Science Research Weekly
Episodes
Episode 50: Christmas or Break
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for a brief, asynchronous episode today to cover the break over the Christmas holiday. Merry Christmas! References: Science News Most Pop...
Episode 49: Unnaturally Cool
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for unnatural nucleotides, nutrient-blocking gut microbes, a confluence of newsletters and conferences, Effortless Cool in Data Science, and...
Episode 48: Diamond Doppelgangers and Distant Oceans
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for Japanese mosasaurs, hard-as-diamond materials, cold ocean exoplanets, polychoric correlation, 15 Academic Research Tools, the 10 most po...
Episode 47: Tis the Season for Better Espresso
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for better expresso, quasi-particle monopoles, crocodilian phylogeny, Anthrobots, SAS tips for creating effective statistical graphics, a Gi...
Episode 46: Good Friends and Bad Graphs
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for the British oral microbiome across history, the catalogue of gamma-ray pulsars, deep mine microbes, the theme() option in ggplot2, frien...
Episode 45: Thanks for All the Keystone Species
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for nanoscale protein traps, enigmatic amoeba, keystone microbes, logarithmic regression in R, and project funding for the National Heart, L...
Episode 44: Composite Hands and Mitochondrial Medicine
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for composite 3D robot parts, spotting sugar-protein interactions, MIC for mitochondrial health, the R Journal Volume 15/2, avoiding alphabe...
Episode 43: Invasion of the Paleobionics!
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for the new field of Paleobionics, molecular beasts, virus-attaching viruses, Jurassic planets, the 2023 Python Developers Survey, free Data...
Episode 42: Life, the Near Infrared, and Everything
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for the sunken remains of a planet, long-lived fish, near infrared detection on Uranus, R and Bioconductor updates, and NASA grants for life...
Episode 41: Things are Heating Up
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for technosignatures from space, hypertension-reducing gut microbes, DNA nanomachines, molten Martian layers, a RegEx treasure hunt in R, an...
Episode 40: Brain Cell Atlas Shrugged
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for polygenic risk score stumbling blocks, million-color-palette miniaturized DNA-based painting, the human brain cell atlas, rogue nanowave...
Episode 39: Bulking Up on Microbial Dark Matter Proteins
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for X-ray blasted 3D prints, a prehistoric “Pontus” tectonic plate, microbial dark matter protein families, function approximation in SA...
Episode 38: Dancing DNA in the Detection Field
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for highly sensitive dancing DNA detection, rare-earth munching bacteria, Python 3.12.0, the Top 9 R packages that every Data Scientist must...
Episode 37: Code with me, I’m from the Future
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for falling antimatter, water flea waste treatment, super solar distillation, R Journal volume 15/1, future programming languages, how NOT t...
Episode 36: Bone Lost in Space
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for bone loss mitigation in space mice, a northern paleo-ocean on Mars, a new deep-sea virus, graphs within graphs in SAS, types of statisti...
Episode 35: Wi-Fi Reading and Microflying
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for atmospheric water harvesting, entering the lipidome, Wi-Fi reading through walls, electric-producing bacteria, shape-shifting microflyer...
Episode 34: Ribozyme Samurai
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for distractingly dense planets, SAMURI ribozymes, serious clinical sepsis incidence, jittering in R, the Bioconductor 3.18 release schedule...
Episode 33: Microbe-Skewering Micro-Spikes
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for allergic disease and the infant gut microbiome, three-eyed arthropods, titanium micro-spikes for killing pathogenic fungus, array thinki...
Episode 32: The Kirigami Engineers
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for naked-mole rat longevity transfer into mice, kirigami for engineering, a new antibiotic from microbial dark matter, eDNA for vertebrate ...
Episode 31: Are You Not Entertained?
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready the Dinosaur Coliseum, cancer-detecting bioengineer bacteria, embedding Unicode into SAS, a web-crawling Katana, and a Million Dollar Bike r...
Episode 30: A Bit of a (DNA) Stretch
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for bacterial circadian clocks, a new form of bacterial transduction, the effect of DNA stretches and twists on mutation rates, web developm...
Episode 29: Greengenes 2, This Time, It’s Personal
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for ancient, icy nematodes, renewable plastics, Greengenes volume 2, linear model transformations in R, and Gut-Brain Communication in Parki...
