diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules index e69de29..b9c6b06 100644 --- a/.gitmodules +++ b/.gitmodules @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +[submodule "public"] + path = public + url = git@github.com:lcolladotor/lcolladotor.github.com.git + branch = master diff --git a/content/post/2018-04-19-latin-american-r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018.Rmd b/content/post/2018-04-19-latin-american-r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018.Rmd index 23f959d..044a30e 100644 --- a/content/post/2018-04-19-latin-american-r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018.Rmd +++ b/content/post/2018-04-19-latin-american-r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018.Rmd @@ -70,19 +70,19 @@ Again, I'm excited to invite you to attend the [Latin American R/BioConductor De * Bioc Support website: https://support.bioconductor.org/p/108108/ * Bioc twitter: https://twitter.com/Bioconductor/status/986943878535303168 -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "986943878535303168")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="Bioconductor", id ="986943878535303168")` * Tweet by Alejandro Reyes: https://twitter.com/areyesq/status/986943887976656896 -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "986943887976656896")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="areyesq", id="986943887976656896")` * Tweet by LCG UNAM: https://twitter.com/lcgunam/status/986691090920230913 -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "986691090920230913")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="lcgunam", id="986691090920230913")` * CDSBMexico twitter: https://twitter.com/CDSBMexico/status/986672270964871169 -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "986672270964871169")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="CDSBMexico", id="986672270964871169")` * CDSBMexico facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/215830399185346/ * Website: https://comunidadbioinfo.github.io/post/r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018/ diff --git a/content/post/2018-04-19-latin-american-r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018.html b/content/post/2018-04-19-latin-american-r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018.html index 3111250..3cebd62 100644 --- a/content/post/2018-04-19-latin-american-r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018.html +++ b/content/post/2018-04-19-latin-american-r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018.html @@ -41,19 +41,19 @@
In academia and science, but really anywhere, we can encounter many sources of stress (some examples below). We all deal with it in different ways and this MBSR course is just one that I’m liking right now and recommend. If there’s no course near you, check out the Full Catastrophe Living book that my course is based on1.
All these tweets are threads, so you’ll have to open them to see them: click on the blue bird on the right side of each tweet.
-{{% tweet "1005618536100683777" %}} -{{% tweet "1004798860835938305" %}} -{{% tweet "1004478330257707008" %}} +{{% tweet user="BryonyDuPont" id="1005618536100683777" %}} +{{% tweet user="daniela_oaks" id="1004798860835938305" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1004478330257707008" %}}One of the exercises on our silent retreat was mindful eating. That is, eating slowly and focusing on our senses while eating food. This involved smelling the food, seeing all the colors it has, feeling all the different textures, and focusing on its taste. Plus, not talking to anyone. I had bought a lunch before the retreat (so I wouldn’t have to break the silence during it) that I normally don’t find interesting: some fruit and a chicken curry wrap from CVS. But wow, it was amazing that day! I greatly enjoyed how it tasted and all the different sensations I felt. I couldn’t believe it was the same food I had eaten other times before without much excitement.
Lately I’ve been processing some strong feelings related to feeling unwelcome, homesickness and loneliness. I’m doing many things that I know help me, starting with talking about them with my family. I’ve also been keeping myself busy doing some sports outside, going to events, bars, having friends over, etc. But what motivated me to write this post today is that after lunch I left really bad today. I had to go outside and try to calm myself.
I thought I did, returned to work, and nah, I couldn’t do it today. So I went home, rested in my room in the dark, and I find myself finishing this post about 2 hours later. I’m not sure it’s related to the MSBR course, but I’m wondering if the mindfulness practice is also opening my mind’s ears and eyes to my inner feelings way more than normal2. I don’t think it’s bad. It’s just that it’s way harder to enjoy this process than it was eating a lunch. I’m trying to feel happy because I have feelings and I’m recognizing them. My family is also happy because they view it as a part of maturing and that I’m getting ready for taking another step in my life.
Just some things are taking me way more time than normal. For example, it took me 2 days to process what I wanted to reply to a tweet and how to word it: it turned out well because I think we all heard each other ^^.
-{{% tweet "1006207918813958145" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1006207918813958145" %}}I also discovered that the silent retreat reminded me of vacations where I turn off my phone/email and spend a few days thinking about what’s next. I used to go to Mexico every 6 months or so during my PhD to recharge. I want to do it again, but I can’t. That lead me to my strong feelings of homesickness I had today.
Just to close, I’m OK. I appreciate all the support I have and I recommend others to learn about mindfulness. You might be missing out some super tasty lunches and/or an exploration trip towards your inner self.
