Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@social.cleverlibre.org
Senior lecturer at ZJE and Edinburgh university.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. I study #heterogeneity in #pituitary (and other) cells.
Joined Oct 2022
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I will be leading a #free & #open webinar on Strategies to Support Online #AcademicIntegrity - November 10, 2022. 12-1PM ET.
#Cheating is a #pedagogical issue, not a technological one. This session will provide strategies, tools, & resources to assist #OnlineFaculty & #IDs to better understand how to support online #AcademicHonesty and online faculty and learner success. #OnlineTeaching #OnlineLearning #InstructionalDesign
#StudentSuccess
Registration (free) required: https://sunycpd.eventsair.com/sot/
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Some first floors of threshing barns from #Devon and #Cornwall. The defining feature of a traditional floor is a pair of opposed doors mid way along the side walls, placed to create a through draught for winnowing. In the Southwest the theshing floor was typically above a shippon (cow house). #buildings #archaeology #agriculture #farming #
@schwiening Ohhh I like 'the marathon's runner gland'! I might steal that from you!
Yes there's some evidence that chronic stress can cause hyperplasia of the adrenal, although in the long term it can also cause it to lose its function. It is a delicate balance!
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@Herring1967 I found this explanation very useful when I got here a few days ago.
I wish I could remember who boosted it, so I could thank them again.
I thought I would share this image, which I took a while ago, but that I really like! This is a #pituitary gland where cells expressing a protein called proopiomelanocortin (POMC for short) have been coloured in green. You can see two groups of cells; a very packed band in the middle and some sparse cells on the sides. The first are called melanotrophs, and they are important in determining skin and fur colour. The sparse cells on the sides are called corticotrophs (and that's what I am studying at the moment!) and they are important for the response to #stress . They secrete an #hormone called ACTH which stimulates the production of the stress hormone cortisol from the adrenal gland. At the moment we are trying to understand what happens to this cells after the body is exposed to stress for a prolonged amount of time. #scicomm #biology #science #physiology #microscopy
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@brodriguesco i don't think retrex is a good idea. It's too close to reprex and could cause confusion to people unfamiliar with these packages. Reprex is so vital to good #RStats practice i don't think we should risk affecting its reputation.
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CellPose 2.0 is out - very insightful paper with code examples at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-022-01663-4#code-availability
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In the hopes that this will lead me to my people, I'm just gonna drop this link to my #rstats package for stop detection (or trajectory segmentation, waypoint finding, I don't know, there's a ton of names for it). It's useful for mobility research and #spatiotemporal analysis, but also you can just throw your raw Google location history in there for funsies.
It's kind of like MovingPandas but for R and based on data.table.
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=stopdetection
Bonus vignette!
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/stopdetection/vignettes/stopdetection-vignette.html
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@jesshewitt Oh, nice! I need to learn WebGL at some point... on my todo list! :)
@MrsDi That sounds like a cool job title... what do you exactly do on a day to day basis? I'm always very interested in technology and education!
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People that are on #Mastodon since a few days because of Musk and his antics, writing long essays on how Mastodon is better or worse - don't. Please don't. Your first impression mixed with your hopes and fears are not the objective view you think it is. Give it some time.
@jesshewitt that looks really good! Would you mind sharing what tools you use?
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So here's what I've learned.
Mastodon isn't Twitter.
And that's by design.
You've grown used to things designed to give you that anger rush.
Mastodon is very deliberately built to avoid that.
The temptation is to replicate your Twitter experience.
Picking arguments, amplifying trolls.
Please don't.
This isn't your house, people here put time into building it.
Content warnings, ALT tags.
Don't turn it into a replica of the mess you just left.
If you miss the fights, the birdsite is still there.
@ERDonnachie @shibaprasad
How would you follow a specific tag? I can't seem to find an obvious way...
Hello everyone! Here's my #introduction! I am a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, mostly teaching biomedical #ImageAnalysis and #DataScience ( #machinelearning #statistics and all that jazz) using #rstats and #python. My research interests revolve around #neuroendocrinology that is, understanding how your brain controls the production of hormones in your body. I am particularly interested in the role of #heterogeneity of cells in the #pituitary gland and how that contributes to generating the right pattern of hormones at the right time!
@pokerface@sfba.social @freemo The majority up to a certain level. Certainly not the majority of university professors unfortunately (and yes, things are changing but we're not yet there).
Senior lecturer at ZJE and Edinburgh university.
I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. I study #heterogeneity in #pituitary (and other) cells.
Joined Oct 2022
