jenhamel What does the #sequester mean for #science? Cuts: NSF -586 million, USDA -92 million, USDA NIFA -99 million. tinyurl.com/9b7j28y
McSweeney's guide to writing better than you normally do. bit.ly/13rkcOF ↬ @TimHarford ↬ @Philip_A_Martin
@researchremix Just couldn’t fit that all into my last tweet :)
@researchremix I use it because I hate the B word when it comes to data. This is ᔥ @ctitusbrown http://
slidesha.re/Y8nZeV
Fantastic post by @sjGoring on why we need domain experts in era of unusually large data. bit.ly/WkeFaz @ctitusbrown @fperez_org
@eperlste @ctitusbrown @dabeaz Ethan, I’m totally down to explore that model too! But no harm in trying to fix the mess in academia, right?
RoryKirchner @ctitusbrown @_inundata These posts about git are must reads IMO: sandofsky.com/blog/git-workf…
and blog.izs.me/post/376506636…
@cboettig and every statistical ecologist we could find.
kaiblin @ctitusbrown @ErichMSchwarz there's some great guides for git out there. Once you switch, you won't look back.
iainh_z Cool new scholarly comms collaboration: @BioMedCentral & @github blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/0… … Great work @_inundata @matthewmccull @ctitusbrown
Version control for science - guest post on BMC w/ @ctitusbrown bit.ly/13qI7h8 and my accompanying paper bit.ly/12dNn8o
iainh_z Version control for scientific research - @BioMedCentral guest blog from @_inundata & @ctitusbrown blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/0…
@noahWG One more: i.imgur.com/Tfr3A.gif
@labroides What can you read for fun in 8 minutes?
@doc_becca holy shit. mind blown. The hair!
@DanMcGlinn @recology_ you mean split the names?
ctitusbrown Depressing but interesting to hear @profjsb describe where astroph is now and bio could be in 10-20 yrs wrt data analysis and classify.
@annacabdrew @labroides damn, both are looking so dapper!
@graemedmoffat Congrats Graeme!
@recology_ @researchremix I’m sure she is always live somewhere. :)
@kara_woo @se_hampton Thought this might interest you two.
bit.ly/XGA1tG
ethanwhite Flipping my computational biology courses buff.ly/13fbKC8 Featuring @swcarpentry and @IPythonDev.
Yes yes production staff, I know you don’t know how to format an arXiv citation. Trust me, I don’t either.
why is citing a paper from arXiv so obnoxiously difficult? Why don’t they just give you a link to the correct citation on an article page?
EvansSre In the time my paper has so far been in review, a kangaroo could have gone through a full-term pregnancy. Twice.
@trayc7 yup, I hope something productive comes of it.
Marin headlands loop on a gorgeous day [video]
vimeo.com/60543005
“Great field notes are simultaneously of their time and timeless!”
Nice review of Field Notes on Science and Nature bit.ly/WqboBk
@hmason Saw that question when it was first posted. Was also baffled by why they hired someone like that.
pete_schultz "I'm over the moon." - A jaded astronomer
Excited to get my Leap soon so I can do → vimeo.com/60564626
Planning to write support for obscene gestures to deal with annoyances.
@recology_ Except for a few edge cases almost all of those test questions can easily exist in the main SO.
@recology_ out of curiosity, what niche does it fill that cannot be accommodated in other SOs? #playingdevilsadvocate
@srsupp I hope @ethanwhite DMs you a PhD in response to that request.
@giessel :) howdy!
ctitusbrown The lamprey genome is out! ivory.idyll.org/blog/the-lampr… (Take home: Remember, genomics *is* out to get you.)
PLOS New in @PLOSBiology Andy Dobson reviews "Field Notes on Science and Nature" bit.ly/YxsoHj pic.twitter.com/M2kn3hwQbm
@noahWG @edyong209 @LizNeeley Nope, still here. I use Reeder and that Google Reader makes it infinitely more bearable.
@trayc7 Nice to meet you today. Pretty much every day my world keeps getting smaller. cc/ @carlystrasser
@jonesor scratch that. Didn’t see the stats part. How about Ben Bolker’s book?
@jonesor Art of R programming by Norm Matloff.
AdviceToWriters I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
#amnotwriting
@ctitusbrown you headed to Boston?
@winston_chang I’m teaching two big ggplot workshops this year and want to look through before I recommend it to students.
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⤴ moar coffee.
@emckiernan13 Well, that’s fb in general. Everyone’s peachy life just drove me crazy and I’ve felt infinitely better since quitting.
Need some tough love from the animal world? Here → youtube.com/watch?v=8pasAi…
#yesIllfinishthatmanuscriptrightnow #yesIllsendyouthatdataset
@noamross Just email them. They are fine with it (its just not obvious on the site). cc/ @johndbritton
@recology_ also I don’t know tex but can wing it. I use packages texreg, stargazer to spit out latex formatted tables.
