@albums my favourite Herbie Hancock album. Absolutely love Watermelon Man!

@CellySally I… will need to do some hypothesis testing.

Honorary (fly) JEDI today - inspiring group of young investigators flyjedi.sciencesconf.org

Wherein the author, being a fucking idiot as usual, discovers that it is sooooooooo much easier to create pairwise scatterplot matrices with ggplot2 if you pivot the data into the correct "pairwise long" format first. #rstats

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-06-03_ggplot2-scatterplot-pairs/

uBlock Origin on Bluesky vs Mastodon

@neuralreckoning

Hence huge biases towards known scientists, those the editor met at a poster session, or heard their talk and chatted to over coffee afterwards.

I've had scientists thank me for inviting journal editors to conferences I organised, precisely because it led to them publishing in their journals through that personal connection.

When the biorxiv arrived I felt an immense stream of fresh air. And the eLife new reviewer preprint publication model, despite being just as susceptible to these personal relationships, feels right as an editor – what's interesting is how much editors bring from their old model into this, whereas my approach is to send out for review any manuscript that is a proper, legit attempt at rigorous scientific research, which I claim depends largely on how well and detailed is the Method section written.

A whole other matter is finding suitable reviewers: everyone want to publish but not to review. Which is only logical, given incentives and the academic reward system. Moving into a scientific publication system where papers aren't reviewed seems inevitable. Author reputation will be more important than ever, with all that it implies, particularly for early career scientists.

#ScientificPublishing

It was great talking to Giulia Paci with @preLights about her work and #preprints at the @Co_Biologists #biologists100 earlier this year.

https://youtu.be/0JQMPq0hSEY

And exciting that she is again talking (more science and less preprints) today for the @Dev_journal presents… seminar

https://thenode.biologists.com/development-presents-bsdb-postdoc-poster-prize-winners/development-presents/

#rstats Stoked to say that a new release of {tinyplot} is available on CRAN and R-universe.
https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

Grab it with:

```{r}
install.packages("tinyplot")
```

A quick 🧵 showcasing some new features...

I ran @rheolism's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=c9xFZ #bbcbasic

Coventry's very light rail

Sometimes you see an idea that is so clever you wonder why no one thought of it before. Coventry's proposed very light rail is one of those.

https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/06/coventrys-very-light-rail.html

#Tram #LightRail

Yeah… Science ain’t nothin’ to mess with
Cash rules? Nah—
Grants rule everything around me, G.R.E.A.M.
Get the funding—dollar dollar scheme, y’all.

I grew up on deadlines and tight scopes
PI dreams soaked
In lab coats and peer review quotes
Scholar life—writing late in the night
Jargon so dense, got me losing my sight
It’s the grant cycle, pressure like a vice grip
Rejection slips hit, but I still script
From UKRI to WT games
Jockey for acclaim in the name of acclaim

Rain Money Dogs - Miynt

I had this on pre-order for a while so I forgot where the recommendation came from. Laidback breezy indie revival psyche-ish tunes from Stockholm. Liking this a lot.

#NowListening #NowPlaying #Music

https://miynt.bandcamp.com/album/rain-money-dogs

@mrillig wow! What a day!

I'm briefly quoted in this Guardian piece about "the creatives and academics rejecting AI”.

I’d like to think of myself as a creative but alas I am in the latter category.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/creatives-academics-rejecting-ai-at-home-work

I recently met a colleague working in a part of the Uni called Warwick Applied Health. She pronounced it WAH! and all I could think of was Pete Wylie.

#iykyk #jft96 #music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYOVIc1pwR4