M.Rey

Trying to understand biochemical oddities in Nature. Emphasis on TRYING.

[Carolina Grandellis @cgrandellis]

https://t.co/ppStNgvLMw

[Ali H. Shaib @AliHShaib]

Hello world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy.
1,000,000,000× expansion by volume! A gel that starts at a few centimeters will then expand to the volume of an Olympic swimming pool. https://t.co/E43kxx4O5M
In our new bioRxiv preprint, work carried out between MIT and UMG, led by Helena Hu in collaboration with scientists from the labs of @eboyden3 Ed Boyden, Silvio Rizzoli, and myself, we present Thousandfold Expansion Microscopy.
By enlarging biological specimens across multiple rounds of expansion, molecular-scale features, as small as the distances between adjacent amino acids, can be visualized with conventional optical microscopes.
Democratizing super-resolution microscopy.

[Joachim Schork @JoachimSchork]

Visualizing gene structures in R? gggenes, an extension of ggplot2, simplifies the process of creating clear and informative gene diagrams, making genomic data easier to interpret and share.

✔️ Plot gene arrows to represent gene locations and orientations.
✔️ Visualize genomic features, including transcripts and operons.
✔️ Customize labels, colors, and layouts for clear presentations.

Whether you're working on genome annotation, comparative genomics, or molecular biology research, gggenes provides a flexible and user-friendly way to display complex gene structures with clarity.

The visualization shown here is taken from the package website: https://t.co/nutneLhvby

For a deeper dive into creating impactful visualizations with ggplot2 and its extensions, don’t miss my online course "Data Visualization in R Using ggplot2 & Friends!" Click this link for detailed information: https://t.co/ztlEzoEDWv

#RStats #Rpackage #DataAnalytics #ggplot2 #datastructure #DataViz

[M.Rey @Rey_is_Rex]

@sabrina_absalon @LiffnerBen @JVR_Lab Wow! Mouth-watering images, Congratulations!

[Sabrina Absalon @sabrina_absalon]

Congratulations 🎉 to @LiffnerBen
Thiago and @JVR_Lab. Take a look at our new article to see how we perform #UExM on Mosquito organs. https://t.co/z9t7jRtlZ5

[The EMBO Journal @embojournal]

One in one out at the mitochondrial inner membrane!

Human mitochondrial carriers of the SLC25 family function as monomers exchanging substrates with a ping-pong kinetic mechanism

https://t.co/044kHgIQYC

[Dr. Verónica Espinoza @Verukita1]

❤ 6 tools for illustrating your scientific works! (FREE)
👉Read my Medium Story here: https://t.co/KTd0I7tslq
#science #opensource #phd #bioinformatics #neuroscience #Statistics #Datavisualization #Biology #DataScience #AcademicChatter #research #Pharmacology #psychology

[Dr. Verónica Espinoza @Verukita1]

📕R for Non-Programmers: A Guide for Social Scientists (free) 2024.
💥A helpful resource for anyone looking to use R for their research projects.
👉https://t.co/byWq7RaR7X
#Statistics #Datavisualization #DataScience #rstats #Python #machinelearning #bioinformatics #neuroscience

[Dr. Verónica Espinoza @Verukita1]

💥Do you already know Tulip tool? (free)
❤Learn about this tool and 15 other network analysis tools in this story I wrote on Medium!
👉https://t.co/PpzqVGQBFz
#networkscience #AcademicTwitter #DataVisualization #phdvoice #NodeXL #ai #machinelearning #DataScience #Bioinformatics

[Aoife Heaslip @atheaslip]

Cytoskeleton and Parasites - A winning combination! Join us this Friday!!

