Ragothaman Yennamalli

Borlaug’s Army: an undergraduate membership initiative of the American Phytopathology Borlaug’s Army: an undergraduate membership initiative of APS....Welcome to Borlaug’s Army —a recruitment, engagement, and outreach initiative of the American Phytopathological Society.  Free membersh...

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Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).

This society provides excellent professional development.

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Wonderful read with my morning coffee. It was an absolute delight to read a fine piece of writing. It reaffirms the practice that scientific writing is not in linear time scale. It is in the presentation, where details are lost, and this leads to utter confusion in reproducibility. History Matters!!

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

Please do share the interview when it gets posted. Would love to read what others think of Kosmos. I tried Kosmos for couple of datasets (not owned by me). It does a decent job and lots of background info. I am yet to evaluate using a real dataset, which I am afraid of it using it for training.

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Tout va bien, c'est humoristique

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Our new preprint is out 🥳🥳🥳

Henipaviruses, like Nipah and Hendra, package their genomes inside helical shells built by thousands of nucleoproteins. These nucleocapsids are essential to protect the viral RNA, but how do they ever let the polymerase in to read the sequence?

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Thanks to an awesome collaborator and their creative students.

Happy to share that our collaborative paper got featured as the cover page of the latest issue of JBC!

A joke scientific paper with the title "Over 90% of children diagnosed with autism consumed breast milk and/or formula mileL a comprehensive cross-sectional analysis of the obvious"

Who did this?!

@profpaulyoung.bsky.social looks interesting.

maslow's hierarchy of cells

1. physiological needs: oxygen, nutrients
2. safety: a tissue culture dish to adhere to
3. love and belonging: contact with surrounding cells

Success. Nearly 259 Foldscope deployed in hands of unsuspecting candy crazy kids. Halloween is always more colorful with the microscopes - specially in a few weeks they could look at the micro-fauna of the teeth with so much sugar consumption.

The suspense was killing me...

the evil queen from snow white is wearing a crown ALT: the evil queen from snow white is wearing a crown

LOL! I could not guess at all! a cardboard crown like we used to do for school dramas with gold flashy paper would have made it!

I can't figure what Disney villain you are. What are you?

I have started making a homemade electrolyte drink with sodium salt, potassium salt, powdered ginger, lemon juice, mint leaves, and carbonated water and I love it (and I feel noticeably better with 1/day).

Just ordered freeze dried lemon and mint leaves to make a dry mix 💪🏻

Just because this came up a few times recently

If you need to compare two or more ensembles (like RMSD for structures) we developed algorithms and code (ENCORE) to do just that

Similarity Measures for Protein Ensembles
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ENCORE
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Read the latest post by Gaurav with more details.

is that everyone hates (a strong word) any type of metric and everyone is quite vocal about it. The grief/frustration/annoyance transcends all fields of science.

Meanwhile, Keep Calm and find your Sh-index!!! ☮️8/8

As said, this is an add-on & one can ignore, just as we have ignored i10-index as a measure (anyone still using it?). But, it is a good exercise in data mining and EDA. I found some insights about my publication landscape. Maybe you can? One good thing that came of this ... 7/8

This plot is probably a better distribution? Also, the first horizontal plot indicates more information. One can see that the 1st author citations (greenish bar) has increased showing actual 1st author paper citations. Corresponding author also changed. 6/8

My collaborative citations didn't change much, which is good. Co-authorship in my case was not dead weight, which is what is assumed with co-authorship in publications. 5/8

And here are the before and after Sh-Index of mine. The count obviously changed and my Sh-index dropped from Sh-index 12 to 11. Yay! 🎉Why am I happy? Bcos this is probably my almost correct (normalized?) h-index than 21 as shown in Google Scholar (?) 4/8

Gaurav said on today's call and messages that it is a pre-requisite to mark authorship contributions with ^ and * symbols. So, it is up to the authors to do this painstaking task. I did it while listening to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (it is the season, sorry) 🎄🎄🤶🧑‍🎄🎅🎃👻3/8

I am not in favor of any metrics, since they are all reductive in manner and do not capture the correct picture. However, if I deny that the metrics-based evaluation should not exist, then I am living under a rock. Proxy measures are used widely. Take it with bucket of salt!!! 2/8

A Sunday morning Data Wrangling Exercise...

Gaurav Sharma and I discussed what this new Sh-Index means. Post-preprint and now featured in Nature Index, there has been vocal criticism and rightly so. We discussed again and I have been using it not actually intended. Also.. 🧵 1/8

Would be interested to see if the difference is significant for many? Cos it is for me.