January Weiner
@january3.github.io
Bioinformatician, biostatistician, science writer.
About me: https://january3.github.io/
All my photographs are completely free to use, public domain and CC0.
Blog o naukowych różnościach: https://january3.github.io/biokompost/
About me: https://january3.github.io/
All my photographs are completely free to use, public domain and CC0.
Blog o naukowych różnościach: https://january3.github.io/biokompost/
OK, so I am trying Codex and I am positively surprised. Looks like it will do this boring code refactoring and cleaning chore that I have been putting off for months. Until now the things it does look quite good and it even found a new bug.
February 20, 2026 at 9:54 AM
OK, so I am trying Codex and I am positively surprised. Looks like it will do this boring code refactoring and cleaning chore that I have been putting off for months. Until now the things it does look quite good and it even found a new bug.
What I miss on modern social media from Usenet (or even e-mail) is to see only these items that I have not seen yet, no matter how old; "unread" items in my stream. It should be trivial to implement client-side...
February 19, 2026 at 5:31 PM
What I miss on modern social media from Usenet (or even e-mail) is to see only these items that I have not seen yet, no matter how old; "unread" items in my stream. It should be trivial to implement client-side...
LOL, that is a new type of academic spam... threatening instead of politely begging, with a touch of LLM flavour (and yeah, I am definitely ignoring this message on purpose). #science
February 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM
LOL, that is a new type of academic spam... threatening instead of politely begging, with a touch of LLM flavour (and yeah, I am definitely ignoring this message on purpose). #science
Here is mine :) #birds #BirdOfTheDay
February 19, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Here is mine :) #birds #BirdOfTheDay
Yeah, I'm also curious! 🧪 #rstats
I am curious if scientists working in academia are reluctant to publish data of their experiments on social media, due to the possibility of breaking contractual restraints in their job contracts. I definitely have been for the last 11 years.
February 18, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Yeah, I'm also curious! 🧪 #rstats
I am reading "Teaching statistics - a bag of tricks" by Andrew Gelman and Deborah Nolan, and it is such a great book. I love the examples they give. It is also a great textbook on statistics for students, not only for teachers, not all of us had such fantastic statistics courses! #stats #rstats
February 18, 2026 at 12:43 PM
How I hate clickbait. The new study made a more precise dating (300kyr), which excludes humans and neanderthals - previous dating were imprecise, but middle pleistocene was definitely on the table, so not unexpected; however the study does not make a clear cut case as to what lineage this skull is.
"A 300,000-Year-Old Ancient Greek Skull Was neither Human nor Neanderthal. It Belonged to Someone Unexpected"
The calcite that sealed the skull to the Mausoleum chamber wall also preserved the key to its age.
dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/anci...
The calcite that sealed the skull to the Mausoleum chamber wall also preserved the key to its age.
dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/anci...
A 300,000-Year-Old Ancient Greek Skull Was neither Human nor Neanderthal. It Belonged to Someone Unexpected
For 60 years, a skull fused to a Greek cave wall defied science, too human, yet not human enough.
dailygalaxy.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:21 PM
How I hate clickbait. The new study made a more precise dating (300kyr), which excludes humans and neanderthals - previous dating were imprecise, but middle pleistocene was definitely on the table, so not unexpected; however the study does not make a clear cut case as to what lineage this skull is.
LOL, I think that wouldn't be too bad actually
"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40 www.der-postillon.com/2026/02/soci...
"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40
Berlin (dpo) - Gibt es bald ein Social-Media-Verbot für Über-40-Jährige? In einer Pressekonferenz haben genau das Jugendliche heute gefordert. Ihre Fo
www.der-postillon.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:08 PM
LOL, I think that wouldn't be too bad actually
Looks like a nice formatter for linear models output.
🚨 I just released easytable 2.1.0.
It is a small R package I built because I was tired of spending more time fixing regression tables than actually writing.
Still in early stages, feedback is much appreciated!
Tutorial
alfredohs.com/posts/easyta...
#RStats #openscience #datascience
It is a small R package I built because I was tired of spending more time fixing regression tables than actually writing.
Still in early stages, feedback is much appreciated!
Tutorial
alfredohs.com/posts/easyta...
#RStats #openscience #datascience
easytable 2.1.0
A short tutorial for easytable 2.1.0, an R package for creating regression tables with strong defaults.
alfredohs.com
February 18, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Looks like a nice formatter for linear models output.
