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.
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 each other’s gravity. The MOND force depends on the acceleration from all sources;
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.
“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.
One more Positron-related post! It’s a quick one, just to highlight one feature I think is really neat and helpful: the Connections Pane. In a newer research project I’m working on, I have geocoded data for every foreign aid project run by most donor countries since 1989.
From April 23rd to 25th, 2025, we hosted the first Bioconductor microbiome course in Brazil, a three-afternoon workshop held at the Interunits Post-Graduate Program of Bioinformatics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (link) in Belo Horizonte.
The past is powerful evidence for arguments about the present.