If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Here's an excellent collection of bad graph practices and examples of improving them. Bonus: Also includes R scripts that help you start on the right foot for making the better versions of plots!

Chenxin Li, PhD@chenxinli2.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here is a thread showcasing my GitHub repositories: 1) Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs. An opinionated essay on good and bad graphs. My popular one by a long shot with 6.4k stars and 248 forks. github.com/cxli233/Frie...

We developed an RNA enzyme that adds barcodes to 16S rRNA to track bacterial DNA exchange in wastewater, identifying plasmid hosts via sequencing. This surpasses fluorescence methods by enabling multi-sample/plasmid analysis. Paper: go.nature.com/440gL5E. More technical details: shorturl.at/Y4KnA

Information storage across a microbial community using universal RNA barcoding - Nature Biotechnology

Barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a recording of gene transfer events without requiring translation.

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