Lab Notebook

Carl Boettiger's open lab notebook, built with Hugo and deployed to GitHub Pages via docs/.

Updating the CV

The CV lives in two forms:

• Web version — content/vita.md (rendered by Hugo at carlboettiger.info/vita)
• PDF version — static/files/cv.pdf (also served at carlboettiger.info/files/cv.pdf)

Structure

content/vita.md is the single source of truth. It contains employment, education, grants, teaching, talks, and service directly, and pulls in three sections via Hugo shortcodes:

• assets/includes/publications.md
• assets/includes/book_chapters.md
• assets/includes/software.md

The PDF is generated by pandoc using static/files/cv-template.tex.

Workflow

1. Edit content/vita.md (or the relevant assets/includes/*.md file for publications, book chapters, or software).

2. Regenerate the PDF from the repo root:

   bash static/files/update_cv_pdf.sh

   This resolves Hugo {{< include >}} shortcodes, strips YAML frontmatter, and runs pandoc to produce static/files/cv.pdf.

3. Copy the PDF to docs/ so it's live on GitHub Pages:

   cp static/files/cv.pdf docs/files/cv.pdf

4. Commit both files.

Two-page CV

A condensed, two-page version is generated from the same sources (no separate copy to keep in sync):

bash static/files/update_2pg_cv.sh
cp static/files/2pg-cv.pdf docs/files/2pg-cv.pdf

static/files/make_2pg_vita.py pulls employment, education, grants, awards, teaching and national service out of content/vita.md and the most recent publications out of assets/includes/publications.md, shortening each entry (surnames only, title hyperlinked to the DOI, no volume/page numbers). Output goes through static/files/2pg-cv-template.tex (moderncv, 11pt).

If the PDF spills onto a third page (the script warns when it isn't exactly two pages), lower the N_PUBS / N_GRANTS / N_AWARDS / N_SERVICE counts at the top of make_2pg_vita.py.

ORCID

Publications missing from ORCID (0000-0002-1642-628X) are listed in static/files/orcid-missing-works.txt. These must be added manually through the ORCID web interface (Search & Link via CrossRef) since we do not have API-based write access.