phaseq @routez@qoto.org

Great Figure in the supplemental

A crash course/review of doing statistics in Python instead of R.

I recently spent some time translating my knowledge for a lot of data processing and stats work from R back to Python as I'll be rotating in a Python lab this term. I made three references which I'm posting here in case they're helpful for anyone else:

https://thadryanjs.github.io/posts/2022-12-13-from-r-to-python-1/

https://thadryanjs.github.io/posts/2022-12-13-from-r-to-python-2/

https://thadryanjs.github.io/posts/2022-12-13-from-r-to-python-3/

#python #rstats #datascience #research #statistics #data #programming

@academicchatter @phdlife

Finally my #introduction. I am #bioinformatician aspiring to do more #datascience, having my first experience in a Biotech startup.

I like to code, self-taught, ahd work mostly with #RStats, but have dabbled in #python and love the #linux command-line.

My background is in experimental (neuro)biology with a transition to #genomics and #transposon / small RNA biology later on. My CV is best captured in this plot done 100% with code.

http://adomingues.github.io/2020/11/25/visual-cv/

Would you like to learn from some of the best microscopists 🔬 the nuts & bolts of light #microscopy for #lifescience applications? If so, you should check out this free comprehensive #iBiology series with presentations by #RonVale @kurtthorn #NicoStuurman #StefanHell #DanielFletcher #JeffLichtman #EdwardSalmon #ShinyaInoue #RogerTsien & many more covering topics ranging from #imagingformation, #fluorescence, #superresolution & #lightsheet #microscopy to #Optogenetics 👉 https://www.ibiology.org/online-biology-courses/microscopy-series/

Genius concept 😍🤓 — a conference for all the tough topics in #DataScience and #ML we all struggle with but nobody talks about in public. 👉 normconf.com #NormConf

Sampled talk titles:
➡️Five semesters of linear algebra and all I do is solve Python dependency problems (Tim Hopper)
➡️Data ethics: the non-sexy parts (Roy Keyes)

And maaany more!!! 👀 👇👇👇

links to mastodon now look like this on #twitter #elonmusk #bloodythursday

Alyssa's leukemia went into remission by 1 month, and is clear 6 months later🤞. 9 more patients to follow. Much gratitude to Alyssa & her family, Waseem's team, Alexis Komor (@KomorLab@twitter.com) who led the development of CBE as a postdoc in our lab, & many others who paved this path.3/3

當民主國家的公民是很辛苦的，因為你不辛苦的話，有人很樂意辛苦一點去剝削你。

你要有媒體識讀能力，看到新聞報導要去思考背後的脈絡跟利益糾葛，而不是被媒體牽著鼻子走。

你要有數據解讀能力，看到統計資訊要去瞭解資料的來源、解讀方式、結論是否有效，而不是單純拿著數據到處搖旗吶喊。

你眼中不能只有黨派，至少要能解讀派系、地方勢力、各種歷史交織出來的脈絡。

你要有自己的政治目標，選舉不過是政治改革的一小部分，背後的資金、派系、人際關係、科技都是不可能從政治中剝離的，也無法獨立運作。

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只有親自下去接觸你有興趣的議題：聆聽、溝通、交流、做事，按照這個順序進行，才不會掉進八卦小報那種片段又失去脈絡的釣魚文邏輯。

切身的活在你的 local community 之中，少說自己看了什麼，多聆聽、多說自己做了什麼，才會真的幫助到人。

colors of the sky

没有哪一次民众示威运动会是失败的，它只能算「达成了全部诉求」与「未能达成全部诉求」。哪怕「未能达成任何诉求」，它都不会是失败的，它既锻炼了民众对政治权利的行使意识，更积攒了可用于下一次示威运动的宝贵经验。

有些人真的太爱感恩了。感恩邓小平感恩江泽民甚至感恩毛泽东。开放国门、发展经济、改善民生全部都是应有之义。这些事情是共产党承诺过的政权法统，也是任何一个政权都应该做的最基本的事情。做到了没什么值得褒奖的，更不值得感恩。做不到的建议即刻暴毙。

再想想他们做下的种种恶。你知道了，就再也不能假装自己不知道。这就是陀思妥耶夫斯基拒绝的那个天国降临的代价，无辜孩子脸上的一滴泪水。他们招摇着天国的虚伪蓝图，犯下的泪却以江河湖海计。

阴阳怪气的悼念、指桑骂槐的悼念甚至不发一言的悼念都好，就是拜托不要动了什么真感情。不要感恩，要愤怒。江泽民能为中国做的最大贡献，也许是死在当下，给人们一个上街的契机。江泽民既然当年靠六四上位，现在就理当还给中国人一次获得自由的机会。

西班牙著名的街头艺术家Borondo的作品“Les Trois Ages (The Three Generations)”：

「如果上一代遮住这一代的嘴，这一代将蒙住下一代的眼。」 ​​​

If you'd like to boost your protection vs BQ.1.1, 2 new studies that back up the bivalent as the way to get that done
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.17.516898v1
http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.11.17.516898

Curve fitting - this needs to be shared here :-)
By the great xkcd
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/curve_fitting_2x.png

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing

#quoteoftheday #mathematics

Interesting quote but I would disagree somewhat. Science is both a differential equation and a boundary condition. Religion is trying add a new boundary condition which make the differential equation unsolvable.

#womeninscience
Women scientists maybe you thought were men

Maud Menten (Michaelis–Menten equation)
Yvonne Barr (Epstein-Barr virus)
Marilyn Kozak (Kozak consensus sequence)
Tsuneko Okazaki (Okazaki fragments - with her husband Reiji)
Helen Quinn (Peccei–Quinn theory)
Phyllis Nicolson (Crank–Nicolson method)
Hilde Mangold (Spemann-Mangold organizer)
Laura P. Bautz (Bautz–Morgan classification )
Katharine B. Blodgett (Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film)
Martha Chase (Hershey–Chase experiments)

Understanding a little bit more about the #fediverse through data. Here is a plot of all #fediverse instances at instances.social as a function of their number of users and toots (statuses) and if they are open for new accounts. In general, instances are small in the number of users (median = 28). Interestingly, there are a lot of small, very active, and closed servers in the #fediverse. Also, some of the biggest servers are Japanese communities.

Seriously though, fedi was *built* by furries, trans and queer folk, disabled neurodivergent people.

This is *the reason* the culture here is what it is. Why CWs are a thing. Why image descriptions are a thing. Why privacy matters here. Why moderation tools not only exist, but are usable — and used.

If you had joined and asked yourself "wow, how come this place is so chill and kinda… nice?" — that's thanks to all the nice people from communities some people call "weird".

So #KeepFediWeird.