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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 18/10/2023

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....

Figure 1. Lineage dynamics and genetic diversity through time. (a) Proportion of swabs taken as part of the ONS-CIS that were positive with Ct ≤ 30 (electronic supplementary material, figure S1), with bars coloured by the proportion of sequenced samples belonging to each major lineage. (b) Number of variant of concern (VOC) sequenced samples from rarer lineages (i.e. not classified as a major lineage). (c) Per day growth rate advantage of each of the major lineages compared to all other contemporary samples. BA.4 and BA.5 were considered together due to their concordant trajectories, and uncertainty is represented by 200 data bootstraps. The horizontal lines represent how long it would take the VOC prevalence to double (14 days, dashed; 7 days dotted; 2 days dot-dash). (d) Proportion of sequenced samples with both the given lineage and S-gene target failure (SGTF) pattern. The bold markers represent the proportion of sequenced samples that were of both the indicated lineage and had S-g

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Prof François Balloux @proffballoux.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

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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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Hi all! We are recruiting again. If you can ID European birds, bats, frogs or plants and fancy some flexible, paid, work - please fill out our form: 🧪 🪶 🌍 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

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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Prof François Balloux @proffballoux.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

A welcome gift for your arrival on the sky site @trattenrabbit.bsky.social. Have some 🥕🥕🥕!

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Prof François Balloux @proffballoux.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

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...

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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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Prof François Balloux @proffballoux.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

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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