The gap between theoretical knowledge and practical implementation remains one of the most persistent challenges in global health. This divide manifests in multiple ways: research that fails to address practitioners’ urgent needs, innovations from the field that never inform formal evidence systems, and capacity building approaches that cannot meet the massive scale of learning required.
Introduction If you missed the first edition of this series of non-linear models posts, go see it now! The human brain is a show-off, really.
Ao longo da minha trajetória como professor, orientador e pesquisador, mas também atuando com equipes profissionais na avaliação de impacto social de empresas e no monitoramento de políticas públicas, uma situação recorrente que frequentemente presenciei era alguém se aproximar e perguntar: – Professor, já tenho minha tese (explicação) pronta. Você sabe onde posso encontrar alguns dados que confirmem minha conclusão? Só falta isso!
It’s December again, and our teams of editors and curators are busy with the many submissions we receive at this time of year.
In the final act of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night , Matt Woods’s John Belushi ice skates in his bee costume in an empty rink in Rockefeller Plaza, as Ella Hunt’s Gilda Radner and the iconic gold statue of Prometheus look on.
This week’s recap highlights a new way to turn Nextflow pipelines into web apps, DRAGEN for fast and accurate variant calling, machine-guided design of cell-type-targeting cis-regulatory elements, a Nextflow pipeline for identifying and classifying protein kinases, a new language model for single cell perturbations that integrates knowledge from literature, GeneCards, etc., and a new method for scalable protein design in a relaxed sequence
Check out the new paper by Jerry Harris, “What exactly is a nuchal ligament and who exactly has one?” This is one of those papers that fires on lots of cylinders for me: it’s interesting, it’s useful, and holy crap, the work that went into it is humbling. Note that of the 75 pages in the PDF, only about the first 20 are text, and the rest comprise two massive, exhaustively-researched and exhaustively-referenced tables. It’s free at VAMP.
New frameworks for course websites are popping up all the time. In this post, I'll review some of them.
Like most years, a mixed bag for me here. Kidney failure continues to be a truly challenging medical fiasco, with AV fistulas, overnight dialysis, hormone therapies, and much much more. I also continue to feel the severe difficulties of my rheumatoid arthritis, which required a hip replacement in April.
OpenCitations and the Barcelona Declaration are happy to announce that the call for participation and contributions to the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2025 is now open. After the success of the 2023 edition, this edition of the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata (WOOC) will take place in Bologna , on 28-29 May 2025 . – https://workshop-oc.github.io.
Since the inception of ChatGPT in late 2022, the question of how AI will change academia is a concern in almost every discipline. Social media and mailing lists alike are flooded with suggestions for new AI-based tools, workflows, or seminars. At the same time, many journal publications now come with some form of AI involvement – from analyzing and interpreting data to the drafting of whole sections.