Because I'm ranting... Please figure out how to replace "_" with " " in your taxa names. Then figure out how to italicize them. Not sure how difficult this is to do in Prism, but it's pretty straightforward with stringr/ggplot2/ggtext in R. How do plots like this appear in journals with 20 JIFs?

I'm seeing more and more of this: broken y-axes. Regardless of what you think about them (I'm "anti"), examples like this one don't need them! You could easily put ticks every 5000 units without a break

New paper up on bioRxiv! This is my third and hopefully final paper on rarefaction. It's still better than the other available methods. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The annual freak out is on over the university no longer paying for GraphPad Prism...

Healthy organizations have competitive elections.

The last time you reviewed a paper for a journal, did you comment on the design of any of the figures?

Just FYI: people are anti-vaxxers for their kids. It's also for their pets and livestock. They've gone so far off the rails. People ask us about mRNA vaccines for sheep an other animals worried something weird might happen to the meat. I wish! We can't get enough vaccines approved for meat animals

We've all heard seminar speakers say (myself included), "I know this is too small for you to read, but..." This usually happens because people are repurposing panels from their papers without adjusting for the medium (1/20)

I'm editing and putting the finishing touches on a grant proposal. The though of having AI write the whole thing or even a part of it is pretty unthinkable. When you write you see what you truly know. It forces you to think and troubleshoot your logic. (1/3)

My google skills are failing... Back in 2011, NCBI (started to?) close the SRA. The SRA is still with us. Anyone know of any articles from around then about how they saw the light? For those that this is news to... genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I know things are hard right now. But, if you are going to review proposals submitted to a special PA, please at least read the PA before reviewing proposals submitted to the PA. I mean, if it says no biological questions allowed, don't ding me for not proposing to answer biological questions.

I'm offering a new workshop that's part instruction, part group coaching. This program will focus on the design principles we should consider when generating visuals. There won't be any coding so don't let that hold you back shop.riffomonas.org/products/tra...

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If you've been putting off learning how to make plots in R with ggplot2, then have I got what you need! I'll be teaching a zoom-based workshop on just that subject. This will be a one day all ggplot2 workshop on May 9th shop.riffomonas.org/products/int...

If the folks at @umich.edu need help with web design I'm sure the designers of harvard.edu would be happy to help

Just to be clear... there are two editorials. I appreciate the love for the other one on supporting science, but I don't want this one on diversifying science to get lost

My editorial simultaneously published in all of @asm.org's journals addresses the ongoing effort by the administration to halt efforts to diversify science. It should be obvious from ASM Journals' efforts over the years, but we aren't fans journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

The @asm.org Journals Committee has published a response to the recent disruptions in science in the US... A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Hey folks! Over the past few weeks I've been posting videos recreating several of W.E.B. DuBois's "data portraits" from the 1900 Paris Exhibition in #Rstats using only {tidyverse} and {showtext}. I have 4 up now and there will be 4 more over the next 2 weeks www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"Make America Great Again. Make America Healthy Again. These were promises made by candidate Trump in his campaign to be president of the United States of America. What in this campaign platform should have prepared us for a war on discovery?"

Happy to share that a manuscript describing my {phylotypr} R package has been released on Microbiology Resource Announcements. {phylotypr} is an R-based implementation of the naive Bayesian classifier, aka the RDP classifier: journals.asm.org/doi/epdf/10....

My first thing on this platform (what are the things called?).

What's your favorite plot that you've seen recently? What's the most 🔥💩 plot that you've seen recently? I'm getting headaches looking through 42 part figures that are full of over bolded prism plots, 58 by 287 heat maps with attached dendrograms, or balls of yarn attempting to show interactions