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Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social)
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Chemist (PhD, NYU '97), Bioinformatics mangler, Biomedical Informatics dabbler, Data artisan, R scribbler, Metalloprotein DB creator, former PHP/PEAR kludger.
#Rstats #OpenData #Science #BiomedicalInformatics #DataScience #DataVisualization #OpenSource
#Nature: "Influential list of highly cited #researchers now shuts out more #scientists: here’s why"

#academia #science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03691-4
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"#Chaos is coming for #scholarly #publishing'

#Research #Science

https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-views-of-the-uk-2025-november-chaos-is-coming-for-scholarly-publishing/
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
To teach the new generation #genzplyr by @hadley.nz:

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

"... dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap ..." (whatever that means :-)

#RStats
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
#TIL about a book that deals with #spatial #data management with #duckdb:

duckdb.gishub.org

Repo: github.com/giswqs/duckd...

It's based on the course by the author: geog-414.gishub.org
Spatial Data Management with DuckDB — Spatial Data Management with DuckDB
duckdb.gishub.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A must read by The Steady State: "Accelerating #Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline"

That article left me even more worried by friends and colleagues I got in #USA.

#Democracy

steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerati...
Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline
The Steady State | October 16, 2025
steadystate1.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Just finished viewing this documentary from #Brasil chronicling the #COVID19 #pandemic. Very moving, for me it brought back memories of everything and of those we lost.

Hope we never forget.

"DOCUMENTÁRIO | COVID NO BRASIL - MEMÓRIAS DA RESISTÊNCIA CAPIXABA" www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1vL...
DOCUMENTÁRIO | COVID NO BRASIL - MEMÓRIAS DA RESISTÊNCIA CAPIXABA
YouTube video by TVE Espírito Santo
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
From #BBC: "Largest study of its kind shows #AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory"

www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

#AIAssistant #AIHallucination
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
#TIL that #AlphaXiv, has indexed the datasets mentioned in the #AI papers in #ArXiv that is has indexed:

www.alphaxiv.org?datasets=true

#AI #data
alphaXiv
Discuss, discover, and read arXiv papers.
www.alphaxiv.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
From The Register: "#Microsoft 'illegally' tracked #students via 365 #Education, says #data watchdog"

#surveillance

www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/m...
Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students via 365 Education
: Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR
www.theregister.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reposted by Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social)
Does the news reflect what we die from?
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
An interesting #AI model from Google that could be very useful for #Biomedical & #Health applications, where you need to deal no only with #PII but also #PHI:

"VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private #LLM"

research.google/blog/vaultge...

#DifferentialPrivacy
VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM
research.google
September 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A very interesting post by #MIT about synthetic #data for algorithmic use:

"3 Questions: The pros and cons of synthetic data in #AI"

news.mit.edu/2025/3-quest...

#SyntethicData
3 Questions: The pros and cons of synthetic data in AI
MIT researcher Kalyan Veeramachaneni describes the pros and cons of using synthetic data, which are artificially generated by algorithms, to build and test AI applications and train machine-learning m...
news.mit.edu
September 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study"

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#AI #Health #medicine
Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study
Continuous exposure to AI might reduce the ADR of standard non-AI assisted colonoscopy, suggesting a negative effect on endoscopist behaviour.
www.thelancet.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
See on ex-bird place:

x.com/JoJoFromJerz...
August 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
From Our World in Data: "#Gold export #data suggests that #Peru, one of the world’s largest producers, mines nearly as much informally as it does formally"

ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

#Dataviz #InformalMining
Gold export data suggests that Peru, one of the world’s largest producers, mines nearly as much informally as it does formally
According to official mining output records, Peru mined about 90 tonnes of gold in 2023, far ahead of any other South American country. That puts it within the world’s top 15 producers, just below the...
ourworldindata.org
August 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Reposted by Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪 (@jmcastagnetto@mastodon.social)
Jake Scott is fighting the pandemic that followed Covid, and it's only getting worse.
https://cnn.it/3HiV5Jq
August 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM