productivity-tools-hacks

Grad School is stressful. Being a faculty member is stressful. Being part of the staff that makes it possible for faculty and students to do what they do is stressful.

Is there a book (or website) that has data, code for analysis, & example of how to report results for common ecological analyses? — Meghan Duffy (@duffy_ma) July 21, 2017 In sum: not really.

A few weeks ago I participated in an event and I was asked by the organizers to estimate the “value of my participation” – specifically the time spent preparing and delivering the presentation – so they could report this to the granting agency and use it in future grant proposals.

This semester our lab meeting will be partially dedicated to people sharing tools they use in the field, doing analyses, in lab, in life….whatever. These can be to increase efficiency, make fieldwork simpler, tame their email, etc.

Our lab group - 3 faculty and 8-15 students, postdocs, and visitors - is starting to use Slack for internal communication. This list is a growing compendium of hacks to enhance its functionality, with examples tailored towards academic labs and the way we could use it.

[caption id=“attachment_7614” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”] George Carlin: “A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it.” (photo: Sarah Gerke CC BY NC ND 2.0).[/caption]   I’ve been trying to find a way to store my files so that I can access them at work, from home, and while traveling (TLDR: I use a departmental server.

Update 1: a few big shortcomings in OneDrive Update 2: another shortcoming: limit on number of files Update 3: in which I traded emails with our head of IT Update 4: VICTORY!

Make your faculty, lab, and student committee meetings better by reading this article from Fast Company magazine. The Seven Sins of Deadly Meetings (TLDR Version) Sin #1: People don’t take meetings seriously.

I’m diving into ggplot2 - this is just a scratch pad of the useful resources I find online. Edwin Chen Intro to ggplot2 Upen Rstudy Group ggplot intro Cookbook for R ggplot2 colors

I’ve got to do some maps for a manuscript, so I’ve been working through different options for mapping in R. Here are some resources I’ve found useful, feel free to add in the comments.