Caroline Colijn

Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Infection, Evolution and Public Health
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

[IDDjobs: infectious disease dynamics jobs @IDDjobs]

2 Postdocs (Vancouver, Canada)
Infectious disease, evolution and genomic epidemiology.
with @carolinecolijn
at Simon Fraser University
More details: https://t.co/9Bsze13LvN

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@Sen_jed98 Unfortunately since we are based in the mathematics department I think that would be a challenge.. sorry!

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Graduate students- come work on modelling and estimation in infectious disease and evolution! We have studentships available for MSc and PhD and an exciting range of projects

https://t.co/aGLVABbuKq

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@google this policy change means that my institution says it can't allow auto-forwarding to gmail any more! You'll lose so many institutions.
And does this really mean that I'll never be able to functionally properly search my email again??!
https://t.co/qijWmT5sIo

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@petergyang @nejatian Can we have an academia version of this meeting coster please?

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@nataliexdean Wow. Ok. Thank you! Sounds genius.

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Academics, has anyone ever logged in to "Editorial Manager" without having to reset the password? I wonder if has happened even once, in the whole history of ever.

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@WilliamSiwJames @BrankoMilan Completely agree. It's not a good system, it's often the only path we have, and by the time someone has the nice offer from B, they are likely really considering it.

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@DanCoombsUBC Even that never works for me despite having linked it to orcid however many times.

Like the proverbial tree falling... if you have to reset the password every time, do you *even have an account*?

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Here's another one: book recommendations. I described a series I liked, and why.
Then I had a conversation with chatGPT about other books, refining its list with "no, not so much like this, more like that" and "right, I *did* like that!".
Worked better than goodreads.

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There are a lot of "how to use ChatGPT for productivity" threads. Some are probably written by GPT as part of people's self-promotion strategies.

I use it for fun:

Recipes. Ask it to include an unusual ingredient. Black beans in brownies, anyone?

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Unfortunately it is not good at "give me a song about [friend] in the rhythm of a Christmas carol". Or, gpt-3.5 was not good at that, haven't tried 4.

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@minisciencegirl But yes my current peeve is indeed CIHR. :)

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OMG Canadian funders: I have filled in the self-identification survey a zillion times. Y'all know my PIN.
I'll say if my ethnicity changes, or anything else about my identity. Assume that my age goes up by 1 year per year.

If you don't hear, assume no change. Yes?

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@minisciencegirl BIRS can't manage to link them from one application to another, so researchers have to do the whatever survey for every workshop they are listed on, every year. Just, why??
Is there any evidence that asking us to do it multiple times instead of once increases diversity?

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@DGBassani aaawwww thanks Diego and my new buddy chatGPT!

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@RobLanfear I laughed when I asked for a one-week workshop outline and it dutifully gave me suggested content for 7 full days. I guess it doesn't take weekends.

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@RobLanfear Thanks. It's impressive already, especially in your example of the workshop with examples.