Proliferating more seems like a winning strategy, but using models, we show that for malaria parasites, being a bit more restrained may be optimal! Check out the new paper:
I finished a silly beginner
#rstats
tutorial I started during the pandemic. You are a traveler in a fantastical kingdom of NewbR. It's interactive and the project was for me to learn how to use learnR
I'm taking my steps to becoming a bayesian (but I'm gonna bitch and complain my whole way about it)
I'm gonna say this is the book that literally converted me. It's beautifully written in a way that makes me think of reading a novel almost.
General GRE is like 205$
Sending test-scores when you don't do it at test sites are 27$
Subject tests are another 150$
Any department who say they look for a diverse student body is a hypocrite when they have a GRE requirement.
All the malaria species I could find any information on. About ~240 species? Working on a manuscript and this new WIP figure is to show the diversity of the genus Plasmodium. Gonna have the data table available when I'm done organizing.
My Asian parents were meeting my white partner for the first time and to make her feel accepted they made a charcuterie board in addition to the Korean food
sometimes I'm like wow what is the point of science, research, academia and feel kinda depressed about it but books like above kinda remind us of this innate need to struggle and learn something greater than ourselves
I made a small tutorial for how to make an agent based model for those who never made one before! It's a little learning project based on a current manuscript
#rstats
and
#ggplot2
gganimate package are used
Come see my talk at
#ESA2018
!
Wed, 10:50 AM, 355
If warmer winters lead to less synchronous diapause termination, how could that affect pest dynamics?
Very much WIP, but come for the title slide.
@katiedimartin
chacos, but with the toe loop. the break in period is ass and did leave blisters, but it's the only sandals that I can wear for walking.
I made this in PowerPoint because illustrator is too hard and I’m a dumb dumb. I am part of the “PowerPoint is valid for making scientific figures/diagram” crowd
I'm kinda afraid my intro to
#rstats
will be too gimmicky- but like...
isn't it fun being a fantasy adventurer learning R then like being a grad student stuck at home having to learn R? (Also starting to push myself with illustrator)
i just submitted a paper that took up 85% of my PhD.
i can finally breath for a few days
(I don't care if it's rejected, I just need time to get away from this project)
lol i'm still running simulations a week before my dissertation is due.
dear younger grad students, start your dissertation writing earlier than you think or you shall be damie, damie the fool
Teaching
#ggplot2
over zoom this coming tues. Decided to make a simple Rmarkdown with learnR that people will practice ggplot2 on. learnR is such a cool and important package, amazingly easy to use. I hope all
#rstats
workshop start using it.
welp i just learned about the package {trelliscopejs}. Facet graphs in
#ggplot2
are unreadable if you have like more than 10 facets (atleast for me). With the package you can like scroll throough all your faceted graphs! holy crap (from dev's example)
Yo yo yo,
I am leading a workshop on intro ggplot2 for
@CIDDGrads
but anyone can join in. We're going to be making a lot of plots based on the fake disease TBA. If anyone's interested here is the form where I'll send you the data-files and such:
i think the dissemination of quantitative skills (coding, math, stats) in any EEB department is frankly very poor.
People talk about journal club remedying that but I think we reaallly need a push for more interactive workshops or even like coding clubs
welp
#rstats
i made fun of tidyverse and the pipeline (%>%) a few years/months ago and grumbled about how unreadable the script was to me.
well, I am very, very wrong. I get the pipeline now and I'm rewriting data-analysis code and it is 100x neater
Lot of grad students are amazing bakers. I, however, am not. I tried to draw a mosquito and tried to put happy birthday but did not plan it out . I want to be on Nailed it plz
Heading to
#ESA2023
, please come see my talk Disease And Epidemiology 3 (August 9- Wed). Also pinging if any mutuals are going, need to find karaoke buddies
dear ecology people who do coding in
#rstats
/mathematical modeling-
do you have your figures in a different script or in the same script as your data analysis.
my problem is that my ggplot chunk is too big and kinda make it ugly
As a postdoc, living in Ithaca was surprisingly expensive for what it is. Rent is super ridiculous for the terrible conditions the houses are in. It's a huge, huge source of stress from the grad students I talked to. Even living outside of Ithaca, it's still quite pricey!
