Caroline Colijn

2 Postdocs (Vancouver, Canada) Infectious disease, evolution and genomic epidemiology. with @carolinecolijn at Simon Fraser University More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/we-are-se…

@Sen_jed98 Unfortunately since we are based in the mathematics department I think that would be a challenge.. sorry!

@CarolineColijn Amazing opportunity! Is it possible to apply for the MSc program with a BSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and experience in programming and epidemiology?

Graduate students- come work on modelling and estimation in infectious disease and evolution! We have studentships available for MSc and PhD and an exciting range of projects sfu.ca/magpie/join-us…

@google this policy change means that my institution says it can't allow auto-forwarding to gmail any more! You'll lose so many institutions. And does this really mean that I'll never be able to functionally properly search my email again??! blog.google/products/gmail…

@petergyang @nejatian Can we have an academia version of this meeting coster please?

Shopify deleted 12,000 meetings this year. Today, they went a step further with a tool that shows the $$$ cost of holding meetings. I spoke to @nejatian (Shopify's COO) about meeting bloat and protecting craft time. Here are 6 spicy takes from our interview 👇

@nataliexdean Wow. Ok. Thank you! Sounds genius.

@CarolineColijn I figured out some sort of hack! Which is that I use my password manager, and then I save my username as my username+[journal name]. Then I can make sure I am selecting the right password for that journal. I then delete the journal name before logging in.

Academics, has anyone ever logged in to "Editorial Manager" without having to reset the password? I wonder if has happened even once, in the whole history of ever.

@WilliamSiwJames @BrankoMilan Completely agree. It's not a good system, it's often the only path we have, and by the time someone has the nice offer from B, they are likely really considering it.

Tonight's discussion: Most unethical behavior: use the offer from university A where you never want to move in order to extract a higher salary at university B. A common behavior of people who lecture you about ethics (in business, of all places!).

@DanCoombsUBC Even that never works for me despite having linked it to orcid however many times. Like the proverbial tree falling... if you have to reset the password every time, do you *even have an account*?

@CarolineColijn I always use Orcid login now. It was driving me crazy before.

Here's another one: book recommendations. I described a series I liked, and why. Then I had a conversation with chatGPT about other books, refining its list with "no, not so much like this, more like that" and "right, I *did* like that!". Worked better than goodreads.

Unfortunately it is not good at "give me a song about [friend] in the rhythm of a Christmas carol". Or, gpt-3.5 was not good at that, haven't tried 4.

There are a lot of "how to use ChatGPT for productivity" threads. Some are probably written by GPT as part of people's self-promotion strategies. I use it for fun: Recipes. Ask it to include an unusual ingredient. Black beans in brownies, anyone?

@minisciencegirl But yes my current peeve is indeed CIHR. :)

@minisciencegirl BIRS can't manage to link them from one application to another, so researchers have to do the whatever survey for every workshop they are listed on, every year. Just, why?? Is there any evidence that asking us to do it multiple times instead of once increases diversity?

OMG Canadian funders: I have filled in the self-identification survey a zillion times. Y'all know my PIN. I'll say if my ethnicity changes, or anything else about my identity. Assume that my age goes up by 1 year per year. If you don't hear, assume no change. Yes?

@DGBassani aaawwww thanks Diego and my new buddy chatGPT!

@RobLanfear I laughed when I asked for a one-week workshop outline and it dutifully gave me suggested content for 7 full days. I guess it doesn't take weekends.

@RobLanfear Thanks. It's impressive already, especially in your example of the workshop with examples.