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Congratulations to Prof Emma Thomson (Emma Thomson) who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (@RoyalSocEd)!

Emma is an expert in infectious diseases & pandemic preparedness, and has contributed through research, advisory roles, and pandemic response efforts.

I conducted preliminary phylogenetic analyses using H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b genomes in North America with 2024 collection dates in GISAID. Here are some initial insights 1/7

Great to be in Hannover for #Keystone HIV & (Re)Emerging Viruses! Despite rain, it's been a great 1st day - esp. talks from Sarah Gilbert on how we can better develop test & distribute vaccines & wendybarclay on how to reduce flu pandemic risk & better curb spread #KSHIVPATH24

Have thoroughly enjoyed everyone's wonderfully eclipse photos - the next best thing to seeing it myself! Vielen Dank!🙏🏻🌚🌝

With the #2024Eclipse today, those high above the clouds will have the best view. Multiple airlines have flights along the path of totality, but it looks like one will stay within the path the entire flight: Air Canada’s #AC1070 .

I have a preprint out! Evidence for extensive appearance of chatGPT/LLM derived text in scholarly papers, signalled by words that mysteriously became a lot more popular in 2023 - eg 'commendable'. I estimate upwards of 60,000 papers last year (& rising...) arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887

Unpopular opinion coming up. I screen a bunch of preprints for BioRxiv, have done for a decade. I think these are fairly representative of what is published generally - e.g. similar in quality, etc., even though only ~20% of papers are preprinted. /1

'For long-term sustainable software in bioinformatics' at PLOS Comp Biol

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Brief academic story.

July 2022: I am encouraged to apply for a job in Germany. I apply.

February 2023: A semi-cryptic email invites me to send more documents to be considered as part of the short list. Documents are essentially the same as sent in 2022, but yeah ok fine.

Assoc Prof Bioinformatician position available in Uganda via London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine ! 👩🏻‍💻👨🏿‍💻🧑🏽‍💻To support the Unit’s high-performance computing facility – Uganda Medical Informatics Centre (UMIC) project.

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I use this online card provider almost exclusively for this button, and wonder what else in my life I could accomplish more efficiently if only I could get 'more confetti' after finishing a task... 🤔

Hey Sky your customer service agent was super helpful this morning, but did just advise me to put my old *router* in the plastics recycle bin...! 😅😱🙅🏻‍♀️

Can you please give employees info on how to recycle electronics, so these things end up in the right place! Thanks! 😁