This website is basically so I can teach myself how to use R Markdown and GitHub to make a website. You're looking at the ongoing results of that process. It's also a place to put stuff that doesn't fit nicely on any official sites or social media.
Ratey is a nickname given to the website author some years ago by rowdy third-year students in Environmental Science at The University of Western Australia (UWA). So Ratey-AtUWA it is. CyboRg is what I called an R coding club I ran a couple of years ago, being an acronym for Code your butt off R group.
Ratey is a neurodiverse academic with multiple interests and responsibilities
at UWA. Initially trained as a pure chemist, he married the love of his life at the
end of his MSc and next completed a lab-based PhD in soil science with a soil chemistry focus, then
worked as a postdoc on projects based on soil physics and nutrient
cycling. He and his wife moved to Perth, Western Australia in the mid 1990s and have
been there ever since, now with their two daughters.
Those multiple interests and responsibilities
at work (mentioned above) include:
As much as this website
might seem to be about work and academia, Ratey will from time to time
include things related to his varied interests and hobbies; in no
particular order and with many missing:
CC-BY-SA • All content by Ratey-AtUWA. My employer does not necessarily know about or endorse the content of this website.
Created with rmarkdown in RStudio using the cyborg theme from Bootswatch via the bslib package, and fontawesome v5 icons.