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Nicola Romanò

@nicolaromano@qoto.org
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Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE).
Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE.

I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python.

My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population.

I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Joined October 31, 2022
Website:
https://www.nicolaromano.net/about
GitHub:
https://github.com/nicolaromano
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=QZwYI6wAAAAJ
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · May 02, 2026
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @grayabbott@mastodon.social
@grayabbott@mastodon.social @jalefkowit@vmst.io That's very much sector-dependent and it is a terrible attitude that should be challenged. Usually those people yelling at each other are the same who don't even share what they're working on with colleagues in their own Institute. They tend to think their work is so important that everyone else will steal it, despite the fact that 95% of times nobody really cares... collaboration is a much more productive attitude
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Apr 16, 2026
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @grauhausen@mastodon.online
@grauhausen @zotero Ah... I see, I never noticed that, good to know!
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Apr 16, 2026
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @grauhausen@mastodon.online
@grauhausen @zotero Out of curiosity, what type of issues do you see with author handling? I have never really had a problem.
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Mar 23, 2026
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Are we realistically assessing students?

Very interesting piece on assessment and poor genAI policies istitutional policies.

Being in the middle of a full programme level review, my feeling is we're over-assessing and using antiquated methods that really never worked (oh God... another closed book exam... kill me pleeeeease). If only, I don't know, we could talk to students or observe them doing something!

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/trained-to-stop-learning-how-students-are-experiencing-assessment-and-learning-in-an-age-of-ai/

#academia #highered #assessment #genAI

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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Jan 16, 2026
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @skewray@mathstodon.xyz
@skewray@mathstodon.xyz @rperezrosario@mastodon.social or a better way of solving it is teaching people they can, and how to do that? I never realised until now that I could!
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Jan 15, 2026
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @karthikganapathy@mathstodon.xyz
@karthikganapathy@mathstodon.xyz @svat@mathstodon.xyz Or Eddie Izzard's take on it https://youtu.be/TjC3R6jOtUo?si=wlpODLzANqR3Rq9Y
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Oct 07, 2025
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @reinouts@mastodon.green
@reinouts@mastodon.green @knud@mastodon.social @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop It takes effort and money to fine tune things and given this is probably just a move to keep some investors happy they can't be bothered? Agree with you it should be possible (also, I suspect it probably would work with a more carefully crafted prompt)
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Oct 07, 2025
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @onterof@sueden.social
@onterof@sueden.social @PalmAndNeedle@norden.social @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop I suspect some big investors want to see AI in every software they put money in. Doubt the decision came down to a bunch of programmers... Also, hype is a funny thing. I've seen students develop suboptimal, very convoluted solutions to fairly simple problems so they could put some transformer or whatnot in there. They're baffled when they don't get full marks...
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Oct 06, 2025
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @PalmAndNeedle@norden.social
@PalmAndNeedle@norden.social @Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop Because code is a series of words, which is what LLMs generate. They're not designed to do calculations. Indeed, sometimes when asked to calculate something these systems generate code that when executed gives the (mathematically correct, of course) answer. The reality is, very often LLMs generate good, working code. The issue is not that. There are big ethical and environmental issues. Also, because the code works often, but not always, you need to double check it at all times, effectively taking longer then writing it by yourself (eg https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/)
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Oct 06, 2025
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @Kiloku@burnthis.town
@Kiloku@burnthis.town @eb@social.coop If you use a hammer to eat soup you generally don't end up with good results. If you want to sum numbers use the sum function, not one that predicts the next most probable token. I dislike this type of bashing of LLMs because it's trivial to dismiss (ok they can't do trivial maths, but they can write an entire piece of software for me). There are much more risky outputs that could be used as an example. Funky Excel formulas have always existed...
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Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org · Aug 24, 2024
Nicola Romanò
@nicolaromano@qoto.org

Senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and Zhejiang-Edinburgh Joint Institute (ZJE). Undergraduate Programme Organiser, Biomedical Informatics at ZJE. I teach #imageanalysis & #dataanalysis with #RStats & #python. My research is focused on how #heterogeneous behaviour in #pituitary (and other) cells shapes their function as a population. I'm also very interested in #reproducibility and #openscience.

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Replying to @MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net
@MylesRyden@social.vivaldi.net @terri@social.afront.org Yet, we don't teach students how to do science well. A lot of the bad practices that are behind "bad science" could be mitigated by better teaching of statistics, data analysis, experimental design etc.
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