Science Research Weekly

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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.

  1. Space Hummus and 3D Ants (Season 5: Episode 7)

    6H AGO

    Space Hummus and 3D Ants (Season 5: Episode 7)

    Hello and welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 7. Get ready for 3D ants via synchrotron, recycled aluminum alloys, chickpeas in lunar regolith, planet collisions, World Mouse, R version "Reassured Reassurer", estimating pi by tossing coins, and a grant on reducing housing hazards. Science On. References: High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversityNew ORNL aluminum alloy to strengthen domestic auto supply chainBioremediation of lunar regolith simulant through mycorrhizal fungi and plant symbioses enables chickpea to seedGaia-GIC-1: An Evolving Catastrophic Planetesimal Collision CandidateThe 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ and the evolution of complex integrative centers in animalsCryptic species are widespread across vertebratesSearching for Magnetic White Dwarfs in LAMOST DR10World Mouse: Exploring Interactions with a Cross-Reality CursorHunting for microsatellite instability in long-read data with Owl R 4.5.3 is releasedEstimate pi by tossing coinsHousing-Related Hazards and Lead-Based Paint Capital Fund Program R Packages:wstats: Weighted Descriptive Statisticsggwidth: Standardise 'ggplot2' Geom WidthAV1R: 'AV1' Video Encoding for Biological Microscopy Data

    7 min
  2. Spinosaurus with an Attitude (Season 5: Episode 6)

    MAR 2

    Spinosaurus with an Attitude (Season 5: Episode 6)

    Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 6. Get ready for quorum sensing for bacterial engineering, an antibiotic-resistant microbe on ice, a new scimitar-crested spinosaurid, planetesimal snowmen, sheepox viral evolution, the fate of horizontally acquired genes, the R Journal Volume 17/4, and a grant for Feed the Future innovation labs. Science On. References: Revision of the trematosaurid Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis confirms a cryptic marine temnospondyl community from the Lower Triassic of Western Australia Construction and Functional Characterization of a Heterologous Quorum Sensing Circuit in Clostridium sporogenes First genome sequence and functional profiling of Psychrobacter SC65A.3 preserved in 5,000-year-old cave ice: insights into ancient resistome, antimicrobial potential, and enzymatic activities Scimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiation Direct contact binary planetesimal formation from gravitational collapse Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor Exocometary physics: material release and tails Searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model in hyperon sector 3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes The fate of horizontally acquired genes: rapid initial turnover followed by long-term persistence The R Journal: Volume 17/4 Comparing flavor characteristics of Scotch whiskies: A principal component analysis Little useless-useful R functions – Typing speed benchmark Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems Feed the Future Innovation Labs R Packages: bigMICE: Multiple Imputation of Big Data bracketeer: Tournament Generator phymapnet: Phylogeny-Guided Bayesian Microbial Network Inference tReeTraits: Calculate Tree Traits from Terrestrial Lidar ort: Create a Data Frame Representation of an Image tinyimg: Optimize and Compress Images

    11 min
  3. Oops, All Singularities! (Season 5: Episode 5)

    FEB 23

    Oops, All Singularities! (Season 5: Episode 5)

    Hello and welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 5, Oops, All Singularities! Get ready for tiny nanopores, a supernova-skipping black hole, kidney disease ultrasounds by robot, and keeping files organized for publication. Science On. References: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68800-xhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt4853https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16673https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16641https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706223v2https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.24.629435v2https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693795v2https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/keeping-files-organised-for-publication/ R Packages: Framework: Structured Data ScienceProject ScaffoldinggsDesignNB: Sample Size andSimulation for Negative Binomial OutcomesSimtablR: Easy Publication-ReadyTables and Regression AnalysisScholid: Tools for Scholarly andAcademic Identifiers R Packages: Framework: Structured Data Science Project Scaffolding gsDesignNB: Sample Size and Simulation for Negative Binomial Outcomes SimtablR: Easy Publication-Ready Tables and Regression Analysis Scholid: Tools for Scholarly and Academic Identifiers References: Chemistry-drivenautonomous nanopore membranes Disappearanceof a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy due to formation of a black hole NeighborhoodStability as a Measure of Nearest Neighbor Searchability TowardsAutonomous Robotic Kidney Ultrasound: Spatial-Efficient Volumetric Imaging viaTemplate Guided Optimal Pivoting Differentialanalysis of genomics count data with edge* Virus-freecontinuous directed evolution in human cells using somatic hypermutation TranscriptionalActivation of Estrogen Receptor-alpha and Estrogen Receptor-beta from ElephantShark (Callorhynchus milii) Keeping files organised forpublication   R Packages: Framework: Structured Data ScienceProject Scaffolding gsDesignNB: Sample Size andSimulation for Negative Binomial Outcomes SimtablR: Easy Publication-ReadyTables and Regression Analysis Scholid: Tools for Scholarly and AcademicIdentifiers

    6 min
  4. And the Crowd Goes Wild for Chitons (Season 5: Episode 4)

    FEB 17

    And the Crowd Goes Wild for Chitons (Season 5: Episode 4)

    Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 4, And the Crowd Goes Wild for Chitons. Get ready for genes before the last common ancestor, a new Cold Earth, herbivorous microsaurs, lava tubes on Venus, a publicly-named chiton species, paleontology R packages, and the Protean grant from DARPA. Science On. References: Universal paralogs provide a window into evolution before the last universal common ancestorA Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone?Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivoryOcean Species Discoveries 28–30 — new species of chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) and a public naming competitionRadar-based observation of a lava tube on VenusFormalization and inevitability of the Pareto principleLight to Heavy, Brief to Eternal: An Axion for Every Occasion (in the Early Universe)Reading TEA leaves for de novo protein designA toolkit for programmable transcriptional engineering across eukaryotic kingdomsTemporal dynamics of microbiome communities within urban compost piles undergoing the heat processIntroducing geoboundariesPaleontology R Packages to Benefit from Software Sustainability Institute GrantAdvancing Bioinformatics, Translational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Protean R Packages: mixpower: Simulation-Based Power Analysis for Mixed-Effects Models aesopR: Tools for Text Analysis of Aesop's Fables ohvbd: One Health VBD Hub statuser: Statistical Tools Designed for End Users

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

    FEB 9

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

    FEB 2

    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
  7. Back for More Science (Season 5: Episode 1)

    JAN 26

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

    12/22/2025

    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
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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
    188
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