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kaijagahm/README.md

Hi there πŸ‘‹

I'm Kaija (rhymes with Maya). I'm a biologist and data scientist.

Website | Twitter | LinkedIn

🐦 Currently, I'm a PhD candidate in the Pinter-Wollman lab at UCLA, studying the movement ecology and social behavior of vultures.

A social network diagram showing silhouettes of Griffon Vultures connected by edges of varying thicknesses.

🐸 I have a B.S. in E&EB (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) from Yale, where I studied wood frog tadpoles for my thesis project. I investigated whether a tradeoff between development rate (e.g. how fast the tadpole gets bigger and grows legs) and performance (e.g. how fast the tadpole startle-swims when it gets attacked by a predator when you poke its tail with a stick) could help explain countergradient variation in development rate. If you want to learn more, I gave a talk. The results are published here. Email me at kaija.gahm@aya.yale.edu to get access to a PDF if you hit a paywall on that link!

Me, holding a frog during fieldwork for my B.S. thesis. This isn't a wood frog, but it's still cute!

I work mostly in R, although I've dabbled in MATLAB, and I'd like to learn Python soon.

Some other things about me:

🐟 I recently finished working as a database manager for a freshwater ecology project with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and the Jones Lab at Notre Dame. I tracked issues for that over here. I also built a Shiny app to help researchers locate the lakes in their study.

πŸ’¬ I also worked on linguistics with the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project (YGDP) to manage their research data. Check out the interactive Shiny dashboard that I built from scratch, without knowing anything about Shiny going in (code here). I also built a relational database for the YGDP.

A screenshot of the front page of the YGDP Dashboard I built in Shiny.

✍️ My blog, which covers mostly R-related topics, has recently migrated from its old location at woodpeckR to a page on my personal site. The old woodpeckR site is still valid, though!

🀝 I volunteer as a mentor in the R For Data Science community Slack workspace, where I hold weekly "office hours". I also answer questions over at RStudio Community.

πŸ§‘β€πŸ€β€πŸ§‘ I'm also on the board of directors for SORTEE (Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology), which advocates for open science and reproducibility in EEB.

πŸ“« How to reach me: I love getting emails at (kaija.gahm@aya.yale.edu). Twitter DMs are also great (@kaija_bean).

πŸ˜„ Pronouns: She/her

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  1. vultureUtils vultureUtils Public

    Utility functions for working with vulture data

    R 4

  2. MFEh2o/BluegillMorphologyDataDOC MFEh2o/BluegillMorphologyDataDOC Public

    Analyses Of Bluegill Morphology Along The DOC Gradient

    PLSQL 1 1

  3. Multilayer-network-analyses Multilayer-network-analyses Public

    Forked from DFofFreedom/Multilayer-network-analyses

    R

  4. ygdpDashboard ygdpDashboard Public

    Interactive dashboard for YGDP survey data

    R 3

  5. greenT greenT Public

    A web app for exploring grapheme-color synesthesia

    R 3

  6. kaija_bean kaija_bean Public

    Personal website of Kaija Gahm, https://kaijagahm.netlify.app

    CSS 1