I also want to add that I know some of you might see this post as over-sharing (yes, it might be). One reply is that I think that leaders also have to show their vulnerable sides. This has been debated a lot in academic twitter accounts in the context of showing your failures too, not just your successes.
diff --git a/content/post/2018-07-30-harrassment-diversity-in-science-and-inspiraton-from-my-grandmother.Rmd b/content/post/2018-07-30-harrassment-diversity-in-science-and-inspiraton-from-my-grandmother.Rmd index 7c30400..391115d 100644 --- a/content/post/2018-07-30-harrassment-diversity-in-science-and-inspiraton-from-my-grandmother.Rmd +++ b/content/post/2018-07-30-harrassment-diversity-in-science-and-inspiraton-from-my-grandmother.Rmd @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Today was a big day. I care about many things including diversity in science (ST This was a very important day for me. It was the beginning of the [Latin American R/BioConductor Developers Workshop 2018](https://comunidadbioinfo.github.io/post/r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018/) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. I already wrote a blog post about [why I was super excited about CDSBMexico](http://lcolladotor.github.io/2018/04/19/latin-american-r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018/#.W1-lhNhKi50), but briefly it's because this is something we've been wanting to see become a reality for years and have been working towards it. -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1023665229882961922")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="lcolladotor", id="1023665229882961922")` My job was to give the first keynote to pump up everyone at the workshop. So I had a bit of trouble sleeping and woke up remembering a dream. If you know me, I _never_ dream: or never remember my dreams. It was a dream of my grandmother Mercedes Vides Tovar. @@ -68,55 +68,55 @@ I did inherit her souvenirs from her trips (my dad also loves them) and somethin In my dream there was a moment where I was sitting next to her (me in my current adult form) and we were revising many of our shared moments. She was explaining to me things she couldn't explain before because I wouldn't have understood them. She also pumped me up before my day and wished me luck for my talk. I think that I delivered ^^ -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1023953817187090435")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="semiramis_cj", id="1023953817187090435")` ### WomenInStem Today was a big day for [WomenInSTEM](https://twitter.com/search?q=womeninstem) and in particular in the field of Statistics. Why? Today the Joint Statistical Meetings ([JSM2018](https://twitter.com/search?q=jsm2018)) held a session on "Addressing Sexual Misconduct in Statistics" that was organized by [Stephanie Hicks](https://twitter.com/stephaniehicks) and chaired by [Keegan Korthauer](https://twitter.com/keegankorthauer). -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1004467110918213637")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="stephaniehicks", id="1004467110918213637")` The session is not a direct response (I think) but it's definitely related to [Kristian Lum](https://twitter.com/KLdivergence)'s blog post titled [Statistics, we have a problem](https://medium.com/@kristianlum/statistics-we-have-a-problem-304638dc5de5) and to the more general [MeToo](https://twitter.com/search?q=metoo) movement. Sexual harassment and misconduct not a US problem only. We have a code of conduct at [CDSBMexico](https://twitter.com/CDSBMexico) both in [English](https://github.com/ComunidadBioInfo/R-BioConductor-Developers-Workshop-2018/blob/master/R-Bioconductor-2018_Program.rmd#code-of-conduct) and [Spanish](https://comunidadbioinfo.github.io/codigo-de-conducta/) to help prevent any issues. -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1024060403138142209")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="michaelhoffman", id="1024060403138142209")` I couldn't be there, but I wasn't the only one excited following what has happening online thanks to tweets from many including [Mandy Mejia](https://twitter.com/mandyfmejia) and [Michael Hoffman](https://twitter.com/michaelhoffman). -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1024042337033285632")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="mandyfmejia", id="1024042337033285632")` ### Times are changing I do think that slowly, maybe sometimes quickly, the times are changing. I've been telling friends and family for a few years now that I've come to realize that we need to keep trying to improve, to stay updated, to do what's best and maybe sometimes come up with new ideas to improve things. I do care quite a bit for [WomenInSTEM](https://twitter.com/search?q=womeninstem) but for me, it's larger than that. It's about diversity. I don't know in how many different ways we can label each other and it's not the point. So yes, gender diversity is a good thing and initiatives like this seem like a good thing to do: -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1024068383564853248")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="lcolladotor", id="1024068383564853248")` But then I think immediately of next steps, like race and ethnicity as well as sexual diversity. I want to ask for more, but I sometimes hold myself back. I'm no expert on many of these topics, so maybe what seems like a good policy could easily backfire later. So I think about incremental steps. But maybe that's too slow and not enough. Maybe careers are suffering but I guess that as a community we are going as safely and fast as we can. -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1024044326664527875")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="FertigLab", id="1024044326664527875")` I'm not supporting whoever Michael was referencing in his next tweet. I don't flirt at conferences: I do socialize and try to make new friends with fellow conference attendees. I do acknowledge that I struggle in my head with what is ok and not ok to do, particularly with people you spend at lot of time with at school, work, etc. I'm not certain of the boundary between clumsy dating skills and sexual misconduct in some scenarios. I think that I'm not the only one because I've heard different versions in different sexual harassment prevention sessions. So mostly I end up doing nothing yet sometimes I wonder if I lost out because I didn't try a bit more with X person. For instance, Mercedes maried her classmate Rolando. What can I say, I'm still learning and we all probably need to learn to differentiate these boundaries better through more training. -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1024066415752433664")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="michaelhoffman", id="1024066415752433664")` I also know that sometimes I've been a bystander and failed to take action. So this next idea sounds good to me. I do try to intervene more now, specially with micro aggressions: because they are less high pressure situations and easier to do something about, at least that's how I feel. -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1024063008987787264")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="1024063008987787264", id="1024063008987787264")` To close my post, I encourage you to check their request for feedback! -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1023977618104889346")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="KLdivergence", id="1023977618104889346")` And if you are an R non-cis male person, you should totally join the R-Ladies community slack! -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1022031250759053314")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="RLadiesGlobal", id="1022031250759053314")` diff --git a/content/post/2018-07-30-harrassment-diversity-in-science-and-inspiraton-from-my-grandmother.html b/content/post/2018-07-30-harrassment-diversity-in-science-and-inspiraton-from-my-grandmother.html index 871119f..7472146 100644 --- a/content/post/2018-07-30-harrassment-diversity-in-science-and-inspiraton-from-my-grandmother.html +++ b/content/post/2018-07-30-harrassment-diversity-in-science-and-inspiraton-from-my-grandmother.html @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@This was a very important day for me. It was the beginning of the Latin American R/BioConductor Developers Workshop 2018 in Cuernavaca, Mexico. I already wrote a blog post about why I was super excited about CDSBMexico, but briefly it’s because this is something we’ve been wanting to see become a reality for years and have been working towards it.
