Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.

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"Our framework suggests that after accounting for heterogeneity, the probability that the tested hypothesis is true for the average population, design, and analysis path can be much lower than implied by nominal error rates of statistically significant individual studies." #MetaSci #Methodology 🧪

Heterogeneity in effect size e...

@LianaBrooks excellent points! May I add:

Privilege comes in many shapes and sizes, it’s not all-or-nothing, so you can have various types of privilege without having every possible advantage in life. You can have struggles & suffer injustice and still have privilege in some form. You can have privilege in one area and lack of privilege in another.

‪Looking for literature for review paper:
Is there quantitative data that beauty/aesthetics in charts help user engagement/effectiveness/memory?

#Datavisualization #DataViz #ComputerScience

Great new blogpost by Eiko Fried on “zombie theories” in science, research waste, and moving forward. #OpenScience #academia

https://eiko-fried.com/zombie-theories-why-so-many-false-ideas-stick-around/

Everybody's Free (To Write Websites)

Enbies and gentlefolk of the class of '24:

Write websites. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, coding would be it. The long term benefits of coding websites remains unproved by scientists, however the rest of my advice has a basis in the joy of the indie web community's experiences. I will dispense this advice now:

I can't believe that in 2024 we still have to explain so bluntly that "Academic journals are a lucrative scam". Yet here we are ...
Kudos to the Editorial Board of Philosophy & Public Affairs for resigning en masse and thank you to Arash Abizadeh for explaining why and what's next in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions

"'With the R515 driver, #NVIDIA released a set of #Linux GPU #kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. […]

Two years on, we’ve achieved equivalent or better application performance with our open-source GPU kernel modules […]

We’re now at a point where transitioning fully to the open-source GPU kernel modules is the right move, and we’re making that change in the upcoming R560 driver release. […]'"

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

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