Episode 28: Fungal Enlightenment
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for fungal genome mining, new R books, and a cancer nanotechnology grant. Science On. References: Size Dependence of the Bouncing Barrier...
Episode 27: Dog Bites Dinosaur
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for DNA origami, an Elvis-impersonator pterodactyl, self-healing metal, a dinosaur-chomping mammal, the case of the missing dark matter, a l...
Episode 26: Living Cameras and Old Universes
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for weird whales, bacterial sample collection via lollipop, hints at life on Mars, living digital cameras, a much older universe, free train...
Episode 25: Top Transposon, Maverick
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for metallic 3D prints, Cambrian predators that skipped appendage-day at the gym, the mechanisms of chemical gardens, the mysteries of virus...
Episode 24: My Chemical Sequence
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for extinct avian genomes, stellar smashing, chemical needles in the haystack, the last Top 40 New CRAN Packages, and career awards at the s...
Episode 23: Sir Ankylosaurus, I Presume?
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for English ankylosaurs, video game mechanics for brain cell monitoring, microbial dark oxygen, pangolin robots, sampling in R, code editing...
Episode 22: Of Vikings and Tokamaks
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for phosphates in an icy moon’s ocean, Neanderthals and Vikings disease, compact fusion reactors, the difficulties of effect size, Bayesia...
Episode 21: Eukaryote Fell Down and Broke Its Crown
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for air-quality environmental DNA, multiple British spinosaurids, a lost branch of the eukaryotic family tree, bioinks for space, GLM prosel...
Episode 20: Tintin and the Rare-Earth Elements
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for rare-earth element binding proteins, single atom X-ray signals, Beagle Scouts on the march, the 2023 Python Language Summit, embedding c...
Episode 19: Small Things Considered
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for non-natural amino acids, screwdriver-toothed mosasaurs, bubble-powered microbots, SAS Hackathon breakthroughs, Amazing Biochemistry Proj...
Episode 18: DNA, DNA Everywhere
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for human environmental DNA, over-the-top cosmological energy, rafting microbes, bimodal biomass, Julia 1.9’s releases, SAS patents, the f...
Episode 17: Regressing towards the Mean
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for bacterial metabolism prediction, surprise asteroid belts, SAS-poor AI advice, Kruskal Wallis post-hoc tests, lots of new R packages on r...
Episode 16: Guardians of the Genome
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for planet swelling stars, genome guarding proteins, the largest mammalian genomic dataset in history, Bayesian Spatial Disaggregation Model...
Episode 15: Buzzing Across the Pond
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for jetting black holes, cancer diagnosis with a strip of paper, the mysterious world of freshwater acoustics, frontiers in fungal biotechno...
Episode 14: Of Space Rats and Shiny Apps
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for space rodents microbiomes; 100-year biobatteries; huge, hot exoplanets; reasons why your Shiny App failed; and ways to use statistics to...
Episode 13: Crazy Ants, Crazier Viruses
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for chimeric crazy ants, viruses abounding in protists and infants alike, solar system generation in R, an awesome Python list, and a couple...
Episode 12: Snowstorms and Dolphins
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for toxic birds, correlation for days, a flipper-tastic multi-tool, blazing fast Shiny development, and Department of Defense cancer grants ...
Episode 11: Cue the Sci-Fi Dystopia Film Score
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for atomic nuclei views, artificial organelles, AI article generation, PyCon, Simpson's paradox, building your favorite technologies fro...
Episode 10: Sticks and Cones May Break My Bones
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for super microscopes, tardigrade blood stabilization, broken stick modeling, an R version codenamed ‘Already Tomorrow’, a ‘pinecone’...
Episode 9: Robot Parade!
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for self-healing soft robots, modular NASA robots, Shiny recaps, Statistical Rethinking training, statistical kindergarten, and the NIH Pion...
Episode 8: Flash Grants in the Pan
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for technological tribology, tingible translational cell biology, flipping fossils, Volume 14/4 of the R Journal, ebook tips and tricks, and...
Episode 7: Life, the R-Universe, and Everything
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for an exploration of the R-Universe, simulated octopus tentacles, effects of Vitamin D and exercise on health, fossil wings and fins, stati...
