Then we invite you to a #workshop based upon a cross-UK survey of undergraduate teaching in study design and data analysis for #Biology, #Biomedical Science, #Medicine and #Psychology. The workshop aims to critically examine teaching practice with an eye on improving research reproducibility as a part of science reform.
What can you gain from the workshop?
Cross-disciplinary perspective on the challenges faced and approaches to overcome them, and solidarity that comes from openly discussing challenges;
Resources for teaching/to influence teaching of stats in an attendees’ own institution;
Opportunity to benchmark your teaching programs versus those nationwide;
Opportunity to gain “outside the box” (cross-discipline) perspective on why and how to teach study design and analysis;
Knowledge of approaches and software people are using across UK to do/teach data analysis.
The workshop will occur 12 June, 2024, at the University of Manchester. We anticipate the fee will be less than £20 (and will most likely be free)
Below, we provide links to (1) view the workshop's itinerary and (2) to sign up to indicate your general interest (we are gauging interest at the moment for organisational purposes; registration will follow).
2023 saw many important advances in the #lifesciences.
As the year draws to a close, we’ve looked back over the #research we have published and chosen some editorial highlights from across the breadth of #PLOSBiology’s scope.
Life Science Incubator Gains $100M in Start-Up Funds
A new-business accelerator program, begun earlier this year to advance and commercialize biomedical research discoveries from academic labs, is receiving a $100 million founding grant.
Thanks for all the input! So it looks like in the #datascience and #dataengineering and related areas, #python seems to be superceding #rstats as a preferred skill set. As I teach data skills in the #LifeSciences with the key learning objective being an ability to process, visualise and analyse data in a reproducible and scalable way, we're not fixated on what methods we use, so going forwards, it's something to consider...
Venture investments in U.S. life science and biotechnology start-ups in the third quarter of 2023 rose from the previous two quarters to reach pre-pandemic levels.
In eigener Sache: Wir haben jetzt schon 200 Follower*innen hier auf Mastodon. Schön, dass Ihr da seid 🙏🙂 Wir freuen uns weiterhin auf den Austausch hier im #Fediverse.
Infographic – U.S. Life Science Venture Activity Keeps Falling
Investments in life science start-ups in the U.S. show continued declines into the second quarter of 2023, reaching levels not seen in four or five years.
A new venture fund says it's investing in health and life science start-ups implementing advanced technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, that promise to transform the field.
Congratulations to our colleagues David Bate & Marie-Therese Wolfram for being awarded London Mathematical Society (LMS) Whitehead Prizes!
▶️ David Bate is awarded a Whitehead Prize for his fundamental contributions to the development of Geometric Measure Theory in the metric setting, including the characterisations of rectifiability in terms of projections and in terms of tangent planes.
▶️ Marie-Therese Wolfram is awarded a Whitehead Prize for her groundbreaking contributions to applied partial differential equations, mathematical modelling in socio-economic applications and the life sciences, and numerical analysis of partial differential equations.