Management consultant & founder of things. Genetics PhD. Cares about privacy & AI. Generally snarky & sarcastic. Regularly fails captcha.
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Tomorrow! Noon EDT! Join us to chat ChatGPT & Other AI Tools for SEO with @pierrefar #vcbuzz viralcontentbee.com/index.ph…
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We measured immunity against the #Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants by people infected with the original (BA.1) Omicron sub-lineage. Results consistent with these variants forming next infection wave.
Manuscript submitted to medRxiv and available here:
sigallab.net/
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SCOOP: Leaked internal document claims Facebook:
- Has no idea how much data it ultimately collects on its users
- Cannot control where all that data goes internally
- Ultimately does not know what happens with it
vice.com/en/article/akvmke/f…
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New blog post: blog.appcensus.io/2022/04/06…
We discovered a spyware SDK that collects various identifiers, the contents of the clipboard, scans home networks to identify devices, as well as hashes of files on the user’s phone.
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The thing that matters for the #OnlineSafetyBill is not the label, but what’s inside the tin. Is it a can of worms? Read and decide. cyberleagle.com/2022/03/mapp…
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Exclusive: Who's behind QAnon?
Computer scientists say they have identified two men as its likely authors — including one of the first online commentators to call attention to the messages that shaped the viral movement. nyti.ms/36rmLJa
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Here’s a shitty map I made to show how many years you’d have to go without Netflix to afford the average price house in each UK region.
Shout out Kirsty Allsopp (and GOV uk for the data)🤙
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If you only take three points from this thread, they should be:
1) The case definition is moving from person-level to episode of infection-level
2) This affects surveillance processes & outputs, increasing the case numbers
3) Subsequent episodes are a proxy for reinfections
2/
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*The Episodes Thread 🧵*
@UKHSA is changing the Covid-19 case definition today, meaning our published figures are changing too. Here is a run down of the key points on the changes, what they mean for those interpreting them, and some other bits
1/
coronavirus.data.gov.uk/deta…
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I like this paper, one-in-a-series, on going further + further of pushing additive common genetics on the one of the simplest phenotypes to measure - height - lead by Loic Yengo (UQ), Sailaja Vedantam (Harvard/Broad) + Eirini Marouli (Queen Mary's)
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Preprint on Omicron updated with further findings. Firstly, we see that the spike has altered its preference for the receptors it uses. SARS CoV-2 entry into a cell can occur via two routes: one that only needs ACE2 and another that needs ACE2 and TMPRSS2. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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💡WOW—a cheap generic anti-depressant Fluvoxamine that costs just $4 reduced #COVID19 hospitalizations risk by ~30%… or from 16% in placebo to 11% in drug group. It even reduced mortality by 91%! #Fluvoxamine 🧵
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I've meaning to write a "COVID endgame" thread for a while and I apologize this is somewhat delayed compared to media interviews like science.org/content/article/… and statnews.com/2021/09/20/wint… and to recent seminars like youtube.com/watch?v=VErVD_H1…. 1/17
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Just reading the important @CommonsHealth report - lots of interest in there, but one thing hit me immediately... they write "covid-19"
In my writing/pleadings I have shifted from "COVID-19" to "Covid-19", even sometimes "Covid"... but this seems new
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Today's thread is about normalizing asking more experienced folks whether or not the thing you're facing from your new / prospective employer is actually normal. It's geared at new entrants to the workforce / tech.
And now, "Lies This Industry Told Me."
Gather round...
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NEW from me: We asked folks to identify Iran on an unlabeled map.
28% of them got it right. Here's where they guessed. morningconsult.com/2020/01/0…
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If you were wondering about the situation in hospitals in England for children with #COVID19 or RSV, it looks like this 👇
gov.uk/government/statistics…
