Bioinformatics researcher, lapsed circadian biologist, dad joke aficionado. Opinions expressed here are my own (and probably wrong). He/him.
Joined November 2019
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Nick Lahens retweeted
3 Aug 2022
Guess cat’s out the bag. Excited to be invited as a keynote speaker for ISCB Rocky 2022!! Hope to see y’all there in December! iscb.org/rocky2022
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Nick Lahens retweeted
12 Apr 2022
Please support my wonderful cousin and discover some Yoruba stories as we heard them growing up!
11 Feb 2022
Alo is here!
I am pleased to inform you that you can now purchase your ebook copy of Alo! Alo is a delightful book filled with long forgotten tales and ballads from Africa, specifically the yoruba tribe.
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5 Oct 2021
Great info here and in the replies.
4 Oct 2021
Okay follow up on this tweet - what are random miscellaneous, go-to tricks and tips you have for data cleaning.
For example: I never read in a file without using %>% janitor::clean_names()
Nick Lahens retweeted
4 Oct 2021
pins 1.0.0 is out now: blog.rstudio.com/2021/10/04/… — pins publishes data, models, and other R objects, making it easier to share them across projects and with your colleagues. pins 1.0.0 includes a major update to the interface. #rstats
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Nick Lahens retweeted
23 Aug 2021
23 Aug 2021
RStudio Cheatsheet Updates
⬢ @avperny writes about the many RStudio cheatsheets that have been updated or reworked based on recent package updates
⬡ The cheatsheet contribution process is updated as well.
Learn more and collect them at al
⬢ blog.rstudio.com/2021/08/23/…
#RStats
ALT Updated RStudio Cheatsheets
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Nick Lahens retweeted
25 Aug 2021
Thank you, @djnavarro, for these slides about file naming and organization! I can't write anything better than you have, so I'm going to send my students to your slides to learn. slides.djnavarro.net/project…
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Nick Lahens retweeted
30 Aug 2021
Announcement!
The Way Lab is opening its doors on Sept 15th, 2021 at @CUMedicalSchool in the new Center for Health AI @CUHealthAI
I am very excited for this new chapter 🎓
Check out our new lab at waysciencelab.com/ and, best of all, we're hiring several new positions!
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13 Aug 2021
Great info here. Saving this for later...
Nick Lahens retweeted
11 Aug 2021
Penn is looking to hire an assistant director for the genetic diagnostic lab. It’s a great opportunity and a great environment. Tell your friends, details here: careers.insidehighered.com/j…
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Nick Lahens retweeted
26 Jul 2021
Hi everyone. I'm beginning year 4 as PI at Columbia University's @ZuckermanBrain.
My lab is studying neural circuits for rewarding social touch and stress resilience, genetics of pain, central representations of itch, and developing mouse pain scales.
#BlackInNeuroRollCall
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Nick Lahens retweeted
24 Jul 2021
It’s time to remind people that #COVID19 sucks. Get vaccinated
25 Mar 2020
I’ve been recovering and starting to feel better. I’ve been thinking a lot about the emotions that I experienced during my time in the ICU and after. Major caveat: I know people have had it worse and people have lost loved ones, but I want to share some of what I experienced. 1/
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Nick Lahens retweeted
15 Jul 2021
Come nerd out about sharks with your 2 favorite, overly hyped shark scientists! #SharkWeek #SharkFest
15 Jul 2021
Come nerd out with us about sharks! @soFISHtication and I will host a Twitter Space tomorrow at 11am EDT to talk sharks and answer questions you have. The perfect lunch break during #SharkWeek!
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Nick Lahens retweeted
14 Jul 2021
Today is #SharkAwarenessDay! There are over 500 species of sharks in our oceans working hard to keep our ecosystems healthy.
Thank a shark today by sharing with us your favorite sharks and why you love them💙🦈 and by checking out this small thread of how you can help the ocean!
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Nick Lahens retweeted
12 Jul 2021
Helloo! I've launched an etsy shop, Art Snacks Prints 🍎🎨
I'm selling limited batches of mini art prints. The shop will include my art that has been posted on here and others in sizes 4.7x4.7 in and 4x6 in (and 5x7 in the future).
etsy.com/shop/ArtSnacksPrint…
ALT A picture of me holding a print in front of a backdrop of plants. The print is interwoven golden lines on a black background.
ALT A picture of me holding a print in front of a backdrop of plants. The print is clouds created from concentric white circles.
ALT A picture of me holding a print in front of a backdrop of plants. The print is of arcs of circles of various radii coming together to make 12 distinct circle. Each circle is composed of three arcs: blue, yellow, and green.
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Nick Lahens retweeted
12 Jul 2021
Are there grad students looking for postdoc positions?
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Nick Lahens retweeted
12 Jul 2021
I'll close tonight by saying I got to watch Shark Week with my dad for the first time since I was a kid and for my first time as a shark scientist and he kept asking me stuff and I was offering commentary and it was just a really good moment cause I feel like he was real proud
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Nick Lahens retweeted
8 Jul 2021
A MISSING BLACK SCIENTIST!!!!
Please share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please share. Missing Geologist in AZ. One of us.
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Nick Lahens retweeted
6 Jul 2021
A few years ago, when I was at the public defender's office, my very poor clients kept telling me the same story: they would be walking down the street and DC police would stop them, search them at gunpoint, tell them to open their wallets, and take all the cash they had. (2)
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Nick Lahens retweeted
2 Jul 2021
Our work on correcting (un)known confounders in #RNA Splicing analysis is out @NatureComms ! 🎉
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Kudos first authors @BarrySlaff & @Radlinsky for great job, with Paul Jewell. Below - why we think this is important for anyone interested in RNA Splicing 1/n
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