Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZ

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Work: Science writing & editing, computational biology/bioinformatics, science fiction

Leisure: Travel, cycle touring, reading

Also: Fun stuff & gossip 😊
Lots on COVID-19 & zoonoses ATM

Hashtags: #bioinformatics, #compbio, #scicomm, #zoonoses, #COVID19, #writing (#scifi), #cycletouring, #books, #reading, #travel, #deaf, #NotJustDNA

New website coming!

https://twittodon.com/share.php?t=bioinfotools&[email protected]

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZNov 10, 2023

'Siouxsie Wiles goes to court'

The NZ Science Media Centre has pulled together coverage of the first week of the employment court case between Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles and the University of Auckland.

#NZ SMC: https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2023/11/10/siouxsie-wiles-goes-to-court-in-the-news/

#scicomm #science 🧪

Siouxsie Wiles goes to court - In The News

This week saw the start of a long-awaited employment court case between Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles and the University of Auckland. The case has already received extensive media attention from all major outlets. Dr Wiles alleges the university failed to protect her from a “tsunami of thre

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZNov 7, 2023

Worth re-reading: Commitments to equality in Te Tiriti mean co-governance

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/commitments-to-equality-in-te-tiriti-mean-co-governance

#NZ #kikorangi #kiwi🇳🇿 #nzpol

Commitments to equality in Te Tiriti mean co-governance

Beliefs that co-governance is 'unfair' are based on fundamental misconceptions about Te Tiriti o Waitangi and what a commitment to equality truly means.

Newsroom
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZNov 7, 2023

Review: Apple’s 16-inch M3 Max MacBook Pro crams Ultra-level speed into a laptop

Andrew Cunningham at ArsTechnica:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/review-apples-16-inch-m3-max-macbook-pro-crams-ultra-level-speed-into-a-laptop/

#Apple #computing #reviews

Review: Apple’s 16-inch M3 Max MacBook Pro crams Ultra-level speed into a laptop

A solid generational upgrade for a laptop that wouldn’t be possible with Intel.

Ars Technica
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZNov 7, 2023

100+ researchers say they stopped studying X, fearing Elon Musk might sue them

- Affected studies were tracking hate speech, child safety, and misinformation.

Ashley Belanger at ArsTechnica: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/100-researchers-say-they-stopped-studying-x-fearing-elon-musk-might-sue-them/

#Twitter #Misinformation #Disinformation

100+ researchers say they stopped studying X, fearing Elon Musk might sue them

Affected studies were tracking hate speech, child safety, and misinformation.

Ars Technica
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZNov 2, 2023

Wealthy travellers likely to first get opportunities to receive chikungunya vaccine.

Also, “likely to be approved without the usual efficacy data from human trials” - for sound reasons.

Jon Cohen at Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/chikungunya-vaccine-nearing-approval-who-will-get-it
#vaccine #chikungunya

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZOct 29, 2023

Ticks carrying Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus found in Southern France.

https://www.anses.fr/en/content/crimean-congo-haemorrhagic-fever-virus-detected-first-time-cattle-farms-southern-france

#CCHF #ticks #France

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus detected for the first time on cattle farms in southern France

On 6 October 2023, the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus was detected in ticks of the genus Hyalomma collected from cattle reared in the Pyrénées-Orientales département of France. Santé publique France analysed the situation in collaboration with ANSES, CIRAD, and the Institut Pasteur. In June 2023, ANSES had published an analysis of the risks to human and animal health associated with ticks of the genus Hyalomma in France.

Anses - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZOct 29, 2023

A someone who likes cycle touring, and has used the extensive cycleways they have in Europe, Noel Edmonds comes across very badly (and that’s being polite, as I try to be) -

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300993866/youre-the-enemy-noel-edmonds-cycleway-rant-and-a-meeting-of-conspiracy-theorists
#cycling #NZ

Stuff

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZOct 20, 2023

Royal Society report on, “COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions”

https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/impact-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-on-covid-19-transmission/

#COVID19

The Royal Society’s programme on the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on Covid-19 transmission | Royal Society

The Royal Society has launched a new report investigating the evidence of the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZOct 18, 2023

Cool photos of small things

Check out the winners and honourable mentions in Nikon’s 2023 ‘Small World’ photomicrography competition.

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrography-competition

#microphotography #photography #science

2023 Photomicrography Competition

View the winning entries from the 2023 Photomicrography Competition

Nikon’s Small World
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZOct 16, 2023

The vastness of Space, the Oort cloud and Voyager🧪

“Voyager 1, the fastest and farthest of the interplanetary space probes currently leaving the Solar System, will reach the Oort cloud in about 300 years and would take about 30,000 years to pass through it.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud (Citations removed for clarity.) #space #astronomy #voyager #OortCloud

Oort cloud - Wikipedia