Science Research Weekly

Mark R Williamson

A weekly overview of helpful scientific research topics and the successor of the podcast Statistics Weekly. Every week, I will cover 3 topic areas: Research Articles, Research Tools, and Research Funding. Science On.

  1. Cave Robots in Space (Season 5: Episode 3)

    3 DAYS AGO

    Cave Robots in Space (Season 5: Episode 3)

    Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 3, Cave Robots in Space. Get ready for endoplasmic reticulum remodeling, marine bacteria streamlining shortcomings, robotic run-throughs of space-cave explorations, non-exponential growth for AI, viral protein immune escape constraints, the Top 40 new CRAN packages of December 2025, and pilot projects from the NIH on using common fund data sets. Science On. References: ER remodelling is a feature of ageing and depends on ER-phagy Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave Protein Autoregressive Modeling via Multiscale Structure Generation Primordial black holes as cosmic accelerators of light dark matter: Novel direct detection constraints Are AI Capabilities Increasing Exponentially? A Competing Hypothesis Habitat fragmentation controls bacterial community composition outcomes Constrained Evolutionary Funnels Shape Viral Immune Escape A deep-learning-based score to evaluate multiple sequence alignments December 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages caugi (Causal Inference), phylospatia (Genetics), distionary (Statistics), svgedit (Utilities) Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) R Packages: regextable: Pattern-Based Text Extraction and Standardization with Lookup Tables fru: A Blazing Fast Implementation of Random Forest marinepredator: Marine Predators Algorithm

    8 min
  2. Beat AI By Being Above Average (Season 5: Episode 2)

    2 FEB

    Beat AI By Being Above Average (Season 5: Episode 2)

    Get ready for supermassive dark stars, human creativity versus AI, unsinkable metal tubes, robot-assisted microscopy, the Collaborative Microbial Metabolite Center knowledgebase, and a grant to strengthen agricultural systems. Science On. References: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/12/1/1https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-25157-3https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ae2b6f/pdfhttps://advanced-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.library.und.edu/doi/epdf/10.1002/adfm.202526033https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20849https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20808https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20776https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.24.701521v1https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.698081v1https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701945v1https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/c026db8a-157d-42de-bac7-4baf5602cd0a R Packages: glmSTARMA: (Double) Generalized Linear Models for Spatio-Temporal Datarepfun: Create Tables, Listings and Figures using Functions Styled after SAS™ MacrosGimmeMyStats: Statistics Utilities

    9 min
  3. Back for More Science (Season 5: Episode 1)

    26 JAN

    Back for More Science (Season 5: Episode 1)

    Science Research Weekly is back, with new content, deeper dives, and all the science updates you’ve been craving. This week, from viruses in space to 3D visualizations of automotive undercarriages, we’re covering scientific articles, preprints, software, blogs, and grant opportunities. Science On. References: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003568 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02962-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09971-3 https://www.jstatsoft.org/issue/view/v115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14213 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14208 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700692v1.full.pdf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.17.700094v1.full.pdf https://journal.r-project.org/issues/2025-3/ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/setting-up-a-cluster-of-tiny-pcs-for-parallel-computing-a-note-to-myself/ https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2026/01/07/9-dataviz-distrib-sas-part1.html https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2026/01/14/9-dataviz-distrib-sas-part_2.html https://www.vastspace.com/science-rfp-eligibility R-PACKAGES: col2hex2col: Convert Between Color Names and Hex Codes VennItem: Generate Venn Diagrams with Items Listed in the Sections

    11 min
  4. So Long and Thansk for All the Stats (Season 4: Episode 41)

    22/12/2025

    So Long and Thansk for All the Stats (Season 4: Episode 41)

    Welcome to the final episode of Science Research weekly for 2025. Covering November and December.

    18 min
  5. Beating Blindness and Resilient Microbiomes (Season 4: Episode 40)

    24/10/2025

    Beating Blindness and Resilient Microbiomes (Season 4: Episode 40)

    Get ready for the PRIMA system to treat age-related blindness, surprising chemistry on Saturn's moon Titan, Kagome tubes for vibration damping in engineering, the R-Multiverse, and a grant on the Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome. Science On. References: Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMDSnOx Nanoflakes as Enhanced Near-Infrared Photothermal Therapy Agents Synthesized from Electrochemically Oxidized SnS2 PowdersHydrogen cyanide and hydrocarbons mix on TitanTopological polarization of kagome tubes and applications toward vibration isolationPotassium-40 isotopic evidence for an extant pre-giant-impact component of Earth’s mantleOverlay multiple custom density curves on a histogram in SASGo for Launch! Packages Shipped to the R-MultiverseWhat’s new for Python in 2025?leap: Foundations of a Resilient MicrobiomeChan Zuckerberg Initiative: Implementation of Synthetic Biology Principles in Immunology R Packages: alpmixBayes: Bayesian Estimation for Alpha-Mixture Survival ModelsbayesQRsurvey: Bayesian Quantile Regression Models for Complex Survey Data Analysisarete: Automated REtrieval from TExtnbpInference: Inference on Average Treatment Effects for Continuous Treatmentspartialling.out: Residuals from Partial Regressions

