G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿

Computational biologist & science writer. See pinned thread.
New Zealander, traveller, cyclist.
Joined 2009.
NotJustDNA in other forums. New website coming.

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

Science writer and computational biologist.
Available internationally for comp. biology, writing, editing.
Enquiries welcome: DM me, or email nzibis (gmail).

RTs ≠ endorsements. Opinions are my own.

Currently I'm in New Zealand🇳🇿 (Previously in SE Asia and Europe.)

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[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@raemisa @nzfirst Yes, their repeating the lie won’t turn it into a truth.

It is a populist political tactic, though: try make lies take hold through sheer repetition.

It’s doubly silly as it’s said clearly in the WHO agreements. People only need to read that for themselves to see it’s nonsense.

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@actparty More ACT twisted logic, saying they’re creating equality while making inequitable policy, now ‘making democratic’ while shutting out voices

PS: Voting on reviews, advice, policy, etc. isn’t voting for the motion, as council members do

PPS: List MPs "haven’t faced the voters" 😉

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@JosephMooneyMP Don’t claim it benefits all.

Trickle-down theory & that claim is widely regarded as one of the greatest lies of politicians -
https://t.co/oHWrpJGz20

In reality, overall benefits accrue upwards, and without balancing measures those at the bottom end up exploited.

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@SimeonBrownMP Your party keeps lying about this ⬇️

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@actparty “Fewer, larger silos will not deliver that [better public service]. Fixing the incentive structures that make the current departmental silos so defended and self-serving just might.”

https://t.co/pJNDq1ftDy

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@irisshackleton IME the side with the marketing branding is usually "up" – marketing like others to see it!

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@DeepImpcat @mattwridley Also: while some viruses have narrow host ranges others have wide host ranges, e.g. a spillover to, say, racoon dogs also infectious to many other mammalian species. SARS-CoV-2 was infectious to e.g. mink (35-55% mortality), cats, hamsters, primates, etc. No need to invoke a lab.

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@PeterSweden7 Bundibugyo ebolavirus species (not strain) has been known since 2007 from an outbreak in Uganda (tested by US CDC!), & has been a NIH/NIAID Category A Priority Pathogen since 2010. It was also in outbreak in 2012
Vaccine developers target priority pathogens, as you’d hope them to

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@SimeonBrownMP Pot, kettle…

Your party didn’t disclose any sort of "detail" until quite late.

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@SimeonBrownMP False comparison
Tech bros is code-speak for people running massive international companies, Bezos, Musk, etc.
Labour’s Future Fund is explicitly for NZ businesses, and to not sell NZ assets to overseas interests as your lot do.
It does not compete against supporting schools, etc

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

The outbreak of #Ebola #Bundibugyo is now the 3rd largest on record. The #WHO country rep in DRC, Anne Ancia, told the World Health Assembly today that the suspected case count is now over 500, with 130 suspected deaths.
This will be hugely difficult to contain. https://t.co/PYNvDDY2ZJ

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@mangonui08 Um, it’s your coalition that made them doubt whether they have a future in NZ eh.

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@NZNationalParty Campaign *for* your own policies.

When you tell straight-out lies, you have nothing on your side but lies.

(Labour has pointed out what’s not taxed for a long time now ⬇️ We are relatively wealthy nation, and *can* spend, wisely; the austerity is *your choice*, not "needed".)

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@AislingOLoughl1 @tjmcgibnxy @paddyearly Well you’re a terrible example then. Haven’t bothered to check out the actual condition, or what is known about it. Look up cardiomyopathies, and try be an actual journalist.

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@AislingOLoughl1 @tjmcgibnxy @paddyearly C’mon, it’s even explained in reply to you: https://t.co/WY0IXuoQjn

Cardiomyopathies are well-known, and classically are 'revealed' in young athletes. They’re genetic conditions.

[Tenebra99 💙💛 @tenebra99]

@AislingOLoughl1 For those people who are actually interested to learn about the genetic condition this young man died of, Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy, here's a thread about it.
https://t.co/kDiMjR9Bxp

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@actparty Say, hasn’t your coalition’s ferry debacle cost NZ nearer a billion?

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@Lou_vs_ME @CovidSafeNZ Taiwan have a good reputation, e.g. they faced SARS1 & had a strong role in resolving what was happening then.

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@NZNationalParty Straight-out lies with that last. With family house, etc., excluded—as Labour have pointed out for quite a while—it’ll only affect wealthy investors.

(The first isn’t quite right either. Twisting the meaning. They _preferred_ other approaches.)

[G Jacobs (NotJustDNA on other sites)🧬🔬💻✍️📚🇳🇿 @BioinfoTools]

@nzfirst Ah, I see. Declaring yourself as the party of no principles.

That would be right…