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sghi

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About sghi

Sam. UK and Sweden. Ecology (data analysis + some modeling in R and Python)

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    As someone who uses and teaches R extensively (and loves the tidyverse) the tidyverse is so much easier to teach to people without any programming experience and who have very litt…

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    I'd always (and always do) google an advert rather than trying to remember the exact website anyway. If you search 'href sep' or 'hrefs seo' or even 'aref seo' it always still come…

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    So this is the research area that I currently work in, albeit with a disease ecology perspective rather than a biochemistry one. I've had a quick read of it and and although it doe…

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    It's great that this has been picked up recently, it's something I've been following along with for a while. If anyone is interested, James Heathers runs a podcast called Everythin…

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    No, he worked for Pfizer - https://www.troyhunt.com/today-marks-two-important-milestone...

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    Are you sure? I'm nearly certain that PLOS is a publisher that charges manuscript charges for OA papers - most do.

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    I'm pretty sure they would be able to - I worked with cancer trial data (just a student job, doing data entry) but all patients were completely anonymised to anyone working with th…

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    I love Chance, but I can't imagine that he's got the net worth already himself to buy SoundCloud / make a meaningful investment - maybe he has contacts who do or could help an inve…

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    Never heard of any of them either - from the Midlands and used to travel around UK a lot for work and never heard anyone use them in any conversation.

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    They always seemed to have quite a lot of games testers there as well(used to recruit for contract MS workers for Reading and London)

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    Not a huge amount of experience with models this big, but a common problem I see in Ecology is a bit of a misunderstanding of how models can be used - they're only really useful as…

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    That is true, they do, but in the UK at least all new ones/sites do need full ecological impact assessments (there are various levels of assessment needed depending on habitat suit…

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    I get why they've done it, and The Guardian is a site that I both contribute to and disable my ad-blocker for, but I will miss the speed at which the articles load on my ancient an…