-{{% tweet "1023665229882961922" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1023665229882961922" %}}My job was to give the first keynote to pump up everyone at the workshop. So I had a bit of trouble sleeping and woke up remembering a dream. If you know me, I never dream: or never remember my dreams. It was a dream of my grandmother Mercedes Vides Tovar.
I did inherit her souvenirs from her trips (my dad also loves them) and something that is precious to me: a medal with her name. I’ve looked at that medal next to my bed in Mexico many times. I would look at it, search for inspiration, then try harder to solve whatever academic problem I had.
In my dream there was a moment where I was sitting next to her (me in my current adult form) and we were revising many of our shared moments. She was explaining to me things she couldn’t explain before because I wouldn’t have understood them. She also pumped me up before my day and wished me luck for my talk. I think that I delivered ^^
-{{% tweet "1023953817187090435" %}} +{{% tweet user="semiramis_cj" id="1023953817187090435" %}}Today was a big day for WomenInSTEM and in particular in the field of Statistics. Why? Today the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM2018) held a session on “Addressing Sexual Misconduct in Statistics” that was organized by Stephanie Hicks and chaired by Keegan Korthauer.
-{{% tweet "1004467110918213637" %}} +{{% tweet user="stephaniehicks" id="1004467110918213637" %}}The session is not a direct response (I think) but it’s definitely related to Kristian Lum’s blog post titled Statistics, we have a problem and to the more general MeToo movement.
Sexual harassment and misconduct not a US problem only. We have a code of conduct at CDSBMexico both in English and Spanish to help prevent any issues.
-{{% tweet "1024060403138142209" %}} +{{% tweet user="michaelhoffman" id="1024060403138142209" %}}I couldn’t be there, but I wasn’t the only one excited following what has happening online thanks to tweets from many including Mandy Mejia and Michael Hoffman.
-{{% tweet "1024042337033285632" %}} +{{% tweet user="mandyfmejia" id="1024042337033285632" %}}I do think that slowly, maybe sometimes quickly, the times are changing. I’ve been telling friends and family for a few years now that I’ve come to realize that we need to keep trying to improve, to stay updated, to do what’s best and maybe sometimes come up with new ideas to improve things. I do care quite a bit for WomenInSTEM but for me, it’s larger than that. It’s about diversity. I don’t know in how many different ways we can label each other and it’s not the point. So yes, gender diversity is a good thing and initiatives like this seem like a good thing to do:
-{{% tweet "1024068383564853248" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1024068383564853248" %}}But then I think immediately of next steps, like race and ethnicity as well as sexual diversity. I want to ask for more, but I sometimes hold myself back. I’m no expert on many of these topics, so maybe what seems like a good policy could easily backfire later. So I think about incremental steps. But maybe that’s too slow and not enough. Maybe careers are suffering but I guess that as a community we are going as safely and fast as we can.
-{{% tweet "1024044326664527875" %}} +{{% tweet user="FertigLab" id="1024044326664527875" %}}I’m not supporting whoever Michael was referencing in his next tweet. I don’t flirt at conferences: I do socialize and try to make new friends with fellow conference attendees. I do acknowledge that I struggle in my head with what is ok and not ok to do, particularly with people you spend at lot of time with at school, work, etc. I’m not certain of the boundary between clumsy dating skills and sexual misconduct in some scenarios. I think that I’m not the only one because I’ve heard different versions in different sexual harassment prevention sessions. So mostly I end up doing nothing yet sometimes I wonder if I lost out because I didn’t try a bit more with X person. For instance, Mercedes maried her classmate Rolando. What can I say, I’m still learning and we all probably need to learn to differentiate these boundaries better through more training.
-{{% tweet "1024066415752433664" %}} +{{% tweet user="michaelhoffman" id="1024066415752433664" %}}I also know that sometimes I’ve been a bystander and failed to take action. So this next idea sounds good to me. I do try to intervene more now, specially with micro aggressions: because they are less high pressure situations and easier to do something about, at least that’s how I feel.
-{{% tweet "1024063008987787264" %}} +{{% tweet user="1024063008987787264" id="1024063008987787264" %}}To close my post, I encourage you to check their request for feedback!
