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Consort diagrams (or participant flow diagrams) are really helpful documents for concisely showing the flow of participants in your study, allowing data users to more easily interpret sample sizes. I highly recommend creating these for every study. datamgmtinedresearch.com/document#doc...

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Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

submitted 27 days ago • 158 comments

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

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Dr. Rajat Thawani and 2nd year Hem/Onc Fellow Dr. Sulin Wu are co-authors of a new paper in Cancers about the use of tumor-agnostic therapies. Read this great new piece at doi.org/10.3390/canc... #AtTheForefront #CancerResearch #CancerCare #OncSky

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Elastic Net - AI Flashcards

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Last night, we had a textbook auroral substorm expansion up here in Fairbanks. Just beautiful. Growth phase arc --> beads --> breakup with north-south streamers --> PBI --> pulsating/diffuse patchy aurora. It's just so satisfying when the patterns you study play out exactly like they're supposed to.

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

RNA xkcd.com/3056

submitted 35 days ago • 161 comments

New blog post up: do you really need to use a vector database for embeddings? For casual projects, the answer is no. Not only can you store embeddings portably as a Parquet file, but you can also save/load them extremely easily using Polars! minimaxir.com/2025/02/embe...

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Postdoc opportunity at the School of Information Sciences, Urbana-Champaign. Teaching one course a semester. Application deadline April 1, but they recommend conversation with potential faculty mentors in advance of that date. Renewable for a second year. Pls RT! ischool.illinois.edu/research/pos...

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Senator Ted Cruz recently released a database of more than 3000 NSF grants that he says misappropriated taxpayer money by spending it on "woke DEI" research. So why do grants that seemingly have nothing to do with woke ideology contain words such as "underrepresented"?

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in the United States fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLID...

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

A USPS logo for every state bird- our Postal Birds tea towels are back in stock!! 🐦✉️

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Back in 2020, when I worked in the supply chain side of Google, I had a fun and impactful side project related to human-level explanations of linear programs. Archived at: https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2025-02-06-2124/

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

I took a shot at figuring out how much money each state stands to lose in a single year if the NIH fixes the indirect cost rate at 15%. 🧵

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

A paper that's accepted without revisions

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

🚀 Ready to Speak at Posit Conf 2025? Thinking about submitting a talk but feeling nervous about the video abstract? You’re not alone! We’ve gathered expert advice from past speakers to help you nail it with confidence. Check out our blog post for details! https://buff.ly/3EmtbKr #rstats #rladies

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Say goodbye to the US as the best place in the world to be a scientist. 🧪

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With the right processes, aluminum can be infinitely recycled. In practice, every metric ton of "primary" aluminum produced by electrolysis of alum ores produces ~3.86 tons of "secondary" aluminum with only 5% of the energy input. Recycling rates, globally, are nearly 80%.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

"If the 'DOGE' endeavor is working, why can’t the White House just tell the truth about what it's doing?" www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 55 days ago • 1899 comments

Use-Cases where OpenAI Deep Research will work well (and what tasks to avoid).

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This is effectively what led to the 1900 Galveston Hurricane being the most deadly storm in U.S. history. We are so back, i guess. 😩

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Compared with high-income countries, India had lower rates of medical crowdfunding, with lower amounts requested and raised... but cancer remained the most common condition requiring fundraising showing that #FinancialToxicity is a global phenomena. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Can excessive lactate be harnessed to enhance cancer treatment? A new study by Zhang et al. in Cell Reports Medicine demonstrates a nanoparticle that senses excessive lactate in tumor tissue to trigger drug release, improving drug delivery specificity and effectiveness. ow.ly/8XPe50UU8sr

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🏙️ Chicago friends! I will be in your city soon, talking about the end of the universe! Come join me and take your mind off your troubles by contemplating ultimate cosmic destruction instead! 🌌💥 astrophysics.uchicago.edu/events/event...

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🆕 ⚛️ A new bill has been filed in Illinois to classify nuclear as a 'renewable' energy source! This would allow nuclear plants to qualify for benefits prescribed for wind and solar in the state. Decarbonization is the goal, after all! #twill 🔌💡 ilga.gov/legislation/...

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Folks, we are in for a real treat with this one. @smartereveryday.bsky.social has kicked off a new series on nuclear energy! His series on nuclear submarines was an unprecedented look into how the navy does this stuff. Now he's focusing on civilian power! 🔌💡

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

A great new article out in @bloodportfolio.bsky.social with lead author Dr. Kline (& featuring many others from our Section including Dr. Smith) doi.org/10.1182/bloo... and another featuring Dr. Derman in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AtTheForefront #CancerResearch #OncSky

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Mifepristone has been scientifically shown to be a very safe medication.

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

The Keras team at Google is looking for part-time contractors (note: the offer is from Google, not me personally, and not Ndea). Globally distributed. The focus is on KerasHub model development.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Any birders in San Francisco here? There's a growing colony of BlackCrowned Night Herons roosting around the lake at Mountain Lake Park. Bring binocs as they are on the protected side so a ways away but in plain sight, 18-24 at a time.

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SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training - RL generalizes in rule-based envs, esp. when trained with an outcome-based reward - SFT tends to memorize the training data and struggles to generalize OOD

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

The Horned Koster is a species of marine fish, sometimes referred to as a box fish

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

The "kitchen sink" of omics to solve the basis for an undiagnosed disease: long read genome , transcriptome, methytome, epigenome, all synchronized (a first) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 63 days ago • 7 comments

My shelf ice is enticing but dangerous. Best to stay off it, humans 🌊🌊

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Today The Health Care Blog is running a wrenching piece on post-partum depression, suicide and what we can do about it from new author Emily Johnson. Powerful, personal and well worth reading thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2025/01...

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This is an interesting discussion about the failure of linear thinking in a complex world. It makes use of simplified examples, but I guess that's the choice to reach a broader audience. To understand complexity from politics to public health and climate change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLm6...

submitted 65 days ago • 5 comments

I really think that journalists looking for insiders (e.g. #NIH) should post a Signal username or similar secure channel and not make whistleblowers initiate via insecure email/DM. You don't need to reveal your phone #, and you can rotate your username so it is temporary: signal.org/blog/phone-n...

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In the forests of Southern Madagascar, three frog species were discovered in 2019 that represent the very lower limit of vertebrate size: < 9 mm long. The genus was named "Mini", and the three species are: Mini mum Mini ature Mini scule (scientists are nerds, okay?)

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It's fantastic to see the #RLadies rotating curator programme back up and running! 💜 I really enjoyed curating when I did it 4 years ago, and I wrote a short blog post about it: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/curatin... I'd highly recommend giving it a go if you're thinking about it! 💜 #RStats

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Deepseek R1 for Everyone by neuralnets Discusses how the Deepseek R1 model actually works in detail but with very less math! The blog will have 3 main parts 1. Chain of Thought Reasoning 2. Reinforcement Learning 3. GRPO 4. Distillation trite-song-d6a.notion.site/Deepseek-R1-...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

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