Time: Fridays, 11-12pm
Location: DBH 2222
Schedule (Open an issue if you want to suggest a paper to read):
| Week | Date | Presentation | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2024-04-05 | No Meeting | - |
| 2 | 2024-04-12 | Unifying incidence and prevalence under a time-varying general branching process | Isaac |
| 3 | 2024-04-19 | No Meeting | - |
| 4 | 2024-04-26 | Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics | Jessalyn |
| 5 | 2024-05-03 | No Meeting | - |
| 6 | 2024-05-10 | Isaac's practice defense | Isaac |
| 6 | 2024-05-13 (1 pm) | Isaac's defense (DBH 2011) | Isaac |
| 7 | 2024-05-17 | No Meeting | - |
| 8 | 2024-05-24 | Bayesian back-calculation and nowcasting for line list data during the COVID-19 pandemic | Catalina |
| 9 | 2024-05-31 | Thanasi's practice advancement | Thanasi |
| 10 | 2024-06-04 (1pm) | Thanasi's advancement (DBH 2011) | Thanasi |
| 10 | 2024-06-07 (1pm) | TBD | Party |
| Finals | 2024-06-14 | TBD | TBD |
| Summer 1 | 2024-06-21 | TBD | TBD |
| Summer 2 | 2024-06-28 | TBD | TBD |
Put yourself on the calendar like this:
| 2022-02-31 | [Introduction to statistical inference for infectious diseases](https://github.com/vnminin/stoch_mod_journal_club/issues/1) | Volodymyr |This is the Minin Group Guide to hosting journal club, inspired by the many great Leek Group Guides.
Journal club is a (usually) weekly meeting where someone in the group presents on a paper they're interested in. Unlike seminars, in journal club, everyone is expected to have read the paper before the meeting. On some occasions, journal club time is used for presenting research updates, practice talks, or eating corn in a cup.
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Ask Volodymyr.
Revisit a perennial topic
The importance of stupidity in scientific research by Martin A. Schwartz
How to Give a Talk by Volodymyr
Bayesian Workflow by Andrew Gelman
Before the presentation
Skim the paper before recommending it.
Show the paper to Volodymyr to get his green light for the chosen paper
Tell everyone in advance in the #group_meetings channel on Slack. The earlier the better.
Give some context for why you want the group to read the paper. Ex:
"This is a foundational paper in a topic I'm starting to get interested in."
"This is a brand new paper and it seems exciting, but I'm a little skeptical."
Send a reminder message on slack the day before.
The presentation:
The presentation doesn't have to be fancy, screenshots and quotes are okay.
Provide context if the paper is on a topic that not everyone is familiar with.
Prepare some concluding thoughts on both substance (the science) and style (the presentation):
Pretend like you are doing a mini paper review.
Some sentence starters:
"I liked..."
"I didn't like..."
"I wasn't sure about..."
Prepare some discussion questions.
How does this relate to other papers we've read?
What did you like/not like?
What didn't you understand?
Exhibit supportive body language
Nod along to show you are following the presentation.
Make eye contact with the speaker so they know you are paying attention to them.
Smile so the speaker can relax.
Prepare a few comments / questions.