-{{% tweet "1023977618104889346" %}} +{{% tweet user="KLdivergence" id="1023977618104889346" %}}And if you are an R non-cis male person, you should totally join the R-Ladies community slack!
-{{% tweet "1022031250759053314" %}} +{{% tweet user="RLadiesGlobal" id="1022031250759053314" %}}Here you can find the tweet about the original blog post:
-{{% tweet "1031904001833414659" %}} +{{% tweet user="CDSBMexico" id="1031904001833414659" %}}This blog post was made possible thanks to:
Do you want to listen to the whole panel discussion? From this tweet it looks like the recording will be available online:
-{{% tweet "1041732455865171972" %}} +{{% tweet user="JohnsHopkinsSPH" id="1041732455865171972" %}}This blog post was made possible thanks to:
A few days ago a friend of mine told me that I was on the list of newly admitted SNI members. A few have asked me since why did I request to join it. So here’s my public reply.
-{{% tweet "1045051193146396674" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1045051193146396674" %}}First let me tell you what SNI is. It stands for Sistema Nacional de Investigadores which translates to National Researchers Registry. It’s a way that the Mexican government created in 1984 to recognize high quality researchers and encourage them to continue to do great research, teach the next generation of researchers and promote innovation (Wikipedia). There are three types of members:
@@ -48,18 +48,18 @@This attitude goes beyond SNI. That is why I compete when I can for awards and scholarships that I think fit me, even if its a long shot. No one will come to you and say, “hey, your work is great, now you are a SNI member” (or any award). I believe that you have to keep working and make it hard for others to say no to your applications. You have to keep trying though because you won’t get them all. That was one of my messages in my recent CDSBMexico keynote.
-{{% tweet "1023665229882961922" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1023665229882961922" %}}Here are some of my recent applications:
-{{% tweet "1009559232931401730" %}} -{{% tweet "960590896310968320" %}} -{{% tweet "1032287739176267776" %}} -{{% tweet "1045763904964612096" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1009559232931401730" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="960590896310968320" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1032287739176267776" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1045763904964612096" %}}So what happens now? I updated my CV as a friend suggested to list that I’m a SNI National Researcher Level 1.
I want to thank my friends that helped me during the SNI application process!
-{{% tweet "1045053659967639555" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1045053659967639555" %}}This blog post was made possible thanks to:
Today was the first day of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2018 conference. The official hashtag for the conference is ASHG18 on Twitter. At first I was tweeting myself and checking both the top and the latest tweets. As the day progressed I started a Google Doc to take notes during talks. I was missing some details so I was relying on the latest tweets and copy-pasting the tweet links to my notes. At some point I told myself I should simply turn this collection of tweet links into a simple blog post. So here it is for day 1. You can consider it a curated list of the ASHG18 tweets. Although it’s incomplete because it only covers the talks I went to starting from the Presidential address.
The linked tweets are frequently from Eli Robertson1 and Michael Hoffmann2, but also from other Twitter users3.
So, without further ado, here we go:
-{{% tweet "1052045759019773954" %}} +{{% tweet user="skathire" id="1052045759019773954" %}}Sek also thanked all his mentees ^^.
-{{% tweet "1052357277318111232" %}} -{{% tweet "1052360103381221376" %}} +{{% tweet user="thatdnaguy" id="1052357277318111232" %}} +{{% tweet user="MariaChahrour" id="1052360103381221376" %}}SNP crispr-cas9 perturbation study in blood cells.
-{{% tweet "1052359394439106560" %}} -{{% tweet "1052360756610519040" %}} +{{% tweet user="thatdnaguy" id="1052359394439106560" %}} +{{% tweet user="aidanbutty" id="1052360756610519040" %}}MC mentioned metaFDR for combining pvalues from 4 tests.
Uniparental disomy using 23andMe data. Seeking prevalence information in general population.
-{{% tweet "1052364953984876544" %}} -{{% tweet "1052365691565760512" %}} +{{% tweet user="thatdnaguy" id="1052364953984876544" %}} +{{% tweet user="michaelhoffman" id="1052365691565760512" %}}3 types that can be identified by 2 in silico methods.
-{{% tweet "1052366223487381504" %}} -{{% tweet "1052366741118976001" %}} -{{% tweet "1052367633738166273" %}} -{{% tweet "1052368774257618945" %}} +{{% tweet user="CharlestonCWKC" id="1052366223487381504" %}} +{{% tweet user="23andMeResearch" id="1052366741118976001" %}} +{{% tweet user="23andMeResearch" id="1052367633738166273" %}} +{{% tweet user="thatdnaguy" id="1052368774257618945" %}}Mentioned PheWAS.
PN: Don’t know if you can get single cell data from 23andMe customers.
