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New post over at my development log! Go check it out: https://devlog.charlespence.net/
Still not counting chickens until the ink is dry, but Big Academic Publishing Company is finalizing my book contract.
I'm a bit torn about it, honestly, because I'll be publishing with one of the Really Big Companies (instead of a smaller university press), but this will likely make the book more discoverable for scientific audiences, something I also was hoping for...
(It's a press that tends to treat books like article collections, where each chapter has a separate abstract. Cool for the online version! But it makes your printed monograph feel... chintzy. Also please please please let me have Opinions about the cover design.)
All too often I hear "how can we justify funds to maintain research software?"
But really, we should be asking "How can we justify _not_ funding it?"
My colleagues and I wrote a thing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-021-00048-5
(but anyway I *think* I have Large Academic Publishing House on the hook now, just have to finish the sales pitch... *holds breath*)
Notably:
- vscode-markdown-notes to start to rearrange my personal notes bucket: https://github.com/kortina/vscode-markdown-notes
- some fancy todo.md style todo listing in my notes on my students/advisees – now I need to parse it and build myself a dashboard...
- new ZSH config, new prompt (https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure), new editor & term color theme (https://citylights.xyz/)
Full program (and yesterday's talks on YT) available here: https://pencelab.be/events/ds2-2021/
I *entirely* forgot to promote this here, but come check out the last three days of our online conference, Digital Studies of Digital Science (DS²)! Free to access, you just need your browser.
Day 2 of the DS² 2021: Digital Studies of Digital Science organized by @pencelab starts right now! Thread below. Full program: https://pencelab.be/events/ds2-2021/
#DS2conf #digitalscience #DigitalHumanities #machinelearning #mathematics #science #tech #academia #biology #genome #data
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New post over at my development log! Go check it out: https://devlog.charlespence.net/
Philosopher and historian of biology: the past and future of chance in evolution & science in a digital world • PI, Pence Lab • UCLouvain, 🇧🇪 • Co-editor, _Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology_