Phil Grass 

Doing stuff badly since 1965, 48%er, Parent, Hausmann, ex-IT ProjMgr, Gin tester, 🧬Genealogist.
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[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

I'm now, rather reluctantly, also on Mastadon as @[email protected] . At the moment I'm not leaving Twitter as much as I hate the current direction I find Twitter as the best source of intelligent news and commentry for folks I respect.

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

🚨NEW blog post 🚨. I wrote some thoughts on the #WGS announcement from #MyHeritage, it's imaginatively titled "Some Thoughts on the Whole Genome Sequencing announcement from MyHeritage". I'd welcome any feedback.

https://t.co/VWVj3NxPQt

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

@DebbieKennett Yes, I saw Göran's post . Must admit the new Scientific Details report within "Discover Hg reports" really helped me.

Some positions of mtDNA mutate at quite high rates, so you can't really think the mtDNA haplotree is a set of "only once" events.

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

Woohoo 🎉

Great to see that the new full-sequence mtDNA haplotree results are coming through at #FamilyTreeDNA.

mtDNA was always the Ugly Ducking of full-sequence testing compared to yDNA. I was previously just I2.

Now upgraded Hg and moved tmrca c. 2,700 yrs forward.

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

Note. It's really worth looking at the Scientific Details (Variants) page of Discover. Some bases appear to mutate at a high rate, so have very low Weight. This may explain why you have/had some slightly confusing results (like "Missing Mutations")

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

I’m guessing here, BUT I think the answer is “Our ancestors died for the lack of decent health care” 🤷‍♂️

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

Typically German. No one wants a late night, so we’re closing at 8. Also no need to answer any work-related emails outside office hours 😀

[Get German Football News @GGFN_]

🧵| German football transfer deadline day

The window in Germany closes at 20:00 CET, this thread will provide an update on each major move that could or has happened today.

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

While it’s good that Assad has been deposed in Syria, it is disappointing that the new leader does not treat a woman the same as a man.

[Theresa Fallon @TheresaAFallon]

👀Finland/Estonian undersea cable has been cut on Christmas. The Estlink Two is 1 of 2 cables connecting the Baltic power grid to Finland.🇨🇳ship Xin Xin Tiang crossed the cable at noon local time. This is the third time that a Chinese ship is suspected of involvement in cable cut

[Michael Glasper @MichaelCGlasper]

"I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age."

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

I cannot imagine why l got this tweet from this annoying windbag as a Twitter notification 😂😂😂

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

@DebbieKennett @23andMe I’m not so sure. They burned through $89m in the last six months and the stock price would be 15.6¢ per share if they hadn’t had the “reverse stock split”

TBH It seems really hard to make money from genetics,UK-based Oxford Nanopore have also lost c.80% since launch day highs.

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

Today I was painting in the Kitchen whilst listening to @RoryStewartUK and @campbellclaret on the @RestIsPolitics.

TBH It felt like an #EchoChamber 😂

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

Possibly need an Oxford Comma here 😀🤷‍♂️

[Eintracht Frankfurt @eintrachtint]

Congratulations, Robin! 👏

Robin #Koch is in the Germany squad to face Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary.

#SGE

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

Looks like the Ampel coalition has fallen 🚥

[Nina Haase-Trobridge 🇪🇺 @NinaHaase]

Waiting for statement by German chancellor Olaf Scholz on his decision to sack his finance minister Christian Lindner tonight.

This is the beginning of the end of Germany’s three-way coalition.

What a day to break up the German government. #USElection2024

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

Today might be a good day to come over to the Blue 🦋 side. It’s much more interactive than X and you don’t get notifications that some random weirdo has posted.

Find me at https://t.co/KxZcIHkHDu

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

As if today wasn't bad enough the Independent is pushing the Graham Hancock view of history🤦‍♂️

https://t.co/NefnDgx1Bx

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

Maybe I’m paranoid, but #X insists I have a new notification when there isn’t one and never clears. 🤷‍♂️

[FBI @FBI]

The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far. https://t.co/j3YfajVK1m

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

This doesn’t seem good 🫨

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Elon Musk plans to spend election night with Donald Trump, giving the former president direct access to the person controlling X, a key information platform, on what could be a chaotic evening. https://t.co/4LDaZcnFnl

[Phil Grass  @phil_grass]

This is the type of pedantic grammar-checking I’m here for 👏👏👏

[Peter Ricketts @LordRickettsP]

Hang on. ‘You can’t underestimate the damage this chaos did to our growth and standing with investors’. That means however small your estimate of the damage, the reality is that it will be even smaller. Perhaps he meant ‘You should not underestimate? OK I’m a pedant, but still..