-{{% tweet "1052369350802300934" %}} -{{% tweet "1052370107651915777" %}} -{{% tweet "1052371085675528193" %}} +{{% tweet user="23andMeResearch" id="1052369350802300934" %}} +{{% tweet user="beryl_bbc" id="1052370107651915777" %}} +{{% tweet user="s_ramach" id="1052371085675528193" %}}mentioned pLl method
-{{% tweet "1052371239644196865" %}} -{{% tweet "1052371262071169024" %}} -{{% tweet "1052371493647147009" %}} +{{% tweet user="DrGeneUK" id="1052371239644196865" %}} +{{% tweet user="Single_Molecule" id="1052371262071169024" %}} +{{% tweet user="ksamocha" id="1052371493647147009" %}}99 ASD genes
-{{% tweet "1052371900926554112" %}} -{{% tweet "1052372607029264384" %}} +{{% tweet user="beryl_bbc" id="1052371900926554112" %}} +{{% tweet user="michaelhoffman" id="1052372607029264384" %}}summary
-{{% tweet "1052373073402294272" %}} -{{% tweet "1052373218932199424" %}} +{{% tweet user="StatGenDan" id="1052373073402294272" %}} +{{% tweet user="thatdnaguy" id="1052373218932199424" %}}Sorry, I left this talk early to see the poster talks (that I didn’t know had been delayed).
Single cell composition and organs poster 2012 seemed interesting to me. I added to my calendar!
as well as everyone who was tweeting! See you on Thursday!
-{{% tweet "1051524651950718977" %}} +{{% tweet user="michaelhoffman" id="1051524651950718977" %}}Continuing from my ASHG18 day 1 post, here’s my list of tweets from day 2. Note that I changed sessions a few times.
-{{% tweet "1052618815274700802" %}} -{{% tweet "1052622201533358080" %}} +{{% tweet user="JulieNadel" id="1052618815274700802" %}} +{{% tweet user="dccc_phd" id="1052622201533358080" %}}“Nobody wakes up thinking how can I harm indigenous populations!”
-{{% tweet "1052616982535667712" %}} -{{% tweet "1052617666555338754" %}} -{{% tweet "1052617774818713601" %}} -{{% tweet "1052618174028378112" %}} +{{% tweet user="Brooke_LaFlamme" id="1052616982535667712" %}} +{{% tweet user="NanibaaGarrison" id="1052617666555338754" %}} +{{% tweet user="KeoluFox" id="1052617774818713601" %}} +{{% tweet user="Brooke_LaFlamme" id="1052618174028378112" %}}Third time she mentioned “sexy research”. I thought that this term was frowned upon, maybe it’s not.
He made us laugh with his conflict of interest slide. No commercial interests. Just interest in indigenous genomics and helping others.
-{{% tweet "1052625563813339136" %}} +{{% tweet user="johnhawks" id="1052625563813339136" %}}Issue with open data. They want to control how the data is re-used. Like for imputation: what are they looking at? Is it something they agree?
-{{% tweet "1052626680546758656" %}} -{{% tweet "1052633878421274624" %}} -{{% tweet "1052634541083512833" %}} +{{% tweet user="johnhawks" id="1052626680546758656" %}} +{{% tweet user="johnhawks" id="1052633878421274624" %}} +{{% tweet user="johnhawks" id="1052634541083512833" %}}{{% tweet "1052630261052002304" %}} +{{% tweet user="girlscientist" id="1052628766739054592" %}} +{{% tweet user="averydavisbell" id="1052628958330552320" %}} +
{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1052630261052002304" %}} (others made better tweets!)
-{{% tweet "1052630028364599296" %}} -{{% tweet "1052630250918567937" %}} -{{% tweet "1052631513332834304" %}} -{{% tweet "1052631235770572800" %}} -{{% tweet "1052631310290669568" %}} -{{% tweet "1052632738287706112" %}} -{{% tweet "1052633474354405377" %}} +{{% tweet user="girlscientist" id="1052630028364599296" %}} +{{% tweet user="averydavisbell" id="1052630250918567937" %}} +{{% tweet user="sgpombe" id="1052631513332834304" %}} +{{% tweet user="averydavisbell" id="1052631235770572800" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1052631310290669568" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1052632738287706112" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1052633474354405377" %}}I guess that it’s for US scientists, but I don’t think of the “Deep South” in the US when I hear “SouthSeq”. Anyway, SouthSeq looks like a great project with many ways to train others in genetics.
“We are not going to run genetic providers out of jobs”. Loved this quote!
35,000 page views on DNA awareness day3. 23andMe did a survey study in March 2018
-{{% tweet "1052636686025256960" %}} -{{% tweet "1052638967663800320" %}} -{{% tweet "1052639236086616065" %}} -{{% tweet "1052640088360796161" %}} -{{% tweet "1052641512524111872" %}} -{{% tweet "1052641926833291264" %}} -{{% tweet "1052643639267012613" %}} -{{% tweet "1052620297155829760" %}} +{{% tweet user="MoleculeMind" id="1052636686025256960" %}} +{{% tweet user="CincyKidsGenomX" id="1052638967663800320" %}} +{{% tweet user="averydavisbell" id="1052639236086616065" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1052640088360796161" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1052641512524111872" %}} +{{% tweet user="yhtacgnol" id="1052641926833291264" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1052643639267012613" %}} +{{% tweet user="girlscientist" id="1052620297155829760" %}}He thanked others for uploading data and making it publicly available so bioinformaticians like him can download it and re-analyze it. I totally agree with him!
