@learithe

Computational microbiologist, artist, and crazy cat lady. All views here are my own.

 Sydney, New South Wales
Joined May 2015
  • Tweets164
  • Following108
  • Followers148
9Media
So the Supreme Court won’t allow states to regulate guns but WILL allow states to regulate a woman’s body?! Complete BS!! #RoeVsWade
301
1,981
105
9,024
So, to sum up the Supreme Court’s week: life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting.
2,593
65,922
2,585
297,425
Going to IMMEM in Bath in September? Why don't you join us for the 8th Microbial Bioinformatics Hackathon just beforehand? Places are limited. Sign-up: tinyurl.com/microbinfiehacka… More info: github.com/MicroBinfie/Micro…
1
18
3
34
Jenny Draper retweeted
Norman Swan@normanswan21 Apr 2022
Australia spent a million dollars training me – and now I’m leaving smh.com.au/education/austral…

Australia spent a million dollars training me – and now I’m leaving

Once a week, I sit down with my friend’s five-year-old nephew, Ben, and talk to him about numbers, planets and cells. Fun stuff. When my friend found out I was emigrating, he had one question. I...

smh.com.au
86
271
53
829
2 year research position for a Genomic Epidemiologist to work on public health surveillance for infectious diseases. Opportunity to analyse and visualise genomic and epidemiological data as well as contribute to public health genomics networks smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QL…
28
33
Very helpful! @Gleebooks
38
1,254
121
6,989
Dr. Leondios Kostrikis & the Cyprus team deserve credit for doing important viral sequencing work. Mistakes happen easily. Let's move forward with kindness & collaboration. We can't beat this virus alone! h/t @shay_fleishon @PeacockFlu #Omicron #deltacron newsweek.com/deltacron-varia…

Deltacron Variant Combining Delta, Omicron is a Data Error, Scientists Say

The variant, purportedly a mixture of Delta and Omicron, most likely does not exist and is the result of a standard lab error, virologists have told Newsweek.

newsweek.com
13
35
7
158
I have officially started my new position at the University of Canterbury! I am really happy to be here. Wanna join us? My school is looking for a Bioinformatics person to lead our new Bioinformatics major. JOIN US! Pls RT! #NZLabLife #Bioinformatics jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdet…
11
78
1
277
Well, there it is. Today, with the “wrong” (i.e. cold) symptoms and after a string of negative LFTs, I finally took Twitter advice and swabbed my throat as well as my nose (no mean feat with that diddly stick). If you think you might have COVID, consider adding the throat sample
460
2,033
529
6,440
Jenny Draper retweeted
David Winter@TheAtavism24 Dec 2021
The omicron wave as viewed in the cases arriving in MIQ. Getting these genomes this quickly has been an monumental effort from teams in testing labs and @ ESR who were looking forward to a deserved break over this time.
4
42
6
206
For no particular reason ... A Sunday thread highlighting just a tiny sample of the brilliant women whose tireless work has shaped my understanding of Covid-19
115
1,851
360
6,097
“Grant review committee” #womboart They seem so nice…
2
12
Jenny Draper retweeted
Paul Gardner@ppgardne15 Dec 2021
jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdet… There's an opening for a Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor / Professor in Bioinformatics @UCNZbiology, New Zealand!
2
42
43
Denmark has published an omicron report in English: files.ssi.dk/covid19/omikron… among 2,471 omicron cases, 27 have been hospitalized
42
206
74
536
Attention Omicron minimalisers AND those who exaggerate - we don’t know enough yet about severity. Don’t jump to conclusions. We need caution and time to understand.
Natalie E. Dean, PhD
@nataliexdean9 Dec 2021
A sketch to explain how a new variant may appear milder even with no change in underlying virulence. This can occur because, when calculating the fraction of cases that are severe, the denominator now includes many re-infections that had previously been averted. A thread. 1/8
443
254
50
1,354
Jenny Draper retweeted
Stephan Heunis@fmrwhy4 Dec 2021
Ok this guy just won tiktok #VaccineApartheid
37
4,463
319
13,026
Looking for bioinformatician’s to deliver and optimise real time public health analysis on COVID and other important pathogens for the Qld health response smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QL… – at Brisbane, Queensland
14
1
19
For the seq geeks: we are seeing a rise in calls of orf1ab:F5086Y / ORF1b:F685Y (&some other mutations - orf1ab:V2857A) this seems to be related to the rollout of ARTIC V4, and to be an artefact. Mostly posting this so people who search for those mutation strings find this info)
3
17
1
53
Of 388 complete genomes already sequenced in this Delta outbreak, we have: *Around 80 distinct genomes *221 genetically indistinguishable *56 single nucleotide variations Context here from @phydyn @Jemma_Geoghegan @Joepdl @hamesjadfield & Jordan Douglas nzherald.co.nz/nz/coronaviru…
2
19
5
63
Want to learn how to use R to make nice phylogenetic trees? Want to use programming to conditionally annotate a tree with thousands of tips? Check out my workshop! github.com/agmcfarland/r_phy…

GitHub - agmcfarland/r_phylogenetics_worshop: Using ggtree to build phylogenetic trees

Using ggtree to build phylogenetic trees. Contribute to agmcfarland/r_phylogenetics_worshop development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com
4
130
7
507
Load more