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An update on moving from MacOS to Linux on the desktop

It’s been about eight months since I switched to Linux on the desktop - here’s an update. The TL;DR is that I am overall very happy that I made the switch.
Jul 28, 2023
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Teaching the Psychology of the Climate Crisis

“It is now incontrovertible that human behavior has led to significant changes in the Earth’s climate, and that these changes will inflict an increasingly significant toll…
Jun 18, 2023
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Making the move from Mac to Linux on the desktop - finally!

I have long toyed with the idea of moving to Linux as my desktop environment. I’ve used Linux on servers for several decades, but I have never been able to make the move…
Dec 4, 2022
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Organizing Markdown-based talks using Github

In my previous post I discussed how I had moved from Keynote to a Markdown-based workflow for presentations using Quarto. Because I usually have a number of active talks at…
Nov 15, 2022
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Moving from Keynote to Markdown-based presentations

Those of you who know me are already aware that I tend to make life much more difficult for myself than I need to. This is the first of what I expect to be a series of blog…
Nov 13, 2022
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Advice for getting a job as an interdisciplinary researcher

I gave a talk yesterday to the Stanford NeuroTech grad student group about the challenges of getting an academic job as an interdisciplinary researcher. Here are a few…
Nov 3, 2022
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Reading ‘Error Tight’ by Julia Strand

Today in our lab meeting we read “Error Tight: Exercises for Lab Groups to Prevent Research Mistakes” by Julia Strand. It’s a great paper and led to some really fun…
Nov 1, 2022
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Teaching statistics online (for the first time)- Lessons learned

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Apr 3, 2021
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Editing lecture videos using Davinci Resolve

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Nov 29, 2020
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A quick and dirty workflow for creating lecture videos

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Nov 26, 2020
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Home office setup

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Oct 13, 2020
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Vacation fun- Making traditional Texas chili con carne

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Jul 23, 2020
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Talking remotely- Lessons learned so far

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Jan 24, 2020
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Computing models for a neuroimaging lab

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Dec 12, 2019
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Why I will be flying less

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Jun 27, 2019
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Productivity stack for 2019

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Dec 3, 2018
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Automated web site generation using Bookdown, CircleCI, and Github

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Nov 27, 2018
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Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century - a new intro statistics book

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Nov 20, 2018
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How can one do reproducible science with limited resources?

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Apr 17, 2018
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To Code or Not to Code (in intro statistics)?

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Mar 25, 2018
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Defaults in R can make debugging incredibly hard for beginners

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Jan 22, 2018
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The NIH should stop penalizing collaborative research

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Dec 2, 2016
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Why preregistration no longer makes me nervous

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Sep 1, 2016
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Interested in the Poldrack Lab for graduate school?

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Aug 24, 2016
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The principle of assumed error

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Aug 21, 2016
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