Now at Mastodon: @Lgsmith@fosstodon.org. She/Her. Research Assistant at @HarvardForest.
Wakefield, MA
Joined August 2018
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For #TidyTuesday, a little #dataviz GIF of the Civil War Drought (+/- 5 years) with data from the Living Blended Drought Atlas
Step-by-step walkthrough available here:
lgsmith295.github.io/LBDA_vi…
#dendro #openscience #literateprogramming
Looks like a large contingency of #datascience #Rstats #Python #AcademicTwitter is seeking twitter alternatives, myself included. I'm giving Mastadon a try: @Lgsmith@fosstodon.org
Hope to see some other #dendro #treering #paleo folks there!
Pros of @joinmastodon:
- open-source
- decentralized: run on a federation of servers
- no ads!
- no attention-algorithm: the timeline is chronological!
- 500 instead of 140 characters in each "toot"
- key features that we need conserved: mentions, hashtags, retweets, likes
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Loving the xDateR app. The many different visualizations are super helpful, and the ability to generate a report of what you did is great for #ReproducibleResearch. @FakeAndyBunn #TreeRingTuesday #OpenScience
A really interesting sounding #altac job. GS12 level forest ecology researcher
The @forestservice @usfs_nrs is hiring a Research Ecologist or Research Forester in Morgantown, WV to evaluate forest growth, structure, dynamics & ecosystem processes in response to disturbances across multiple management regimes. Apply by 8/15!
usajobs.gov/job/667196500
Laura Smith (she/her) retweeted
@ellenbirdman and I were lucky to be able to join Ed Cook who guided us and the HF crew (@YellowBuckeye @chlorophileB David Orwig and others) to the oldest known population of eastern hemlock where we were able to collect an update! #TreeRingTuesday
Apropos of nothing in particular, you can buy entirely unnecessary and completely adorable infant carhartt overalls.
Incredibly disappointing @stri_panama
Short 🧵: It has been 1 month since @NishSwish exposed decades of sexual harassment & abuse @stri_panama. Since then, I have not personally heard from STRI leadership to (1) invite me to discuss reforms or (2) even ask if I am okay [1/4] tinyurl.com/yckjdzdt
Info and data for LBDA and other drought atlas products can be found at drought.memphis.edu/ (thanks to @DJBurnette for maintaining this repository)
Job description: Paid Internship
Job requirement: "PhD level candidates, with significant course, research and/or commercial experience in data visualization and/or visual analytics"
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Laura Smith (she/her) retweeted
Finally, why do I spend so much time on tools and teaching? Shouldn't I be writing Nature papers? No. The behavioral and natural sciences are in a credibility crises. There is no way out but through rigor and methods.
Getting into the holiday spirit! Anyone doing #AdventOfCode this year?
I just completed "Sonar Sweep" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2021 adventofcode.com/2021/day/1
Parenting is a wild ride. Sometimes you're on top of things feeling like mother of the year, other times you're laying your baby on the kitchen floor so you can finally make that cup of tea 😅
Amazing opportunity in a great department
I am recruiting a fully-funded PhD student to work on #geospatial big data analytics, cloud computing, #EarthEngine, #remotesensing, #hydrology. No GRE requirement. Application deadline: Dec. 15th. Contact: qwu18@utk.edu. More info: geography.utk.edu/graduates/…
#hiring #Job #gischat
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It has been 951 days since Bill Gates gifted every stats teacher with this finely distilled tweet. It's so good, because Gates is not dumb. There is nothing dumb about not understanding conditional probability. It's only human.
Ended up in a deep dive of #rtistry and #generativeart yesterday. Loving the mid-mod feel of these prints on @ijeamaka_a's etsy site 😍etsy.com/shop/ArtSnacksPrint…