New paper! "Lineage replacement and evolution captured by 3 years of the United Kingdom Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey" Presents analysis of the genomic data provided by a large representative community survey of SARS-CoV-2 infections. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

The role of universities is not to generate media / social media hot takes; however horrible the world may feel. Universities should be places devoted to teaching and research, and not social media outrage / praise farming. 1/

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I'm recruiting PhD students for Oct 24 start at University of Bath. Fully funded for UK students only. If interested in developing data structures/algorithms for bacterial genomics, or exploring plasmid epidemiology, or ML/AI on bacterial/phage geno/pheno data, give me a call!

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Note Silver's latest Substack article is a great read, approachable and super-clear. It makes a robust case for Covid-19 vaccines having saved many lives in the US, without belittling and insulting those who believe otherwise. Science communication at its best! www.natesilver.net/p/fine-ill-r...

Fine, I'll run a regression analysis. But it won't make you happy.

State partisanship and COVID vaccination rates are strongly predictive of COVID death rates even once you account for age.

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I've just come across that interesting fungus, basket stinkhorn (Clathrus ruber), I presume. It's the first time I saw one in Switzerland. It's weird and smelly, but still cool.

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