Controlling for a nearby pLI gene? I’ve seen pLI mentioned a few times. Gotta read more about it!
{{% tweet "1052713384221716480" %}} +{{% tweet user="BiochemG_thall" id="1052625791853293569" %}} +{{% tweet user="ChloeReuterCGC" id="1052640703333859328" %}} +{{% tweet user="apicoplast" id="1052701624395649024" %}} +{{% tweet user="GenomeBiology" id="1052711607170621440" %}} +
{{% tweet user="joyceykao" id="1052713384221716480" %}} plus they have a 50% off discount
-{{% tweet "1052715424859602944" %}} -{{% tweet "1052727741668159488" %}} +{{% tweet user="apicoplast" id="1052715424859602944" %}} +{{% tweet user="genome_sheriff" id="1052727741668159488" %}}and everyone who wrote tweets with the ASHG18 hashtag!
-{{% tweet "1051524651950718977" %}} +{{% tweet user="michaelhoffman" id="1051524651950718977" %}}^_^
Angela is presenting the continuation of her undergrad project.
-{{% tweet "1052964260764995584" %}} -{{% tweet "1052964989030490112" %}} +{{% tweet user="CharlestonCWKC" id="1052964260764995584" %}} +{{% tweet user="23andMeResearch" id="1052964989030490112" %}}Hmm, why use a 0.01 \(R^2\) cutoff? Isn’t that super low? Maybe I missed something.
-{{% tweet "1052972394401263616" %}} +{{% tweet user="michaelhoffman" id="1052972394401263616" %}}Moving to Hawaii to start his career as a PI. He had nice pictures to motivate others to join his lab ;)
They built a browser for seeing the rare variants and the exome data. Not available yet.
Bpred and Gpred genes have different expression over development: they intersect at birth.
Looked at SNPs associated with ATAC-seq data (ASoC ?).
Used CRISPR to perturbe noncoding variants linked to SCZD risk: the ASoC SNPs.
Then used single cell (10x Genomics) to measure expression.
-{{% tweet "1053003636135972864" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1053003636135972864" %}}Trolls :/
-{{% tweet "1053002564181024768" %}} -{{% tweet "1053091162372767744" %}} +{{% tweet user="megkesh" id="1053002564181024768" %}} +{{% tweet user="yhtacgnol" id="1053091162372767744" %}}This is hard. Some don’t mention the methods to avoid this issue, but then it becomes a “black box”. I guess that it can also be a “black box” if they don’t explain a bit what the model is/does. /shrug
-{{% tweet "1052970283533889536" %}} -{{% tweet "1052990699166035968" %}} -{{% tweet "1053000667969683458" %}} -{{% tweet "1052996814356373504" %}} -{{% tweet "1053073453035642881" %}} -{{% tweet "1053076114032205824" %}} -{{% tweet "1053081242042691584" %}} +{{% tweet user="genome_sheriff" id="1052970283533889536" %}} +{{% tweet user="alon_goren" id="1052990699166035968" %}} +{{% tweet user="ErickLoomis" id="1053000667969683458" %}} +{{% tweet user="dgmacarthur" id="1052996814356373504" %}} +{{% tweet user="hendricks_ae" id="1053073453035642881" %}} +{{% tweet user="johnomix" id="1053076114032205824" %}} +{{% tweet user="michaelhoffman" id="1053081242042691584" %}}and everyone that I met at the tweetup
-{{% tweet "1053167988109565952" %}} -{{% tweet "1053180338380333056" %}} +{{% tweet user="michaelhoffman" id="1053167988109565952" %}} +{{% tweet user="meandertail" id="1053180338380333056" %}}All results are available to download for free from his lab website!
Mingyao Li and Nancy Zhang were his advisors.
Hierarchical model with normal + (missed it) + log + poisson
And that’s a wrap!
-{{% tweet "1053716471962992641" %}} +{{% tweet user="cgonzagaj" id="1053716471962992641" %}}Note that my blog is powered by blogdown (Xie, Hill, and Thomas, 2017) which has the function blogdown::shortcode()
for embedding tweets. For example, blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1054380320533950464")
generates the hugo
syntax code which then hugo
renders into the tweet itself.
Note that my blog is powered by blogdown (Xie, Hill, and Thomas, 2017) which has the function blogdown::shortcode()
for embedding tweets. For example, blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="lcolladotor", id="1054380320533950464")
generates the hugo
syntax code which then hugo
renders into the tweet itself.
