Alex Douglas

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[Alex Douglas @Scedacity]

Interested in learning #RStats? We've now made our @UoABioSci 'Introduction to R' book open access. 350 pages covering all the basics as well as using Rmarkdown and Git. Fantastic collaboration with @DeonRoos88 @Frances_Mancini @AnaSofiaCouto @lusseau https://t.co/zslUadkNwH

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Polish mountaineer scaled his country's highest peak, Rysy, which is 2,499 metres (8,199 feet) high and found a cat.

[📹 Wojtek Jabczyński]
https://t.co/HB9NnC54D6

[Cecile Gubry-Rangin @micecoevo]

📢PhD position on microbial ecology currently open for applications: " Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of sponge-associated microbial communities" on https://t.co/fS9YT6tz9h. Please check our website for more info as well: https://t.co/yXkrqHq9mk

[Carlisle Rainey @carlislerainey]

One of my favorite recent papers is Kane (2024).

While pitched (effectively and usefully) as a paper about compelling null results, many of the action items are ways to boost power.

IMO, it provides a great checklist to make sure you're maximizing power.

CC: @UptonOrwell

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

Abstract Structure

#Research #PhD #academictwitter #postdoc #scholarshipfphd

[Significance @signmagazine]

"Don’t be steamrollered by clinicians"

Working life for some medical statisticians can feel like playing second fiddle, according to our latest free-to-read article: https://t.co/9cdXwMVzmR

#statistics #freetoread

[Kyle Walker @kyle_e_walker]

In @quarto_pub, use these options to fold long code blocks with a custom message:

#| code-fold: true
#| code-summary: "Your message here"

This is particularly useful for code-based blog posts.

See an example here: https://t.co/ZGlPd7q6Vz

#rstats

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

Statisticians chuckle, but I've seen doctors gleefully log(1+y) and then fit lines through that log-swamp garbage and then get published in The Lancet so who's laughing now

Seriously log(1+y) bad - model the data generating process. An area where ecologists do well actually!

[Kyle Walker @kyle_e_walker]

The pace of innovation in data science is astounding (and I'm not talking about AI!)

2 years ago, I wrote in my book about analyzing a 92 million row @ipums CSV file using a database in #rstats

Now: just point `arrow::open_dataset()` at it and ` collect()` what you need!

[John Blischak @jdblischak]

#rstats PSA: Reminder to all R users on Ubuntu that you can quickly and easily install CRAN binaries with the amazing #r2u from @eddelbuettel. I just had to setup a new Ubuntu 22.04 machine, and it was as easy as

sudo bash add_cranapt_jammy.sh

https://t.co/T1pd0E7fRi

[Dr David Yates @DavidYatesPhD]

(thread)

Old joke about a new VC shared on our committee list: On his first day in office, he finds a letter on his desk from his predecessor and three numbered envelopes. The letter says, 'You will encounter crises in this job. When they arrive, open these letters in turn'

[Graeme Paton @graemepaton007]

Delighted to announce that in a recent visit to China we have developed a postgraduate training partnership with the Xianghu Lab in Hangzhou where we will share approaches in science to address food security and environmental change @UoABioSci

[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

Tag: @mitpress | @LeighkButler | @l_matthia | @marcandresim | @philippemongeon | @stefhaustein

[Alex Douglas @Scedacity]

@NsengimaanaB @UoABioSci @DeonRoos88 @Frances_Mancini @AnaSofiaCouto @lusseau Great to hear that you're enjoying our book. Please let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions.

[Alex Douglas @Scedacity]

Interested in learning #RStats? We've now made our @UoABioSci 'Introduction to R' book open access. 350 pages covering all the basics as well as using Rmarkdown and Git. Fantastic collaboration with @DeonRoos88 @Frances_Mancini @AnaSofiaCouto @lusseau https://t.co/zslUadkNwH

[Andrew Gelman et al. @StatModeling]

“You need 16 times the sample size to estimate an interaction than to estimate a main effect,” explained
https://t.co/6ZVQkSqUUa

[Stewart Plaistow @StewPlaistow]

Please RT - Funded #PhD opportunity in my group studying nanoplastic particles and their ecological and evolutionary significance in replicated whole ecosystems. With @Howbeer @TomOMcDonald and Steve Morris @DefraGovUK as case partner. Deadline Jan 8th https://t.co/Cljeo3fAdP

[Stephen Turner @strnr]

I've been writing R code daily for >15 years and just today learned of strrep (base #Rstats)

[Sumanth @Sumanth_077]

Statistics 110: Probability by Harvard University.

Inarguably, one of the best probability courses on the web and it's Free!

https://t.co/TJfLjT6ISn

[Madza 👨‍💻⚡ @madzadev]

IBM is offering 12 Online Coding Courses 🔥🔥

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[Steven Salzberg 💙💛 @StevenSalzberg1]

Our paper debunking the 2020 cancer microbiome results is now published, in @mbiojournal. We'll see if @nature (or the authors) will retract these deeply flawed results. h/t @ProfBootyPhD @EricTopol https://t.co/hBvfGCvyGR