Steve Schaffner @[email protected]

Population genetics, infectious disease, and sometimes beagles

[Steve Schaffner @[email protected] @glipsnort]

@baym @ClementYChow I've been stopped in the last couple of years for not having my little tube of toothpaste out in the ziplock bag.

[Steve Schaffner @[email protected] @glipsnort]

@dileeplearning @DrYohanJohn @WiringTheBrain You mean, why would anyone want to do science?

[Steve Schaffner @[email protected] @glipsnort]

@baym Do you have one from a Windows phone?

[Steve Schaffner @[email protected] @glipsnort]

@vsbuffalo Or, if your banker's uncertainty is wrong, you go broke. If you're the bank, you get bailed out by the government.

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@ksamuk @ZaminIqbal Thanks for advertising this. I ran into this last year and it's infuriating. Why they still claim to be outputting VCFs is baffling.

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@EdHoopman @LogosMMXX @BajaGorgeGirl @celinegounder @Laurie_Garrett The last studies I've seen have been quite convincing that rebound is more common after paxlovid. It absolutely should still be prescribed more, however.

[Steve Schaffner @[email protected] @glipsnort]

@johnbind2 @DegenRolf I think you just got it

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@jcgallaher @RNSuperHero I probably shouldn't have read this 12 hours after hernia surgery.

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@vsbuffalo I don't think you need any actual training in philosophy to recognize that as nonsense, besides being wildly inaccurate as a summary of the field.

[Steve Schaffner @[email protected] @glipsnort]

@baym It should be enshrined right next to 'This is our fucking city'.

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@NeightFSU @oliver_drk @nypost No, the Chinese could not have engineered the virus to protect their own. (Not to mention that their own weren't in fact protected.) In terms of human genetics, this is complete nonsense

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@CentristAllWay @AlsoWonderWoman @lucky_number9_ @oliver_drk @nypost The virus has changed its binding to ACE2 repeatedly - it's the receptor binding domain that keeps changing between variants. There turn out to be many human variants that carry risk of disease, all populations have some, and the Chinese have shown no special immunity.

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@loco_qf @WiringTheBrain I had one last night. I was using my phone to take video of the weird array of animals that had wandered into the room when I remembered that there is some kind of blob on the lens (which there is)

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@sluntz @PGeldsetzer1 @guardian Over 80, not over 70

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@ProfRobHoward @erikacule @Foreman1David @Rational_Psych @PGeldsetzer1 @guardian And yet you're willing to criticize the study publicly without having read beyond the abstract or understood the study design

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@JonathanMTweet @aylwyn_scally The common ancestor of mammals split into two branches. The issue is, which later animals come from those two branches. According to this study, one branch leads to comb jellies and the other to all other animals.

[Steve Schaffner @[email protected] @glipsnort]

@JonathanMTweet @aylwyn_scally No. All living animals have been evolving for exactly the same length of time since the 1st animal. Some lineages do accumulate mutations faster, but that's not what's meant here. (By that measure, humans are closer to that first animal than mice, say.)

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@smerdon_bonnie @yougotvitchard @ICeeCoo @ClaraJeffery @propublica No, you have to review the judicial rules to determine whether the judicial rules have been violated. You just have to be paying attention to know that something wrong occurred.

[Steve Schaffner @[email protected] @glipsnort]

@drugmonkeyblog There's a distribution. Some I've been an author on are probably in the 1000+ bucket while for others 10-20 is wildly optimistic.

[Steve Schaffner @[email protected] @glipsnort]

@baym I had one but it was only visible to those who were worthy.