Notices by Adam H. Sparks :rstats: (adamhsparks@rstats.me)

When we moved to Perth, we committed to try without our car. Maybe we didn’t ingrain our car habits after moving and that made it easier to sell it. We’ve been car-free for >4 years now. There are some hiccups, PT doesn’t always get you to where you’re going but Uber/Taxis exist.

I don’t miss having a car and the $$ that it costs. I find I really don’t like driving anymore either. I now find it stressful. Probably did when I owned a car too, but took it for granted.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/a-researcher-asked-10-people-to-go-car-free-for-20-days-none-wanted-to-continue-20260318-p5oo1d.html

I'm looking for two academic level A/B research fellows to join my team in Perth at Curtin University. Please note that these positions are similar but not the same and have different contract lengths and different foci in their work. Both focus on analytical methods, one meta-analysis/economic impact and the other is remote sensing pipeline tool development.

https://staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancies/?ja-job=832115
https://staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancies/?ja-job=832105

#GetFediHired

@skinnylatte tried it while in Batad, PHL years ago. I don’t recall getting that much from it. But it was fun to try it.

This is really great work. #Epidemiology

McMaster research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data - McMaster News
https://news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-research-team-digitizes-more-than-100-years-of-canadian-infectious-disease-data/

Sweet! The @thecarpentries have launched a Subcommunity Spotlight series and started with the best one, Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand! https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/08/spotlight-series-aus-nz/

I'm ready to launch my computer out the window of my office, but it's a Mac and it's MS Word causing the issue for me. I can't type a comment. Somehow the comment text box keeps losing focus and I can type one letter, hit the mouse key, hit another, hit the mouse key and it MIGHT let me type another letter before it loses focus again. Uggh. I don't know what causes this but it's damned frustrating.

@skinnylatte I still recall my first time in Thailand having pineapple chunks with chilli sugar. I was just consumed with the genius of this combination that I'd never had before.

@skinnylatte having worked in government, watching “Utopia” wasn’t relaxing. It was a documentary. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3163562/

@liztai I really don’t understand the fear and opposition to this idea. This is largely how I live too. It’s just easy.