Whitney Whitford

Postdoctoral research fellow, pretending to be a bioinformatician, major nerd

[Dr Asma Jabeen @DrasmaJabeen1]

Abstract writing template by nature @PhDVoice @PhD_Genie @yourPhDpal @phdfriend

[Lautaro Vergara 🇺🇦 @VergaraLautaro]

PhD student attending first big conference, with advisor.

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

Still me tbh

[Rita Idugboe @RitaIdugboe]

PhD students when their manuscript gets accepted for publication.

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

It does seem this model was created trying to support an individual's own biases

[Wilbur @IAmWilbur]

The Government is currently deciding whether to increase the minimum wage. MBIE will tell them that doing so will cost jobs - last year, MBIE predicted that a $20 minimum wage would cost 9000 jobs.

I OIA'd the model on which that prediction was based. Friends.... it's not great:

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

@MamaDoctorJones Kia Ora. I'm at the other end of the country, but will be great to have more people being passionate about science and health and being so outspoken.

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

@johnneh I am glad you and the family (I count pets as family) are able to enjoy yourself on holiday. But I wish I had your awesome streams to watch during the lockdown in NZ

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

Very interesting. I have to admit I have been apprehensive about the widespread use of nuclear power generation, but I am certainly starting to reconsider my opinion.

Certainly something that I need to look into further

[Stefan Mundlos @StefanMundlos]

Who remembers Chernobyl - 35 years ago? Sequencing a cohort of individuals exposed to high radiation and their children shows no increase in de novo mutations!
https://t.co/Zp9gGEDXzQ

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

@Dr_Meming @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics Kia ora, postdoc from the University of Auckland. Researching methods for the identification of causative genetic variants in health disease, primarily neurodevelopmental disorders, and specialising in copy number variants.

[Dr Darren Saunders @whereisdaz]

The dawning realisation that I live in a place where a real estate licence is more valued, and more valuable, than a PhD.

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

@mai_nguyen_phd Is that not what all PhDs are?

Oh wait, geriatric depression

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

@ramencult Revenge is the origin story of at least two of the most well known superheroes

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

Fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in educating the next generation of scientists, especially those currently underrepresented

[Michelle Dickinson PhD @medickinson]

We are hiring! Nangirl Labs is helping to develop year 10 science education resources for teachers across The Cook Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. We are seeking a science content writer to help us to bring a local knowledge lens, more at: https://t.co/FFjX8FojnT

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

@icklenellierose @MichaelBWarman @icklenellierose pm me if you want to chat about this any more

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

@icklenellierose @MichaelBWarman I don't want to sound like a know it all but am a genetic researcher, and maybe you are interested. One of the genes responsible for Cystinuria and the gene responsible for Cyclic neutropenia are located on the same arm of the same chromosome, so these could be linked

[Heng Li @lh3lh3]

This is THE most comprehensive human genomic sequence data you can find today. Perhaps more importantly, it is public like the 1000 Genomes data. NHGRI and HPRC have worked hard to make this happen.

[Chaotically Science @drpepperis100]

PIs who haven’t done lab work in 20+ years trying to find the NaCl https://t.co/mdt79XJ3tl

[Arjun Raj @arjunrajlab]

Sometimes the only thing you can learn from an experiment is to do a better experiment.

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

@ClementYChow Yes, using the premium version. I have found it is also good using the text to speech function in word to have writing repeated back to you. More likely to pick up on what is actually written, rather than what was intended to be written

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

@ClementYChow If only the commute from NZ was a bit shorter

[Whitney Whitford @whitstraction]

NZ is healing