Scientists need to communicate The art of communication is often overlooked in a Scientist career, but it is becoming increasingly important that Scientists learn to communicate at different levels. Telling a story is a powerful way to explain and interest people and there are proven techniques that can help. H. Adam Steinberg is a former …
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 other Universities and Schools (*). The platform offers: “AURORA is a professional development training platform for graduate students and PhDs …
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 Lab of Hygiene, and the Wisconsin Dept of Health Services. Title: “Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Wisconsin“ Time: Tuesday March …
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.
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 also the general Calendar listing . Library workshops Note: these workshops fill-in fast… Individual workshop descriptions and instructors list. Registration required. …
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/ Using the javacript-based JMol web plug-in they provide easy to use, script-based interactive lessons detailing many structural aspect of biomolecules. …
Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Steenbock and SSCC workshops Library workshops Note: these workshops fill-in fast… Individual workshop descriptions and instructors list. Please email Heather Shimon, heather.shimon@wisc.edu with questions or to be added to our email list for updates. Registration required. Registration is by workshop, not for the …
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 get out of sync if new data need to be incorporated and the report reconstructed anew. The solution is to …
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 elements while retaining the readability of a plain text format. Episode 2 explored Markdown variants and Markdown (free) software. In …
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 Since its original inception in 2004 by John Gruber, famous Apple commentator and online blogger as a plain text-to-HTML conversion tool, there has …