Veda Khadka

I recently stumbled over the tmap R package and was amazed by its capabilities! With tmap, you can craft dynamic, interactive maps with ease. The package offers a flexible syntax similar to ggplot2, but with a dedicated focus on maps. Key Features: 🌟 Interactive Maps: Switch between plot and view modes for static or interactive experiences. 🛤 Multiple Shapes & Layers: Combine various spatial objects and layers for intricate map designs. 🌈 Facets: Segment your data visually with facets, enhancing comparison and analysis. 🏞 Basemaps & Overlay Tile Maps: Integrate beautiful basemaps and overlay tiles to enrich your maps. 🎨 Customizable Options & Styles: Tailor your maps with numerous styling and layout options. 🔄 Shiny Integration: Seamlessly embed maps in Shiny applications for interactive web apps. 📊 Quick Thematic Maps: Generate thematic maps swiftly with a single function call. 📝 Exporting Maps: Easily save your creations as images or interactive HTML files. For those interested in delving deeper, there's a comprehensive guide to get started, available at CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages/t… I've also learned from a recent post by Jakub Nowosad, one of the contributors to this package, that the development version of tmap now supports adding various charts to the maps (see image of this post). Thanks to Martijn Tennekes and the other contributors for their great work on this package! Want to stay ahead in statistics, data science, and programming? My free newsletter delivers regular insights directly to you. More information: eepurl.com/gH6myT #statisticsclass #R #datavis #Statistical #DataVisualization #RStats #Data

#statstab #112 Mixed Models with R Thoughts: A very nice overview of what mixed models are, how to use them, and how to interpret the results (even mentions issues with p-values). #rstats #r #lmer #mixedeffects m-clark.github.io/mixed-models-w…

Proud to be representing @ASMicrobiology at this year's @MITMbiomeClub symposium as young ambassador to MA! (Peep that agar art behind me! 👀). If you're around, come talk to me about all the ways ASM can help expand your scientific community!

Bonus: Neither E. coli nor L. reuteri delayed healing, indicating this phenotype is limited to skin commensals! HUGE thanks to co-first Laura Markey, and co-author Magalie Boucher, PI @contaminatedsci, and Lieberman Lab for feedback! [3/3]

The answer: not when the skin is damaged! We tested multiple bacterial species, including mouse commensal S. xylosus, C. accolens, and 3 different isolates of S. epidermidis.All delayed healing when applied to abraded mouse flank skin. [2/3]

Excited to announce a new preprint from the Lieberman Lab @conTaminatedsci . We use a mouse model to ask: can we use commensal skin bacteria as topical probiotics? biorxiv.org/content/10.110… [1/3]

Our happy symposium co-organizers! Chris and Alexa put on such a wonderful event, and the MIT Microbiome Club is proud of them!!!!!!!

Our afternoon keynote speaker, Dr. Paul Turner closes down our symposium with an outstanding talk on the many possibilities for phage therapy -and it's boggling efficacy ! #mbiome23

Kathryn Atherton joins us virtually to discuss the stress of urbanization on the connectivity in the soil microbiome .....and has us all friending one another on fungibook! #mbiome23

Kicking off our afternoon session is Tess Brunner, telling us all about interactions between lactobacilli in the vaginal microbiome! #mbiome23

Aman Kumar talks to us about how non-antimicrobrial drugs like Digoxin can influence colonization resistance and how SFB in the gut can influence outcomes #mbiome23

Fascinating flash talk by Gavin Kuziel about mechanisms of plant glycoside utilisation by bacteriodales in the gut #mbiome23

Our first keynote speaker today is Dr. Shipra Vaishnava of Brown U., talking to us about the influence of diet on vitamin A metabolism by the gut microbiome! #mbiome23

So excited for our annual MIT Microbiome Symposium today!! First up, we're hearing opening remarks from @ejalm #mbiome23

MIT's claim that  “graduate workers are compensated $126k a year to work 20 hours/week.” is not only farcical, it belies how deeply entrenched the exploitation of trainees is in academia. Absolutely shameful.

So excited for the MIT Microbiome Club and @AeronautBrewing to be running this event tonight!

Can't wait to see the fun-guys (and people!) turn out for this super cool event from the MIT Microbiome Club!

@MITMbiomeClub 👀good things coming this semester👀

Kicking off our 2022-2023 academic year with a hybrid board meeting (featuring president @vedomics). We’re excited to recruit new members, so keep an 👁eye👁 out for information on our general meeting!

So honoured to have presented my first-ever talk at BBM this year -- wonderful questions and great energy all around! Thank you so much @BostonBacteria ! 🦠

And......that's a wrap!!!!!! Your symposium team taking a break after an exciting, grueling day! Looking forward to seeing everyone at #mbiome23!