We have 2026. There are LLMs that can write code and explain calculus and pass the Turing test. There are watches with more computer power than a PDP11. There are robots fighting on the battlefield. E-mail programs:
email threads in Germany be like
Fwd: AW: AW: Fwd: Fwd: AW: WG: Re: WG:
(Read each "AW" as a scream)
Fwd: AW: AW: Fwd: Fwd: AW: WG: Re: WG:
(Read each "AW" as a scream)
February 18, 2026 at 7:59 AM
We have 2026. There are LLMs that can write code and explain calculus and pass the Turing test. There are watches with more computer power than a PDP11. There are robots fighting on the battlefield. E-mail programs:
Nice summary of the table generation packages in R. #rstats
This is the most current one! I'm on team {tinytable} for pretty much everything nowadays
Week 5 FAQs – Data Visualization with R
Use R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data
datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Nice summary of the table generation packages in R. #rstats
Reposted by January Weiner
February 16, 2026 at 10:18 AM
This is big
Could life have begun with simpler molecules than we once thought? A new paper in @science.org by @edogia.bsky.social shows that a tiny RNA catalyst can self-replicate itself, suggesting that life may have been easier to emerge than expected. Getting closer. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This is big
"he told podcaster Theo Von he is "not scared of a germ" because he "used to snort cocaine off toilet seats."" - I don't even
Well that certainly tracks 😳
RFK Jr. Leaves Internet Speechless With Bonkers Reason Why He's 'Not Scared Of A Germ'
www.comicsands.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:34 PM
"he told podcaster Theo Von he is "not scared of a germ" because he "used to snort cocaine off toilet seats."" - I don't even
Big Pharma is evil but not the way some people think. There is no money in third line antibiotics, so there is no research done, vaccines important for low income countries are neglected, but all the time yet another useless but expensive insulin analogue is brought to the market.
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Big Pharma is evil but not the way some people think. There is no money in third line antibiotics, so there is no research done, vaccines important for low income countries are neglected, but all the time yet another useless but expensive insulin analogue is brought to the market.
Reposted by January Weiner
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
Reposted by January Weiner
There's a great new archaeological exhibition at #Berlin's James-Simon-Gallery just opened, showing our finds from #GöbekliTepe and other #TasTepeler sites never before seen outside Urfa officially opened tonight - and it's spectacularly well worth the visit:
www.smb.museum/en/exhibitio...
www.smb.museum/en/exhibitio...
Building community
Göbeklitepe, Taş Tepeler and life 12,000 years ago
www.smb.museum
February 10, 2026 at 9:40 PM
There's a great new archaeological exhibition at #Berlin's James-Simon-Gallery just opened, showing our finds from #GöbekliTepe and other #TasTepeler sites never before seen outside Urfa officially opened tonight - and it's spectacularly well worth the visit:
www.smb.museum/en/exhibitio...
www.smb.museum/en/exhibitio...
February 10, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Post a banger, not in English
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kh5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kh5...
February 10, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Post a banger, not in English
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kh5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kh5...
This looks like a half-assed attempt to "strengthen the results" by duplicating some of the data. Whenever I see something like that I ask myself - would anyone spot it if the person who duplicated the data bothered to think for a few seconds and added some random noise?
Data duplication reported in influential Nature paper on gut microbiome-brain axis
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - A gut-derived metabolite alters brain activity and anxiety b...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: A gut-derived metabolite alters brain activity and anxiety behaviour in mice (2022)
pubpeer.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM
This looks like a half-assed attempt to "strengthen the results" by duplicating some of the data. Whenever I see something like that I ask myself - would anyone spot it if the person who duplicated the data bothered to think for a few seconds and added some random noise?
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"P value is not the probability that there is no difference between groups"
"P value is not the probability that there is no difference between groups"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"There are no technological solutions for social problems."
"There are no technological solutions for social problems."
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
1️⃣"What is your research question?"
2️⃣"What do YOU think is going on?"
1️⃣"What is your research question?"
2️⃣"What do YOU think is going on?"
February 8, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
"P value is not the probability that there is no difference between groups"
"P value is not the probability that there is no difference between groups"
Reposted by January Weiner
OK, this are not the best photographs, but the birds were really far away. These are (in total) three white-tail eagles, photographed near Kamień Pomorski, eating something on the ice covering the Zalew Kamieński. Crows for scale. First time I could photograph them at all in all my life! #birds
February 4, 2026 at 8:38 PM
OK, this are not the best photographs, but the birds were really far away. These are (in total) three white-tail eagles, photographed near Kamień Pomorski, eating something on the ice covering the Zalew Kamieński. Crows for scale. First time I could photograph them at all in all my life! #birds
February 1, 2026 at 6:54 PM
