Dropping the PepHammer (Season 5: Episode 12)

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 12, Dropping the PepHammer. Get ready for ancient soft sponges, astronomical biosignature spotting via grouped planets, the Epidemiology of AI, crop management via smartphone, an examination of NIH funding outputs, dropping the PepHammer, asking if AI agents save time for scientists, and a grant on specialty crops. Science On.References:A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animalPearling drives mitochondrial DNA nucleoid distributionp21+TREM2+ senescent macrophages fuel inflammaging and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver diseaseAn Agnostic Biosignature Based on Modeling Panspermia and TerraformingVisplot: A visibility plot and observation scheduling tool forastronomical observatoriesAI-assisted writing and the reorganization of scientific knowledgeThe Epidemiology of Artificial IntelligenceThe Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Image-based leaf SPAD value and chlorophyll measurement using a mobilephone: enabling accessible and sustainable crop managementComparing the outputs of intramural and extramural grants funded by National Institutes of Health PepHammer – a lightweight web-based tool for bioactive peptide matching and identification My Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDsWhy Most Time Series Models Fail Before They StartDo AI coding agents save scientists time?Using R to Teach R: Lessons for Software DevelopmentSpecialty Crop Research InitiativeWhat is a Specialty Crop?Translational Medicine Postdoctoral FellowshipScience Café Mini-GrantR Packages:glm4: Fitting Generalized Linear Models Using Sparse Matricestinyrox: Minimal R Documentation Generatorbaseverse: Modern Base-R Functionstidyfun: Tidy Functional Data Wrangling and Visualization