Episode 7: Life, the R-Universe, and Everything

Get ready for an exploration of the R-Universe, simulated octopus tentacles, effects of Vitamin D and exercise on health, fossil wings and fins, statistical conferences to set your calendar by, and a very special 23rd birthday.  Science On. References: Energy-shaping control of a muscular octopus arm moving in three dimensions Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life Origin of the propatagium in non-avian dinosaurs Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving depression, anxiety and distress: an overview of systematic reviews MoBIE: a Fiji plugin for sharing and exploration of multi-modal cloud-hosted big image data 3D printing of living structural biocomposites Network expansion of genetic associations defines a pleiotropy map of human cell biology A shape-shifting nuclease unravels structured RNA Systematics and Phylogenetic Interrelationships of the Enigmatic Late Jurassic Shark Protospinax annectans Woodward Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia: Effects of sex, APOE, and baseline cognitive status JuliaHub Newsletter February 2023 Bioconductor Conference 2023 PhyloPic R 4.2.3 R-universe January 2023: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages Happy 23rd Birthday R! NIH: Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics (R01) NIH: Translational Research in Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics (R21) NIH: Genomic Community Resources (U24) CDC: Clinical and Applied Research Strategies for the Prevention and Control of Fungal Diseases USDA: USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spatial Statistics for Continental-Scale Soil Health Modeling TSC Alliance: 2023 Grant Cycle CHEST: COPD Research Grant CHEST: Young Investigator Research Grant R-packages: aihuman: Experimental Evaluation of Algorithm-Assisted Human Decision-Making reactCheckbox: Checkbox Group Input for 'Shiny' treediff: Testing Differences Between Families of Trees rutledge: Real-Time PCR Data Sets by Rutledge et al. (2004)