George G Vega Yon @gvegayon@qoto.org

I’ve finished an epic second revision of a paper today, two hours before the deadline. Is it still summer? What year is it? Thanks to reviewers, musicians (would we get things done without you?), husbands (just one, really) who bring coffee grumbling you’re gonna die of a heart attack, editors who look forward to a paper on their to-do list on day 1 of their academic year (sorry…), and patient email senders (sorry sorry..) 🍾🍾

Community engaged work means showing up, aligning, protecting, celebrating, and speaking the language of our hearts every step of the way! Cuenta Conmigo Coop is officially a cooperative business and we celebrated presenting at the CDC- NDPAO webinar. Interpretation was a breeze and Lucy was spectacular! So proud of our team!

the #moon - how it really happened #truestory 🌝

Spending the weekend in LA, in between fun activities, working on my new tutorial Docker for data scientists 👇🏼

https://github.com/RamiKrispin/Introduction-to-Docker

#docker #datascince

#RSprint2023 is happening this week! 12 members of the R Core Team plus 46 community contributors will collaborate on contributions to the R project. #RStats

Activity tracking: https://github.com/r-devel/r-project-sprint-2023/issues.
Report-back Thu, Aug 31, at 16:00 UTC: https://www.meetup.com/warwickrug/events/295067949/.

It's 1:30 AM, I'm trying to reformat an NIH biosketch for NSF using the government's own sciencv website, hitting uninformative error messages every time I click a checkbox to add or remove a paper, and wondering if maybe there isn't a greater role for ChatGPT than I've ever acknowledged.

PLOS ONE: Large-deviations of disease spreading dynamics with vaccination
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287932

A (senior) lecturer position in "Physics of Complex Systems" is open at our University (The University of Sydney, in Australia).

Application deadline: Sept 26

https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Other-Facilities/Lecturer-Senior-Lecturer-in-Physics-of-Complex-Systems_0109067-1

@nextstrain @richardneher

Check out the whole programme for all courses (you can take 2 in 1 week!) and a peek at the social program.
As well as fantastic chance to learn new methods & ideas, it's a great networking opportunity - & there's time to ski & fondue as well!

https://www.epi-winterschool.org/program/

@ThomasRhysEvans
I'm also increasingly hearing from PhD candidates that expectations from their funders or from their countries of origin, where they'd want to land assistant professor jobs include a set number of journal publications in respected journals within the span of their PhD.
Sooooo impossible!
#AcademicChatter

Years ago, at the Sciences Po médialab in Paris, I made a tool to get a set of well distinct colors: http://medialab.github.io/iwanthue/
It basically makes a k-means on a perceptually homogeneous color space.

I have been working on and off on it since, and I'll release a new version one day.

Today, someone asked me how to cite it. Then I realized that some academics have been using it! For instance in this paper about biomolecular illustrations: https://www.cell.com/structure/pdf/S0969-2126(19)30282-5.pdf

It made me smile.

SIAM J. Discrete Math.: Approximation Algorithms for the Random Field Ising Model
https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/21M1467389?ai=sa&mi=9cks17&af=R

PLOS Comput. Biol.: Species-specific wiring of cortical circuits for small-world networks in the primary visual cortex
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011343

R users and developers: which integrated development environment do you use for writing R code? #rstats #rspatial #DataScience

#JohnOliver #quotes #ClimateChange

I had the oddest dream last night. It involved logging into some sort of high security system. Of course, this system used two-factor authentication, but the second factor was, a dog. You entered your username and password, then you had to call this dog to you and pet him. If dog approved of you, login successful. If dog didn't come, or ignored you altogether, you were not authorized. Hmm. Maybe I should work on inventing this ...

Latest comic: Self-parodic Sages

#gender #racism #transgender #media #feminism #patriarchy

I adore this comic by by @elisegravel.

“So, yeah, YOU can be a scientist, too!” #science #art #education

What it's like to take a class with me (or to work with me).