Jade Talbot, PhD

Senior data scientist @UKHSA 👩🏻‍💻 • @UoM_DCS @OfficialUoM PhD alumni 🐝 • Manchester 📍 Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer 💭

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

Excited to be leading a (winning) team as a #wellbeingchampion in @UKHSA Kaido’s challenge which starts at the end of the month to encourage improvements in physical and mental health @kaidoculture 🔆🎊🛌🚴🏻‍♀️🧘‍♀️🎾🥗🍎💆🏻‍♀️

[Chantelle Francis @ChantelleFranc3]

Just been to @TescoMiddleton where all these Calatheas are dying. Asked about them being reduced, was flat out refused and informed "customers can choose to buy full price in that conditon"..for £12?! ...wonder if they take the same approach to food... #wasteful #plantwaste

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

Pebbles the campus cat 🥹
Lovely uni, lovely campus, lovely cat 🐈😸

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

University of Essex campus cat honoured with statue https://t.co/0HgM1mAGXY

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

@PWGTennant Ahh that’s fair! I can’t imagine doing this job without them 😬

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

My advice:
- Enjoy every moment, take opportunities as you never know who/what might open up your world
- Look for a supportive environment - especially important when you’re first starting
- If you want to change the world, broaden your horizons! Don’t just look at academia

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

Great to be at this year’s careers event to current life science undergrads at @Uni_of_Essex

Cannot fathom that I started my own undergrad 10 years ago and since then have transitioned from “I only want to be in the lab” to “data science is my passion, I love working from home”

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

@chatabix1 I have just started listening (from the beginning) and I’m currently on 1st June 2021… (I hope the bleakness of ‘is anyone listening’ carries on 😂) I am reaching out to say I am!!

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

@callumjpr I did get free everything (including a loaf of bread after every shift!) but my sister works there now and she gets nothing 🙃

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

Things I’ve been paid for

Bakery shop assistant: 4.5 years
Background in a music video: 1 off
Operator at a bottle factory: 3 summers
PhD: 4 years
ONS data scientist: 6 months
UKHSA senior data scientist: 10 months and counting
Occasionally cat sitting: 4 years and counting…

[Dr Callum Portman Ross @callumjpr]

Things I’ve been paid for 🤷🏼‍♂️ (it’s been wild)
Paper boy 2 yrs
Indian takeout 2 yrs & Play centre 9 months
Catering shifts 3 yrs
Lab tech 5 yrs
Advisory board 1 yr
Research placement 2 mnths
PhD 4 yrs, graduate TA 3 yrs, Tutor 1 yr Uni COVID testing 4 mnths,

Post PhD Job Pending

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

Been thinking about this recently as I’m participating in a career talk at the end of the week for my undergrad department at @Uni_of_Essex which I started in 10 years ago 😳
Can you give career advice when all you’ve done is plodded along trying to work out what to do next? 🤪

[Simon Williams @drsimonwilliams]

social media health messages need to give the gist in a few seconds:

Measles:
-is one of the most contagious diseases
-can be fatal or cause disability or suppress the immune system
- has no treatment
- can be prevented by vaccines
-vaccines are safe and DO NOT cause autism

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

@g_progesterone Yeah that is true! I think learning about creating dummy data should be one of the first things someone should learn in their coding journey to tackle this potentially?

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

I agree with everything in this thread, the QA process in academic (in my experience) was pretty poor in hindsight, and quite often data science work is lead by supervisors who have never written a line of code!
What’s the solution when academics already have so little time?

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

@g_progesterone I agree with you but I experienced some groups not wanting to share code or data externally incase ‘someone steals it” 🙄
And I think as a beginner I was absolutely mortified sharing anything so I tried not to for as long as possible which wasn’t helpful 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

Had the pleasure of attending the #fieldservice @UKHSA away day last week at @surreycricket
As a geographically diverse division, it’s lovely to see some faces in person! 🥰

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

Shout out to any admin staff who’s job involves minuting meetings
Apparently it stresses me out 🤣

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

@MelaniePHSeaton Congratulations @MelaniePHSeaton 🥳

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

The Gastrointestinal tracker was the first major project I worked on as part of the Regions Data Science team, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Congratulations to all the speakers and people who contributed a poster which made for an excellent event.

[Jade Talbot, PhD @JadeTalbot_]

2 days at #UKHSA23 completed ✅

Delighted to have had the opportunity to attend the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds over the last 2 days, especially to see the poster I worked on in the flesh 😍 @UKHSA