One of the most interesting articles I read recently. It appears that careful examination of available data shows that peaceful protests are powerful, and if they manage to engage more than 3-4% of a population, they almost always succeed. Looking forward to read the book!

I am convinced that the aquatic ape hypothesis was conceived by someone sitting in a hot tub on a cold winter day

Polecam tego allegrowicza

Can anyone help me with this R6 problem? I have a clunky, but functional (clunctional) implementation of a vector-linked list hybrid, but I think I should try to implement it in R6. #rstats stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

While on my way to work I just heard one of the most amazing pieces of music I have ever heard in my life. Paganini Variations by Lutosławski, played by Gloria Campaner and Leszek Możdżer. I am mesmerized. #music #classicalmusic #paganini #dwojka www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2L...

Eurasian coot / łyska – in Potsdam on Saturday. #birds #photography #potsdam

I rather fancy this photograph (even though you can see the dirty smudges on my cameras sensor...). European herring gull. #birds #photography

There were few famous scientists that I liked reading and talking to as much as Sydney Brenner. He never seemed arrogant, he was full of humor and irony, and never seemed to take himself too serious. This sets him quite apart from many with much lesser achievements.

Two weeks ago I was sitting on a bench enjoying my lunch when all of sudden I saw these cranes flying overhead. Right here, in the middle of Berlin, just next to the Hauptbahnhof. (Sorry about the quality of the photographs, I grabbed the camera without looking at the settings). #birds #berlin

I was just looking at some old photographs and found this one from 2008. Meet Uncle Willy, a street musician from Münster, Germany. In the little university town of Münster he was well known, and we used to spend some time listening to him every now and then. #photography #münster

Och, jak smutno.

This day didn't start well. I hate computers. Computing, programming and bioinformatics would all be so much nicer if we didn't have to actually use computers (thinking of The Patrician from Terry Pratchett).

At least sometimes I have something common with Darwin

Jejku, jak ja lubię takie kawałki. Tutaj jest link do miejsca gdzie zaczynają grać "naprawdę". youtu.be/3pYHCGYJbw0?... #jazz #nirvana

Jejku, Sękowski, jeden z najważniejszych autorów mojego dzieciństwa

Cool, you can use radian with nvim-R! #rstats github.com/randy3k/radi...

I really like this thread by @drjr.bsky.social. There are many anthropomorphic, sugary claims like that one out there. In this thread, Jack takes a closer look at one of these. #science #wildlife #evolution #zoology

Please, let me make a coup... Please, come on, just one coup, it won't take long, did it?

I would go so far as to say "we need Slow Science movement". #science

White-naped crane (Antigone vipio, żuraw białoszyi) from the Berlin Tierpark (2023). In Berlin, many things are double: there were the two airports (East and West), and there are two ZOOs: West ("Zoo") and East ("Tierpark"). I like the east one much more, it is large and spacy. #birds #zoo #berlin

This is hilarious. BG: Elizabeth Bik uncovered manipulated images in papers of one Didier Raoult. He wasn't happy.

Here is my wish for Christmas: that `list(a, b,)` works just like `list(a, b)` instead of complaining "argument 3 is empty". Because where's the problem? #rstats

Question about #bioinformatics: what do the cool kids use for analysis of microRNA sequencing data these days? Cause I still use mirdeep2 to get the counts and DESeq2 to do the analysis. 🧬 🖥️ www.mdc-berlin.de/content/mird...

I recommend this feed. Like "following", it features those who you follow, but only those who post rarely - "quiet posters". #BlueSky bsky.app/profile/did:...

Post a ship that's not star wars or star trek

People of Blue Sky, post one of your favorite movies. One gif only!

A stunning paper on dinosaur poo. Scientists analysed fossil poo from late Triassic / early Jurassic period found in the Polish Basin using methods that allowed them even to visualize preserved beetles (photograph). They show an expanding and changing dinosaur diet. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

easySCF: A Tool for Enhancing Interoperability Between R and Python for Efficient Single-Cell Data Analysis https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae710/7908354 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/xleizi/easySCF

Interesting paper, but not an evidence against RNA world. It shows that we cannot say that all rybozymes prefer L-amino acids, which is very interesting. However, there is little doubt about existence of *a* RNA world before DNA-RNA-protein 1/

Super lista angielskojęzycznych książek o klimacie, przyrodzie, zmieniającym się świecie. Niestety, jeśli chodzi o polskie nie bardzo jest co wymienić, bo wychodzi ich bardzo mało i rzadko. Wydawcy uznają, że się nie opłaca bo temat klimatu w większości irytuje Polaków.

