A quotation from John Adams

The Stream of Life sometimes glides smoothly on, through flowry meadows and enamell’d planes. At other times it draggs a winding reluctant Course through offensive Boggs and dismal gloomy Swamps. The same road now leads us thro’ a spacious Country fraught with evry delightful object, Then plunges us at once, into miry Sloughs, or stops our passage with craggy and inaccessible mountains. The free roving Songster of the forest, now rambles unconfin’d, and hopps from Spray to Spray but the next hour perhaps he alights to pick the scattered Grain and is entangled in the Snare. The Ship, which, wafted by a favourable gale, sails prosperously upon the peaceful Surface, by a sudden Change of weather may be tossed by the Tempest, and driven by furious, opposite winds, upon rocks or quicksands. In short nothing in this world enjoys a constant Series of Joy and prosperity.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Diary (1756-03-27)

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The Stream of Life sometimes glides smoothly on, through flowry meadows and enamell’d planes. At other times it draggs a winding reluctant Course through offensive Boggs and dismal gloomy Swamps. The same road now leads us thro’ a spacious Country fraught with evry delightful object, Then plunges us at once,…

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A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don’t cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Part 2, ch. 10 “The Scandal of Prediction” (2007)

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#statstab #356 Measures of Heterogeneity

Thoughts: An overview of different measures, I^2, Q, H^2, and associated R code.

#metaanalysis #heterogeneity #effectsize #effectsize #variability #error

https://bookdown.org/MathiasHarrer/Doing_Meta_Analysis_in_R/heterogeneity.html

Chapter 5 Between-Study Heterogeneity | Doing Meta-Analysis in R

B y now, we have already learned how to pool effect sizes in a meta-analysis. As we have seen, the aim of both the fixed- and random-effects model is to synthesize the effects of many different...

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GLP1-RAs in Type 1 Diabetes: Dosing and Pharmacokinetics
As we discussed in the previous article, people are starting to use incretins as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of type 1 diabetes. All off label, of course.

Anyone familiar with these drugs will know that they are indicated to be injected once a wee
https://www.diabettech.com/glp1-ra/glp1-ras-in-type-1-diabetes-dosing-and-pharmacokinetics/
#GLP1RA #Dosing #Halflife #Mounjaro #Semaglutide #Tirzepatide #variability #WeGovy

GLP1-RAs in Type 1 Diabetes: Dosing and Pharmacokinetics | Diabettech - Diabetes and Technology

As we discussed in the previous article, people are starting to use incretins as an adjunct therapy in the treatment of type 1 diabetes. All off label, of course. Anyone familiar with these drugs will know that they are indicated to be injected once a week. A model that's easy to follow, doesn't involve too

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Centuries ago, I published a manuscript on BioRχiv about the love/hate relationship between variability and robustness in embryogenesis.

And now, it's published in Science! I am so proud 🥳

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh1145

We went through three (3!) rounds of revisions. Although we did not change a comma in the abstract, the revisions improved the quality of the work very much (we nearly doubled the sample size and added an entire figure).

#variability #robustness #embryology #morphogenesis #mouse

🆕Photoblog: “Comparing 𝑀𝑦𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑠 populations between dolines and surrounding areas in Hungary", Bonita Ratkai give us an inside about her research on variation among populations of 𝑀𝑦𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑠 in dolines.

#karst #dolines #behaviour #variability #functional #traits

https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2024/10/01/comparing-myrmica-ruginodis-populations-between-dolines-and-surrounding-areas-in-hungary/

Comparing Myrmica ruginodis populations between dolines and surrounding areas in Hungary

In the recent study “Climate microrefugia promote intraspecific trait variability of the Palaearctic ant species Myrmica ruginodis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” carried out in Hungary, the authors investigated variation among populations of the ant species Myrmica ruginodis

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New preprint by postdoc Joanne Jingwen Li on the functional relevance of Pre-speech Auditory Modulation (PSAM): https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.13.603344v1

#Speech #MotorControl #Auditory #Variability