Ten networking strategies for community managers The goal of this blog post is to provide community managers with a few strategies for foster relationships within scientific communities to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. 22 Apr 2019
CarpentryCon West 2018 A community gathering of Data, Software, and Library Carpenters in sunny Davis, CA. For details visit: http://ivory.idyll.org/dibsi/CarpentryConWest.html 06 May 2018
Increasing transparency in postdoc hiring and on-boarding A brief summary of the interview process for my postdoc with Titus Brown. Highlights include: collaborative documents for interview questions, salary negotiations, and science communication 02 May 2018
Using recount3 to query public RNA-seq datasets The recount3 package enables access to a large amount of uniformly processed RNA-seq data from humans and mice. This tool makes it easy to reproduce published analyses or create a meta-analysis from multiple datasets. In this post, I provide the code I used to explore human heart data from the Gene Expression Tissue Database and to reproduce an analysis of mouse hippocampus data from the Sequence Read Archive. 12 Jan 2022
Surviving the post-doc years with part-time jobs As a post-doctoral scholar, I aimed to work for 40 hours a week on research on projects. I rarely working overtime as is often recommended. Instead, I volunteered and worked seasonal jobs on the side. These part-time jobs have improved my quality of life and been a source of professional development. In this post, I'll talk about some of the things I've learned at what it means for my future career. 11 Dec 2020
Using R to analyze and visualize tweets from SACNAS This blog post explains how I use R to analyze Twitter data to gain a better understanding of who is tweeting at conferences and how impactful those tweets are. I hope you find this explanation useful and that it inspires you to conduct your own analyses of Twitter data. 07 Nov 2019
Bar plots as Venn diagram alternatives With this blog post, my goal is to demonstrate how scientists can to use bar charts instead of Venn diagrams to communicate empirical results in an easy-to-reproduce manner. 07 May 2019
Musings and Music about Moving to Californ-i-a That's right. After living in Austin, Texas for 15-ish years, I'm moving to Davis, California to continue my postdoctoral research. Here are some musings some musings about my move and a playlist. 04 Mar 2019
Reproducible Data-Driven Discovery Report back from the Curriculum Development Hackathon for Reproducible Research using Jupyter Notebooks and the Moore Foundation Early Career Researcher Symposium Control 24 Feb 2017
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Usando R para analizar y visualizar tweets de SACNAS Esta publicación de blog explica cómo uso R para analizar los datos de Twitter para comprender mejor quién está tuiteando en las conferencias y cuán impactantes son esos tweets. Espero que encuentre útil esta explicación y que lo inspire a realizar sus propios análisis de los datos de Twitter. 08 Nov 2019
Building computers for remote teaching When I was young, my dad used our living room to build custom computers for designing off-shore drilling rigs. Now I work from home building computers for scientific discovery and data analysis. How did I get here? 21 Jul 2022
Collaborative Conversational Classrooms Do you ever co-teach with your colleagues? As in sharing the stage, not only splitting the workload? Here's a little story that illustrates how much more engaging class can be when professors teach collaboratively and facilitate conversation. 06 May 2019
Video tutorial: how to GitHub notifications Have you ever wondered: I'm missing information, how do I get notified of things? These notifications aren't useful, how do I turn them off? Is so, this video is for you! 17 May 2018
Yoga for Joy and Peace This practice was created with you in mind, the being who deserves to feel happy, joyful and at peace without needing any other reason. This 60 minute yoga class begins with a centering meditation, moves you through sun salutation variations, with the intention of cultivating joy; and ends with a restorative practice centered around inner peace, relaxation, happiness. Using the body, breath and mind as a vehicle, this full body practice will guide you through a series of extending, back/forward bending, twisting, and inverted poses with the intention of connecting you with your heart space and inner being. Here, we emphasize poses and modifications of poses that focus on opening the heart to joy and peace. 27 Jan 2024
3rd Chakra Fire Yoga A 15 minute asana sequence to build inner fire and strength. 04 Dec 2023
Sun Salutation with Affirmations As part of my yoga instructor training, I wrote a sequence that incorporates movement, mantra recitation, and meditation to learn more about ourselves. I taught it in class with a large group of people, but I also repeat this regularly at home and outdoors. 24 Nov 2023
Birthday Beach Yoga and Breathwork For my 40th birthday I organized a beach yoga class. The playlist was designed to bring awareness to the breath and the beauty of nature. It was awesome! 08 Oct 2023
Saturday Lakefront Yoga A lakefront top yoga class on King's Beach designed for a younger audience with a focus on movement, breath, and mindfulness. 26 Aug 2023
Friday Mountain Top Yoga A mountain top yoga class in Tahoe Meadows, NV designed for a younger audience with a focus on movement, breath, and mindfulness. 25 Aug 2023