Workshops and Special Announcements
Why every PhD should be on LinkedIn
UWMadison affiliations The social media landscape is vast and it is easy to miss important connections. For example, I just found out that UW-Madison is a member of “Beyond the Professoriate” (requires NetID login.) with 31 …
March 31, 2022Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Wisconsin
Café des sciences webinar This first collaborative Café des sciences webinar is organized by the Office for Science and Technology of the Consulate General of France in Chicago in collaboration with UW-Madison, the Wisconsin State …
March 16, 2022AlphaFold – run from ChimeraX
The new ChimeraX menu "Tools > Structure Prediction > AlphaFold" provides a simple interface to run AlphaFold2 Colab that does not require the user to know how to use a Jupyter Notebook.
March 4, 2022R & Python workshops – Winter 2022
Summary (Free) Steenbock Library: R and python series (Free) SSCC (Social Science Computing Cooperative): SSCC Training Classes (low cost for UW) Software Carpentry: Software Carpentry @ UW-Madison Low cost registration ends January 5, 2022 See …
December 30, 2021The Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Interactive Tutorials
The Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Interactive Tutorials from Colorado State University was created by Dr. David Fahrney and edited by Ben Robinson. The 10th edition contains 10 interactive tutorials of the planned 16 chapters. Link: https://bc401.bmb.colostate.edu/ …
December 16, 2021R and Python workshops – Fall 2021
Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Steenbock and SSCC workshops (Free) Steenbock Library: R series and Python series (Free) SSCC (Social Science Computing Cooperative): SSCC Training Classes Library …
August 27, 2021Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 4. Reproducible reports
The message The essential message is this: stop using Copy/Paste from one program to another (e.g. a chart from Excel to Word) as this is a manual process that is not reproducible and can easily …
June 11, 2021Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 3, Academic writing
Academic writing with Markdown The origin of Markdown was a simple editing process to export web pages in HTML. In Episode 1 we learned that (original) Markdown has a simple syntax for enhancing text with rich …
June 10, 2021Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 2
In Episode 1: Markdown is easy we saw how Markdown can simplify and streamline the creation of documents while working in easily readable plain text. In this episode we’ll explore: Markdown variations Markdown (free) software …
June 4, 2021Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Master it in 10 minutes!
Episode 1: Markdown is easy, keeps things simple Markdown is… Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax that incorporates rich text elements while retaining the ease and readability of plain text. Why learn Markdown? Markdown …
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