Donald Dunbar

Was expecting a picture :0)

Good plan 👌👏👍

Definitely huge downsides to some (lots of) aspects of AI. But used in science and medicine (and other fields like engineering), the tools are really useful! Leave these ones when you get going with your hammer :0) magazine.columbia.edu/article/how-...

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Definitely a good use of AI!

Oh joy, this is wonderful. And a great choice for the recipients. I had a great chat with Michel at the Helgoland quantum centenary: he's such a modest guy.

Dissecting the impact of transcription factor dose on cell reprogramming heterogeneity using scTF-seq - Nature Genetics This study introduces single-cell transcription factor (TF) sequencing, a single-cell barcoded and doxycycline-inducible TF overexpression approach that reveals dose-sensitive functional classes of TFs and cellular heterogeneity by mapping TF dose-dependent transcriptomic changes during the reprogramming of mouse embryonic multipotent stromal cells.

🧵1/ Excited to share our new paper introducing a new #singlecell assay: scTF-seq, a high-throughput single-cell approach to explore how transcription factor (TF) dose shapes cell identity and reprogramming outcomes. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big congrats to the entire team @EPFL & @SIAT_China

A parody captcha with text, "Select all squares with pipes. If there are none, click skip." The pipe is Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

The Margrittest Captcha of all time.

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw. 👍

And the taxi driver chat reminds me I'm going to see Stewart Lee in Edinburgh on Saturday :0) 'You can't even say you're English nowadays' ;0)

Exploring {ggplot2}’s Geoms and Stats – Stat’s What It’s All About

New blog post!

Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot?

In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions.

#rstats

Cartoon of many small birds resting on the branches of a tree Caption reads "...then swerve up sharply to the right, veer left a bit, swooping low..."

In case you’ve ever wondered how they do it…

www.worldofmoose.com/products/mum...

Stars in a star cluster shine brightly blue, with four-pointed spikes radiating from them. The centre shows a small, crowded group of stars while a larger group lies out of view on the left. The nebula is mostly thick, smoky clouds of gas, lit up in blue tones by the stars. Clumps of dust hover before and around the stars; they are mostly dark, but lit around their edges where the starlight erodes them.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope returns to this spot after more than 20 years!

This is the second-largest star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Bright, young stars light up gas clouds & sculpt clumps of dust with powerful ultraviolet radiation 👉 esahubble.org/images/potw2... 🔭

Definitely. An a "trousers' eye" is definitely apt :0)

Listening to the audiobook of Quantum Universe. Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) has got to be up there. Even just for the weirdness! :0)

An evergreen thread: Race/Ethnicity is *not the same* as genetics, and you can't use Race/Ethnicity as a sort of stand-in for genetics. These two concepts are connected via aspects like skin colour, but the connection is alot less profound and categorical than most people think.

See photos by Palestinian photojournalist Mariam Dagga, killed on the job An Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed five journalists, among them an AP freelancer. She died in the hospital she had long documented.

Mariam Abu Dagga, a Palestinian journalist whose photos captured the destruction in Gaza, died in an Israeli strike on Gaza's Nasser Hospital, the one she regularly documented.

Here are some of the scenes Dagga captured during the war:

The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin and Catwoman collaborate to dispose of the Dynamic Duo in...

🦇 BATMAN the movie (1966) 11:35am #AdamWest #BurtWard #BurgessMeredith #LeeMeriwether #CesarRomero comic strip family feature #TPTVsubtitles

A panoramic all-sky view of the Milky Way based on data from ESA’s Gaia telescope. Stellar families under 30 million years old are shown in orange, set against a bright galactic band and star-filled sky.

To understand our Milky Way's history, we need to study star clusters.

Gaia excelled at this, having:

✨ performed a cluster inventory
💫 mapped the Sun’s neighbourhood
🔗 revealed hidden links in the sky

With more data still to come, Gaia has a lot more to teach us 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

RDM Weekly - Issue 009 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

RDM Weekly Issue 9 is out! 📫

- NIH DMS Plans Lesson Set
- Ethically Making and Sharing Data @cynthiaheider.com
- Creating Psych-DS #rstats Projects @ianhussey.mmmdata.io
- Yoda Metadata Editor @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Deep-Sea Explorers Found A Sunken Whale Carcass – And Watched A Wild Banquet Unfold This giant whale banquet could support the ecosystem for many years, if not decades.

Scientists Stumbled Across A Sunken Whale Carcass That Could Support The Ecosystem For Decades | IFLScience

Done that many times :0/

Worst coral bleaching on record for Western Australian reefs Scientists say the damage was caused by the

Worst bleaching on record for Western Australian coral reefs. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RFK Jr. is upset that a recent large Danish study in Annals of Internal Medicine, conducted over 20 yrs in 1 M kids, found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions.

His request for the retraction was rejected.
🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Data come in many different formats and are used in many different ways, but in many cases, a checklist like this (along with good data documentation) can help you verify if a dataset is in a usable format for most general purposes.
osf.io/t8upr

Tiny ribbons, big role: In zebrafish, sensory hair cells use stable microtubules and kinesin motors to build and position ribbon synapses, structures that keep signals flowing in hearing and balance.

Read our new Insight Article: buff.ly/BBVXbYw

I want a pet raven

An area of deep space with thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes on a black background. Most are circles or ovals, with a few spirals. More distant galaxies are smaller, down to being mere dots, while closer galaxies are larger and some appear to be glowing. Red and orange galaxies contain more dust or more stellar activity.

For the latest image of the month, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope revisits the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

The deep observations reveal more than 2500 sources sparkling in this tiny patch of sky ✨

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

🔭🧪
#extragalactic