As an alternative, we can use Twitter itself by copy-pasting the code for embedding the tweet directly from the Twitter app/website. On the top right side menu on the tweet itself, select Embed Tweet
then copy-paste the HTML code into your post.
diff --git a/content/post/2018-11-06-a-knot-of-threads-from-cshl-to-lcg-unam-to-aldo-barrientos-to-diversity-scholarship-opportunities.Rmd b/content/post/2018-11-06-a-knot-of-threads-from-cshl-to-lcg-unam-to-aldo-barrientos-to-diversity-scholarship-opportunities.Rmd index f3ae21b..caf7fdf 100644 --- a/content/post/2018-11-06-a-knot-of-threads-from-cshl-to-lcg-unam-to-aldo-barrientos-to-diversity-scholarship-opportunities.Rmd +++ b/content/post/2018-11-06-a-knot-of-threads-from-cshl-to-lcg-unam-to-aldo-barrientos-to-diversity-scholarship-opportunities.Rmd @@ -124,17 +124,17 @@ For the full list of LCG-UNAM alumni, check http://www.lcg.unam.mx/es/titulados. Everyone has their own story of breaking barriers and overcoming challenges. All of them would love the opportunity to present their work and to compete for funds to travel to conferences and do so. -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1052349309818232832")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="AleMedinaRivera", id="")` To close off, here are some inspiring or thought provoking tweets: -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1056571008662949888")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="mgschiavon", id="")` -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1055124381876260865")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="WeAreRLadies", id="")` -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1019597807395770368")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="daniela_oaks", id="")` -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1001985730904764417")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="lcolladotor", id="")` In Mexico, Day of the Dead was just last week (November 2nd) and Aldo's birthday would have been a few weeks ago on October 27th. It was time to finally write this blog post. I hope that you take something positive from it. @@ -199,11 +199,11 @@ session_info() ### Reactions to the blog post -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1060038817774657536")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="lbolanos68", id="")` -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1060116424415436800")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="mreyespri", id="")` -`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", "1060355174546505729")` +`r blogdown::shortcode("tweet", user="paleogenomics", id="")` diff --git a/content/post/2018-11-06-a-knot-of-threads-from-cshl-to-lcg-unam-to-aldo-barrientos-to-diversity-scholarship-opportunities.html b/content/post/2018-11-06-a-knot-of-threads-from-cshl-to-lcg-unam-to-aldo-barrientos-to-diversity-scholarship-opportunities.html index c5b0808..349b233 100644 --- a/content/post/2018-11-06-a-knot-of-threads-from-cshl-to-lcg-unam-to-aldo-barrientos-to-diversity-scholarship-opportunities.html +++ b/content/post/2018-11-06-a-knot-of-threads-from-cshl-to-lcg-unam-to-aldo-barrientos-to-diversity-scholarship-opportunities.html @@ -83,12 +83,12 @@For the full list of LCG-UNAM alumni, check http://www.lcg.unam.mx/es/titulados. There are 257 listed as of October 25, 2018.
Everyone has their own story of breaking barriers and overcoming challenges. All of them would love the opportunity to present their work and to compete for funds to travel to conferences and do so.
-{{% tweet "1052349309818232832" %}} +{{% tweet user="AleMedinaRivera" id="1052349309818232832" %}}To close off, here are some inspiring or thought provoking tweets:
-{{% tweet "1056571008662949888" %}} -{{% tweet "1055124381876260865" %}} -{{% tweet "1019597807395770368" %}} -{{% tweet "1001985730904764417" %}} +{{% tweet user="mgschiavon" id="1056571008662949888" %}} +{{% tweet user="WeAreRLadies" id="1055124381876260865" %}} +{{% tweet user="daniela_oaks" id="1019597807395770368" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1001985730904764417" %}}In Mexico, Day of the Dead was just last week (November 2nd) and Aldo’s birthday would have been a few weeks ago on October 27th. It was time to finally write this blog post. I hope that you take something positive from it.
Recently I’ve been thinking on the subject of asking for help. In short, it’s hard to ask for help. It involves admitting to yourself that you can’t solve the problem alone, opening yourself up, hoping that another person will understand you and guide you in the right direction. Thus it can be painful if your request for help is misunderstood, met with criticism or ignored. Regardless of these obstacles, I think that the potential rewards make it worth it.
I mostly encounter the situation of asking for help in two scenarios. One is about work, mostly R programming. The other one is about personal issues. There are plenty more, like spelling, cultural references, word definitions and academic citations.
-{{% tweet "1061281934666543106" %}} -{{% tweet "1061288301825413121" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1061281934666543106" %}} +{{% tweet user="lpachter" id="1061288301825413121" %}}In the context of R and Bioconductor, and programming in general, it can be scary to ask for help in public forums such as a GitHub issue page, the Bioconductor Support website, the RStudio Community website, etc. That’s because you might get a very short reply that can seem unhelpful if it involves terms you are not familiar with (though it might be a precise reply). There are also issues with online communities that I won’t get into. Over the years, I’ve tried to help those who will potentially answer my questions by:
diff --git a/content/post/2019-02-03-the-power-of-tapping-into-your-community-for-support.Rmd b/content/post/2019-02-03-the-power-of-tapping-into-your-community-for-support.Rmd index 09680e8..acc0c88 100644 --- a/content/post/2019-02-03-the-power-of-tapping-into-your-community-for-support.Rmd +++ b/content/post/2019-02-03-the-power-of-tapping-into-your-community-for-support.Rmd @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Thanks [EpiRen](https://twitter.com/EpiRen/status/1091844480112775168)! Thanks Baltimore Sun staff and the Baltimore Police! -`r blogdown::shortcode('tweet', '1091466386868748288')` +`r blogdown::shortcode('tweet', user='lcolladotor', id='1091466386868748288')` This blog post was made possible thanks to: diff --git a/content/post/2019-02-03-the-power-of-tapping-into-your-community-for-support.html b/content/post/2019-02-03-the-power-of-tapping-into-your-community-for-support.html index 6179510..b87b00b 100644 --- a/content/post/2019-02-03-the-power-of-tapping-into-your-community-for-support.html +++ b/content/post/2019-02-03-the-power-of-tapping-into-your-community-for-support.html @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@Thanks EpiRen!