Episode 6: Boss-Level Antibiotics
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for better arsenic detection, broad-spectrum antibiotics, model-breaking massive galaxies, Julia and Python working in harmony, a hard-to-pr...
Episode 5: A Bouquet of Space ROSEs
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for exoplanetary systems, missing Neptunes, a Dungeons & Dragons R package, GIFs for top R packages, Tidvyverse functions to save your d...
Episode 4: To Err in R is Human
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for the top 10 errors in R, self-assembling peptides, microbiome mishaps, a theory-defying dwarf planet ring system, and a chance to save ti...
Episode 3: The Ocean that Snuck up on Me
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for heart-attack healing hydrogels, super rare supernovas, volumes of viroid sequences, stealth oceans, finding hex logos and packages by to...
Episode 2: What Double Teeth You Have
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for new deep sea bacterial phyla, extra ancient caecilian fossils, R Journal Volume 14/3 JuliaHub 6.0, visualizing star maps in R, and an Ic...
Episode 1: An Explosive Beginning
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Science Research Weekly, the successor to my first podcast, Statistics Weekly. This abbreviated trial run of an episode includes: a r...
Science Research Weekly Trailer
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Science Research Weekly. This is the successor to my first podcast, Statistics Weekly. Every week, I will cover 3 topic areas: ...
Episode 40: The Close of 2022
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Take the poll to weigh in on the future of Statistics Weekly.
Episode 39: Last Stat Before Christmas
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I pondered the problem of false positives in publications, rotated around the JuliaHub, machinated over machine learning projects, an...
Episode 38: Ho, Ho, Holiday Statistics Projects
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I marched through machine learning abstractions, brought home the BQN, discovered statistics projects to work on over Christmas, and ...
Episode 37: Hexadecimal Codes of Christmas
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I got into the spirit of Sinterklaas with Python, jumpstarted Julia learning, cleared up confusion between ANOVA and regression resul...
Episode 36: Curb your Stats-thusiasm
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I picked the choicest R journal articles, served up a digital poker hand in SAS, and tried not to let a defective R-package get me do...
Episode 35: Turkey v. Tukey
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I skimmed over a dimension estimator, skipped past a piecewise linear curve, and slipped by the launch of a simple data science ebook...
Episode 34: Genomics, My Dear Watson
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I dusted off my genomic gloves with the HCLC-FC and CLIMB methods, waxed poetic with Python’s latest alpha release, and solved plot...
Episode 33: Healthy Heaping of Free Stats
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I took advantage of more than one free data science course, mused over mappings for R, and helped myself to a heap of helper function...
Episode 32: Spooky Scary Statistics
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I waved my hand across several financial data journal articles, took advantage of free data science tutorials, learned how to r...
Episode 31: Awash in Acronyms
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I tried to keep my acronyms straight, dealt with big and tall (data), poked the ribs of SPSS, and contrasted the PIC with the AIC (mo...
Episode 30: The GitHub Secret Sauce
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I spilled the secret sauce behind my research methods, predicted extreme events, pursued plots off the beaten ggplot path, and added ...
Episode 29: Business or Bust
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I contributed to the Python Developers Survey, wiped a sweaty brow over the Isoband Incident, and booted up package 'bupaverse' for b...
Episode 28: Everything’s Coming Up Machine Learning
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I netted new ways to knock neural networks out of the park, let R do my calculus calculations for me, garnered gentle overviews to ma...
Episode 27: Statistical Models on the Quick
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I kept it quick with appropriate microbial resistance data procedures, using a TI 83 calculator for statistics, and hoping for an eas...
Episode 26: Random Learning on the Short
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I kept it short and sweet with a new statistical journal reference, data science job scraping, and random learning for R-packages. Re...
Episode 25: Machine Learning vs. Magic
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I found that Bambi (Bayesian Model Building Interface) is more than a little deer, rooted for the round-robin operator for genetic al...
Episode 24: The Way of the R Warrior
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chose mediation analysis over a hospital heist, gained additional sample size calculation insights, memorized machine learning meth...
