For work I’m reading and taking notes on my blog about cancer biology texts. The following are notes on most chapters of The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. Some of these are not actual chapters (e.g., “Leukemia” is not a chapter). I listened (during many episodes getting a kid to sleep in the middle of the night) to this book borrowed from my local library with the Libby app.
X-ray crystallography is the technique of using the diffraction of x-rays by the electrons in a molecule to determine the positions of all the atoms in that molecule. Quantum theory teaches us that the electrons are to be found in shells around the atomic nuclei. There are two broad types, the outermost shell (also called the valence shell) and all the inner or core shells.
DOI 10.60804/GAPH-5F57 Views from Mike Thelwall, Professor of Data Science Mike Thelwall, Professor of Data Science at the University of Sheffield, UK, has developed free software and methods for social media sentiment analysis and for systematically gathering and analyzing web and social web data.
tl;dr: I made a small contribution to MapComplete that allows adding/editing wayside shrines to OpenStreetMap. Argentina is full of little way-side shrines, to saints recognized by the Catholic church such as San Expedito but also to folk saints that are not recognized by the church, like Difunta Correa and Gauchito Gil.
Complex learning happens when people solve real problems instead of just memorizing facts. Think about the difference between reading about how to ride a bicycle and actually learning to ride one. You cannot learn to ride a bicycle just by reading about it – you need to practice, fall, adjust, and try again until your body understands how to balance. Health challenges work the same way.
Networked learning happens when people learn through connections with others facing similar challenges. Think about how market traders learn their business – not through formal classes, but by connecting with other traders, sharing tips, and learning from each other’s experiences. This natural way of learning through relationships is what networked learning tries to support.
We are pleased to announce that BOSC and the newly-renamed Bio-Ontologies and Knowledge Representation (BOKR) will join forces for a day at ISMB/ECCB 2025!
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I gave a workshop on preregistration to honours students last Friday and mentioned that preregistration provides evidence that you created your hypothesis in advance of seeing the data. The students naturally asked how to prove that the data were collected after the preregistration. I pointed out that one can’t even prove that the data are real. At least, nobody has put together an accepted method for this.
Where the first workshop day had several talks about new and old features of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK), the second day was a hackathon day. We hacked and we talked.