Carlos Chee Mendonca

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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Happy Pluripotency Day! #Oct4

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write good papers and die happy

10.08.2025 02:09 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Janet Rossant to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Janet Rossant Developmental and stem cell biologist Janet Rossant is President of the Gairdner Foundation, Canada, a Senior Scientist Emeritus at SickKids, Canada, and a previous Development Editor. Janet published her first two papers on the mouse inner cell mass in JEEM (now Development) in 1975. #100biologists #biologists100

Our next extraordinary biologist is Janet Rossant, President of @gairdnerawards.bsky.social, Canada, Senior Scientist Emeritus at SickKids, Canada, and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor. #100biologists

20.05.2025 13:43 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Let’s not lose hope that we can find our way to a better world. It might take time but we should realize that we aren’t the product of warring #SelfishGenes but the creation of #CooperativeCells
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01.03.2025 08:20 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A blastoid will implant in mud if you throw it hard enough.

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