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Stevie Ped

@smped.bsky.social
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🇦🇺 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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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 3h
Two human diseases—counting influenza B Yamagata. I feel like it's important to remember that merely by inconsistently implementing some modest infection-prevention measures and drastically reducing travel for a year or so, we wiped a virus off the face of the earth.
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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 06/10/2026
🚨 New CRAN Task View: Package Development and Maintenance #rstats #cran By Lluís Revilla and Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Package...
Screenshot of the CRAN Task View "Package Development and Maintenance" at https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=PackageDevelopment
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Johannes Rainer @jorainer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨our educational resource for #reproducible #metabolomics data analysis using @bioconductor.bsky.social and #rstats integrating #Python and #SIRIUS6 is now published! 👉 #Metabonaut bit.ly/4z9WaYZ 📄 doi.org/10.1007/s113... Great work from @philouail.bsky.social and big thanks to all contributors! 🙌
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Exploring and Analyzing LC-MS Data
This resource hosts tutorials and end-to-end workflows describing how to analyze LC-MS/MS data, from raw files to annotation, using Bioconductor packages.
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📢 Bioconductor Africa Seminar Series: Developing & submitting Bioconductor packages — key steps from structuring and documenting R code to testing and preparing for submission. 🎤 Dr Fabricio Almeida-Silva 📅 Oct 28 2026 🕓 4 PM EAT Register: bit.ly/3VQEa7H
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Stevie Ped @smped.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At least we know we'll see fabulous pics of them
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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 05/10/2026
In which the author disagrees with Mr Wolfers and discusses what it *really* looks like when you sit down and have a conversation with your ideological opponents. When you do not have the protections of the ivory tower it turns out to be a much darker experience than he imagines it to be.
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Dining with wolves – Notes from a data witch
Polite discussion over lunch is not a reasonable option when you are on the menu
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monteirolab.bsky.social @monteirolab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Looking for a PhD student to help uncover whether our arms and legs, and those of insects, share the same core gene-regulatory network. If interested, please contact antonia.monteiro@nus.edu.sg. Graduate Program application deadline is 15 Nov 2026 (www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/education/gr...)
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Stefano Mangiola @stemang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Only one more week to apply for the #BiocAsia Travel Scholarship, to join us at #BiocAsia2026 and #ABACBS2026. Don't miss the opportunity! Please share with your peers who might be interested. 🙏 @bioconductor.bsky.social @abacbs.bsky.social
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New post by Šimon Urbánek and the late Tomáš Kalibera on new features for binary R packages #rstats 📦️ blog.r-project.org/2026/09/29/s...
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Sovereign Tech Fund Project: Milestone 2 - The R Blog
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting🧵by Zdenek Vrozina on XTwitter: "When you catch COVID, the virus shows up in your mouth and throat first. The nose lags by two to three days. An important study tracked all three sites daily in sixteen people from the very start of..." 19-tweet🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/21044...
When you catch COVID, the virus shows up in your mouth and throat first. The nose lags by two to three days. 
An important study tracked all three sites daily in sixteen people from the very start of infection - and found something unexpected in how the mucosa fights back🧵
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📢 We’re running a developer survey to better understand the needs and priorities of the community to help shape the future of Bioconductor. The survey is open until September 30 and takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete. 📝 Survey link: bit.ly/4zPf6h4 We look forward to hearing from you!
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Bioconductor developer survey
Thank you for taking the time to complete this Bioconductor developer survey. For the purposes of this survey, "developer" includes package developers as well as contributors involved in…
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📢 We’re running a developer survey to better understand the needs and priorities of the community to help shape the future of Bioconductor. The survey is open until September 30 and takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete. 📝 Survey link: bit.ly/4zPf6h4 We look forward to hearing from you!
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Bioconductor developer survey
Thank you for taking the time to complete this Bioconductor developer survey. For the purposes of this survey, "developer" includes package developers as well as contributors involved in…
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Nicholas Cooley @npcooley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hi folks! We are running a Developer Survey for Bioconductor through the end of september! If you want to have a say in our priorities and infrastructure choices, please give us your feedback and opinions! survey link: forms.gle/WWCZAX7uuPfr...
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Bioconductor developer survey
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"COVID vaccines no longer free for many Australians from next month" From October 1, Australia will end free COVID vaccines for most people. Free doses will remain for adults 65+, First Nations people aged 50–74 and severely immunocompromised adults aged 18–64. The cost for others is not yet known.
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COVID vaccines no longer free for many Australians from next month
Only some people will continue to get the COVID-19 vaccination for free after October 1. Here's what the changes mean for you.