@winston_chang awesome. Just picked up your book. Glad to support my friends at @rstudioapp any way possible.
swcarpentry We'd like to run more boot camps in the southeast and midwest of the US: do we have friends there who'd like to host?
@ctitusbrown Hey I was on it before Friendster!
@recology_ When faced with this prob:
pandoc md → tex
add nice latex tables then
pandoc tex → html → pdf
md not good for difficult layouts.
Also super excited to meet various internet friends (from the open science, software carpentry world) in real life this week.
I love weeks like this. Incredibly busy but good busy. Every little thing requiring my attention is super exciting. #yayscience
@feltron I hope you’re able to do one in the bay area sometime. I’ve followed your work for a long time -- it would be an absolute treat.
@feltron Do you ever do ones locally?
Post from @tjvision at @datadryad “Hope and change for research data in the US”
bit.ly/13l41SI
@JacquelynGill @LizNeeley @jebyrnes I’m going to wear my scientist shirt more often now if that’s what it takes to scare people away.
@LizNeeley @JacquelynGill @jebyrnes Not disputing that point. Even outside of this context it’s imp. for us to take charge of our identities
@LizNeeley @JacquelynGill @jebyrnes author is on twitter. Said public perceive us as scary so she showcased the sexy ones to do us a favor.
@fonnesbeck hah. Our workflows are very similar.
@punkish halting all computery away for the evening.
@fperez_org @profjsb Yep, that’s what I meant.
@recology_ Try something like this?
bit.ly/XXzRgK twitpic.com/c6wv9k
@recology_ If the table came from a csv then use read it in and print with pander::pandoc.table(df) to render it correctly.
@recology_ How are your tables formatted? Might be a small formatting issue that’s keeping it from getting parsed.
@profjsb add that to the ipython notebooks list on the github repo ;)
@gvwilson hopefully you'll share the war stories with us.
@hmason @rvidal you two have seen leap right? bit.ly/1279xJj It’s a few weeks from shipping. Hoping to really dive into my data ;)
@distribecology @recology_ @JoeyBernhardt Eco track: best viewed in Netscape 4.0
I have 14 different email drafts open and have a feeling that my landlady is going to get a proposal and my collaborator a plumbing invoice.
fperez_org IPython roadshow : SIAM CSE'13 Tues, MIT Friday (time/location TBD). meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_progr…, Strata Weds: strataconf.com/strata2013/pub… @ellisonbg
The official @DataONEorg R client is now available for use!
Details: bit.ly/V2bsLd
#rstats #openscience
@recology_ @eperlste But a unaffiliated, unemployed scientist will be hard pressed to keep roof over head and do great science at same time.
@recology_ $25K is impressive. hats off. I’m sure @eperlste can use his mad skillz to help others do the same.
@recology_ crowd funding (IMO) on the scale of individual scientists cannot raise salaries. So no, I don’t think this alone is sustainable.
@ethanwhite My mental image after reading that tweet. You and Morgan managing a lab full of tiny ecologists. wee little ecologists.
How a über nerdy physicist proposes to his physicist girlfriend. i.imgur.com/SKNl3VR.jpg
@distribecology no. that’s seems reasonable for most journals.
biorhythmist “Sorry, I just got your text” - liars
@DavidQuammen Raina is a great friend and I'm glad you caught up with her.
@jess_carilli @DavidQuammen spillover is fantastic! The nerdy disease ecologist in me loved it. Thanks for interviewing my colleagues David!
jess_carilli Why does excel exist? It just makes me want to throw things off the balcony. ARGH
mbeisen Matthew 19:24 update: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than finding a form you need at grants.gov"
@JacquelynGill @shaenasaurus this is why I treat FB like a nuclear waste dump.
@eperlste @jasonpriem I do a custom deck based on deck.js then add in my own analytics. Friday's lightning talk.
inundata.org/ecohackSF/
@recology_ stupid tweet deck hates emoji.
@srsupp huzzah!
@recology_ @distribecology it took all my willpower not to go HEY SCOTT!!! 📢🍺🎵🎤🔨
@kaythaney you're coming our way right? /me brews some amazing coffee for #ktonthemove
Amazing writing advice from Jack London. bit.ly/X4A44z
jranganathan Trying to get academic job? Permanent jobs harder to get than ever, but perma-postdocing wide open. Via @EEB_Flow bit.ly/15FFW8P
yoyoha "Let's complain for twenty minutes about something that takes 30 seconds" - Children
@eperlste I can’t go but will you pick up an extra one for me? If they haven’t run out of the cool ones, I’ll take Marburg.
@yoavram ok, will do
@distribecology @recology_ im typing in lower case because we dont really want to wake him.
