Associate Professor of Psychology at Tufts University studying the brain and body correlates of emotion & emotion regulation. (Opinions my own.). she/her/hers
Feb 27, 2019 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Hey, here's a short story whose moral is this: Consider writing empirical reports in RMarkdown... THREAD /1
I'm working with a wonderful former senior honors thesis student, @MarinaRakhilin, on a manuscript for submission to a journal. Decided to pull the thesis into RMarkdown to analyze and write the results as a reproducible manuscript. /2
Feb 28, 2018 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
Thread on making a difference.
When I was a kid, I went on many camping trips with my mom and stepdad. One one such trip, we camped near sand dunes because my mom was writing a book called Seasons of the Wind. It's about plant life on sand dunes in the southwest United States.
I remember hiking in the sand, putting one foot in front of the other. Forward progress was surprisingly difficult. Step, sink, pull, repeat. And standing at the top of a dune was dizzying; they seemed to move, almost breathe.
