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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Only 4 days left to the deadline: Become our new colleague as associate professor in biostatistical machine learning at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social and our Centre of Knowledge-driven Machine Learning Integreat! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

OK, this is pretty cool. My first ever lab mate from the Ford Denison lab, @tobykiers.bsky.social and I had nearly back to back covers this month at Nature. Neither of us work on the legume-rhizobium symbiosis anymore, and both work in fungi! Also- look at how similar those network topologies are!

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Jumping Rivers @jumpingrivers.com · 11/04/2025

New version of R is out! Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 — from new language features to graphics updates and more. 📝 Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n... #rstats #Rprogramming #opensource

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What's new in R 4.5.0?

Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes that have been introduced in R 4.5.0.

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Morgenbladet @morgenbladet.no · 20/12/2024

– Vi ga opp ideen om at viruset var konstruert, ganske raskt. Der endret både jeg og de andre mening i løpet av bare noen dager. Men spesielt jeg satt igjen med en tanke om at viruset kunne ha vært dyrket, sier Kristian Andersen. (M+)

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Kom koronaviruset fra naturen eller et laboratorium? Kristian Andersen mener han vet svaret

Virusforsker Kristian Andersen trues på livet og anklages for å ha forledet verden om hvordan pandemien startet. I et besøk i Norge gikk han til kraftig motangrep på norske kritikere. Absolutt alle sp...

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Cathleen O'Grady @cathleenogrady.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It took four days from submission to publication, and nearly five years from publication to retraction. After campaigning by many, many scientists, and an investigation by Elsevier, an infamous paper on hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment has been retracted. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted

Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

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Simon Dellicour @sdellicour.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

How fast are viruses spreading in the wild? Check out our latest study now published in @plosbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1371/jour.... A study performed with Paul Bastide, Pauline Rocu, Denis Fargette, Olivier Hardy, @msuchard.bsky.social, @stephaneguindon.bsky.social, and Philippe Lemey (1/7)

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID" That should settle it, right? The problem, of course, it won't because we're dealing with conspiracy theories and not scientific inquiry - no amount of additional data will change un-evidenced beliefs. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID

Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute.

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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

"What's happening with this mystery illness in the Congo" I've gotten this text dozens of times in the past few days. Here's what we know. What we don't. And what really matters 🧵

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Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’ve updated SARSCoV2 RBD antibody-escape calculator w new deep mutational scanning data of Yunlong Cao & Fanchong Jian. My interpretation: antigenic evolution currently constrained by pleiotropic effects of mutations on RBD-ACE2 affinity, RBD up-down position & antibody neutralization

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