@kevkoy hey! Still at the meeting. But will get in touch soon.
DocHackenbush OMG, you guys. We've been doing queues all wrong. THIS is how to queue: pic.twitter.com/wUAuSO4IxB
@robinkraft issue resolved!
@cjlortie yes. In beta.
bit.ly/11CVji7
@JacquelynGill most times I'm awake. So yes.
@kara_woo install think up. Or download your data and visualize it with R.
@tpoi our plos bio paper is in! Just some small editorial revisions.
All simulations finally work!
Current status: i.imgur.com/sjlsg.gif
Just had a fantastic conversation with the best collaborator ever. Awesome progress on science is a great way to beat the blues.
@phdpqc @tpoi @trashbird1240 @ethanwhite yay! good job, guys!
yoavram Markx now works with Pandoc on Heroku markx.herokuapp.com click the D button to change it to P, load a bib file, and convert away
@gvwilson @ethanwhite @nceas I’m curious too.
@recology_ But no time today. If you can wait till weekend, I can do it then.
@recology_ I have access but that moronic publisher only has individual page images, no pdf. Can screenprint each one to pdf then combine.
Getting ready to speak about @rOpenSci tomorrow night at @ecohacksf bit.ly/12SssqQ
Sundry It is so awesome and so awful not having an office to go to. Like, both things. At the same time. Always.
rgfitzjohn It's 2013: why do we still separate figures from their captions for manuscript submission? Painful for authors and painful for reviewers.
noamross If you are a quantitative ecologist, this is important news: goo.gl/tllYL Otherwise, carry on.
vsbuffalo The following is a comprehensive list of reasons your bioinformatics web application should not have an API:
@mickresearch @SewLittleToSay I hope they convened a committee to issue corridor walking licenses. To be issued after passing a walking test
SewLittleToSay My workplace have issued safety instructions on how to walk down a corridor. pic.twitter.com/cYk1HfaO
@FuSchmu beats Dear Firstname Lastname,
We are delighted to ...
DrLabRatOry I just realized I would make more over the summer if I got an undergraduate research fellowship than if I taught two classes. I need a beer.
TrestleJeff How are @github users using #rstats ? A peek into some (accidentally?) public .Rhistory files... trestletechnology.net/2013/02/analys…
@TrestleJeff Yep, bet they are littered with API keys and dbase passwords. One of my interns did that.
cboettig ooh, bravo! exactly the kind of thing we need! Institute for Sustainable Earth and Environmental Software isees.nceas.ucsb.edu
Thread on hacker news bit.ly/12OJeao re: this “The Ph.D Bust: America's Awful Market for Young Scientists” bit.ly/12OJgPp
@eperlste so true. Just tried to write something for public consumption and bored myself to tears while reading the draft.
If you’ve got students w/ data/programming skills looking for paid summer internships, ask them to apply @DataONEorg bit.ly/VLAyQ9
@figshare question: Are the view counts just page views? If I hit refresh from 5 different browsers does that count as 5 views?
@emilysdarling congrats!
@JacquelynGill Thanks for writing this, Jacquelyn. Wish I had more time/energy to respond but glad you did.
@rmounce @recology_ I’d consider sneaking both into the acknowledgments somehow. It could be text mined in the future ;)
@brookeborel Just heard the podcast. Glad Lorenzo is ok!
@ctitusbrown @eperlste he is rather modest.
@kj_gilbert what are these objects? List?
DataONEorg Open for applications: Internships with DataONE. Semantics, provenance, PPSR and more. Deadline Mar 17. bit.ly/WagilC
@labroides they do indeed. Replaced my old kindle case at no charge.
katyhuff Mothership. It's new. It's mentorship. It's for lady developers. bit.ly/154hUDg
@jess_carilli yep! “Haven’t you had enough fun postdocing? It’s really time to take that faculty job and settle down”. um, yes mom.
Hardcover + prime cheaper than kindle edition? Well played, amazon.
@jess_carilli if its any consolation, we’re all in the same boat.
@ethanwhite @distribecology Agreed.
@distribecology @ethanwhite Ecologgers wont adopt shiny new things. I’ve seen the same folks post there for 15+ years.
@distribecology @ethanwhite Great minds think alike. Came here to suggest the same.
@ethanwhite @phdpqc @bendmorris @recology_ Can’t believe none of you use Lynx. pssh.
Craigslist missed connections in red states happen at Walmart. 24 hour fitness for Cali. wtf Indiana. Hilarious.
bit.ly/ZqqX1S
@distribecology and scrolling through the digest with the poorly quoted email is a nightmare.
@brookeborel cute puppy! I’d play with him/her
@shaenasaurus and cite alongside refs for the more substantial ones.
