Good to see the UKHSA pathogen genomics strategy published today: good to see strong references to metagenomic surveillance, data systems, rapid data sharing, emerging infections assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65aff6... (COI: I might have helped out with this a bit!)
We are happy to have been selected by SMBE to host a satellite meeting on Pathogen Pangenome Evolution Between and Within their Hosts: smbepangenomes.bacpop.org We are expecting the meeting to be in Tokyo on 26-28th November 2024, save the date!
Academic conference held in Tokyo, Japan 2024
it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
Back to the socials after the holidays and first post is an absolute joy--> 📣📣📣 Congratulations to twitter.com/helena_betha...doi.org/10.1101/2023...
Congrats! (And OMG I ❤️ your sweater so much! Winter makes me obsess about knitwear, and that is perfection)
Last few days to apply for a postdoc position on the evolution and dynamics of microbial genomes !
Friends don't let friends publish in MDPI journals. Pass it on. For more info, check out the Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI 🔥
Ah, so sad to be missing this. I was looking forward to it but had to pull out last minute for family commitments 🥲
I notice biostatisticians are not told their thesis is ‘just’ data analysis and doesn’t mean anything if they didn’t actually personally recruit patients into a clinical trial, etc. Understanding the nature and complexity of the data one is analysing is important, personally generating it is not.