I absolutely adore reveal.js. I've used it as my main slideshow tool for the past years. If you know a bit of HTML/CSS it's super easy to create beautiful and dynamic slides (+ Quarto integration <3). I wrote a short post about my enthusiasm here: danielroelfs.com/posts/ode-to...

✨New blog post✨

Remote sensing of vineyard health 🍇

I felt inspired by a data visualization exhibition I visited a while ago and decided to try my hand at remote sensing and analyzed some satellite images in Python.

danielroelfs.com/posts/remote...

This week on What's New in R:

✅ A new R package by Joey Marshall for accessing elevation data
✅ Overview of what’s new in R 4.5, compiled by Russ Hyde of Jumping Rivers
✅ A guide to replicating Financial Times-style data visualizations, by Daniel Roelfs

Read the issue: buff.ly/Y4HwU4g

#rstats

I admire John Burn-Murdoch's ability to create really effective data visualizations. So much that I took the liberty of breaking down one of his recent figures that made the rounds and see if I could recreate it in R using only ggplot. Here's the breakdown:

danielroelfs.com/blog/financi...

Anyone that uses Strava has access to a large, self-generated (!), dataset 🧡. And at the end of the year it's quite fun to try to parse something interesting and relevant from that dataset: danielroelfs.com/blog/strava-...

See also www.ru.nl/en/research/...

🚨 This will become a curated list of awesome tools for complex trait genetics, **add yours**! it may become a review in which case those who contribute are invited as co-authors.

Last Tuesday I defended my PhD in computational neuroscience and psychiatric genetics 🥳

PhD theses are rarely read outside of the supervisors and committee, so I tried to write it in an accessible way and published a digital version here: thesis.danielroelfs.app

- Daniel Roelfs, PhD

Mendelian randomization users, what should I call a polygenic score created for and used with MR?
I find PGS/PGI confusing to newcomers as not all ways of creating a PGS will do.
Would it be clearer to call this score an allelic score instead? Or something else?

It's hard to explain why scientific publishers like Elsevier and Springer-Nature make the kind of money they do.

So hard that I did the data analysis and wrote it down so I could easily share it and perhaps help others understand how broken the system is:

danielroelfs.com/blog/the-mon...

Our latest paper is now published in Nature Mental Health ✨

We applied a multivariate GWAS implemented through the Bayesian framework in MOSTest on UK Biobank fMRI data and found widespread overlap with psychiatric disorders

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Are people (and neuroscientists in particular) aware that that the SfN chair has a total compensation of about $960.000? That's about 4% of total revenue. I've left academia a while ago and Twitter is terrible since the takeover so maybe I missed some discourse, but it feels that's a lot? Source: