Teofil Nakov

Interested in using data to make tangible change through conservation, medicine, or development. Before: rather esoteric topics in diatoms.

[IDinsight @IDinsight]

#PRIoritize_Dx is finally ready and available on our website in R-shiny. Now policy makers around the world can use the tool to best plan and utilize limited COVID-19 diagnostics for free! Watch the step by step guide on how to use the tool here: https://t.co/STUnQAUh7C

[IDinsight @IDinsight]

Access both the R-shiny and Excel version of #PRIoritize_Dx on our website here: https://t.co/rOvqkFAeRb Optimize your country’s COVID-19 diagnostic resources and use testing to help limit spread of the virus! @IGHSatUCSF

[IDinsight @IDinsight]

#PRIoritize_Dx: the tool helping policymakers optimize the use of limited COVID-19 diagnostics launches next week! Thanks to @Upwork #WorkTogether grant, we’re launching it in R shiny; making it interactive & easy to use. Here’s Sarah, discussing the partnership @IGHSatUCSF

[Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger]

Morning, today I published a story on the insane fact that only 9% of all plastic produced gets recycled, and the vast majority of single-use plastic in our lives *cannot* be recycled, despite what 40 years of messaging might have you believe https://t.co/Kb9h59byKs

[Lab of Neuro Imaging @USCLONI]

It's a big day @USCLONI! We just launched a new smartphone app, Schol-AR, that has the power to revolutionize how scientific data is shared. @TylerArdPhD built Schol-AR so researchers can embed data viz in papers, posters & more using AR. More here: https://t.co/aX621DtG9N @USC

[Jeremy Beaulieu @phylieu]

Why do scientists seem out of touch and elitist to the public? Junk like this.

[Art Poon @art_poon]

For my #BioInformatics class, I wrote a #d3js interactive #dataviz to teach my students the difference between an unrooted and rooted phylogeny.

This displays a simplified version of the @sabeti_lab's Ebola virus phylogeny - root-to-tip regression is next!

[Will Chase @W_R_Chase]

🎉🎉 I've updated my data essay on remotely triggered earthquakes!! Content is mostly the same, but it now features an improved UI, several bug fixes, and it looks better on more devices (yes, it now works on mobile). Check it out: https://t.co/u3cQvxk2KC

[Nick Strayer @NicholasStrayer]

Building a data-driven CV in R. New blog post detailing how I built my CV/Resume using {{pagedown}}, {{glue}}, and spreadsheets; and how you can too! #rstats

https://t.co/OGWZnMOFw3

[David Leonhardt @DLeonhardt]

Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years:

(Full column: https://t.co/XP0a4Iljti)

[Helena @Helena_LB]

Periodical reminder that .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx files are zip files. Change the file extension to .zip and VOILÀ! Embedded images neatly organized in a folder within.

[Teofil Nakov @teofilnakov]

Веселата зграда со интернационално присуство (Arkansas) cc @A_Golejska

[daniel cadena @cdanielcadena]

🤯 flowers respond to pollinator sound within minutes by increasing nectar sugar concentration 🤯
https://t.co/I2VStf6YLx

[Nicholas Dulvy @NickDulvy]

#Protip There is a very real reason for eliminating TLAs, the average working memory (RAM) of a human is 7 bytes, so two TLAs will bottleneck your reader's ability to understand your paper. Also, use labels & avoid figure legends; same problem.

[Barrett Klein @pupating]

A Sleeping Octopus Changes Color While Dreaming https://t.co/jxgwXzAqd4 via @LaughingSquid

[Mats Töpel @matstopel]

Please spread in your networks. I'm looking to hire a #postdoc in #bioinformatics and #genomics for a project that studies the influence of Loss of Function mutations and adaptation of #phytoplankton. https://t.co/ZoNc1iR3T2

[Lukas Schlögl (@schl.bsky.social) @LukasSchlogl]

Just priceless. An estimated 20% of genetic research papers contain errors because Excel converted some gene names into calendar dates.

[Teofil Nakov @teofilnakov]

Many thanks to @phylieu & @sinkingdiatom for another great collaboration. Also thanks to the reviewers and editors at @journal_evo for thorough, thoughtful, and helpful reviews.

[Teofil Nakov @teofilnakov]

Happy to see our latest paper on #diatom diversification published in Evolution: https://t.co/6H97RyZj0I. We used @phylieu's multistate HiSSE (MuHiSSE) models to test interactions between diversification and marine vs. freshwater and planktonic vs. benthic distributions.

[Teofil Nakov @teofilnakov]

Accompanying the paper are couple of tools for visualizing HiSSE models. An #Rstats package 'utilhisse' (https://t.co/q7QBiCV0I4) and #Shiny app (https://t.co/EX2MBrhwj1).