@shaenasaurus I suppose you could go either way. I do both (sometimes in same article). Inline for less important stuff. 1/2
@shaenasaurus Can’t you just cite the web page itself? bit.ly/VGtq7z see ref 10.
@eperlste You’ll be ok. No drunk dialing or standing outside academia’s bedroom window holding a boombox.
@Protohedgehog Don’t you mean right now? All those clubs should have the word “novelty” written on them.
@PeerJ suggestion. Provide html page anchors so we can link to specific reviews/comments when discussing them.
e.g. bit.ly/Yl5LDM
@gvwilson Worked well on Chrome for me. Firefox had problems early on but author claims they’ve been fixed.
@labroides mazel too!
Unsolicited praise for an article I’m writing in the open from a journal editor. With an invitation to submit. +1 for open science.
@cjlortie noted. ;)
@hadleywickham Looks great! and before I could even clone and send a pull request! ;)
Interesting new package builds nicely formatted html reports from R.
bit.ly/VtDPAN
@hadleywickham The toc on the wiki home page could be transferred to _Sidebar.md and that would make it available on all pages.
Developing and maintaining a book as a dynamic doc even after pub is a pretty awesome usecase for the @github wiki
bit.ly/131R406
hadleywickham @TrestleJeff @Gliders_Coach @_inundata open writing -> feedback = fantastic + I negotiated with C&H to keep the wiki open in perpetuity
Excited to announce that @saqueenborough and @thrawny will be working with @rOpenSci on the open science challenge. bit.ly/W3lB9U
@hadleywickham Looking forward to grabbing a copy as soon as it’s out!
@hadleywickham Is this the book that existed as the devtools wiki?
@hadleywickham I just read his book but forgot that he’s a prolific blogger. Thanks for the ↬ on this post. What book are you working on?
@ctitusbrown also add @IFTTT to send same article to @evernote and @Pinboard.
randal_olson Time for an experiment: I'm publicly posting my research proposals on FigShare. #OpenScience bit.ly/WJalOL
@labroides @researchremix more like awesome woman.
@labroides 👆
@noahWG I can't take you seriously without an old fashioned cocktail in your hand.
@thePeerJ @researchremix how about a hug? #hateietoo
thePeerJ 6% of visitors (8% logged in) to PeerJ are still on IE8 or below. This makes the monkey sad :(
@ethanwhite @distribecology @gvwilson @swcarpentry so so awesome. A+++
Hansel und Gretel: The future of publishing wicked witch-free bit.ly/YuCB7b by @cjlortie
Review of current state of self-archiving policies in 165 ecology and evolution journals bit.ly/15qE0Rw
@distribecology @gvwilson @ethanwhite Its super awesome. I played with it all weekend. Thought of using it in @swcarpentry right away.
@duffy_ma holy … need to start mine.
The Trappist on a Sunday afternoon is what I imagine the set of Portlandia would look like.
So awesome to be watching the activity on a @github repo for a paper ill soon be handling.
Shoutout to my neighbor for taking down (what's left of) his Christmas tree.
This is why the tenure games really suck and why we can’t have nice things.
bit.ly/Yr4NHW
↬ @fperez
cc/ @chrismentzel
@larysar or is this sublime text related?
@larysar What error does it throw up? Can you clone this repo and run the command in the readme? bit.ly/UvWgpg
suggestions for folks to interview on @eebtools are most welcome. Send a tweet or email (interviews at eebtools org)
@TheAtavism Yes indeed :) too much to fit into a tweet!
Excited to launch @eebtools, interviews with ecologists (and other folks) about the tools they use to do science. bit.ly/W0GJxu
@fperez_org Awesome! You should post a copy on @figshare so it reaches more people and can be cited.
fperez_org In the spirit of full open science, the grant proposal that led to the $1.15M Sloan Foundation grant for IPython: ipython.org/_static/sloang…
@phylorich Here is the hacker news thread. bit.ly/11Nx8i2 It’s becoming rather amazing.
Impact Factor is academia’s Klout score.
biorhythmist I print out all my @-replies and send them to my Mom to show her I have friends.
@labroides I’m so appalled. Opera is the fastest, most light-weight browser there is. Can’t believe I follow a luddite.
Really awesome slide #3 from @ethanwhite bit.ly/Z6ce8o Clearly inform your audience if its ok to tweet, record, photograph etc.
AstroKatie "Scientists who engage with society perform better academically" ! But almost no impact on career arxiv.org/abs/0810.4672 HT @sciencemeandyou
Fantastic demo for teaching git branching. Check it out (hah)!
bit.ly/XPo6wL #git
@JacquelynGill haha. Wish that were a real hash tag, like icanhazpdf. Here, I just paypaled you 25k.
Namaqua rain frog - Breviceps namaquensis
youtube.com/watch?v=cBkWhk… Sounds like a kitten.
@DrLabRatOry yep, totally!