Science Stanley

WANTED: Suggestions of field ecology/animal behavior papers that have just super great "Methods" sections. Everything is clearly explained and anyone could replicate it just from reading that section.

Self-nominations are fine.

(Using this for my "marine biology field research methods" course) 🧪🌎🦑

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Hard agree.

A photo of a humpback whale, eye to the camera, just under the surface of blue water, with sunbeams streaming down. It has ridged skin that is cream colored with darker grey dorsal skin. Taken from Marine Mammal Center website, where it is uncredited.

Let's talk about one of the most interesting questions in cancer biology: Why don't WHALES get MORE CANCER?

This question is also called "Peto's Paradox" for epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto, who demonstrated the link between smoking and lung cancer, 1951.

So why whales, in particular?

I am still blown away Metagenomic assembly is possible.

A MAG or ‘Metagenome assembled genome’ is represents the total genomic information of an environmental system… the code of a whole ecosystem…

23 million

#DeSci inbound

Did Orcas wipe out the Megalodons?

In short, the right people are working on this, they're not out to build a Twitter clone, they're out to reshape the web, and help us return to the original promise of an open platform, a sense of ownership, and the ability to share with each other on our own terms.

Pillars of Creation

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

Read more: webbtelescope.org/contents/med...

Graphic shows dramatic reduction in polio, rubella, mumps, measles, and hepatitis A cases after the introduction of vaccines for each disease.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction

Graphic from Edward Tufte
More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

Gap junctions are my current fave protein!

I love this video so much!
Do a lot of work with multi-omics driven precision medicine…

… and it is really as if there was a whole hidden world/economy down there in each tumor.

Understanding the metabolic ‘economics’ will give us incredible tools to fight them.

…so building a strong ‘Metagenomic picture’ of this peculiar ecosystem’s dynamics will be critical!

…when the nutrients are bound to the plankton that fall down to the ocean floor.

Some scientists even think that by artificially creating ‘synthetic whale waste’ we may be able to drive the pump faster and make a major dent in carbon processing.

This must be done with data driven precision tho…

Doing some work this week modeling the metagenomics of the “Whale Carbon pump”.

Whales process an enormous amount of nutrients, and there is an entire planktonic web of live based on processing their organic output.

The carbon processing potential of this ‘whale pump’ is enormous…

We are watching something terrifying play out.

So cool and thanks for sharing.

Am working with a great clinic at Stanford applying these kind of tools to oncology, and although you can’t over emphasize the critical importance of QA/validation/testing…

…believe we’ll increasingly see massive clinical impact from AI.

Amazing coverage of an amazing paper!

‘Cap-stone’ species like sharks often have hard to predict 2nd and 3rd order benefits on ecosystems…

…so the potential impact on the reefs here is of enormous concern to me.

This is very concerning!

Have done some in-silico gain of function modeling for this virus…

…and it really struggles to bind to the mammalian Salic acid site… so this is hopefully a ‘fluke’ and not gained mammal to mammal transmission function.

Love that nudibranch tat!
Those IMHO are some of the must underrated beautiful ocean creature <3

Would love to be added to the feed if it’s possible!

Am a machine learning scientist working in bioinformatics at Stanford genetics…

…and, am somewhat noted as a communicator in the open/decentralized science space:

https://youtu.be/TfRBkpD29AE

Every scientist on BlueSky should check out the “What’s Science” feed!

We’ve clearly seen that on these platforms you get the community you build, so let’s build something vibrant and amazing together…

…for science!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the most impressive and impactful uses of an accelerometer in neurological medicine.

Amazing that small changes this early in the illness process are detectable with good engineering and statistical science.

Predicting Parkinson's disease up to 7 years before it is clinically diagnosed, and better than any known predictive risk factor, with a wrist accelerometer
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02440-2 🧪

A mat of Cretaceous crinoids, a ball-like body with lots of arms and hold fasts looking like noodles

Spaghetti and meatballs, circa 75 million years ago.

But really these are Uintacrinus socialis, relatives of starfish called crinoids. This particular species living in big floating groups in the sea, just bobbing and noodling along while mosasaurs and plesiosaurs chased ammonites for lunch. 🧪

Research to the People at Stanford recently held an incredible conference at the intersection of multi-omics and precision medicine.

RttP does so much to drive forward the frontiers of oncology and rare illness medicine, and this year were amazing.

Will share the video here as soon as it’s out!

Increasingly true.
#aws #cloud #steppingonarake

Still pretty early over here, but here are some good DeSci follows:

@ironyuppie.com @bacalhau.bsky.social @kryptoshrimp.bsky.social @begin.bsky.social @banklesschick.bsky.social

Have been working on a content series based on a scientist cartoon character whose name happens to be Stanley 🤗

Aiming to produce some 10 to 15 minute episodes that would help youngsters learn about the ways that artificial intelligence and robotics will be changing our world!

... and I'm retribution I decided to help kick COVID's ass by volunteering as one of the first data scientists involved in the COVID-19 tracking project:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID_Tracking_Project

What started as a small citizen science project...