Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@social.cleverlibre.org

Had a great day as advisor to burgeoning scientists. Attended an excellent dissertation defense on bioinformatics of bacteriophage ecology, watched my grad student present a seminar on modeling the cultural evolution of inequality, corresponded with a German physics PhD student who will be visiting my lab in the spring, and hosted a predoctoral student i am mentoring who zoomed into our lab meeting from NYC to talk to us about the dynamics of couple contagions on networks. I like this job.

@noamross I was just thinking about the Butlerian jihad yesterday, in a similar vein.

@noahhaber you never know when you’ll need to both plot some functions and play a game of breakout.

@Russpoldrack 🐘💨

@rdhawkins gotta say, the doomscrolling is still pretty solid over there.

@damienfarine I love writing book chapters. You shouldn’t think of them as the same medium as a journal article. It’s an opportunity to write how you like, and there’s much more flexibility in terms of style. (YMMV, since I have a fairly whimsical style and often feel boxed in by the journal format). I always post book chapters to preprint servers, so they’re still accessible.

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