Claus Wilke

@ClausWilke

Professor of Integrative Biology. Opinions are my own and do not represent The University of Texas at Austin. he/him

Austin, TX
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    Sep 1

    I think I'll start a collection.

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  2. Sep 15

    Wait. GitHub doesn't count as backups?

    What do people use for backups? I'm interested in a simple OSS tool that I can script, run with cron rather than have another background process, and send data to my own cloud storage - there's Duplicity/Duplicati/BorgBackup/Restic. Any others/experiences/preferences/warnings?
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    Sep 14

    Entomologists when naming other insects vs entomologists when naming moths

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    Sep 14
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    A sign of a well-managed department is that the vast majority of Asst. Profs are promoted with tenure. We don't hire people at UT-Austin if we don't expect them to be tenured. That is not true at all institutions, but it is becoming more common.

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    Sep 14

    I have received a Freedom of Information request for all emails in the past year w the words “Jonathan” or “Pruitt”. Combined with an aggressive letter about me addressed to the Press that runs AmNat, I am feeling harassed for doing my job to ensure quality of published science.

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  6. Sep 13

    Related.

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  7. Sep 13

    At what point are American companies going to just open offices abroad? Software engineering, product design, R&D , none of this has to happen in the US.

    ✈️💼 DEEP DIVE: The foreign worker slump — Coronavirus has slammed the door on highly skilled foreign workers — aiding Trump's push to limit American-based companies' hiring of foreigners, writes. The restrictions may outlast the pandemic.
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    Sep 11

    A preprint of my work with Susko, & Bielawski is out! We investigate protein evolution under stability-induced epistasis and define a new phenomenon: the evolutionary anti-Stokes shift, where the propensity for an amino acid decreases due to changes in other sites.

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    Sep 12

    The switch to online education is massively time- and labor-intensive for instructors. Everyone I know who is delivering courses online is doing an incredible amount of work above and beyond the usual, with more frustration and less appreciation. (And no more pay, of course.)

    This! I knew this before I started this time, as I’ve delivered flipped classes before, but a 1 hour lecture becomes 3-4 videos usually, and each one of these takes considerable time to prepare. I don’t think 6x is an unreasonable estimate.
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    Sep 10

    Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 ... Those who tested positive for COVID-19 were more than 2x as likely to have reported going to a restaurant in the previous 2 weeks compared to those who got tested and were negative.

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    Sep 9

    Whitespace is the punctuation between visual elements. wrote about how to use it effectively in the first part of a series on applying basic design principles to .

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  12. Sep 9

    They did pick a license, though.👍

    A bioinformatics story in 3 parts
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  13. Sep 9

    I think this highlights how important self-archiving is, even when you're publishing open access.

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    Sep 8

    "Writing a blogdown post for the ages" My very own very idiosyncratic approach to solving blogdown's problem of keeping old posts alive and well.

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    "Writing a blogdown post for the ages" My very own very idiosyncratic approach to solving blogdown's problem of keeping old posts alive and well.

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  16. Sep 8

    As an example that 100% renewable is possible, consider Germany. It's already at 50% renewables this year. That's only a factor of two from 100%. We can totally do this.

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  17. Sep 8

    Nuclear is the preferred "green" power source of the fossil fuel industry, because it's not actually a viable competitor.

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  18. Sep 8

    No. Wind + solar + batteries + power-to-gas is sufficient for 100% renewable, CO2-neutral power supply, and it's cheaper, safer, and doesn't have a toxic waste problem.

    Can we agree to build nuclear power plants now?
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  19. Sep 7

    New blog post: PCA tidyverse style. I've been struggling with doing PCA using an idiomatic tidyverse approach. Now I think I've figured it out.

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    Sep 7

    What is this magical work?!! Just stumbled across this today after an rabbithole: is co-writing a fantastic R Markdown Cookbook with - I'm really excited to read this and learn some new tips and tricks!

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  21. Sep 7

    Agreed. That's why I have a whole chapter on story telling in my dataviz book.

    1. One of the most delightful surprising things I learned as I progressed through my scientific training was realising that storytelling was a major & essential part of being a scientist. Whether writing papers, grants, or presenting a poster/talk, storytelling was a core skill.
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