In the 4 years since their imposition, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), from masks to school closures, have been vehemently declared to be ineffective. This study estimates that they combined to prevent over 800,000 COVID deaths. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Learning how to “read” the genome is a basic skill for all biologists. As an introduction, here’s a 🧵 about using the genome browser to make a discovery about how we lost our tails. All you need is your 'thinking eye'! (1/13)

Very inappropriate seq-struc analysis: Hence, conclusions presented here are questionable. 1st, there is no relationship between the RNase H fold endonuclease of the phage terminase& Colicin E5. 2nd the predicted functional residues are irrelevant science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The human chromosomes are numbered incorrectly (The fourth in an irregular series of threads about #Bioinformatics.) As most people know, 22 of our chromosomes are numbered from longest to shortest, plus we have X and Y... 1/6

Secondly, seeing this tweet and reading this article about male loneliness. It really hit home. I hadn’t really looked into this before but it really resonated - and the video is beautiful. x.com/drantbradley/s…

Aristotle was the first to notice honeybees dancing. In 1927 Karl von Frisch decoded the waggle. How it works was "explained" by MV Srinivasan AM FRS in the 1990s. Except Laura Luebbert, PhD found his papers are junk. A 🧵 about her discovery & our report: arxiv.org/abs/2405.12998 1/

Today, our paper with over 100 African authors showing how we trained 408 African scientists in genomics & bioinformatics through 28 regional workshops in 2023, is now published in Nature Genetics: nature.com/articles/s4158… or rdcu.be/dM5r4 & africanbiogenome.org/2024/07/08/est…

1/ In 1997, 20 volunteers in Buffalo, NY donated blood for what was billed as "the world's biggest science project." Little did they know, one of them would become the cornerstone of modern genetics. 🔗: undark.org/2024/07/09/inf…

It’s finally out! 🥳 Today @cellcellpress we report non-mineral fossils of ancient chromosomes in skin from a woolly mammoth that died in Siberia, 52,000 years ago. 🦣💨 Don’t miss our thread below! 🧵👇🏽

Very happy so see great friends at #ismb2024 ⁦@winhide⁩ ⁦David Landsman⁩ and ⁦Nicky Mulder⁩

Ugh! Inflating citation counts by adding references not mentioned in a paper into author-generated metadata. One author added 3000 citations to his record that way. schneier.com/blog/archives/…

12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United plane traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history forced a nationwide ground stop of the three airlines.

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin! We celebrate her work and influence in science. Thanks to her, we have the historic Photo 51, which revealed that DNA has a double-helical structure!

A classic book. I have an old copy. Treasure it as a part of history.

Looks like LLMs can cause real harm in medicine, even with human expert review. Quite troubling... pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ra…

H3ABioNet has been an amazing journey and I believe has had an impact on many African scientists. Thanks to the dedicated members of the H3ABioNet family from across the continent. Thanks to my team at CBIO, you are amazing.

I'm excited to be organizing the Advancing Health Outcomes in Africa: Implementing Genomics and Health Security in Africa at Science Summit 2024 sched.co/1jzid Sched please join us in person in NY or online.

Very sad. John was a great guy. Always greeted me with a smile.

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