Thanks Baltimore Sun staff and the Baltimore Police!
-{{% tweet "1091466386868748288" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1091466386868748288" %}}This blog post was made possible thanks to:
This blog post was first published at the CDSBMexico website.
-{{% tweet "1101339389395943424" %}} +{{% tweet user="CDSBMexico" id="1101339389395943424" %}}About 10 months ago we announced our plans to start a new community of R/Bioconductor developers in Mexico and Latin America. The National Bioinformatics Node (NNB-UNAM in Spanish) has organized workshops in bioinformatics and R since 2006 and more frequently since 2010. Last year, 2018, there were five simultaneous one week workshops:
The hugo-academic
theme which powers my website is active and frequently updated. I don’t update my website that frequently anymore, but I recently found about many of their changes when I made the CDSB website.
One of the new features that I liked quite a bit was the ability to have landing pages for each person in your team. I wanted to improve my website’s section describing the people I’ve mentored so I decided to update my personal website too. Once I started this process, I realized that talks and publications had drastically changed. You could now have an image per talk or publication, add tags to them and link them to projects. Furthermore, I noticed that I hadn’t uploaded all my posters nor the slides for all my talks. So this whole process of updating my website took quite a bit of time! All this new information is also reflected on my CV now.
The desire to avoid feeling alone is something that can still shape my behavior at a conference. If possible, I like having some close friends I can hang out with and be relaxed, almost as if we were not at the conference. They provide a zone that I can enter, recharge, and then head out of it again to continue networking.
Yet recently, I’ve grown more conscious of the fact that I’ve been around longer than others. Meaning that I might be the person that knows X or Y that they want to meet or talk to. That is, I find myself more frequently in the position of introducing people and helping them make connections. Somehow asking X or Y: “hey, do you have a minute? Can I introduce you to someone?” is way less scary even if I’m not the closest acquaintance of X or Y. That is, becoming a sponsor: mostly the access portion as defined by this blog post by Emily Robinson.
So, while I still network like I used to, a portion of my time is spent checking on others I know so they are not alone and helping them when possible make the connections they want. Doing so also helps me strengthen my own connections as I detailed near the end of my tweet series post-rstudio::conf(2020).
-{{% tweet "1224034315429994502" %}} +{{% tweet user="lcolladotor" id="1224034315429994502" %}}Trying for a while then asking for help is all good in practice. However, asking for help is very challenging. It’s scary, you open yourself because you show what you don’t know to other people, and sadly historically many questions have been met with negative feedback on the Internet. Thus, they can make you feel dumb, stupid and many other negative emotions.
I do think that asking for help can be worth it and even wrote a previous blog post on this subject. Some reasons why it’s worth it include being able to move on with your work 2, you might learn something new, and if you follow the strategies for helping others help you, you might even figure out the answer yourself.
Now, we all ask for help regardless of how long we have been writing code. Here’s an example tweet that conveys the same message. There are thousands of such tweets online.
-{{% tweet "1085227527587561472" %}} +{{% tweet user="lyzidiamond" id="1085227527587561472" %}}I would also like to acknowledge the general inspiration I’ve gotten from Alison Hill’s educational work. Once the rstudio::conf(2020)
videos are available, check the work her intern Desirée de Leon showcased which is related to the following tweet.
P.S. dinámica in Spanish is used for a set of exercises that have a specific purpose in mind. I now realize that dynamic doesn’t hold the same meaning. Oh well 🤷🏾
All of us have been building our careers with other types of data and/or experiments, and taking on a new type of data knowing we had an early access advantage over others was quite the challenge. I don’t know about my co-authors, but maybe some of them shared thoughts like mine that were along the lines: can I do this? can I make it work? do my analysis choices make sense? what will experts think of doing once they have access to this data? All while racing against time, even if it was just an illusion in our minds.
But it’s not my first adventure and I’ve picked up skills and confidence along the way. In particular, I’ve written Bioconductor R packages, dealt with pkgdown
/travis
issues like #1206, made shiny web applications, analyzed large RNA-seq data, written papers using GoogleDocs, gotten better at asking for help, among other skills.
I’ve also gotten more comfortable with the idea that I can’t do it all. Others will shortly develop new methods for this type of data, or proper infrastructure to handle this data, or faster visualizations, and so goes on the list. But I’m proud and really happy to say that we built quite the robust prototype. Plus maybe we’ll be involved in shaping this future.
And you noticed that I mentioned we. That’s because I have been learning over the years how to foster collaborations. This particular project involved working with two other members of my workplace who are awesome and that I didn’t know that well. It also involved a new collaboration with someone I’ve known for a while now (we initially met through Twitter in 2014) but hadn’t had the chance to work with. Thus we dove into the unknown together 👩🚀🧑🚀.