Across Cornell, graduate workers teach, produce research, and do service work that enriches this university. Today, hundreds of graduate workers are coming together to build a better Cornell: we are officially kicking off our campaign to form a graduate employee union.
my advice to incoming grad students is to start strength training and figure out how to sit properly.
I fucked up my neck/back so bad from my horrible sitting posture in my 3rd year, I had to go to physical therapy and couldn't work for a month.
Here’s a love story: When my dad proposed, my mom said no first. I guess he then started to lightly kick her and she was like “ok fine Christ”
Happy valentine!
after 2-3 long years, I am now more comfortable making schematics in illustrator then powerpoint. illustrator is really a worthwhile program to learn for grad student but man the time investment is ridiculous (like worse than R)
On a phone call with my dad
Dad: "Getting your PhD is the start of the tragedy, you had a safety net for research but now you're going to be judged by your peers and students- it's less forgiving damie"
Me: lol i don't care dad call me dr. pak
I hope the pandemic make it more obvious the importance of grad student unionization.
You absolutely cannot form a relationship with a university- it is a business contract nothing more. Without organization, negotiation is incredibly difficult
Hour train ride sitting next to a bottle of pee and having to eat outside in the rain was all worth it for Vietnamese food in dorchester. Religious epiphany of how amazing and cheap it was
a really disturbing, but interesting experiment of chaining a bunch of diapausing pupae together to understand the role of the insect brain and diapause
Pay more and honestly if it’s pure computational, offer remote work! Having to move every one/two years while in a relationship is ass! It’s really not a hard problem to fix
A super WIP for a figure that I spent too much time on for a paper- show the diversity of burst size across different malaria species. Also just really bonkers about how many Plasmodium species they are
It's published! In this paper I explored the climate variables influencing the
#phenology
of apple pests. Spring conditions are important, but the harshness of fall and winter can also delay or advance the emergence of adults.
#entomology
#ecology
Looking for a
#postdoc
in the Boston Area/Remote Postdoc! I do quantitative ecology and have extremely broad interests- but insect pest dynamics and disease are my jam
Messing around with a flyer design and wanted to do a cuckoo clock with my study species to represent phenology. Realized how creepy it looked so scrapped it but a fun sketch
i don't want my kids to go into academia. If they make it, I have to go to boring seminars.
but now if my kid becomes a famous broadway actors, hello, free broadway shows!
'damie i grew up poor. I didn't have anything. I had to take care of my family because my parents didn't work. But I had one thing... I had really good skin atleasts,"
- my mother who supported her family (grandparents, two brothers) at 14.
#InternationalWomensDay
at cornell eeb, labs take turn hosting bagels and make their own flyers. we're a malaria lab but i was like no we have totoro on ours and we're riding on our pi's cat
Made a flyer for our lab hosting bagels. I was worried about getting the anatomy correct, but then I was like it's literally a mosquito made up of a bagel.
Signed my letter, I'm happy to announce I'll be starting a postdoc this summer at the University of South Carolina's new disease center with
@taddallas
! I'll be working on vector borne diseases so please keep me in mind as I start my new adventure and new collabs!
Yeah pure computational grad students let’s all work from home. Our lab work friends have to pretty much go in. Let us pity those who can’t research by laying around pantless with our laptops on our stomach- rstudio and Netflix both on one screen as we shove Cheetos in our mouth
I forgot to take a picture but they went all out from trader joe , my dad was eating most of it since charcuterie is more “exotic” than the typical daily Korean fare
so I'm 100% sure this isn't a novel idea, but I was like maybe I can make a simple visual map of my research project? When I look at other projects, sometimes I'm interested in reproducing or understanding a single figure from the manuscript... (1/n)
I realized for my dissertation zoom talk everyone is able to see a part of my tiny studio.
I have decided to decorate this one area to lie how well I live as a scholar.
like having a random globe in the back- any other suggestions?
i am still sick with covid so I have decided to tweet about the Love Hypothesis. Academic twitter have been shitting on it because you know it's a grad student/PI relationship. Is the hatred warranted? Yes. (1/n)