I was told by a neighbour this morning that I am "the right kind of immigrant".
When asked to explain he said that I work and pay taxes. He didn't also say that I'm ok because I'm white but I wonder how the conversation would have gone off I were not white.
Am I reassured that because i am "the right kind of immigrant" everything will now be fine in the Netherlands after a quarter of the people who live around me just voted for a fascist, when the new speaker in our parliament is a conspiracy theorist as well as a fascist, and when most of the rest of the country appears to think that this is just fine ? No it does not.
I have more in common with asylum seekers and any other immigrants than I do with fascists or with unthinking voters for fascists.
#pvvisfascism
#RefugeesAreWelcomeHere
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This weekend I ordered a #Lenovo X1 carbon with #Fedora preinstalled. This still blows my mind.
It was very nearly a #Macbook pro. I'd love to experience that hardware. I'm an amateur photographer and it would be great to have another way to run #lightroom. (currently I edit on an #iPad which is actually probably better)
But the X1 won in the end. Thin and light, #Linux updates forever, all my tools of 20 years, access to drive and battery, way cheaper, consistent with my ideals.
Brave step! @sorbonne_univ_ unsubscribes from the Web of Science.
‘By resolutely abandoning the use of proprietary bibliometric products, it is opening the way for open, free and participative tools.’
https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorbonne-university-unsubscribes-web-science
Batch effects correction with ComBat or ComBat-Seq... but in Python? Glad to see the pyComBat paper finally out https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-023-05578-5
A few weeks ago, I decided to make my first ever science comic about some of our research. I hope you love these lil blobs as much as I do! The comic continues in the comments :) #developers #DeveloperThriving #SoftwareEngineering @seresearchers
This is a nice tutorial if you are interested in how and why overfitting (etc) happens, how/why regularization helps to alleviate overfitting, ...
"The Theory Behind Overfitting, Cross Validation, Regularization, Bagging, and Boosting: Tutorial", Benyamin Ghojogh, Mark Crowley
One thing I love about #teaching is that you always #learn new things, even when giving a lecture about stuff that you know (or you think you do) very well.
Today a student asked why we should use Student's #t-test at all when comparing samples with equal variances if you can use Welch's variant, which works with unequal variances... that is, why bother checking equality of variances?
Indeed, in the case of equal variances the calculated t statistics would be the same!
This led to a great discussion involving 3 instructors, a bunch of students, and a few simulations in #Rstats which I really enjoyed!
The answer is that Welch's variation also changes how degrees of freedom are calculated, so no they are not equal!
Also, the current recommendation is NOT to check for variance equality (e.g. using Levene's test) as this paper clearly points out, lest you want to increase your Type I error!
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1348/000711004849222
Gotta go change some slides...
I just discovered this awesome #latex package to #annotate #equations.
https://github.com/st--/annotate-equations/tree/main
Someone is getting some snazzy lectures ready for next week...
I am happy to share our latest #research article, looking at #compassion towards laboratory animals in #undergraduate #biomedical sciences students in the UK and China.
In this study, we developed a survey to explore compassion towards laboratory animals in students and used it in groups of biomedical sciences students in the UK and China.
Exploring Compassion towards Laboratory Animals in UK- and China-Based Undergraduate Biomedical Sciences Students - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/22/3584
#bioawk is a command-line gem; it’s an extension of awk that auto-assigns variables for BED, SAM, VCF, GFF, and FASTX[AQ] format files, speeding up routine tasks.
For FASTX:
$1:name
$2:seq
$3:qual (FASTQ only)
$4:comment
Found in @vsbuffalo’s great #Bioinformatics Data Skills.
I am actively recruiting students for my lab at UMass Dartmouth!
Are you interested in a project on actin, amoebae, cell migration, and/or pathogenesis? Send me an email & apply to the Integrative Biology PhD program by Jan 15!
Please RT
More info: https://katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science
What does a #scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before.
@nicolaromano @tomstafford
I'd agree. But that's why I voted C. It's past the time where these self serving bad practices can be called "inadvertent".
Researchers! Please complete my poll with uneven response options (and boost for reach)
How much of a problem is deliberate research fraud?
The problem isn't that COVID is deadly.
The problem is that different people react to it differently.
For most people, COVID is a mild cold. Often, it's so slight that people don't realize they have it.
For some people, it's terrible -- but something that they can handle at home.
For a few people, COVID sends them to the hospital. Or gives them long COVID.
And it killed roughly 1% of people who got it at the beginning of the pandemic, if I recall correctly.
So, if Boris had done this really stupid act, chances are that he would be fine. But many more Britons would have died.
meetings today? zero should be the goal https://blog.codinghorror.com/meetings-where-work-goes-to-die/
Senior lecturer at the Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE) and Edinburgh University.
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. I study #heterogeneity in #pituitary (and other) cells.
I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.