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Finnish Cultural Foundation stipends

Finnish Cultural Foundation decisions Finnish Cultural Foundation awarded a postdoctoral stipend for Matti Ruuskanen for work on modeling spatial patterns in human microbiome, and a PhD stipend for Iiro Tiihonen for modeling knowledge production in early modern era. Congratulations!

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Epidemic modeling with City of Turku

City of Turku collaboration on epidemic models City of Turku is using epidemic modeling scenarios baed on agent-based modeling. The model has been developed, implemented, and further customized to the local need in City of Turku in close collaboration with Kausal Oy, University of Turku, and a team of researchers.

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Nordic-Baltic Biometrics Virtual Conference in June

Nordic-Baltic Biometrics Virtual Conference Nordic-Baltic Biometrics Virtual Conference will be organized fully online this year, in June 7-10, 2021. The conference is aimed at novel developments and applications of statistical and mathematical methods in the field of bioscience and offers excellent opportunities for learning about recent advances in biostatistics/biometry, exchanging research experiences and getting to know colleagues from your neighbouring countries. REGISTRATION IS OPEN AND IS FREE FOR MEMBERS OF IBS!

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European Bioconductor Meeting 2020

Presentations at EuroBioc2020 At the European Bioconducutor Meeting EuroBioc2020, Dec 14-18, 2020, we will give a short talk, birds of a feather session, and a poster on the emerging R ecosystem for microbiome research. Links to the material: Poster Short talk slides Birds-of-a-feather workshop TBA Dedicated class structures are fundamental for the R/Bioconductor ecosystem. In microbiome research, the phyloseq class has become a commonly accepted standard. However, recent developments in Bioconductor classes and growing sample sizes have opened up new opportunities and requirements to extend this popular format in order to address emerging research needs.

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National policy on open education published

National policy on open education The expert panel in Open Education has the task of promoting and discussing issues concerning Open Education in Finnish higher education by, for example, writing recommendations and policies and updating terminology and holding events on Open Education. The guidelines are now summarized in: Open education and educational resources. National policy and executive plan by the higher education and research community for 2021-2025. Policy component 1 – Open access to educational resources (2020) DOI:10.

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Comparing evolutionary processes in nature and society

Comparing evolutionary processes in nature and society New support from KONE foundation for a joint project led by Ass. Prof. Indrė Žliobaitė. The world is changing at unprecedented rates. Financial crises, epidemics, climate disasters and military conflicts rise suddenly and change common ways of living. We can no longer hope to learn how the world is, by the time we learn, the world has changed. We need to focus on process-level understanding of how the world is changing.

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rOpenGov website renewed and new hetu R package published!

New rOpenGov homepage and hetu R package The rOpenGov project homepage for open government data analytics has now moved to a new address, and substantially revised. Read more at https://ropengov.org/! In addition, the new hetu R package for Finnish identification numbers (persons, companies) has been released.

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New nominations

PI Leo Lahti has been nominated for the following: Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK) Research integrity advisor in University of Turku for the National open science coordination steering group Finnish Society for Computer Science board

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New papers

Recent publications Prebiotic Xylo-oligosaccharides Targeting Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Prevent High Fat Diet-induced Hepatic Steatosis in Rats with Lensu et al. Eicosanoid Inflammatory Mediators Are Robustly Associated With Blood Pressure in the General Population by Palmu et al. Association Between the Gut Microbiota and Blood Pressure in a Population Cohort of 6953 Individuals by Palmu et al. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering identifies a metabolically challenged subgroup of hypertensive individuals by Vaura et al.

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Algorithmic openness in decision-making

Recent writings related to the openness of epidemic models used to support decision-making by the Finnish government. August 19, 2020 Avoimuus voi vahvistaa päätöksenteon tieteellistä pohjaa June 26, 2020 Päätös epidemialaskelmien salaamisesta vastoin valtioneuvoston avoimuuslinjausta June 22, 2020 Lähdekoodin sisältämien yksityiskohtien avoimuus on keskeistä päätöksenteon läpinäkyvyydelle May 15, 2020 Tietopyyntö epidemialaskelmien lähdekoodeista May 3, 2020 Laskentamallit eivät lähtökohtaisesti ole salassa pidettävää tietoa

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