Blog Posts

community

• 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
• Open-source style community engagement for the Data Commons Pilot Phase Consortium This blog post discusses how we are building an open community around a larger goal of making big data more findable and usable to accelerate biomedical discovery 29 May 2018
• 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
• Timeline for the Data Carpentry & Software Carpentry Reorganization The future of the Carpentries 17 Jun 2017

science

• 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
• Why aren't there more part-time positions in academia? I left academia for a year, and it changed how I think about the 'leaky pipeline' in STEM. 07 Oct 2021
• 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
• How my father shaped my career before and after his death A Father's Day reflection 12 Jun 2018
• Using music, beer, and pop-culture to communicate science A little bit about my Nerd Nite talk called Zombie Brains: Microbial Mind Control. TLDR: David Attenborough meets Tom Waits meets Ed Yong 02 Jan 2018
• 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

spanish

• 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
• Data Carpentry Python Ecology Lesson Translated into Spanish We are excited to announce our newest community-driven lesson translation: Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python 17 Jan 2019
• Three years in the making for Instructor training in Latin America Building global communities of Spanish-speaking Carpentry instructors and lesson developers 27 Aug 2018

teaching

• 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
• A Review: RStudio Teaching Certification Course I highly recommend the online RStudio Teaching Certification Course taught by Greg Wilson 29 Apr 2019
• asciinema for recording command-line terminal sessions Live coding screencasts are way more awesome when the text can be copied. asciinema makes this possible. 23 Feb 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
• Instructor Training in Puerto Rico Building community through training and coding 24 Apr 2017
• Effective Teaching Tips from a Train-the-Trainers Workshop How do we train the next generation of scientists to manage, analyze, and share data in a reproducible way so that they can be more productive and effective? 13 Feb 2015

yoga

• 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