Greg Conradi Smith

Greg Conradi Smith

mathematical biology, computational neuroscience, and science among the liberal arts

Agent Instructions

Agent Instructions

This repository is the source for Greg Conradi Smith’s public academic website:

https://gregconradismith.github.io/

It is based on Academic Pages / Minimal Mistakes, but this checkout should be treated as Greg’s live personal academic site rather than a generic template. Do not reset customized content, metadata, navigation, styling, images, or profile details back to upstream template defaults.

Keep edits public-facing, professional, and academically appropriate. Preserve the site’s voice as a faculty research profile: concise, accurate, and useful for students, collaborators, and readers looking for publications, teaching, research, CV material, talks, and contact information.

Use the existing Jekyll structure:

  • _config.yml for site-wide identity, author profile, collections, plugins, and GitHub Pages settings
  • _data/ for navigation and shared data
  • _pages/ for main public pages
  • _publications/, _talks/, _teaching/, _portfolio/, and _posts/ for collection content
  • _includes/, _layouts/, _sass/, and assets/ for template, layout, and styling changes
  • images/, myphotos/, and files/ for public media and downloadable assets
  • markdown_generator/ and scripts/ for publication, talk, WordPress, and CV helper workflows

Before changing generated publication, talk, or CV material, inspect the helper scripts/notebooks and update source data when that is the established path. Avoid hand-editing generated files if a local generator clearly owns them.

Do not add private drafts, unpublished sensitive research, student records, credentials, API keys, private correspondence, or nonpublic documents. This repo publishes a public website.

Avoid committing incidental local files such as .DS_Store, _site/, .jekyll-cache/, .sass-cache/, node_modules/, or other local build output.

Useful lightweight checks:

git status --short --branch
git diff --check
bundle exec jekyll build

Run a local Jekyll build when the change affects layouts, includes, Sass, configuration, navigation, or page rendering. For small text-only edits, a careful Markdown/front matter inspection plus git diff --check is usually enough.