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Ben Hall
@hallben.bsky.social
Professor in computational cancer biology at UCL interested disease, mutations, and aging. Funded by CRUK, MRC and Royal Society. Personal account for science, code, music, photography! “Tired is the new awake”
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In the future, we won't need programmers; just people who can describe to a computer precisely what they want it to do.

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My question is why are so many people in Cambridge BANANAs - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone - it's not NIMBY in this because the reservoir is miles away

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MNmichelnivard.bsky.social

I made a starter pack full of statistical genetics (adjacent) scientists. it covers all flavours of behaviour, psychiatric, social science and population genetics people. One click follow all of em! let me know if I missed key people!

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Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13.

HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14
HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14

In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.

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This is really interesting by @soumayakeynes.bsky.social on the impact of termtime holidays. Teachers should rightly pelt me with olives in that I really wasn’t expecting there to be a negative effect on longterm learning in poorer *and* richer schools.

How bad are term-time holidays really?
How bad are term-time holidays really?

Parents are increasingly relaxed about them, despite research suggesting that every absence does count

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MHmichaelhendricks.bsky.social

Thread. Science can be better, but often institutions respond to risk with expensive and even harmful bureaucratic theater (think post-9/11 airport security). We want rigor in science, but I don't believe this can be achieved with prescriptive rules derived from one field's methodological crisis.

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Ben Hall
@hallben.bsky.social
Professor in computational cancer biology at UCL interested disease, mutations, and aging. Funded by CRUK, MRC and Royal Society. Personal account for science, code, music, photography! “Tired is the new awake”
248 followers782 following340 posts