Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)Seems pretty simple.
Virology PhD bla bla you can just google me if you want to know more 🤷🏻‍♂️
Jerzy Samolej
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Virology PhD bla bla you can just google me if you want to know more 🤷🏻‍♂️
Virology PhD bla bla you can just google me if you want to know more 🤷🏻‍♂️
Eric TopolOne of these epidemic curves is unlike all the others
Carl Bergstrom and Bill Hanage in PNAS today explain why
http://carlbergstrom.com/publications/pdfs/2023PNAS.pdf
Carl Bergstrom and Bill Hanage in PNAS today explain why
http://carlbergstrom.com/publications/pdfs/2023PNAS.pdf
Is anyone else fed up to the back teeth with this kind of over-selling of capability? Have we learned nothing? "aiming to stop the next pandemic "in its tracks"." Science has no ability to stop a pandemic if it can't convince governments to act. Science can identify and bellow.
Carl T. BergstromToday a friend asked me what was up with #COVID vaccines. Why haven't we been encouraged to get further boosters?
The short answer is that there's a new version coming this fall that targets the now-prevalent XBB.1.5 strain that was not included in previous formulations.
My guess is that this will be made available, but not necessarily recommended, to all US adults. I will be getting it if it is available to me.
Adam BienkovThe Standards Committee recommends an 8 week suspension of Chris Pincher for "completely inappropriate" and "profoundly damaging" behaviour which was "an abuse of power".
A reminder that when asked this week about his handling of this case, Boris Johnson fake snored
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/40781/documents/198627/default/
God 
The irony of the right-wing shouting about 'free speech' while simultaneously demanding censorship of any ideas that challenge their fragile beliefs is truly a masterpiece of hypocrisy.
John Huddleston[thread] Do you ever wonder how new seasonal flu vaccines get picked? Our new paper in Frontiers in Bioinformatics (https://doi.org/10.3389/fbinf.2023.1069487), led by Jover Lee and James Hadfield, shows how genetic data and lab experiments have been used to make those decisions in the past and how our new interactive visualization tool, Nextstrain’s measurements panel, can simplify that process by connecting genetic and experimental data in a single place.
Joint visualization of seasonal influenza serology and phylogeny to inform vaccine composition
Seasonal influenza vaccines must be updated regularly to account for mutations that allow influenza viruses to escape our existing immunity. A successful vaccine should represent the genetic diversity of recently circulating viruses and induce antibodies that effectively prevent infection by those recent viruses. Thus, linking the genetic composition of circulating viruses and the serological experimental results measuring antibody efficacy is crucial to the vaccine design decision. Historically, genetic and serological data have been presented separately in the form of static visualizations of phylogenetic trees and tabular serological results to identify vaccine candidates. To simplify this decision-making process, we have created an interactive tool for visualizing serological data that has been integrated into Nextstrain’s real-time phylogenetic visualization framework, Auspice. We show how the combined interactive visualizations may be used by decision makers to explore the relationships between complex data sets for both prospective vaccine virus selection and retrospectively exploring the performance of vaccine viruses.
Auschwitz Memorial28 March 1921 | A Pole, Jerzy Bielecki, was born. He was a prisoner of Auschwitz no. 243 (first transport of Poles to the camp from 14 June 1940).
On 21 July 1944 he escaped from the camp in an SS uniform taking with him a Polish Jewish female prisoner Cyla Cybulska. They were in love.
https://jfr.org/rescuer-stories/jerzy-bielecki/
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Our online lesson about escapes from Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_15_ucieczki/
The confluence of this technology with the information ecosystem that we described in our paper from a couple of years could be an epistemic catastrophe.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2025764118
I’m coming to think that releasing these tools was a reckless act with the potential to generate negative externalities we have barely started to imagine.
The threat isn’t rogue superintelligence. It’s bullshit at unprecedented scale, reflected back upon itself and iteratively amplified.
Laurie Voss"Woke mind virus" is how billionaires describe the idea that you should give even the tiniest bit of a shit about how your actions will affect other people.