Some of the nice memories made during the first #microbes for #womenshealth meeting in Copenhagen. Hope this will become a recurrent meeting so that we can jointly advance field Isala Jean Macklaim Melissa M. Herbst-Kralovetz, PhD David MacIntyre jacquesravel Ina Schuppe Koistinen …

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a Science Advances analysis finds. scim.ag/5pH

Latest pub from Edgell/Gloor labs. Better sgRNA predictions in bacteria with crisprHAL. nature.com/articles/s4146… Huge effort (Dalton Ham Tyler Browne Greg Gloor Tesseraqt). Greg Gloor tweetorial (x.com/gbgloor/status…). Thanks CIHR Biochemistry Schulich WesternU

The unofficial official Barbie theme, theme_barbie(), is now available on my GitHub: github.com/MatthewBJane/t…

Also comes with the scale_fill_barbie() for the gradient fill you see on the right. And hex color values like “text_color_barbie” for the text color you see below.

We are looking for a Quantitative Geneticist, or a Scientist with aligned skills, to join our AgResearch Animal Genomics Team based near Dunedin, New Zealand. We welcome international applications from those that can obtain the required NZ visas. yourcareer.agresearch.co.nz/job/Scientist/…

Right. Well, we didn't have any 'beware of snakes on trains' content ready, especially on a Saturday, so we did the best we could for now.

But yeah...snakes...on trains...beware.

[1/7] 🚧 Although p-values are widely used to determine statistical significance, they have their drawbacks. Let's explore why we need to consider effect size as well! #Statistics #DataScience

This is me in 2003, going to University of Waterloo for my BSc. A lot has changed since then- got my BSc, PhD, got married, got an Asst Prof job Western University , had 2 daughters, got divorced, found the love of my life… know what hasn’t changed? Funding for grad students. #supportourscience

1/🧵🔍 Making sense of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Eigenvectors & Eigenvalues: A simple guide to understanding PCA and its implementation in R! Follow this thread to learn more! #RStats #DataScience #PCA

Incredibly sad to have heard the news yesterday of Ashley (youngestoldcatlady). She brought empathy, compassion, humour, and creativity to cat/animal rescue. Let’s all strive to make the world a little better as Ashley did. Hug your pets close today. #MentalHealthMatters

I completed my graduate work at Western at the end of 2013. Since then, cost of living, inflation, housing has increased well beyond the stipend provided to current graduate students. Food insecurity and fear about supporting basic cost of living needs is unacceptable.

Excited to share that our manuscript investigating a “blood microbiome” is now out in Nature Microbiology

Amazing work lead by Cedric C.S. Tan & Minghao Chia and enabled by Singapore’s National Precision Medicine cohorts!

nature.com/articles/s4156…

How to go from a #bug to a #drug ?🦠➡️💊
Read about how to leverage enzymes from gut #bacteria for the development of novel drugs in our mini review in the special issue of Current Opinion/Research in Structural Biology 'New Concepts in Drug Discovery'! With Mariia A. Beliaeva & Wilmanns Group
tinyurl.com/3p8yvkz9

when they tell you all the data is in one big color-coded excel file

Been out of the #conference circuits since the pandemic, what are some of your favorite events to attend in the #microbiome #Genomics #Bioinformatics Health/Biomedical #DataScience fields? #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

Did you know: It is not rare for every known genomospecies of Gardnerella (all 14!) to be present in a vaginal microbiome sample? And how ecologically different are these Gardnerellas?

Our latest preprint, led by Hanna Berman:

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#NCStateMicrobiome

1/ What people think bioinformatician do:
credit: Torsten Seemann

Here are my 12 guidelines for data exploration and analysis with the right attitude for discovery:
1. You never really finish analyzing a dataset. You just decide to stop and move on at some point, leaving some things undiscovered. 🧵

20 R Packages For Data Visualization That You May Not Know Of by jchen001 link.medium.com/IQ3wn6Qyrwb #rstats

'In conclusion, differential abundance analysis method we tested all produce wildly different results, so here's another one.'
#microbiome #bioinformatics #biostats