Setting up your site

1. Create the GitHub repo

1. Go to github.com and create a new repository named exactly YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME.github.io (replace YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME with your actual GitHub username — this exact name is required for GitHub Pages).
2. Don’t initialize it with a README (we already have files to push).

2. Push these files

From inside this folder, run:

git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial site setup"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME/YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME.github.io.git
git push -u origin main

3. Enable GitHub Pages

1. On GitHub, go to your new repo → Settings → Pages.
2. Under “Build and deployment”, set Source to Deploy from a branch, branch = main, folder = / (root).
3. Save. Your site will be live in a minute or two at https://YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME.github.io.

4. Before/after pushing — three things still to finish

a) Replace placeholders

Search the repo for YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME (in _config.yml) and replace with your real username.

b) Add your photo

Replace images/profile.png with your own headshot (keep the same filename, or update avatar: in _config.yml to match your new filename).

c) CV page

The CV page (_pages/cv.md) links out to your Google Doc CV. Make sure that Doc’s sharing setting is “Anyone with the link” → Viewer, or visitors will hit a “request access” page instead of your CV.

d) Add publications

Open publications_sheet.xlsx (provided alongside this zip) and add a row per paper. Then either:

• Send me the completed sheet and I’ll generate the publication pages for you, or
• Convert it to markdown_generator/publications.tsv (same columns) and run the markdown_generator/publications.ipynb notebook yourself — it writes one .md file per row into _publications/.

Local preview (optional)

If you have Ruby installed:

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

Then visit http://localhost:4000.