Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

Advantages of submitting first to the @biorxivpreprint : as an editor, I can share the entire paper with prospective reviewers to entice them to review it.

Let me tell you: this is a massive deal. Finding reviewers willing to commit to submit a review "soonish" (less than 2 months) is becoming tough.

#ScientificPublishing #academia #preprints

I'm thinking about the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) principles of data. Much of our data is Western blots. Amongst colleagues, we were discussing how hard it would be to make it 'findable' which would require metadata schema, but I'm reconsidering it now.

I found a German paper from 2015 that has not really been cited and is more theory than practice. I wonder if anyone is actively working on this?

I'd be happy to participate.

#Opensource #metadata

I've been made redundant from my job, effective tomorrow.

So... if you know anyone who's in need of a bioinformatician to work remotely on small bioinformatics projects, please let me know.

'Correlation is not causation: this simple and uncontroversial statement has far-reaching implications. Defining and applying causality in biomedical research has posed significant challenges to the scientific community. In this perspective, we attempt to connect the partly disparate fields of systems biology, causal reasoning, and machine learning to inform future approaches in the field of systems biology and molecular medicine'

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44320-024-00041-w

#statstab #132 P-Values are Random Variables

Thoughts: Ever-confusing, p-values are the bain of intro research method students. Maybe simulation is the key.

#stats #education #pvalues #NHST #simulation #edutstadon
#psychology #statistics

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27644033

Sharing is caring!

#OpenScience practices (e.g. preprints) increase the impact of research articles as measured by citations. #preprint from Giovanni Colavizza and colleagues.

#preLight prepared by Priyanka Pant, Katarzyna Lepeta, Shalini Roy Choudhury & Reinier Prosee

#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/an-analysis-of-the-effects-of-sharing-research-data-code-and-preprints-on-citations/

#sharing #preprints #code #data # collaboration #science #ResearchCulture

I cannot stress enough how good the Atkinson Hyperlegible font is: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

It's very pleasing on the eyes and it helps everyone understand and read your text, plus - it's completely free, even for commercial purposes!

What's not to love?

#accessibility #fonts

Reproducing bioimages and data analysis is a problem in the scientific world. No guidelines on how to do this, nor do journals have any recommendations for authors, until now! We have teamed up from around the world and developed a checklist to help make science reproducible👇

http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07005

Reboosts appreciated

#Netzfund

Basically I feel a little silly even posting this, because to me it's obvious. It's like there is a big red button that says "Fascism" and I'm like "do I really need to say that I think pushing that button is a terrible idea?"

But just in case? Under no circumstances should we push the big red button.

Elect Biden again and proceed to make him *miserable*

Better than being too miserable to get anything done.

#Introduction Hello. I'm a law prof, a philosopher, a progressive. I've deactivated #twitter and am searching for a new place to learn and to think out loud. #politics #law #democracy #elections #art #literature #history #science #books

#preprint alert 🚨
Can Large Language Models solve common #BioImageAnalysis coding tasks? And which #LLM performs best? 🙃🤓
Great collaboration with Christian Tischer, Jean-Karim Hériché and Nico Scherf
🔬🖥️🅰️ℹ️🤝🚀
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.19.590278v3

“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
― Richard P. Feynman

🌟 Exciting news! Just a week to go until #SciPy2024! 🎉 Stay tuned over the next few days as we reveal some of the amazing things our speakers will be presenting at the conference 👀

"But whilst it will have its benefits, the process of datafication also raises important methodological and ethical questions. Who has access to the data that is collected and why? How do the new data flows change everyday research practice? Are scientists being subjected to “dataveillance”, and if so, what does this mean for their privacy? To ensure that the scientific community embarks on a critically informed journey towards a datafied research ecosystem, these questions need to be addressed."

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-024-00153-2

“On AI and the commoditisation of design – Scott Riley”

https://www.scott.is/writing/about/ai-and-design

> That’s because I know the value good design can bring to a project, and it’s not the output. Design is about humans, about sense-making, systems thinking, and craft

« In this Comment, we emphasize the complexity of scientific software as a multifaceted socio-technical (and historically grown) system. We describe facets of software that we define as vantage points from which the different dimensions of software can be understood. The multifaceted nature of software implies that the work done by software has technical, legal, sociological and epistemic consequences. »

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00651-2

#ReproducibleResearch #OpenScience