Brian Danielak @capbri@qoto.org
Brian Danielak
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I'd worked for a year as an instructional technology assistant for a college where everyone talked about the students this way. I'd suggest some creative, exploratory assignment structure, or an application of open-ended writing exercises, and I'd get back, "But our students can't even spell! They don't even know proper grammar!" My repeatedly ignored response was that students need to feel like they have a stake in academic discourse to want to participate in it on its own terms. 2/
Brian Danielak
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Instagram just told me to "take my power back from Mercury Retrograde." I have enough going on without fighting a planet.
@ilanahorn welcome back!
@hrbrmstr thanks! This is helpful!
@hrbrmstr what are you using for front-end frameworks these days? Is it something R-specific?
@kjhealy "We'd like to extend a special welcome to our Tungsten-Level passengers, who will be taped to the wing. Stay safe out there."
@kjhealy were you a fan? Ragin and Becker helped me a lot when I started publishing case studies.
@hadleywickham @kellybodwin Not sure whether this matters, but coding typefaces that support ligatures (for example, Fira Code) further exaggerate the visual difference between <- and < -. The symbols that result from typing each respective expression are, I would argue, quite different. For that reason, I would contend that those symbols not causing confusion might, in some cases at least, be attributable to an exaggerated visual difference due to ligatures.
@harlanh you mean this whole time I could have asked you to visit my data science classes? 😇
@hrbrmstr they make blueberry sausage?!?
@gvwilson I think I once saw Patrick McKenzie advise if they want an expectation and force you to put a number, put 1. If you get to the negotiation phase, you can talk more about whether your/their expectation is reasonable without pinning yourself to a number.
@ben any chance you could send me a pre-print of this?
Are there any #rstats academics (or recovering academics) out there who are using Rmarkdown/Quarto to generate their curricula vitae? I'm having some trouble with Nick Strayer's data-driven cv package and I'm wondering if there's an easier way. @kellybodwin @kjhealy @travisgerke
Brian Danielak
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Struggling a lot to find maker time these days and it's really having an impact. To be a researcher you need to be a reader, and you need to iterate, and you need to design....we're not vending machines of insight that people can just line up to put quarters into. But it does feel like research gets treated that way sometimes!
Brian Danielak
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This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.
