Simon Preston

Statistics, data analysis, modelling @UniOfNottingham.

[Markus Owen @MarkusOwenMMB]

@UoNMaths Fully funded PhD project on ‘Machine Learning for predicting yeast phenotype from genotype for biotech applications’, with @phenotypeca @simonpreston and Jonathan Hirst @UonChem

https://t.co/rtZUly8Wg9

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[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@GaryMirams @thomas_jaki @bolton_kirsty @MarkusOwenMMB Oh dear - I'd hoped our experience was an exception 😟

[Penny Gowland @Penny_Gowland]

Today is the day to #joinaunion

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@richardepryor @campbellclaret @BorisJohnson Reminds me of Heseltine's assessment of Johnson's leadership: a "man who waits to see the way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says, ‘Follow me’."

[Markus Owen @MarkusOwenMMB]

Fully funded PhD project on ‘Machine Learning for predicting yeast phenotype from genotype for biotech applications’, with @phenotypeca @simonpreston and Jonathan Hirst @UonChem

https://t.co/NIZTu8e0Ry
(scroll to the bottom!)

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[Josephine Cumbo @JosephineCumbo]

BREAKING: The UK High Court has over-turned a decision to deny legal action by academics against the #USS pension scheme over the handling of the controverisal #2020 valuation. #UCU #USS #UUK

Details follow.

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@ReubenODea Carefully worded, plausible-sounding deceitful bol*****? Yep, much better. You bring out the best in me

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@MarkusOwenMMB @wilkinson_rich @UoNUCU @MikeOtsuka You're right - per point 6 here, opt out rates actually appear to be dropping! I was irritated by the silly logic of that quote, but even worse: it seems plainly deceitful https://t.co/TyDMs9eJug

[Michael Otsuka @MikeOtsuka]

🚨🚨🚨A new blog: "A rebuttal of Alistair Jarvis’s reply to Jo Grady: Point by point responses to his objections to UCU’s proposals"
(@ucu @USSEmployers @USSpensions @DrJoGrady @AlistairJarvis @Barker4Kate @NJSHardy @JosephineCumbo)
https://t.co/htxG07xAas

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@wilkinson_rich @UoNUCU Meanwhile we're being invited to the next USS Roadshow when we'll be updated on the "consultation process". Am so angry at this

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@wilkinson_rich @UoNUCU "The JNC’s decision was confirmed with the vote of the independent chair" is spin for "The decision only passed on the casting vote of the chair, who sided with UUK and against UCU"

[Josephine Cumbo @JosephineCumbo]

I have covered UK university sector disputes over #pension cuts since 2017 and can say that I have not seen members so angry as they are today over fresh cuts to their retirement benefits. The anger has reached a new depth.

This does feel like a turning point. #USS #UUK #UCU

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@sp_monte_carlo ... then simulation just involves drawing a sample from a MVN then rescaling to unit norm. (the kind of easy simulation that I like :-) )

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@sp_monte_carlo Another possibility, if efficient simulation is important and one isn't too tied to the VMF model, is to work instead with an analogous distribution in the angular Gaussian family, e.g. https://t.co/XcS2P0fZbu

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@GaryMirams @BBCNews @GregMcI I don't like these plots very much for that reason. Just plotting a line for each - and a line for the total if that's important - usually feels clearer (to me at least)

[Markus Owen @MarkusOwenMMB]

Computational Biologist job using Machine Learning and QTL analysis to improve yeast productivity for biopharmaceutical manufacturing. 

With @phenotypeca, @MarkusOwenMMB @simonpreston @UoNMaths, Jonathan Hirst @UonChem 

https://t.co/upfgOkhRe1

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@MarkusOwenMMB I can't decide if it's tone deafness, wanton provocation, or someone on the comms team with a wicked sense of humour

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@pjie2 @florian_krammer @bealelab @sigallab Nobody had liked that tweet? A scandal

[Simon Preston @simonpreston]

@AlistairHaimes @timspector Good news, of course, but article qualifies with "However, this is not unexpected given the young age of the participants." Plus v small sample size. Doesn't feel to me like we can read much into this. Still🤞