Get ready for Japanese mosasaurs, hard-as-diamond materials, cold ocean exoplanets, polychoric correlation, 15 Academic Research Tools, the 10 most popular R books of 2023, and an NSF grant for Emerging Mathematics in Biology. Science On.

References:

• A new derived mosasaurine (Squamata: Mosasaurinae) from south-western Japan reveals unexpected postcranial diversity among hydropedal mosasaurs
• Synthesis of Ultra-Incompressible and Recoverable Carbon Nitrides Featuring CN4 Tetrahedra
• Prospects for Cryovolcanic Activity on Cold Ocean Planets
• Discovery of a Drug-like, Natural Product-Inspired DCAF11 Ligand Chemotype
• What is polychoric correlation?
• what is family-wise error rate?
• Top 15 Academic Research Tools For Scholars And Tutors
• The 10 most popular R books of 2023
• Edge of Tomorrow: Preparing R Functions for the Unexpected
• NSF: Emerging Mathematics in Biology

R Packages:

• DFBA: Distribution-Free Bayesian Analysis
• dunlin: Preprocessing Tools for Clinical Trial Data
• shinyquiz: Create Interactive Quizzes in 'shiny'
• TaxaNorm: Feature-Wise Normalization for Microbiome Sequencing Data
• simtrial: Clinical Trial Simulation