Steven Salzberg
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of BME, CS, and Biostats at Johns Hopkins University, tennis player, blogger at Forbes: forbes.com/sites/stevensa…
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Op-Ed: Pseudo-expertise should not guide America’s response to COVID-19
Dr. Scott Atlas, Trump's new coronavirus advisor, isn't an epidemiologist. His former Stanford colleagues say he's giving bad advice.
The Bad Scientist On The White House Covid-19 Task Force
The newest advisor on the US coronavirus task force is giving out very, very bad advice.
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Steven Salzberg
would you ask a virologist to read your MRI? If not, then why trust a radiologist to advise the country on #COVID19?
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New Visas Limits Would Be a Self-Inflicted Wound for the U.S.
The Trump administration wants to make it harder for foreign students, exchange visitors and journalists.
Steven Salzberg
Another incredibly stupid move by Trump and his xenophobic sycophants: new limits on student visas, even though "international students contributed $41 billion to the economy and supported almost half a million jobs in the 2018-2019 academic year"
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Explore The Ways Trump Or Biden Could Win The Election
Choose whether President Trump or Joe Biden will win each state in the 2020 presidential election and we’ll recalculate whether they have a path to 270 electoral votes and what their chance is of winning the Electoral College.
Steven Salzberg
Election numbers from @FiveThirtyEight's interactive map: if Biden wins Florida, NC, or Pennsylvania–just one of them–then his odds of winning increase to >99%, 99%, or 97% respectively
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James Randi, Magician Who Debunked Paranormal Claims, Dies at 92
Known professionally as the Amazing Randi, he dedicated his life to exposing seers who did not see, healers who did not heal and many others.
Steven Salzberg
really nice tribute to James "the Amazing" Randi in the @nytimes. Does anyone else see Gandalf in this photo?
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Statement on the Death of James Randi | Center for Inquiry
James Randi at the Center for Inquiry's CSICon 2018 conference. Photo by Brian Engler. We at the Center for Inquiry are heartbroken over the death of James Randi, who died on October 20 at the age of 92. Randi helped found the Committee for...
Steven Salzberg
Sad news: the Amazing Randi was one of the 20th century's most effective voices for science and reason against frauds and charlatans. He started as a magician, and later became a leader in the skeptical movement centerforinquiry.org/press_releases… via @center4inquiry
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CNN exclusive: Fauci says he was taken out of context in new Trump campaign ad touting coronavirus response
Dr. Anthony Fauci did not consent to being featured in a new advertisement from the Trump campaign touting President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the nation's leading infectious disease expert told CNN his words were...
Steven Salzberg
tough being #AnthonyFauci these days, but I'm glad to see him pushing back against this shameless attempt by Trump to claim that Fauci supports him
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Can Covid-19 Cause Brain Damage?
A certain very famous politician came down with Covid-19 recently, and has been acting even more erratically than usual. Does the virus explain his behavior?
Iga Swiatek Steamrolls Sofia Kenin to Win the French Open
Swiatek became the first player from Poland to win a Grand Slam singles title. She did it without losing a set at Roland Garros, and no more than five games in any match.
Steven Salzberg
Some good news for a change: a remarkable sweep of all sets in every match by new tennis star @iga_swiatek, winning the French Open as an unseeded player
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AshkenaziGenome - Overview
AshkenaziGenome has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Steven Salzberg
we just released version 2.0 of our Ashkenazi genome at github.com/AshkenaziGenome, improving both the assembly and annotation of the one we published in June. Kudos @AlekseyZimin5 and @alaina_shumate, and thanks to @lh3lh3 whose assemblies we relied on genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
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Chromosome-Scale Assembly of the Bread Wheat Genome Reveals Thousands of Additional Gene Copies
Bread wheat ( Triticum aestivum) is a major food crop and an important plant system for agricultural genetics research. However, due to the complexity and size of its allohexaploid genome, genomic resources are limited compared to other major crops....
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Steven Salzberg
Our bread wheat genome is on the cover of @GeneticsGSA today. If you're curious about this colorful image showing 1000s of extra genes we found, check out the paper at genetics.org/content/216/2/…, co-first authored by @malonge11 and @alaina_shumate pic.twitter.com/p9w4m8ONdb
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Osteopathic Physicians Versus Doctors
Osteopaths, or doctors of osteopathy, claim to be a separate but equal branch of medical care in the United States. Is this true?
Why Are The Covid-19 Vaccine Trials Taking So Long?
The whole world is waiting for a Covid-19 vaccine. Why does it take so many months to get results we can trust? Short answer: we just can't speed this up.
Steven Salzberg
We can't rush the Phase 3 trials, despite the tremendous political pressure to do so.
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Rapid detection of inter-clade recombination in SARS-CoV-2 with Bolotie
The ability to detect recombination in pathogen genomes is crucial to the accuracy of phylogenetic analysis and consequently to forecasting the spread of infectious diseases and to developing therapeutics and public health policies. However,...
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Steven Salzberg
New @biorxivpreprint paper from Ales Varabyou, @pocki91, and @elapertea describes an elegant, efficient way to find recombinant #COVID19 viruses from >85,000 genomes. We found 225 potential recombinants, some appearing in multiple patients
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A Method for Sexing the Sulphurous Lady Beetle, Cheilomenes sulphurea (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Determining the sex of adult coccinellids can be difficult, as no single external trait exists across the clade to differentiate males and females. Many species can only be sexed based on dissection or behavioral observation, but even the latter can...
Did The Russians Fabricate Data About Their Covid-19 Vaccine Trial?
Last week, a group of Russian scientists published the results of two phase 1/2 vaccine trials for a new Covid-19 vaccine. Soon after the paper appeared, other scientists raised serious questions about the integrity of the data.
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Steven Salzberg
I'd have more trust in the Russian vaccine if their new paper in @thelancet didn't appear to have duplicated data
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Balrog: A universal protein model for prokaryotic gene prediction
Low-cost, high-throughput sequencing has led to an enormous increase in the number of sequenced microbial genomes, with well over 100,000 genomes in public archives today. Automatic genome annotation tools are integral to understanding these...
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Steven Salzberg
Bacterial gene finding takes a new direction with a highly-accurate, universal gene finder called Balrog, from my PhD student @markusjsommer, just out on bioRxiv
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How Trump’s Billion-Dollar Campaign Lost Its Cash Advantage
Five months ago, President Trump’s re-election campaign had a huge financial edge over Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s. The Times conducted an extensive review of how the Trump team spent lavishly to show how that advantage evaporated.
Benchmarking state-of-the-art secondary variant calling pipelines
Yih-Chii Hwang, PhD, Jason Chin
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Steven Salzberg
@marianattestad OTOH, looking at recent results from an independent test by @infoecho, DeepVariant seems to be very competitive with, or better than, most other variant callers
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