THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
Please get in touch with us with your suggestions!
- get some community support from other modelers
- mechanistic modeling in particular can be lonely/solo
- some of us had few/no cohort
- interdisciplinary woes
- learning how to communicate/present/write for a variety of fields
- time management
- other issues associated with (math, coding, biology, statistics, etc)
- find collaborators
- maybe easier to complete a project by finding modelers with certain skills
- especially if you are working for an experimentalist???? (opinions pls)
- help everyone keep up with literature, modeling events, etc by promoting thru social media avenues you already visit
- cross promote tools, blogs, etc so less ‘reinventing the wheel’
- maybe can be helpful if you TA
- find replacements for ancient tools that aren’t kept up well
- find new tools/code to make your job easier
- Exposure to new concepts that might be useful in their research?
- new approaches (eg, machine learning, bayesian parameter estimation, low-data parameter estimation techniques, sensitivity analysis ) –> and get feedback/assistance/advice from modelers who already use them
- help undergrad, grad modelers get to the next stage
- maybe a few problems that are relatively unique?
- get help with coding or math for your own projects
- between-modeler mentorship
- Coding ex: python, R, matlab, latex, github, shell scripting (bioinfo), linux/ubuntu
- Concept ex: version control, good coding practices, documentation, parameter estimation, websites, data cleaning and storage
- help with navigating complex tools/concepts
- Literature repository
- Annotated resource (bibtex file?) that is easily searchable?
- searching might be a technical issue that we can figure out eventually
- create community resources
- access to domain-specific data
- up to date model repository
- shareable analysis/code/pipeline
- focus on reproducible analysis
- List of blogs of other modelers/scientists that are worth following
- misc
- complain anonymously
- create private chats/forums