Main take-away so far from very interesting presser on #Marburg outbreak in Rwanda: Health minister Sabin Nsanzimana says all cases are linked to known infection chains. The outbreak is one major cluster with three branches.
Wow, the Guardian journalists who just yesterday published about the network of race scientists getting funding from tech CEOs just broke another story that this group has accessed UK Biobank data without authorization. This is seriously bad for the integrity of science & a massive failure by UKBB
Theodosius Dobzhansky in a dark suit posing near a microscope. He smiles and looks to the side of the camera.
...Without that light of evolution, biology becomes a pile of sundry facts: some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole."
- Theodosius Dobzhansky.
A dynamic plot showing the interactions between validations and implications in evolution.
In the end, I don't especially care if you accept evolution, or if it clashes with your religious dogma.
Teaching it in public schools is the only way to prepare students with the framework they will need for any course in biology, ecology, medicine or genetics.
After getting duckpilled and writing yesterday about DuckDB and duckplyr as a faster alternative to base R and dplyr, today I follow that up with a look at parquet (nanoparquet) as a better and faster alternative to CSV (readr) blog.stephenturner.us/p/use-nanopa... #rstats
#Marburg outbreak in Rwanda is now up to 41 cases incl. 12 deaths and 5 patients that have recovered according to the Ministry of Health
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Holy YIKES a redshift of 14.2 is high. That's a helluva long way off. Here's my explainer of the number (from a different galaxy observation):
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This is *and I can’t emphasise this enough* a brilliant podcast episode
As much as we all love our deliciously horrible killer viruses getting ready for the next pandemic, I think the creeping threat of less and less treatable common bacterial infections is actually much worse.
#episky
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If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
A hand holding a pinned Dynastine beetle over an entomological collection drawer containing several other pinned insect specimens
some fancy shrimps got a big idea and crawled outta the ocean like 500 million years ago and now we got these jabronis
Engineered E coli determine if a number is prime, if a letter is a vowel, and the maximum number of pieces of pie that can be made for a given number of cuts. "Prints" answers by expressing fluorescent proteins https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-024-01711-4
It's Ig Nobel season again! This one's remarkably depressing! 😀
[Longevity data.. set everyone’s pension rate - $$ trillions. If data are junk, so are [pension] projections. It also means we’re allocating money wrong. Insurance premiums are based on this stuff.]
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I heard about this before and I was horrified, but did they never distance themselves from this or made any comment about it in the meantime?
Dave Grohl is back in the headlines, and you all know what that means: re-upping the "Foo Fighters indirectly caused hundreds of thousands of deaths through medical misinformation" thread.
🧪 Nature reports on #Pathoplexus, a new initiative that incentivizes sharing viral genome data in real-time 🦠🧬. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Six novels about India, perhaps the world’s most interesting place
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from The Economist
Al rescate de dos millones de topónimos a través de una ‘app’ para salvar la memoria de los abuelos - elpais.com/espana/galic...
I’ve read a lot of stuff about #mpox already that is wrong or at least confused. And it’s not that surprising. The situation is pretty complicated and confusing. I tried to disentangle a few things for Science here (thread to come later):
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I really firmly think that even if you don't want to read all of "Moby Dick" you can have so much fun just reading the first chapter
Paper describing the difficulties of establishing genetic causation in studies of human behavior. @arbelharpak.bsky.social @jedidiahcarlson.com www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My first post. Wednesday Morning's great Saturn occultation by the Moon.
As a sparkly citizen of the world, you must defend yourself against research. You need it, but you can't assume peer review works. But a little knowledge goes a long way. Here is a 15 min video of me explaining one of the most common fallacies, "TABLE 2" #stats: youtu.be/uanZZLlzKHw?...
Largest animal genome ever sequenced: 91 Gb. 18 of 19 chromosomes are each individually larger than the entire 3 Gb human genome.
The genomes of all lungfish inform on genome expansion and tetrapod evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07830-1 (free: https://rdcu.be/dRE64
Using Glittr.org to find, compare and re-use online bioinformatics training materials www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.... 🧬🖥️
The constellation Aries
As a break from *gestures at it all*, I'm going to rate constellations of the zodiac.
First up: Aries.
Do fuck off. That's a line, mate. You can't just show me an obtuse angle, make bleating noises and expect me to see a sheep. You must think my head buttons up the back
FIFTEEN FICTIONS FOR SUMMER - out now!
Episode 4 in our Great Political Fictions re-release is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics - and emotions - of intergenerational conflict.
Find out more at: www.ppfideas.com
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Ok, so this looks really bad indeed.
But read the paper to see where they got the data and tell me *that's* not the scarier part of this story.
