Stevie Ped
@smped.bsky.social
🇦🇺 They/Them. Biological data nerd & Bioconductor enthusiast. Intermittent musician. Interested in Bioinformatics, Aboriginal Health, Covid Research, Transgender Rights & Politics. Cannot read/send DMs due to local age verification laws
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On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂↕️
my fellow #Rstats friends - would any multilingual folks have any tips on changing the language for R/RStudio (including the menus) for a given session without changing the system settings? The goal is find a frictionless workflow to facilitate teaching 😊🍎 (1/2)
R-universe now provides binaries and check results for Windows-ARM64 of all CRAN and BIOC packages: contributor.r-project.org/windows-arm64/
R on ARM64 Windows
R on Windows ARM64
contributor.r-project.org
“We believe Adelaide University panicked in the face of pro-Israel lobbying, and gave spurious and demonstrably false reasons for cancelling the event" Another academic institution shamefully trampling on free speech in their rush to placate genocide supporters. www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
FOI reveals reason why SA uni cast out UN speaker event - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
In March, Adelaide University ejected a sold-out event focused on the Israel-Palestine conflict from its campus. New FOI documents reveal why.
indailysa.com.au
Just a reminder for the Australians that you can pick up a paper copy of the Census this week. info.census.abs.gov.au/help/get-hel... Might be a convenient way of not answering the "Sex at birth" question for those who find it deeply offensive
Get help near you
Where to find help with your Census in your local area.
info.census.abs.gov.au
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
Australians have recently been able to access Nuvaxovid (Novavax) through the SAS. We've launched an Expression of Interest for people seeking access, doctors willing to consider prescribing, and pharmacists willing to administer if supply becomes available. pandemicresistance.org/novavax
This woman should be the president. And the current president should be arrested.
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
Disappointing this article does not highlight the fact the ABS recommended counting gender identity for all people, but Albanese intervened contrary to their advice to only ask this question of people 16 and over. Thanks to him, trans kids won't be counted. #auspol 1/ www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
We’ve never known the size of the trans community. That’s about to change
Following a Labor backdown and years of advocate lobbying, new questions on gender and sexuality will be included in the August 11 census.
smh.com.au
See, what people do not understand...and I'm saying stay with me til the second half upfront so no one is pained needlessly is that sometimes you have to bend the knee, to live to fight another day AND SOMETIMES YOU FIGHT TO THE WALL This is a fight to the wall. Amnesty International failed.
Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d agoA dark day for human rights.
So @amnesty.org and @amnestyuk.bsky.social you turned your back on trans people in the U.K., when they needed you the most. You big yourselves up about how you take on governments over their human rights records, but when it comes to one single bigot threatening to take you to court, you fold.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d agoAmnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
amnesty.org.uk
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Boiling scientific truth down to a single number has had bad consequences for our understanding of the world.
What is a p-value? An expert explains the most misunderstood number in science
theconversation.com
Fantastic conversation with @justinwolfers.bsky.social. 25mins in he lands a serious blow on Australia about brain drain: that leadership in global higher education is up for grabs, and this is the moment that Australia is turning its back on the sector. So self defeating youtu.be/nkUEVl8uamM?...
Justin Wolfers on the economic absurdities of Trump's America | That's Business with Alan Kohler
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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'"The epidemic was likely limited to the southeastern coastal regions of Australia & along major intersecting rivers such as the Murray & Lachlan rivers. Assuming a 60% lethality, the loss of between 40,000 & 220,000 people would probably have occurred in these regions..."' phys.org/news/2026-07...
Modeling reveals Sydney's 1789 smallpox outbreak killed as many as 220,000 indigenous Australians
Groundbreaking modeling has revealed that as many as 220,000 Indigenous Australians died in a devastating 1789 smallpox outbreak that originated in Sydney, tracing its origins to the First Fleet. Soon...
phys.org
Hold my beer, Australia says‼️ Maaaate..... We are cutting health and science, crushing our disability safety net whilst shrinking our economy and crushing higher education with deep cuts and unaffordable student debt But we give away our gas and oil... No longer the "Lucky Country"
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦@tryangregory.bsky.social · last wk.It's not just the US. The UK is cutting science. Canada is cutting science. No one is cutting transfer of public wealth to big tech and fossil fuel companies though.
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Was down the beach yesterday & two PIRSA employees came down to look at a dead bird. They both left then returned 20mins later to collect the bird with only one in a biohazard suit. Not sure why both needed to leave for only one to put on a suit, exposing all beach users (dogs) in the meantime...
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.Seven new suspected cases of H5 bird flu detected in South Australia
This needs to be scrutinized very closely. We will probably find that hundreds of millions, if not billions, of future contracts were executed in the couple of hours before Trump announced his latest unilateral ceasefire... and that this was done with people who had foreknowledge.
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: World’s First Vaccine Targeting the Entire SARS Coronavirus Family Begins Human Testing GBP511, developed by UW Medicine and tested by SK Bioscience, aims to protect against COVID-19 and future coronaviruses before they spark the next pandemic. www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp5...
First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials – Institute for Protein Design
The computer-designed vaccine aims to protect against coronaviruses that haven't yet emerged, including pandemic threats
ipd.uw.edu
