@ethanwhite ah cool thanks. Too many articles about good scientific computing practices these days. Hard to keep track ;)
@ctitusbrown what’s your github username?
@labroides field reports from Fiji, work-life balance, life as a untenured professor etc. Go.
@ctitusbrown No it would either be a knitr document (not interactive) or a shiny app (interactive).
edyong209 "However, your blog has helped renew my enthusiasm, and I thank you for that." Well, that's just wonderful. (2/2) #niceemailgoeslongway
edyong209 Email from someone whose study I wrote about: "Although I love science, I was feeling very discouraged by job and grant prospects..." (1/2)
se_hampton Why Do Women Leave Biology? Comparing gender issues in M.D. vs Ph.D. tracks… timing and also mismatched supply:demand aibs.org/bioscience-pre…
cpwillett DMPTool receives $590K grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation || yay bit.ly/W1n9yy #dmptool
@distribecology different cores on same machine. you have 4 or 8?
@distribecology or distributed operations in general.
@distribecology But the Q is still do all need to be used at once? If not, you can parallelize and do distributed ggplotting and such.
@distribecology But if you need all, throw into MySQL and query with RMySQL.
@distribecology since your sims are generating the data, I’d break it up or summarize before writing.
@distribecology Do you need to use all that data at one time?
@brookeborel more like 6.
rOpenSci For the afternoon crowd: You should be doing “open science”–and we’ll help you! by @distribecology bit.ly/13wtpDD #openscience
wilbanks those new to open access - don't leave when the grief subsides. the publishers aren't grieving. they'll still be here, fighting. will you?
ESA_org ESA member Susan Williams is lead author of new report on California's aquarium trade news.yahoo.com/protect-oceans…
@peromhc @Sheril_ @mbeisen @drugmonkeyblog ESA for e.g. doesnt make much from what I know. Just enough to keep the society + meetings afloat
@figshare Awesome. Not listing ind files is ok. Will explain in metadata that this is a git repo and what it contains.
@hylopsar Yes. Just go to your dashboard > settings > Reading and choose static page instead of latest posts.
@jasonHoyt right. Twitter made some noise about showing only resolved urls (even though they shorten for chr limit).
Guest post: You should be doing “open science”–and we’ll help you! wp.me/p2wMuW-1fK @distribecology in @DynamicEcology re @rOpenSci
@jasonHoyt you can choose your preferred one with some clients. E.g. Tweetbot. I use bitly with my API key.