I wrote a fun, hands-on tutorial for scientists/bioinformaticians on how to create bioinformatics pipelines from the bottom up: ricomnl.com/blog/bottom-up…

Funny how quickly and willingly NZ will take refugees... So long as they're from a particular part of the world

Perhaps it's because covid was allowed to rip through the country just prior to school starting and the delay between 1st and 2nd doses in kids coincided with it hitting schools stuff.co.nz/national/healt…

📢𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭: Join us on April 28 from 11am to 12 noon NZST for a webinar on using Jupyter on NeSI’s High Performance Computing (HPC) platform. Come along as we share our treasure of tips & tricks! 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰 -eventbrite.co.nz/e/jupyter-tips…

E kore rātou e kaumātuatia Pēnei i a tātou kua mahue nei E kore hoki rātou e ngoikore Ahakoa pehea i ngā āhuatanga o te wā I te hekenga atu o te rā Tae noa ki te aranga mai i te ata Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou. Ka maumahara tonu tātou ki a rātou. #NZArmy #AnzacDay

Here are some slides I show sometimes with data (from biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) on skewed journal citation distributions. JIF is a preposterous and inappropriate measure of individual article quality. Don’t get beclowned by the JIF

Postdocs ( & research fellows), pretty sure you are now included in academic tertiary education agreements. Join your union folks.

An awesome thread of tips for rstudio

Join your union, Tertiary Education Union is doing their best to ensure we are paid for the work we do. JOIN YOUR UNION.

A. There's no trend of "quiet quitting." It's a made-up phenomenon that coincidentally popped up at the very moment employees are gaining more leverage in the employer-employee relationship than they've enjoyed in decades.

Interesting/scary that a simple face-value request gives police access to Auror’s huge network of cameras at supermarkets, petrol stations etc nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/polic…

I voted YES for strike action: to use what power we have to force our institutions to amend unsustainable working conditions (after sustaining them for years), and pay rates vastly out of sync with living costs & pay increases in other sectors (for academic AND general staff)

It's on! More here: teu.ac.nz/news/universit…

We choose to raise our swords and banners and we will not bend the knee!! ⚔️ ⚔️ #union #UnionStrong #unite #solidarity

Fair pay. It's really not an unreasonable demand.

Update on this - it's super slick. If you're using Rstudio projects, just one command `softbib()` crawls your project space and kicks out nice latex/rmd/doc files for your software bibliography. Strong #rstats recommend.