[EMBL Events @EMBLEvents]

🔬 The EMBO Practical Course 'Ultrastructure expansion microscopy' came to an end yesterday 🌟
Thanks to the participants and organisers of #EMBOExM for their invaluable contributions to the success of this course 🙏

Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors ✨

[Jungmann Lab @JungmannLab]

30-COLOR DNA-PAINT at 3D sub-15 nm RESOLUTION. We are overly excited to announce the publication of our latest work “Spatial proteomics in neurons at single-protein resolution” in @CellCellPress. Huge collaborative effort led by @EduardUnterauer. 1/9

https://t.co/w9BHydkC6B

[nature @Nature]

Analysis of a random selection of papers shared on social media showed no causative link between posting and citations https://t.co/IteIlqfUcm

[M.Rey @Rey_is_Rex]

Highly recommended!

[Ross Laidlaw @Ross_IgE]

Applications for this year's University of Glasgow Bioinformatics summer school are now open!!

If you want to know more about the wonderful world of genomics and transcriptomics, then come join us for a bumper one/two week odyssey.

https://t.co/OUWQpgrxvq

[R Markdown @rmarkdown]

ggplot2 themes for publication ready plots including dark themes by @koundy87 https://t.co/WpYiWpWd6Y #rstats #datavitz #ggplot2 #datascience

[good papers @paperperday]

Engineering Cas9: next generation of genomic editors
https://t.co/SWCTGMAZwH

[Patrick Hsu @pdhsu]

Just shared at @KeystoneSymp a new @ArcInstitute discovery of the bridge RNA recombinase mechanism: a new class of natural RNA-guided systems that retains the key property of programmability from RNAi and CRISPR while enabling large-scale genome design beyond RNA and DNA cuts

[Global Calgary @GlobalCalgary]

Global News Calgary traffic reporter @global_leslie responds to an email criticising her choice of clothes. #yyc

[Kevin Terretaz @kWolbachia]

I'm super glad @drjomayPhd has made a youtube video video tutorial presenting my Visualization Toolset for #imageJ and #Fiji 🤩
Check it out there! : https://t.co/JT06yegEc9
and happy #FluorescenceFriday

[Publishing with Integrity @fake_journals]

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How the Big Five Academic Publishers Profit from Article Processing Charges

Spoiler alert : Their revenue was over US$ 1 billion between 2015-2018

A recent paper looks at the "big 5" publishers (@ElsevierConnect, @Sage_Publishing, @SpringerNature, @tandfonline and @WileyGlobal) and estimates their revenue from Article Processing Charges (APCs).

Here are the messages we took from the paper:

1⃣ Between 2015-2018 it is estimated that authors paid $1.06 in publication fees to these five publishers.

2⃣ Springer-Nature made the most revenue ($588.7 million) followed by Elsevier ($221.4 million), Wiley ($114.3 million), Taylor & Francis ($76.8 million) and Sage ($31.6 million)

3⃣ The data was collected from @Clarivate, @unpaywall, open datasets of APC list prices and historical prices retrieved from @waybackmachine.

4⃣ The APC's used in their calculations were based on those used in the year the paper was published. This is to be applauded. It would have been MUCH easier to take the current APC's but this would over estimate the revenue.

5⃣ To give an example of how the APC's could have been over estimated, a Wiley journal, in 2015 charged $3,000. In 2023, the fee is $4,020. If you used today's fee for a 2015 article the over estimate would be 34%.

6⃣ The number of #OpenAccess articles over the four year period of study (2015-2018) increased from 91,375 articles in 2015 to 153,746 articles in 2018.

7⃣ Over the four-year period studied, it is estimated that Scientific Reports obtained $105.1 million in APC's and Nature Communications obtained $71.1 million. These journals are both published by Springer-Nature.

8⃣ The high income of Scientific Reports can be partly explained by the fact that it published 73,206 articles.

9⃣ Three Springer-Nature journals had the highest average APC's; Diabetes Therapy ($5,478), Infectious Diseases and Therapy ($5,295) and Rheumatology and Therapy ($5,169)

🔟The three countries that paid the largest amounts of APC's were USA, $184.7 million; China, $148.0 million and the UK ($134.6 million)

You can access the article here: https://t.co/ZaCHuyRMUF

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