Interested in teaching data science for environmental health? We're offering DaSEH's first NIEHS-funded Virtual Instructor Training on May 29! 🍎🧪
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#rstats #edusky
Posts by Ava Hoffman
Kermit the frog screaming with excitement
We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata
Applications are now open for the NIEHS-funded Data Science for Environmental Health (DaSEH) short course! Help us study data science education 🍎🧪
💻 Online Portion: June 8-12, 15-18
🧑🏫 In-Person Codeathon: June 29 - July 1
Learn more & apply by March 15, 2026 at daseh.org
#rstats #EduSky
Everyone fighing over TIbble versus DF >| vs %>% Me: googling what mean means
Me? I'm just happy to be here #rstats
R coding style alignment chart: LAWFUL GOOD y <- x y[is.na(x)] <- "na" NEUTRAL GOOD y = x y[is.na(x)] = "na" CHAOTIC GOOD y = x |> is.na() |> ifelse("na", x) LAWFUL NEUTRAL y <- ifelse(is.na(x), "na", x) TRUE NEUTRAL y = ifelse(is.na(x), "na", x) CHAOTIC NEUTRAL y = x %>% ifelse(is.na(.), "na", .) LAWFUL EVIL `<-`(y, x) `[<-`(y, is.na(x), "na") NEUTRAL EVIL y = x for (i in seq_along(x)) { if (is.na(x[[i]])) { x[[i]] = "na" } } CHAOTIC EVIL x %>% `[<-`(is.na(.), "na") %>% ``<<-``(y, .)
what's a "pipes" ?? #rstats
Excited to share our first BioDIGS paper! This is one of the coolest, most impactful projects I've ever worked on 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“Trustworthy data visualization is a cooperative accomplishment” - Kieran Healy #PositConf2025
"How many of you have opened RStudio, one of the most advanced data science IDEs ever created, to add two numbers?" - Jonathan McPherson at #positconf2025
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"Global health programs are not charity. They are insurance policies and the most affordable protection we have against future pandemics. Containing outbreaks at their source costs millions. Letting them spread costs billions — and lives."
Shoutout to the true mvp of every scientific manuscript: `cowplot::plot_grid()` #rstats
never change, Baltimore
That’s a wrap! Thanks for joining us for ACC2025! 🧬💻
Hey are you looking for a postdoc focusing on microbial
ecology/bioinformatics? Hit me up - it’s not my lab but trying to help someone else staff their lab. If you have a student about to defend, this could be a great chance to get a ton of papers.
If you want to try out AnVIL, join the AnVIL Virtual Workshop on Tuesday September 2 from 3-5 pm ET! You'll learn about the platform, how to bring & find data, and use the analysis tools on the platform!
To sign up, create a free AnVIL account and register here! bit.ly/anvil-virtua....
Really appreciated how @sethf.bsky.social described using AI in the evolution class that we co- teach: “ it’s like paying for a gym membership and then using a forklift to raise and lower your weights.”
How the heck does scientific funding even work?!? I had a lot of fun on this episode of EIPH 🤓
💫FREE💫 AnVIL training alert! Look out for the AnVIL 101 workshop if you're brand new.
Annual pilgrimage to paradise
> “To me, it is actually a very leftist issue to de-medicalize the way we treat anxiety and depression,” he says, noting that such illnesses are often caused “by social circumstances, by poverty, by loneliness.”
How about we start with societal stigma around life-saving mental health treatments
Snapchat for depersonalization
Hinge for bedtrash
Come Data Wrangle with me this July! This is one of my favorite classes to teach 🧠 #rstats #datascience
heartbreaking.
Join us this fall for ACC2025! The AnVIL Community Conference brings together researchers, developers & the cloud genomics community.
🗓️Sept 3–5, 2025
📍Nashville, TN
Highlights:
👥Networking
🎤Talks, Posters, CoFests
💬Community Forum
📩Stay updated: lists.anvilproject.org/lists/acc202...
👏🏻👏🏻 awesome!!
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Illustration for an article titled "Mental health in academia is too often a forgotten footnote. That needs to change" featuring a person overwhelmed by a swirl of papers and books.
"Academics tend to be averse to discussing mental health openly, and higher education’s mental health safety net is patchy—a forgotten footnote that all too often fails its students." #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth scim.ag/4m61iaU
I served on an NIH panel earlier this year. All told, I spent almost an entire work week (38.25 hours) outside my normal work training, writing critiques, and participating in the panel. W/ the stipend, I made $5.23/hr. There's a lot of unpaid labor in science, but this one feels especially icky.