Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
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4D chess move here is to use LaTeX but make it look like Word to communicate that you're the type of person who does not care about superficial signals (hence, Word) but simultaneously is so good at LaTeX that it's easier for them to use.
This time of year is getting close, folks! Just saying.
{tinytable} 0.4.0 for #RStats is out! 🚀 This 📦 converts dataframes to html, tex, docx, typ, or md tables.
Super simple, ultra flexible, 0-dependency, and the website hosts a billion tutorials:
vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
0.4.0 is a big release. Please install and try it out!
Shell output: curl -LH "Accept: application/x-bibtex" https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.10110 @article{Henrich_2003, title={The evolution of cultural evolution}, volume={12}, ISSN={1520-6505}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.10110}, DOI={10.1002/evan.10110}, number={3}, journal={Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Henrich, Joseph and McElreath, Richard}, year={2003}, month=jan, pages={123–135} }
(Did I never post this tip here?)
Do you like bibtex? Do you do doi? Do you want bibtex refs from doi on the command line? Yes you do, you wonderful monster. Try this line (adjust doi as needed, and see alt text for source too):
curl -LH "Accept: application/x-bibtex" doi.org/10.1002/evan...
Coincidentally I just had to reimburse UF $26.73 because tolls are no longer an allowed expense on international research travel if you get a per diem so can we please give the Alligator Staff a Pulitzer already.
www.alligator.org/article/2024...
