Don't Clean the Space Station! (Season 4: Episode 9)

Get ready for synthetic microbe community therapy, VR taste testing, narwhal tusk behavior, detecting space debris, microbial patterns across the ISS, the Top 40 New CRAN Packages for January 2025, and Department of Defense grants for the MURI program. Science On.References:A designed synthetic microbiota provides insight to community function in Clostridioides difficile resistanceA sensor-actuator–coupled gustatory interface chemically connecting virtual and real environments for remote tastingUse of tusks by narwhals, Monodon monoceros, in foraging, exploratory, and play behaviorThe generation of whistler, lower hybrid, and magnetosonic waves by satellites passing through ionospheric magnetic field aligned irregularitiesThe International Space Station has a unique and extreme microbial and chemical environment driven by use patternsR version 4.4.3 (Trophy Case) has been releasedA Bayesian proportional hazards model with a penalized splineConstructing the Hertzsprung-Russell DiagramWorking with Clinical Trial Data? There’s a Pharmaverse Package for ThatJanuary 2025 Top 40 New CRAN PackagesBetter documentation for R-universe!DoD: Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)R Packages:MetabolSSMF: Simplex-Structured Matrix Factorisation for Metabolomics Analysismixtree: A Statistical Framework for Comparing Sets of TreesmbX: A Comprehensive Microbiome Data Processing Pipelineblit: Bioinformatics Library for Integrated Tools