Episode 21: Eukaryote Fell Down and Broke Its Crown

Get ready for air-quality environmental DNA, multiple British spinosaurids, a lost branch of the eukaryotic family tree, bioinks for space, GLM proselytizing, and Small Business Innovation Research grants. Science On. References: Air-quality networks collect environmental DNA with the potential to measure biodiversity at continental scales Buckling Metamaterials for Extreme Vibration Damping Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea from Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent sediment oxidize petroleum alkanes Isolated tooth reveals hidden spinosaurid dinosaur diversity in the British Wealden Supergroup (Lower Cretaceous) Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown Bioinks for Space Missions: The Influence of Long-Term Storage of Alginate-Methylcellulose-Based Bioinks on Printability as well as Cell Viability and Function Python 3.11.4, 3.10.12, 3.9.17, 3.8.17, 3.7.17, and 3.12.0 beta 2 are now available Visualize the Spearman rank correlation Update to Data Science Software Popularity Why GLMs should be a priority when teaching statistics How to improve your storytelling with R Simulating confounders, colliders and mediators by @ellis2013nz NIAID: New Innovators Awards USDA: 2023 SPSD Collaborative Soil Science Research NSF: Small Business Innovation Research/ Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I R Packages: ami: Checks for Various Computing Environments rtms: R Toolkit for Mass Spectrometry gptzeror: Identify Text Written by Large Language Models using 'GPTZero'