Population pyramids are a powerful way to visualize demographic data, especially when analyzing age and sex patterns. In this post, I will elaborate a population pyramid using the {ggplot2} package in R, specifically focusing on crime victimization data from Mexico’s National Survey of Victimization and Perception of Public Safety ( Encuesta Nacional de Victimización y Percepción sobre Seguridad Pública , ENVIPE).

So now I can finally get to visualizing the effect of “light” and other modifiers on colors! When I eventually get to the plotly code, there’s nothing tidy going on, so I’ll be code-folding most of this stuff.

I was a bit sleepy getting into the Royal Society Future of Scientific Publishing conference early this morning, but was quickly woken up by the dramatic passion on show as publishers, librarians, academics and funders all got together for a "frank exchange of views" at a meeting that didn't pull any punches! These are my hot-off-the-press livenotes and only lightly edited; a more cleaned up version will be available from the RS in due course.

A strange and interesting aspect of MOND is the External Field Effect (EFE). If physics is strictly local, it doesn’t matter what happens outside of an experimental apparatus, only inside it. Examples of gravitational experiments include an Eötvös-style apparatus in a laboratory or a dwarf galaxy in space: in each case, test masses/stars respond to … Continue reading The minimum acceleration in intergalactic space →

This tidytuesday dataset of colors labels is like the perfect confluence of interests for me! I’ve started learning how to do digital art to illustrate characters for a D&D campaign: Which means I’ve been looking a lot at a color picker that uses Hue, Saturation and Lightness sliders (even though they’re not labelled that way). But I’ve had an interest in colors and color theory for a while.

Continue on to learn why PKP is deeply involved in efforts, such as the Collaborative Metadata initiative (COMET), to improve the completeness and accuracy of metadata.   At PKP, we believe that scholarly publishing should reflect the full diversity of global research and perspectives.

Figure 1: Sexological Bodyworker, Thomas, with participant, Emma, on Virgin Island “It’s like putting two insects together in a jar and seeing what happens…” (Hill, 2014: 3). When we are asked to define reality television this is often the analogy that comes to mind;

This week’s recap highlights an interesting new model of deep ancestral structure shared by humans unearthed using a new coalescent-based HMM (cobraa), a genomic language model for predicting enhancers and their allele-specific activity, atom-level enzyme active site scaffolding using RFdiffusion2, and a new perspective article on multimodal foundation models in biology.

Join us for an open developer forum exploring how R and Rust can work together in bioinformatics and Bioconductor development. Organised and hosted by Lluís Revilla (Bioconductor Community Advisory Board), this online session will discuss technical and practical aspects of using Rust alongside R - discussing extendr, Rust-based package development, and real-world use cases. Whether you’re Rust-curious or already experimenting, all are welcome.

Ever since Werner Heisenberg formulated the uncertainty principle, physics has been grappling with the unsettling realization that the universe does not function like clockwork—a metaphor Newton introduced and which held sway for centuries.

Das OERcamp findet vom 4. bis 6. September 2025 in Hannover an zwei Standorten statt: an der Hochschule Hannover und an der Multi Media BBS (Multi Media Berufsbildende Schulen der Region Hannover). Beide Orte liegen direkt nebeneinander an der Expo Plaza Hannover. Die Anmeldung ist für alle drei Tage oder gezielt für einzelne Schwerpunkte möglich, vom Community-Treffen über das große Barcamp bis zum Tag der Praxis-Workshops am Samstag.