Here are my slides from a guest lecture I gave in ENVS 601. Interesting class, only place I’ve been called totally ignorant by another instructor… I’m thinking it was a compliment aimed at bias-free research approaches.

Goings on in population genetics.
Here are my slides from a guest lecture I gave in ENVS 601. Interesting class, only place I’ve been called totally ignorant by another instructor… I’m thinking it was a compliment aimed at bias-free research approaches.
If you took part in the Glasgow Landscape Genetics Course in March, I would appreciate any feedback you could provide so I can make the course better. Thank you.
Here is the seedlings file.
This week I’m in the wonderful town of Glasgow giving a workshop on Applied Landscape Genetics to a wide and interesting population of researchers.
Here is the link to the content. If you are not taking it, you can follow along at your own pace, it is all available under the following CC-SA 4.0 license.
Here are the slides from the January Meeting.
Syndication is a process whereby you can post something to your site and other locations will detect that you have posted something and then pull in the content to their site, making it look like you wrote it and posted it on their site. Is that clear? Here is my use-case:
This is particularly interesting for teaching and other uses. If a class uses WordPress for its webpage, students can provide content for that class page by publishing on their own site. This allows each student to create a "Digital Portfolio" of work that they maintain (see my thing on Content Silos for more on this).
I'm going to use the FeedWordPress Plugin for this because it was the one that my university uses and I want to standardize the approaches.
To install it, go to Plugins->Add New and search for it. Install & Activate .I'm going to use a new Category, named Dyerlab, to trigger the syndication. So I add a new one.
OK, now on my personal page, I have a category "Dyerlab" that I will attach to things that I want to show up on my Dyerlab WordPress site. To make the connection, we need to get the category feed address. Unless you are changing something drastic it has the following structure:
https://yoursiteurl/category/categoryname
which in my case is:
https://rodneydyer.com/category/Dyerlab/
You can try it out and you should see (if you have any posts with that category published) a list of just those posts. If so, perfect. If not, then you either have not posted anything with that category or you have not set up the category correctly. Go back and check.
Now, I need to set up the other site, in this case my laboratory site, to monitor my personal site, and any time something is posted, grab it. Go open your other site and make sure the plugin is installed. This site will "Pull" the posts from the original site. Click on Syndication in the bottom left panel and you will open the settings page.
In the "New Source" box, paste in the category address from your other site. In my case I pasted in
https://rodneydyer.com/category/dyerlab.
You will be taken to a verification screen where you can verify that things are working properly and select the correct feed type. There is a 'verify' link that you can use to make sure it is providing good input. After you select which kind of feed you want, you will be redirected back to the list, as above, but with your new feed in it.
Success
Now, when I write something (like this post) on my site, it will automagically show up on my laboratory site as well. The Cool thing is that wherever it is displayed, it is reformatted to look as if it belonged at that location. Here is this post on my personal site.
and on my laboratory site
are identical in content, though are individually styles. Pretty cool!
Featured image bytes amattox mattox (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Syndication is a process whereby you can post something to your site and other locations will detect that you have posted something and then pull in the content to their site, making it look like you wrote it and posted it on their site. Is that clear? Here is my use-case:
This is particularly interesting for teaching and other uses. If a class uses WordPress for its webpage, students can provide content for that class page by publishing on their own site. This allows each student to create a "Digital Portfolio" of work that they maintain (see my thing on Content Silos for more on this).
I'm going to use the FeedWordPress Plugin for this because it was the one that my university uses and I want to standardize the approaches.
To install it, go to Plugins->Add New and search for it. Install & Activate .I'm going to use a new Category, named Dyerlab, to trigger the syndication. So I add a new one.
OK, now on my personal page, I have a category "Dyerlab" that I will attach to things that I want to show up on my Dyerlab WordPress site. To make the connection, we need to get the category feed address. Unless you are changing something drastic it has the following structure:
https://yoursiteurl/category/categoryname
which in my case is:
https://rodneydyer.com/category/Dyerlab/
You can try it out and you should see (if you have any posts with that category published) a list of just those posts. If so, perfect. If not, then you either have not posted anything with that category or you have not set up the category correctly. Go back and check.
Now, I need to set up the other site, in this case my laboratory site, to monitor my personal site, and any time something is posted, grab it. Go open your other site and make sure the plugin is installed. This site will "Pull" the posts from the original site. Click on Syndication in the bottom left panel and you will open the settings page.
In the "New Source" box, paste in the category address from your other site. In my case I pasted in
https://rodneydyer.com/category/dyerlab.
You will be taken to a verification screen where you can verify that things are working properly and select the correct feed type. There is a 'verify' link that you can use to make sure it is providing good input. After you select which kind of feed you want, you will be redirected back to the list, as above, but with your new feed in it.
Success
Now, when I write something (like this post) on my site, it will automagically show up on my laboratory site as well. The Cool thing is that wherever it is displayed, it is reformatted to look as if it belonged at that location. Here is this post on my personal site.
and on my laboratory site
are identical in content, though are individually styles. Pretty cool!
Featured image bytes amattox mattox (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Here are some slides (click to open) from a presentation I gave on mixed fermentation and the brewing of a Flanders Red for the VCU Fermentation course.
This semester, I’ll be leading a graduate course in applied ecological statistics. Should be a lot of fun getting a group of people up to speed on the benefits of being an R guru!
https://sites.google.com/a/vcu.edu/applied-environmental-statistics
Use version control or editors in the cloud.
The program STRUCTURE is an ubiquitous feature of many population genetic studies these days—if it is appropriate is another question. Today, while covering model based clustering in population genetics, we ran into a problem where STRUCTURE was unable to run and the OS said it was Corrupted and should be thrown away. Jump below for our fix, it really is an easy one.
Here are the slides for the lecture on inbreeding.
How big is the data set you are analyzing? Apparently it depends on how you count…
I will be posting portions of all 10 chapters of my upcoming textbook, Applied Population Genetics, as early draft chapters to this website over the spring semester. Read more
Ran across this great image from lifehacker. Perfect for your genetics and population genetic pedigree analyses.
If you use Google Docs for your writing, there are several cool tricks you can use to increase your efficiency. Here is one thing that has made it much easier when it comes to turning in assignments. Previously, one would create a document in some word processor, work on it, put it on a thumb drive, take it home and work on it, take it back to school, perhaps a lab computer, maybe it is also worked on in the library, etc. Eventually, you finish the document and then to turn it in you can either print it off (got to go find a printer or where I put that extra paper) or email it in. This last option is terrible if you have a large class!
If you are using Google Docs, you can just share it with the instructor. In the sharing options, you can designate that you share with someone but only allow them to make “suggestions”. This keeps the integrity of your document in place while allowing another person to mark it up. Once you share it, they can open it and write in it but any and all changes to the document are indicated via a highlight color. Since both of you are working on the document, there is no need to email it back and forth, there is only one document.
Here is a short video how that is done if you need more visual input.