice president of Université de Lorraine, in charge of the digital, data and #OpenScience policies. I also work for the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, in charge of the international side of #OpenScience.

#Foss
#OpenData
#Xodus
#TwitterMigration

As Twitter self-immolates, I am seeing people I know setting up on Bluesky.

I find this perplexing. Can people really not learn the lesson that a social network owned by a capitalist is a social network they don't control?

You can argue about whether Bluesky or Mastodon has the better technology, but what's 100% clear is that Mastodon is run BY users FOR users. And that difference is the only one that matters in the end.

ENORMOUS congrats to @BSDB Student RepTamina Lebek who today won a "Community award" from the University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences for her amazing work to support her fellow PhD students 🏆

Oh, and she ALSO won the "Best student talk" award for her equally amazing science! 🏆 🏆

We'll be submitting her work to BioRxiv in the next week or two, so watch this space if you want to learn more about how she illuminates cellular neighbourhoods using... pufffins #Yes #Really #Pufffins

If I had one wish for everyone teaching with #rstats this academic year it would be to focus your materials on “learning skills through R” and not simply “learning R”. The latter is an unachievable goal and sets your students up to fail. The former approach can be used to break the teaching down into manageable building blocks, for students, & learning subsequent complex skills. When you are learning, how something is phrased matters!

#teaching #statistics #academia #highered #highereducation