Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

The first 2 weeks of my (anti-)stats course, Statistical Rethinking, are over. We covered the foundations of Bayesian updating and model building. But you can jump right into week 3 - focuses more on structural confounding and causal inference. Hum over the stats details, let the warm light of generative modeling wash over you. Full lecture list (FREE): https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2024#calendar--topical-outline

TIL if you track a package on ups.com, it will send your full tracking link including the tracking number to both Google and Facebook.

This is just "normal".

Use an ad-blocker, folks.

Course on "Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis"

Application deadline: January 31st

Course dates: April 1-16

Location: Cold Spring Harbor

Instructors: Jennifer Waters, @bethcimini @florianjug Hunter Elliott, Talley Lambert, Suliana Manley.

Financial aid is available to help offset tuition costs.

https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-QICM&year=24

#microscopy #imaging #biology #bioimage

NumPy 2 is coming out in couple months! And it's a little backwards incompatible, which means any applications that depend on it (directly or indirectly) might break.

I wrote an article showing how to prevent breakage in the short term, and how to automatically upgrade in the long term.

https://pythonspeed.com/articles/numpy-2/

#Python #NumPy

2 days ago- in 1982 the Commodore 64 was introduced by Commodore Int'l at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The units were available in stores Aug '82. #80s #80stech

Gotta check these out!

Robust, scalable, and informative clustering for diverse biological networks

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-023-03062-0

#bioinformatics #genomics #genetics #statistics

@floe
Maybe you have part of your answer already in this preprint from last year?

"We reran an abstract summarization task from the literature on Amazon Mechanical Turk and, through a combination of keystroke detection and synthetic text classification, estimate that 33-46% of crowd workers used LLMs when completing the task"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07899

Tasks, and the reputation management of participants on different platforms, may be influential here

Hey, #rstats champions! Sometimes you might want to consider reordering 🔀 your boxplot groups to more clearly illustrate the differences between them. You can easily achieve this with the `reorder` function within your aesthetic mappings. Check out my blog for a full working example and code.

🔗 https://lpembleton.rbind.io/ramblings/R/#order-a-boxplot-for-improved-across-axis-comparisions

Do you want to identify the neighbours of your favourite cells but are unsure where to start?

Check out our Primer, just out in @Dev_journal , for an overview of synthetic neighbour-labelling systems and of how they can be used in developmental settings.

Huge thanks to @CellySally, Tamina Lebek and Guillaume Blin for a real fun writing experience!

#DevBio #SynBio #StemCells #Cell #Cells #Development #SyntheticBiology #Synthetic #Biology #Science #ScienceMastodon

https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.201955

@ionica This story has a rather *excellent* graph, which should get some sort of graph award 🙂

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/magpies-swoop-bald-more-often-survey-finds/103297520

European research peeps: did you know that most EU & some non-EU countries have a Research Office in Brussels to help with things like Horizon EU coordination? And that many of these offices have meeting rooms you can borrow? This can be really handy if you need a central location for a consortium meeting for a Horizon Europe grant (whether at application stage or post-award). Handy & can minimise flights as very accessible by train. Would recommend! #HorizonEurope #ConsortiumBuilding #Research

Tired of waiting until the end of a sentence before you can be histrionic? The exclamation comma.

This is a @xieyihui
appreciation post

#rstats, please join me in sponsoring @xieyihui
on @GitHub

https://github.com/sponsors/yihui

(Context: https://yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye-rstudio/)

1/n 🧵(or shall I say 🧶)

‘Unthinkable’: Marie Curie’s Paris lab saved from the bulldozers … for now https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/jan/06/unthinkable-marie-curies-paris-lab-saved-from-the-bulldozers-for-now Via @guardian

@nicolaromano

Rachel Hayes-Harb discusses her approach to student collaboration and group assessment in the following webinar;
https://youtu.be/5ExuqTkNNuU
For the specific coverage of your questions, start from about 9.30 in

this remains one of my favourite joke ever told

Absolutely devastating news. I would not have accomplished what I have accomplished in the last decade without Yihui's work. If you've ever encountered a website, report, or book built with R in recent memory, you have Yihui to thank.

https://yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye-rstudio/

Until he gets a new position, he's looking for sponsorship: https://github.com/sponsors/yihui

One cannot simultaneously value my privacy and share every detail of my visit to a website, down to the &#%* screen size, with 1505 partners.

Exobasidium is a parasitic fungi that lives in plants as an endoparasite. It galls flowers changing the scale and morphology of flowers and other plant structures in surprising ways.

I just found out they exist and I'm shocked, fascinated and horrified.

They were mentioned in passing in this Crime Pays video (I have NOT been binge watching CPBD looking for ant cameos, what kind of weirdo would do something that? Not me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaUMcaKgkw8)