Gillian Reynolds

I think my favourite parts of coding today have been a) opening up some code I thought I’d written to find some basic functions followed by “TODO:write the code” and b) updating code on my Mac and rerunning it on the server thinking the servers copy would just magically update.

Does anyone have any recommendations for statistics books with an emphasis on things like predictive models? I have ML book by @joshuastarmer (which is awesome) but I’d love something that goes into more details.

I have my ML picture book because I’m a professional 😂. Honestly it’s awesome. I’ve designed an ML algorithm and worked in the field before, but it never hurts to revisit the basic concepts. Thanks @joshuastarmer

@HallieRubenhold I’ve just finished season one of Bad Women, I’m on to season two and here is my new year treat. Thank you for giving justice to women through the telling of their stories.

Apparently this is only the platform I haven’t posted this so here goes. I graduated with my PhD last Friday! Massive credit to my family, supervisors and friends, it’s only thanks to them I made it at all.

Hi, my name is Dr. Gillian Reynolds Bsc(Hons), MRes, PhD!

@JLachowiec Thank you so much! I had a blast!

If you’re a numpty and you’ve written “orgasm” instead of “organism” in your PhD thesis clap your hands *clap, clap* 👏👏

I’m a phd candidate based in a US university but I’m from, and currently based in, the UK. I doubt I’ll ever return to work physically in the USA now.

@JTFouquier @AcademicChatter Yeah I hear you there. If it helps, moving overseas was not has hard as I thought it was going to be. If you change your mind let me know what area of bioinformatics you like and I’ll do a UK search for jobs for you. ❤️

@JTFouquier @AcademicChatter I’m a US-based PhD candidate in bioinformatics too but I’m from, and currently living in the UK. I’ll doubt I’ll ever return to working physically in the USA again for exactly the same reasons.

It’s Mother’s Day here in the U.K. so a huge cheers to all the mums out there. Also a huge cheers to all the people who make being a mum in science an enjoyable experience. You’re the real MVPs! ❤️

When your toddler is in “sleep is for the weak mode” but you’ve still got sciencing to do, at least coffee is always there for you. And it’s a genome that behaves in my experiments, 10/10, excellent plant.

Missed hearing my polyploidy talk? Want to hear me try and cram 40 mins or content into a 20 min presentation? Of course you do, here you go:

@BarkerLab @ctitusbrown thought you might be interested in seeing sourmash used for polyploidy subgenome differentiation

@SutherlandBL Thank you so much and thank you for stepping in to moderate! Also, yes you can try it out on those genomes, it’s quick and relatively painless to do. Drop me an email if you want any info on set up, parameters etc.

I had a lovely time presenting at the @BarkerLab polyploid webinar today. I absolutely love open science discussions, they foster such insightful discussions. I would encourage anyone interested in polyploidy to join the next one!

That's me! Come see me talk about my work in polyploid genomics and bioinfomatics.