    8 min
  6. When It Rains, It's Aliens (Season 4: Episode 39)

    17/10/2025

    When It Rains, It's Aliens (Season 4: Episode 39)

    Get ready for neuronal nanotubes, comet versus alien for interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, rain on the Sun, the R Journal 17/2, citation metric distortion, and more new Science Spotlight videos. Science On. References: Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular networkIs the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?Spatiotemporal Low First Ionization Potential Abundance: A Catalyst for Coronal CondensationTree swallows as indicators of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure and effects at select Department of Defense sites along the East Coast and at sites with different sources in the Upper Midwest, United States90% of science is lost. This new AI just found itR Journal Volume 17/2New, work-in-progress book on spatial data visualization in RBeyond Fraud: How IHME Distorts Academic MetricsScience Spotlight R Packages: descsuppRplots: Generate Plots for All Variables in Descriptive Tablesmedicalcoder: Tools for Working with ICD Codes and Comorbidity AlgorithmsGINAX: Performs Genome-Wide Iterative Fine-Mapping for Non-Gaussian Data using GINA-XeasyRef: Easy Reference Generation for R Packages

    9 min
  7. Metal Power and Mitochondria Precision (Season 4: Episode 38)

    10/10/2025

    Metal Power and Mitochondria Precision (Season 4: Episode 38)

    Get ready for chromosomal instability suppression in breast cancer, the marine origins of leeches, metal-laced hydrogels, better simulations in R, and a grant on Precision Mitochondria. Science On. References: Epigenetic regulation of chromosomal instability by EZH2 methyltransferaseThe first leech body fossil predates estimated hirudinidan origins by 200 million yearsHydrogel-Based Vat Photopolymerization of Ceramics and Metals with Low Shrinkages via Repeated Infusion PrecipitationDeploy Multiple Shiny Apps from One R PackageA new simstudy function to make simulating replications easierARIA: Precision Mitochondria R Packages: mda.biber: Functions for Multi-Dimensional Analysispwranova: Power Analysis of Flexible ANOVA Designs and Related Testssummarytabl: Generate Summary Tables for Continuous, Ordinal, and Categorical Data

    5 min
  8. Eat Electronics, Not Wetsuits (Season 4: Episode 37)

    03/10/2025

    Eat Electronics, Not Wetsuits (Season 4: Episode 37)

    Get ready for direct pain relief, pollutant breakdown with biochar, shark-attack resistant wetsuits, an updated timetree for Fungi, edible electronics, simulating the Monty Hall problem in R, the Top 40 New CRAN Packages for August 2025, and the DARPA Young Faculty Award. This episode covers material from September 26th to October 2nd. Science On. References: Targeting prostaglandin E2 receptor 2 in Schwann cells inhibits inflammatory pain but not inflammationThe geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxidesStructure-performance relationship of biochar for direct degradation of organic pollutantsDOLPHIN advances single-cell transcriptomics beyond gene level by leveraging exon and junction readsEffectiveness of bite-resistant materials to reduce injuries from white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) bitesNanotechnology-driven coordination of shoot–root systems enhances rice nitrogen use efficiencyDetection of organic compounds in freshly ejected ice grains from Enceladus’s oceanA timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfersPrinted Integrated Logic Circuits Based on Chitosan-Gated Organic Transistors for Future Edible SystemsSimulating Monty Hall’s ProblemPlotting Distributions in RAugust 2025 Top 40 New CRAN PackagesSpurious Correlations in R – Correlation is not CausationLearning And Exploring The Workflow of RNA-Seq Analysis – A Note To MyselfDARPA: Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2026 R Packages: eDNAfuns: Working with Metabarcoding Data in a Tidy Formatspuriouscorrelations: Datasets with Strong and Spurious Correlations

    11 min
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A weekly overview of helpful scientific research topics and the successor of the podcast Statistics Weekly. Every week, I will cover 3 topic areas: Research Articles, Research Tools, and Research Funding. Science On.

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  • Creator
    Mark R Williamson
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    184
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