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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
bramble projects spliced genomic alignments into transcriptomic space. Any spliced genome alignments go in (tested with several, happy to add more if you find an incompatibility), a transcriptomic BAM comes out, salmon / oarfish / TranSigner carry on as normal. 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Bramble: projection of spliced genomic alignments into transcriptomic space for improved transcript quantification
Accurate transcript abundance estimation is central to many transcriptomic studies. Many current quantification methods rely on reads mapped directly to the transcriptome, but transcriptome alignment ...
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Stevie Ped @smped.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Gorgeous. I'll be visiting next week, via Lake Eyre. Cannot wait to see how it all looks
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Any political party that could lose *twice* to Donald fucking Trump is obviously so useless and complicit it needs to be brutally destroyed and everyone leading it exiled to the fucking forest far from human affairs.
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Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote a post about how slice_sample() and other slice_* functions work in #tidyomics #Bioconductor tidyomics.github.io/tidyomicsBlo...
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Slicing in tidyomics – tidyomicsBlog
How to use dplyr-style slice operations on omics data objects in the tidyomics project.
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My whole adult life I voted "lesser evil." And all I got for it was more evil. Less evil than the alternative, but evil nonetheless. I'm done with lesser evil. I want good. Before I die, I'd like some fucking good.
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A little motivation
4 panel comic: 
Panel 1: forg is drawing. There’s some extra pencils and some coffee on his desk. He says “all I can do..”
Panel 2: he is now doing work on his computer. Looks like he completed some drawings. He continues “..is my best”
Panel 3: he is now making some food in the kitchen, wielding a pan and wearing a tiny chefs hat. He continues talking to himself “..and my best..”
Panel 4: at the end of his long cozy day he’s in bed, and finishes his sentence “.. will do”
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🎉BiocAsia 2026 Sponsor spotlight! SAiGENCI – South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute, through the Computational System Oncology Program, is a main supporter of #BiocAsia2026! We’re grateful for their support in bringing the Bioconductor community across the Asia-Pacific region together!
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
✈️ BiocAsia 2026 Travel Scholarships! Great news! SAiGENCI is supporting travel scholarships of up to AU$400 for eligible attendees to participate in BiocAsia 2026. The scholarships are designed to support students and ECRs who'd like to attend the conference Apply here 👇️ bit.ly/4dqZNkO
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Travel Scholarship
Apply for a BiocAsia 2026 travel scholarship
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Foreign people taking drugs is a failure of multiculturalism. Warren taking drugs is a complex personal journey" Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/09/09/t...
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A study of 154 professional singers found COVID-19 had lasting effects on vocal health. After recovering from COVID, 53% reported persistent vocal changes and 44% new throat clearing. Researchers found COVID more than doubled the risk of voice impairment, highlighting the need for post-COVID care.
Screenshot of a ScienceDirect page showing a study published in the Journal of Voice, available online 26 August 2026. The study is titled “Persistent Vocal Alterations and Throat Clearing in Professional Singers Following COVID-19 Infection: A Cross-Sectional Study from China,” by Yuan Li and Jun Wang. The research examined persistent changes to vocal health and throat clearing among professional singers following COVID-19 infection.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Monster waves captured by photographer Ben Hartley at Nazaré, Portugal.🇵🇹
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I also find it ironic billionaires chasing longevity while overlooking something as basic as clean air, despite evidence that multiple pathogens accelerate dementia and other neurodegenerative processes. Living longer is great. But what’s the point if your brain doesn’t come along for the ride?
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Finding sturt desert peas 😀
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Cirice's Grave @ciricegray.itch.io · 06/09/2026
New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel
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The Cost of Being Seen: Identity, Non-Passing Appearance, and Hiring Discrimination Against Transgender Women
This paper examines whether hiring discrimination against transgender women arises from gender identity, non-cisnormative appearance, or their interaction. In a
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Bastien Llamas @dnatimetravel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interested in using ancient DNA to investigate the human evolutionary history of Southeast Asia? I offer a PhD scholarship for a project commencing in 2027, open to domestic and international applicants. EOI due 30 Sep. More details: adelaide.edu.au/research/res... (search: SRTSR0520)
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Priming of CD8+ T cells by peripheral dendritic cells exacerbates tau-mediated neurodegeneration @natneuro.nature.com @daveholtzman.bsky.social @washumedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Simon W Davis @woodforbrains.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ho-LEE fuck democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Folks, hot off the press here are a few plots about what the new ggarrow update can do: teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl... I'll also tease them below #rstats #ggplot2
Plot where four arrows connect three points. Two points are connected via double arrows pointing in opposite directions.Plot where four arrows connect three points. Arrowheads are one sided/halved. One connection has two arrows in opposite directions, giving the impression of a compound arrow with half-arrowheads at opposite ends.Plot with four arrows connecting three points. The shafts of the arrows are squiggly lines.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's past time for USians to do the same. The incel who invented a system to rate women who would never fuck him in college should never have been elevated past Wendy's drive thru associate.
