Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

what tools do you use for personal academic 'project management'? tracking status of papers/studies, stuff to read/prioritize reading, tracking cfps and conferences of interest, various sizes of to-do lists...? one tool or a toolkit of varied apps?
(doesn't necessarily need to be shareable, but some parts could extend to co-author communication)

Oh! This is a nice paper summarizing a lot of information about prior choice in Bayesian models. It's targeted at ecologists and the kinds of models they tend to use, but useful outside of ecology I expect.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/oik.05985

#ecology #modeling #stan #bayesian

@bthall @invaderxan Do you have any good suggestions for how we *should* organise such papers as pdfs?

Word of caution. If you, like me, save PDF copies of papers to a directory called "to read" or "unsorted" or similar, try not to let them accumulate.

This advice brought to you by that one scientist who just spent literal hours sorting through a folder full of several hundred papers.

I was checking some of the seeds I'm germinating, and look! This orange seed is polyembryonic!

Polyembryonic seeds are basically what happens when a plant has twins, and one seed contains more than one embryo. Some plants (like some types of mango) always grow seeds like this. In my experience, it's unusual in oranges though.

@bthall If you want to stick with python and still do Rethinking Statistics, you can! https://github.com/pymc-devs/resources/tree/master/Rethinking

Someone: one of the perils of free education is that you might very well end up like mastodon user sargoth

Me, in the background: it rules

I love learning statistics from Richard McElreath 😍 😍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WVelCswXo4&list=PLDcUM9US4XdNM4Edgs7weiyIguLSToZRI

lovely scholars,

please would you help a fellow mastodonian out? she's super close to completing her masters but is still short for tuition fees!

https://www.gofundme.com/help-to-fund-the-last-6-months-of-my-masters

One of the things I'm learning this year is building up a base of people with similar interests

Partly so I can show them stuff which is cool but niche, but also because it's so much less lonely than when I was going, "This is a Cool and Unique Interest That I Shall Pursue Alone!"

@nimirea My first big mentor made me feel like a peer. That was huge for me, and made me approach my discipline in a totally different way. Sometimes we fail individually, but if you get a sense that you are collectively striving towards some ideal, you can also see how things can be worthwhile.

It also taught me that you have to be intellectually generous and admit your limits.

@bthall you can have another point of view with Nelson Goodman paradox 🙂

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Thanks & feel free to pass this on to interested parties!

#scholcomm #preprints #survey