Although there were a lot of other things that went on in 2018, I think the biggest takeaway was how much community engagement there was for me, both on the student society side and academic/coding side 
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The amount of things I did for the *first time* too now looking back is pretty crazy, and I think shows how much braver I've become in putting myself out there and trying new things despite feeling under qualified or as an outsider, every time I did though it was sooo worth it
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@hackseq this year I got to connect closer with my fellow rladies members such as@nabavinoushin@raissaphilibert@MazzaShazza, as well as my current neuroinformatics project partner@mariamearab. I was worried that my coding skills were not good enough to participateShow this thread -
I also had my first meetups with
@RLadiesGlobal and@pyladies, and eventually became a (very new) co-organizer with@RLadiesVan, met their founder@gdequeiroz as well as the awesome @mmmpork!! Super inspirational to meet such awesome women in the communityShow this thread -
I was also nervous ahead of the
@Bioinfodotca Epigenomic Data Analysis workshop. SO happy my bash & unix skills allowed me to keep up. Also met the very charming@IvaZovkic who was forced to sit beside me for 2 days. Her lab is definitely on the list for grad school now though!Show this thread -
Teaching my first workshop with
@SFU's Scientific Programming Group (was my first meeting too yikes!) was sooo stressful leading up to it. 1.5hrs is no joke and I chose to reproduce a DNA methylation analysis in R to cement the epigenomics concepts. Happy I did it for sure!!Show this thread -
With
@pyladiesvan I gave a community talk about transparency/open source practices in science w/ a focus on neurosci. Great audience engagement afterwards & was a marriage of@CAN_ACN +@linuxfoundation in a lot of ways from the summer. I also had to run to it from a midterm (!!)Show this thread -
That summer I went to my first true neuroscience conference too,
@CAN_ACN. It was my introduction to the Canadian Neuroscience community, and I met some awesome locals like@elimyork, and@JJShimell, as well as@LiisaGalea and@cawinstanley from some of the outreach workShow this thread -
The biggest highlight from
@CAN_ACN was my large rant during the EDI luncheon. I wasn't even suppose to be there, and I was SO nauseous and panicked. My words seemed to resonate though because after I had amazing chats w/@MHendr1cks@BensunCFong@LabFranklin & Brian ChristieShow this thread -
Lastly, I went to the
@linuxfoundation's OSSNA, thanks to a free pass from@pyladiesvan (!!). This was hands down the most diverse & community engaged conference I had ever been to, and it opened my eyes to the world of true transparent practices.Show this thread -
I learned a lot of new tech from the conference, such as
@kubernetesio and@blockchain, which companies were active in open source@IBM and@Microsoft, and sooo much about native cloud and parallel computing
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#OSSNA18 I also had the most profound hour-long convo with Dr. Cameron Seay about socio-economic barriers and strategies to academia. We both actually teared up at one point & I had never previously met someone who understood me so instantly. I'll never forget our talk.Show this thread -
Well, long ass thread but if you've made it this far, congrats! I think the picture I painted was one that kind of emphasized life outside of the lab/office, and most of what drives me now were fostered in those experiences. See you next year!
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Also, sorry for the messy timeline I went in a non-logical order. The chronology of these events are as follows: First Rladies/Pyladies meetings, epigenomics analysis workshop, CAN-ACN, OSSNA2018, first workshop taught, first hackathon, and then first talk given
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My 2018 in a nutshell