Hannah shared this today and I am just in awe of it's beauty. Are you the artist?

for example:

I can totally see what you mean about ggplotly "translating" figures. It works fine for straight-forward plots but makes a lot of undesirable changes as they get more complicated

oops! I meant the #girafe function from #ggiraph

for two group comparisons like the ones you're showing, I think split violin plots add a lot of value

Hi #DataViz Community - I saw a post about awesome interactive #beeswarm plots from @nrennie.bsky.social and it got me thinking about what people prefer to use for interactive plots. I had always used #ggplotly but it looks like #giraph might be better. What do you guys use?

And the impact won't stop at conference doors: patients and communities will benefit from the discoveries, devices, and therapies that emerge when we stop demanding that researchers operate like machines and start supporting them like people.

This will also have a curb cutout effect. Men will benefit too. Families will benefit. The entire scientific community will benefit.

It changes who gets to be in the room and who gets heard.

That is why this endowment is so powerful. It is better than a travel award or a research grant. It is one of the most brilliant uses of resources I have ever seen in a professional society. It targets a real constraint that shapes participation and retention.

These aren't small inconveniences. These are forces that quietly push brilliant scientists away from science and academia.

Many of us respond to this reality by delaying having children until we feel more professionally secure (and is that even possible these days?), only to face increased risks of fertility challenges and, as in my experience, a more difficult and dangerous pregnancy and birth.

I see the same dynamic in academia when universities schedule "required" meetings early in the morning or late in the evening. Whether knowingly or unknowingly, those choices create barriers for people with childcare responsibilities.

This endowment that helps offset childcare costs goes miles beyond anything I've ever seen. It confronts the biggest barrier head-on: affordability and accessibility. Because "childcare is available" is NOT the same as "childcare is accessible."

Science is already hard. We don't need to make it harder.

And guess what? No one did.
As scientists we're in this work to move the needle on human health, but sometimes we fail at understanding the that we might be creating the very real structural barriers that determine who gets to participate.

The other, in stark contrast, explicitly stated in their program that children were not allowed. I brought my baby to that poster session, essentially daring anyone to tell me I didn't belong there.

As a new mother, I attended two conferences back to back in the same exact convention center. I was impressed that one had clearly designated some conference rooms as "mother's rooms" for pumping and nursing as well as advertising access to childcare options at negotiated rates.

Over the years, I've paid close attention to which conferences support caregivers and which ones don't. It speaks volumes about which voices they value.

New Endowment Established to Support Childcare for Young Investigators Attending the BMES Annual Meeting New endowment supports childcare for young investigators attending BMES Annual Meetings, thanks to a generous gift from MIT professors Linda Griffith and Doug Lauffenburger.

I started crying when I read this Biomedical Engineering Society #BMES announcement about an endowment from Doug Lauffenburger and Linda Griffith.

Not because I’m especially emotional, but because this kind of structural support determines who can participate fully and stay in science.

Discussing what to do for lunch, and I suggested someone look up nearby menus on GitHub.

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Oof this piece of dark news hits hard. 538 was inspirational in so many ways. Data Science done right.

in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter

RIP Jimmy

Working with a new postdoc to set up her github/rstudio connection reminded me of how helpful @rladies.org has been, and how this tutorial from @llendway.bsky.social can't be beat: llendway.github.io/github_in_R_...

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I think it accidentally nailed my life….minus the exercise part.

Maybe one day.

Congratulations! But what a big loss for Hopkins :(

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