Outreach & Open Resources
I would not be where I am today without a multitude of people helping me out— both in terms of teaching me skills and sharing resources. For this reason, I like to pay it forward and help others out as they learn and go about their research. On this page, I have a random smattering of resources related to various different research that I’ve done, including some explainers, some tutorials, and some things just for fun. Please feel free to use these resources or pass them along to others— and please do let me know if they are useful to you, or if have suggestions for making them more so!
More resources can be found on my GitHub page: https://github.com/jessicarick/resources.
Demographic modeling explainer
This is a comic I drew in an attempt to explain genomics-based demographic modeling (i.e. PSMC/MSMC) to those who find it a bit mysterious (read: most scientists). It was a fun exercise for me to go through, and hopefully it can help others to understand!
This comic was also the subject of my guest post on the Engage Laramie Science blog: “Comics make the -omics more accessible.”
Bioinformatics Research Log Template
This is a LaTeX template that I created from an Overleaf Research Diary template, which I modified for keeping track of bioinformatics work. The LaTeX template files can be downloaded by clicking here, or accessed on Overleaf here.
Keeping a “lab notebook” for computer-based analyses is crucial for open and reproducible science, and has made a HUGE difference for me in streamlining my analyses (no matter how many times I have to re-do them).
Tutorial on using R markdown within Overleaf Documents
I wrote up this tutorial to explain how to incorporate R Markdown documents into Overleaf (V2) documents, as it pretty much blew my mind when I learned that the two could talk to each other. Just think, you can run your analyses in your R Markdown file, create figures, and they’ll update in your manuscript on Overleaf! What more could you want in life?!?
Introduction to LaTeX and Overleaf
These are materials from a virtual workshop that I gave in May 2020 at the University of Wyoming, aimed at graduate students in ecology and evolutionary biology. Please email me if you would like the link for the recorded workshop video.
Click here for the tutorial and reference document.
Click here for the example Overleaf document that I was working from.
Click here for the slides from my presentation.
Introduction to Reproducible Research and Open Science
These are materials from a virtual workshop that I gave in April 2023 at Cornell University, aimed at graduate students and postdocs in data science-related disciplines. Please email me if you would like the link for the recorded workshop video. Note that this workshop also included a presentation from Sarah Wright at the Cornell Research Data Management Service Group, and I am only able to share my portion of the material covered.
Conference Posters and Presentations
Evolution 2019 — “Reference genome choice and filtering pipeline jointly impact phylogenetic analyses”