What I really need is to have my own, complex filters. E.g. everything from person xyz unless it contains words related to Polish politics. Or: all bird pictures from xyz but no reposts. No AI, just plain old killfile-like syntax, regexps, logical operators. #blueSky

Pisałem niedawno o Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social . Jej blog jest też znakomity, bardzo polecam, tu świetna notka o wynikach negatywnych. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/03/just...

Dorothy Bishop zrezygnowała z członkostwa w prestiżowym Royal Society, bo RS nie uznało za stosowne wyrzucić pewnego członka zagranicznego, którego zachowanie nie licuje z kodeksem RS, na co prof. Bishop przytacza liczne przykłady. Imię i nazwisko członka zaczyna się od "E" a kończy na "lon Musk".

A jeśli nie chcesz, by Microsoft trenował swoje AI na twoich tekstach pisanych w Wordzie, możesz to w każdej chwili wyłączyć. W zaledwie ośmiu prostych krokach!

O: the cup is half full P: the cup is half empty Bioinformatician: we have tested 20000 cups, 453 we're half full and 178 were half empty at FDR < 0.05, thus supporting our claims regarding macrophage activation

Yes @duckdb.org contains a lot of code (incl 'vendored' deps). If you are Ubuntu, try #r2u which gives you binaries. Today, 2 of the #Ubuntu LTS releases had no binaries at p3m--but #r2u has them incl today's 1.1.3 release. #r2u Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick all three. eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u

OK, {epoxy} is one cool package. It even allows for "epoxy chunks". This one will be helpful in the next reports. Downside: more dependencies than {glue}.

OK, so I really like #BlueSkye, getting loads of new papers and tools and funnies, but I am pessimistic about the future. BlueSky may be run by good guys now, but it is centralized (and will probably stay that way). And they will have to start earning money. dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...

Hmmmm, that is an interesting insight I am getting to my own life. Miss the times when TB was my whole world. shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...

Same here. I broke mine, though, by pulling out the joystick interface live. I still remember the terrifying feeling I had when I realized what happened. I never liked a computer I owned as much as I liked this little thingy.

I have to share that one with you.

Wenn Ihr in LLMs in der Forschung interessiert seid, ich hatte gerade ein kurzes Interview in RBB1 über das Evo Paper – die KI, die auf 60000 bakteriellen Genomen basiert ist und DNA Sequenzen korrekt interpretieren kann. #wisskom #wissenschaft www.radioeins.de/programm/sen...

This image accurately describes my scientific work, especially gene set enrichments with my tmod package. Discuss #rstats #science #bioinformatics

Remember, Bluesky is not decentralized or federated. It can be elonified and enshittyfied in future. #bluesky

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec... A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holodomor-Genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933 🌾🕯️ It was committed by the leadership of the Soviet Union with the aim of destroying 🇺🇦, finally eliminating 🇺🇦 resistance to the totalitarian regime and attempts to build a 🇺🇦 State independent of Moscow.

siemanko, właśnie powoli odnajduję się na tej platformie, a jak lepiej się tutaj nie przedstawić, jak za pomocą rysunku. pozdrawiam i zapraszam zapierdol. #satyra #ochronazdrowia #rip #systemdown #śmierć #nfz

This is a fascinating read. I have been ogling causal inference a long time now, and after reading a lot of books this example with all the code has given me a little aha moment, not only regarding ATT etc., but causal inference and counterfactuals in general. Andrew is a great science writer! 🧪

An entertaining yet informative article on why we should add more beans to our diet. Fear of not knowing how to cook them can sometimes turn consumers off pulses, yet there are super simple recipes, e.g. those by @rosabdb12.bsky.social 👇 #PutChangeOnTheMenu www.theguardian.com/environment/...