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A new record? Not as I saw it

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By Tom Ward
| The Valley Breeze Verified
It’s now official: Rhode Island has a new snowfall record for last week’s Blizzard of ’26. Coming in at 37.9 inches at T.F. Green Airport, the storm broke the old “Blizzard of ‘78” record by more than 9 inches. But was it a new record in northern Rhode Island? For those of us with long memories, and at the risk of more eye rolls from my children, I don’t think so. Let me tell the Blizzard of ’78 story as I recall it. I have a Woonsocket bias, because that’s where I lived and worked it.
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Advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with AlphaGenome - Nature

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By Ziga Avsec, Natasha S. Latysheva, Jun Cheng, Guido Novati, Kyle Taylor, Tom Ward, Clare Bycroft, Lauren Nicolaisen, Eirini Arvaniti, Joshua Pan, Raina W. Thomas, Vincent Dutordoir, Matteo Perino, Soham De, Alexander Karollus, Adam Gayoso, Toby Sargeant, Anne Mottram, Pavol Drotár, Adam Kosiorek, Andrew Senior, Richard Tanburn, Taylor Applebaum, Souradeep Basu, Pushmeet Kohli
| Nature Verified
Abstract Deep learning models that predict functional genomic measurements from DNA sequences are powerful tools for deciphering the genetic regulatory code. Existing methods involve a trade-off between input sequence length and prediction resolution, thereby limiting their modality scope and performance1,2,3,4,5.
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“Watching. Being. Tracing.” Perspectives from doctoral students on tredje uppgiften and curation as a pedagogical tool

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By Tom Ward, Björn Nordvall
| Taylor & Francis Online
ABSTRACT Tredje uppgiften is the Swedish principle that foregrounds the obligation of the researcher to communicate their research to a public audience. While engaging with this principle to produce a public exhibition in rural Sweden on ethnographic research methods, we found that the act of curation confronted us with the need to actively and critically reflect on how we use and operationalise research methods in practice.
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