Episode 23: Biting Off More Statistics Than I Can Chew
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I bite off more journal articles than I could chew, bookmarked how to reorder SGPLOT bars, was underwhelmed by R surprises, and muddl...
Episode 22: Python with a Side of Waffles
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I grabbed the tools to conduct mobility data analysis and interactive plots in Python, detected outliers in spherical data, considere...
Episode 21: Behind the Statistical Software Curve
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I played catch-up with the Journal of Statistical Software, schemed how to snag a top spot in the XP Learning Challenge, and roared a...
Episode 20: The Count of Monte Carlo
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I browsed yet more Monte Carlo simulation papers, introduced myself to various structural equation models, championed base R, and wen...
Episode 19: Get Python Not Sleep
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I didn’t get a lot of sleep. But I did get a lot of quirky Python, classy SAS, and ridiculous R. References: A systematic review ...
Episode 18: The Software Formerly Known as RStudio
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, RStudio gets a Posit-tively new name, SAS estimates area with Monte Carlo simulation, and I take in the view of package ‘P2C2...
Episode 17: Tidal Waves of R Packages
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I pared down three important -omics data considerations, coded my way into wave of new R packages, boasted about the Big Book of R, a...
Episode 16: The Wizard of Stats
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I clued in on the claims that Linear Programming Discriminant analysis is effective, mused on the methods of PROC SQL in SAS, and fir...
Episode 15: Data Synthetic and the Multiverse of Modeling
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I assessed applications for AI-generated synthetic data, read up on the radical R tutorial rflow, and stepped into the ‘multiverse’...
Episode 14: Outliers from the Reaches of Sample Space
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I explored model selection methods for fending off invading outliers, marveled at May’s Top 40 CRAN packages, refreshed...
Episode 13: Funny-Looking Bioinformatics
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I broadened up my bioinformatics background, found that the latest R-release was a Funny-Looking Kid, and extracted lobster species u...
Episode 12: Bayesian Fire Engine
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I tackled ‘omics’ data with a Bayesian fire engine, soared over a timeline of statistical ideas, and decreased statistical bias b...
Episode 11: Putting the Meta in Meta and Drooling Over Donut Plots
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I learned there are both good and bad R books, umbrella reviews are meta on top of meta, flowcharts can be fashioned in ggplot2, and ...
Episode 10: Multiple Last Names and Growing a Backbone
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I chained together multiple scientific last names, found heaps of PLOS ONE journal articles, and learned how to grow a backbone in R ...
Episode 9: Boxes and Babies
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I thought outside the Box-Pierce; fuzzed, sweated, and flustered my way through basic stats; encountered functions and AI for babies; ...
Episode 8: Shortened Blankets
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I got lost in among the statistical trees, flipped a Bernoulli trial coin, and wrapped myself up in package ‘ggblanket’. Referenc...
Episode 7: Riding the Python Lightning
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I dived into non-normal distributions, went from rags to ridges, rode the Python Language Summit lightning, and looked at the ‘Gene...
Episode 6: Mixes and Metabolomics
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I dig into the first articles of a new Journal of Statistical Software volume, try not to mix up package ‘nvmix’ with ‘nmix’,...
Episode 5: Stretching the Limits and Vigorous Calisthenics
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I stretch before vigorous calisthenics, give a thumbs up to O’Reilly coding books, get to the bottom of R vectorization, try not to...
Episode 4: Stealing Python’s Thunder and Rolling Your Rs
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I jump into Julia packages, estimate how to pronounce the generalized Kibria-Lukman estimator, commiserate with Python, and showcase ...
Episode 3: Jackknifing, Leibniz, and Feeling the Python Breeze
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I play with jackknives, chuckle over Python, list upcoming R conferences, and showcase the R-package ‘RcppBDT’. References: Addi...
Episode 2: Lies, Two-Truths and a Lie, and Statistical R-packages
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I drink from the firehose of CRAN packages, learn a use for ‘two truths and a lie’ in the statistics classroom, and showcase the ...
Episode 1: Getting a Flat Distribution Under Us
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I brace myself for the R release of Vigorous Calisthenics, scratch my head at Lyapunov Exponents, survey the brewing battlefield in t...
Statistics Weekly Trailer
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trailer for the podcast Statistics Weekly.