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Sofia Kirke Forslund-Startceva @inanna-nalytica.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy to see this out, thanks to extensive development, benchmarking and perseverance step after step by @mrollivander.bsky.social ! We've used versions of this tech for several years and now can offer it more easily to others along with concrete data on the advantages offered.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What is being done vs #LongCovid and other post-viral serious chronic illness? Not enough. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes
Hundreds of millions of people have long-term conditions as a result of an infection. Researchers are working out how to help them.
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026
Today in Good Aussie Trans News: One Nation's bill to ban hormone blockers/ deny trans teenagers gender affirming care -in South Australia- was defeated They're the 2nd state to attack trans teen's rights & wellbeing (QLD did ban hormone blockers). We need to be vigilant.
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One Nation's push for South Australian ban on puberty blockers fails
One Nation’s South Australian leader, Cory Bernardi, has failed in his attempt to bring in a ban on puberty blockers in the treatment of gender dysphoria. The One Nation bill got support from Family F...
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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This looks like an important read. The image captures what many educators have suspected for the last few years -- & is the reason we are moving away from written internal assessments. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The figures to the left plot the distribution of our outcomes, split by student-month observations for students who eventually adopt
generative AI before adoption (Pre AI), after adoption (Post AI) and for student-month observations associated with students who have no
adopted generative AI by June 2025 (Never AI). The figures to the right plot the mean outcomes by event time for students who
eventually adopt generative AI before adoption (Ever-AI Students). For the Never-AI Students, we construct a reweighted mean
comparison series so that, at each event time, the control observations have the same distribution over month, grade, and school as the
corresponding Ever-AI observations. The data is at the student-month level and the samples are shown in Table 1. In panel A, the outcome
is the average score (percent relative to baseline average) on the homework assignments. In panel B, the outcome is the average homework
completion time in minutes. In Panel C, the outcome is the average score (percent relative to baseline average) on the closed-book exams
in class.
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is relevant because a major argument of those who claim the pandemic originated in a lab leak is that the "CGG-CGG" insertion in the SARS-2 furin-cleavage site (FCS) is so exceedingly unlikely that only lab manipulation could have produced it. @spyroslytras.bsky.social alignment below. 4/
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've spent that past 2 weeks beating my head against the wall trying to wrangle the most incorrigibly unruly mutation type of all—insertions. I'm sure I'll find some more fine-tuning to do, but I'm finally satisfied with the results and will share a quick summary of them in this 🧵. 1/13
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CJ: "I interviewed 18 COVID-aware individuals about their relationships with partners who took less precautions. This is what I learned." "Over My Dead Body: Dating and Heartbreak in the Age of COVID" Published: Sep 01, 2026
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Over My Dead Body: Dating and Heartbreak in the Age of COVID
Lessons from Loving and Leaving Our COVID-Careless Partners
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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am still on the job hunt. It has been a year. I'm a master science storyteller, recognized on Fortune 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30 for my ability to make science desirable, and engaging to all. 1/
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy Wattle Day! Wattle Day is a day of celebration in Australia on the first day of September each year, which is the start of spring. This is the time when many Acacia species (commonly called wattles in Australia) are in flower.
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Emma-Liina Marjakangas @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢 Postdoc opportunity in interaction networks under global change @ University of Helsinki! The position includes leading fieldwork & analyses on seed dispersal networks & mentoring junior researchers. Apply by 30 Sept: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #Postdoc #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
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Jovana Maksimovic @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Gene fusions drive ~16% of all cancers & 50-70% of childhood ALL. But standard scRNA-seq can't see them — the assays aren't built to capture fusion breakpoints. We built a way to fix that. @aliciao.bsky.social @sadras-t.bsky.social @petermaccc.bsky.social @onjcri.org.au @10xgenomics.bsky.social 🧵
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Folks this is a great place to start 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 online.flippingbook.com/view/6349601...
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ISLC-PAIS Conference 2026 – Abstract Book
Explore the official Abstract Book of the ISLC-PAIS Conference 2026 in Amsterdam, bringing together research on Long COVID, ME/CFS and other post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS). Featuring keynote an...
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Dave Hooper @davehooper.com · 29/08/2026
Just over 60% of adult Australians made a terrible mistake on October 14, 2023. The Uluru Statement from the Heart was an invitation to create a better future through a series of reforms: Voice, Treaty and Truth. I’m still sorry that we didn’t accept the invitation.
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