it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

Happy Pluripotency Day! #Oct4

write good papers and die happy

Our next extraordinary biologist is Janet Rossant, President of @gairdnerawards.bsky.social, Canada, Senior Scientist Emeritus at SickKids, Canada, and former @dev-journal.bsky.social Editor. #100biologists

Let’s not lose hope that we can find our way to a better world. It might take time but we should realize that we aren’t the product of warring #SelfishGenes but the creation of #CooperativeCells
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A blastoid will implant in mud if you throw it hard enough.