aaron-scheffler.github.io

Personal academic site for Aaron Wolfe Scheffler, Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF.

Plain static HTML served by GitHub Pages. No Ruby, no Jekyll, no build step needed to view it.

Updating the site

All content lives in one file: _generator/content.py. Edit it on github.com, commit, and a GitHub Action regenerates the pages and commits the HTML back within about a minute. No terminal required.

To change	Edit in _generator/content.py
A news item	NEWS
A publication	METHODS (and SLUGS just below it)
Which papers show under a research area	pubs=[...] inside AREAS
Group members	PEOPLE
Courses	COURSES
Title, tagline, contact, links	the constants at the top
Colourway	VARIANT in _generator/build_site.py

To preview locally instead (optional, needs Python):

python3 _generator/build_site.py
python3 -m http.server 4000     # then open http://localhost:4000

Layout

index.html  research.html  publications.html  people.html  teaching.html
style.css              generated - do not edit by hand
images/                headshot and research figures
aaron_cv_2026.pdf      stable filename; replace in place when the CV updates
_generator/            content and build scripts
.github/workflows/     Action that rebuilds on any change to _generator/
.nojekyll              tells GitHub Pages to serve files as-is

Colours are from the UCSF brand palette (A1 Navy, A2, J5). Body text runs at 13:1 contrast, secondary text at 8:1 — comfortably clear of WCAG AA.