🧌 We all know the R startup message. It tells us the version of R we are running, the date, the platform we are running on, and some informative tips on using R. When you've been using R a while, though, it get old. Let me show you how you can customise your startup message! ---
This thread by @Patricia is amazing. I've been curiously looking at what the Norwegian job marked for my skills is like, and Agile comes up so often. And... This perspective by a developer I very much respect is really.nice.
@jimgar I love people having opinions, as i have them too! Just not about this topic as i know very little about it. Coming into dev from a social science, there is so much of this type of things i know very little of.
But now I've watched several clips about scrum Vs agile ,and I can totally see where you are coming from.
And I'm a little surprised that Agile is listed as a skill on job postings? It's listed often in the same sentence with specific software skills for jobs.
@Drmowinckels@jimgar Good read and def on point on the fact that a lot of those books should be a blog post and are lacking (data, theory, history).
One "funny" think about "siloed" in research is a "laboratory". A laboratory is literally a place were you isolated yourself or your experiments (welp you can call that a silo). I am not advocating for silo but sometimes they also have some use.
@yabellini@gvwilson in my world, there must be chocolate-something on my birthday. cake, mousse, icecream. There must be chocolate, and it must have been prepared somehow (i.e., you are not getting away with a simple bar of chocolate... Unless it's a mega pack of kinder.... I might forgive that 🤣)
Our lab is looking for a principal engineer in neuroimaging.
The position is suited for a person with an interest in and experience with signal and image processing. Imaging of the human brain by MRI and PET is central to LCBC research
Developing and maintaining existing data pipelines and infrastructure (MRI, PET and EEG)
Maintaining collection of behavioral and questionnaire data
Taking responsibility for quality control of collected data
🧏 People who code have a tendency to spend a lot of time in various IDEs (Integrated Development Environments). They can be as simple as a text editor or as complex as a full-blown development environment. In this post, I'll go through my two go-to IDE's, RStudio and VScode, and why I switch between them rather than sticking to a single one. ---
@Drmowinckels I realised I had all but turned VSCode into vim anyway due to the extensions I am using. And (neo)vim is much more free in terms of how you can create your own tools and automations. For VSCode (and RStudio actually) you’re expected to write and publish a package that contains your extension. It slows things down somewhat. In Vim you just source some code and now things work differently.
I also have some frustration with VSCode’s design - you can’t avoid a mouse completely.
@Drmowinckels Nice post! For me the other "killer app" of VS Code (besides git support) is running instances within docker containers (which could be on a server). Feels identical to working locally.
Personally I've switched 100% to VS Code for my own work. I only use RStudio for teaching. The combination of RStudio plugins in VS Code and my own shortcuts make it fine for package development in my experience.
Another super frustrating thing about having depression and anxiety, is that medical professionals will forever doubt any recount of ailments they can't verify via blood samples to be of psychiatric origin.
I'm not ashamed of having mental illness, I would say I was depressed if I was depressed. It's not a problem.
But I know when I'm not depressed, it's so blatantly obvious to me that I'm not depressed, my mood is surprisingly good given my shitty health situation.
🦴 Version control is great, but sometimes it can trip you up! In this post I recount my rather stupid mistake of using when I shouldn't have, and how I got out of it. ---
@Drmowinckels Ohhhhh! I've done this before, but I wasn't using RStudio -_-
Luckily, I was building a package and installing it on my system at the same time, so my code still existed in my Library. I was able to recover my modifications by loading the package and copying the lines by printing the function body.
@zkamvar ooooh! That's a whole other level! Good on you for.keeping your wits about you. I'm not sure I would have 😅 My brain left the building, and without @maelle I'd likely have lost much more. 🫠
I just got the first funding proposal I was principal on rejected by CZI EOSS, and I'm fine. I get it. My project was smallish, and that there are larger more impactful projects to fund makes sense.
Am I sad? Sure, it would have been awesome to get funding to take the project to the next level. But all in good time.
@yabellini@chiasm i feel like were too young to have friends die of such things spontaneously. I know thats maybe strange to think, but if it was an accident or something it would make more 'sense' somehow.
It feels striking and appropriate, that my doctor makes me feel like I'm crazy and a hypochondriac for having vague symptoms making me unable to work for going on 6 weeks now, and dismissing my own evaluation of my working capacity saying I should work 20%.
Because I love being at home and not being able to make proper dinner or handle more than a 10 min walk on the property before i collapse. Sure, i can squeeze in 1.5 hours of work, and just ... Not eat or move. Sounds like a good bargain.
@Drmowinckels Hope you will feels better soon, my wife had also a somewhat long covid recovery (less hard than you) and simply getting more sun was helpful (or it seems because no one really knows). Weirdly getting "good sun" is not that easy in a winter situation..
@defuneste i try to make sure i get outside 10mins a day to really feel the sun on me, thankfully it is spring and hours of sun is increasing. If anything, it already helps my mental health. Let's hope it also helps for more than just that!
"Setting up a Freesurfer LMM through R" takes you through a process that details the use of #rstats model.matrix function to create preparatory files for a commonly used tool in my field.