I think 'survival curves' are a great way to visualize how mortality has changed over the course of history. It might take a moment to wrap your head around how they work, but then you can discover a lot of information in them. Just finished this new version of such a chart.

Very happy to share our latest work on the role of inotocin (ant oxytocin) in regulating social behavior in clonal raider ants. Thanks to all my coauthors Taylor Yuko Ulrich Asaf Gal Peter Oxley Jennifer Garrison Daniel Kronauer Cori Bargmann Leonora Manija Kazmi and Margaret Ebert!

We’ve just added built-in citation support to GitHub so researchers and scientists can more easily receive acknowledgments for their contributions to software. Just push a CITATION.cff file and we’ll add a handy widget to the repo sidebar for you. Enjoy! 🎉

Watching the latest post-olympic race and working on my interactive geographical data skills oxpeter.github.io/vaccination_ma… (data from Aust. Imm. Reg. via health.gov.au August 8) #Python #folium #github #covid19

Excited to see some new #vaccination data, and nice to see we're starting to move into the green oxpeter.github.io/vaccination_ma… #COVID19nsw #folium #python #jupyter #stillLearning

Ben Harris-Roxas I have abandoned Inbox Zero. I am ‘living with email’

Wow! "For the first time, astronomers have captured solid evidence of a rare double cosmic cannibalism — a star swallowing a compact object such as a black hole/neutron star. In turn, that object gobbled the star’s core, causing it to explode and leave behind only a black hole"

"Pundits have urged people to “listen to the science,” as if “the science” is a tome of facts and not an amorphous, dynamic entity, born from the collective minds of thousands of individual people who argue and disagree about data that can be interpreted in a range of ways."

Data Sharing and Management Snafu in 3 Short Acts youtu.be/N2zK3sAtr-4 via YouTube A short Video shared by Malvika Sharan in a presentation on Reproducibility and the role of data sharing #BOSSEvents #OpenScienceKE

When a cancer genomics paper (in a good journal!) says "We used the R program for normalization and data analyses," I get a sinking feeling that I cannot trust these results #bioinformatics_matters

I've been thinking about the reactions to Steven Salzberg 💙💛's blog post in which he tries to explain immunology in 6 mins. (e.g. x.com/jallepap/statu…), & while much of what there is to say about it has been said, I think it's worth repeating some things. A 3pt.🧵about scicomm:

A really key finding is that fatigue and cognitive impairment were not statistically significantly different between hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients! This is a major point as the public assumes that non-hospitalized cases are "mild". #LongCovid 3/

Reframing the problems of honey bee health and sustainability. While Dr Shanahan recognises "the dangerous questions", and exhorts scientists to ask them, I suspect cultural inertia will prove a heavier beast to redirect than this article lets on.

#bioinformatics position available with the amazing team from the Applied Bioinformatics Core Weill Cornell Medicine in NYC: biostars.org/p/9514792/

Graphic design has rules, and they work … 👀

Our new study shows that data availability statements are not very useful; 1670 (93%) authors who indicated that data are available on request either did not respond or declined to share their data with us. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology: doi.org/10.1016/j.jcli…

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