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CRAN: Package vcfheader Streams and parses variant call format file headers without reading full files. Provides structured metadata, validation, inference, and HTML reporting. For details on the specifications used see Danecek et al. (2021) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fgigascience%2Fgiab008" target="_top">doi:10.1093/gigascience/giab008</a>&gt;.

New CRAN package vcfheader with initial version 0.1.0
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=vcfheader

Neither Metformin nor Ursodeoxycholic Acid Effectively Treats Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0 Background: There is no proven treatment to alleviate symptoms of postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), despite its substantial public health burden. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy o...

Study: Neither Metformin nor Ursodeoxycholic Acid Effectively Treats Postacute Sequelae of COVID-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Published: 3 March 2026

www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

MeidasTouch is just Fox News for the left - a grifting, half-baked, hyperventilating bullshit factory that spoon feeds an audience exactly what they want to politically hear.

Why are any of you people in my feed watching this crud?

Sadly the Harmful Algal Bloom off South Australia may have had a little boost with the recent rain and heat. Satellite images from 5 March. The red areas indicate Chlorophyll A which is what the algae produce, and the second image is the real colour you can see from space
go.nasa.gov/3PjpGKc

The Curious Case of the Disappearing Data Last night I tried to access a dataset I’ve used many times before.

A good documentation of COVID history preserving data for posterity before it is vanished substack.com/home/post/p-...

🧵 Today’s news: Proton turned over payment info for a Stop Cop City account. Not good — it's state repression in action.

Controversial opinion: We don't think this means all activists should abandon Proton for docs/email.

It depends on your threat model. Let's explore.

(Long thread incoming 👇)

Dr Scott Burchill has been able to pluck through the propaganda about the illegal war on Iran and joins @boganintelpod.bsky.social to discuss the worrying development in West Asia that looks to have an impact on Australia moving forward.

Full episode in comments 👇

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and risk of substance use disorders among US veterans with type 2 diabetes: cohort study Objectives To investigate whether initiation of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists is associated with both reduced risks of incident alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, nicotine, opioid, and ot...

New in the BMJ: Our study of 600,000 people found GLP-1 drugs associated with 50% fewer substance-related deaths, 39% fewer overdoses, and reduced addiction risk across alcohol, opioids, cocaine, cannabis, and nicotine.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

He's the nephew of the AG in the NT. He got home detention for killing a man with his car on purpose then bragging about it and seriously injuring another man. They were both Aboriginal and it was a hate crime.

Want to check your ancient DNA study for chromosomal aneuploidies? RChASM is now available for R, to screen for autosomal and sex chromosomal aneuploidies, such as Down syndrome on data from 0.0014X coverage.

We also wrote a step-by-step tutorial with examples:
jonotuke.github.io/RChASM/artic...

Safe Work Australia has published a Code of Conduct which mentions a duty to ensure safe indoor air: www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/doc/model-co...
I have posted my summary of the many weaknesses and a tiny glimmer of hope here: petervogel.legal/rubyprincess...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Thanks for posting all this. The discussion was so far beyond what any current Australian university could even comprehend.

Which is in itself utterly devastating.

#ChrisSidodi at the Norwood town hall talk about settler colonialism says #ANU and #AdelaideUni tried to shut down the talk and silence the three distinguished academics.

Earlier Wilson said the VC at Adelaide personally removed access to #ElderHall.

Settled colonialism is inherently genocidal.

#Lana says it's wonderful to see a full house after #AdelaideUni tried to silence them.

It is shameful to see our unis fail to uphold their cire mission to create spaces for intellectual debate.

We are in stolen land.

Settler colonialism in ...

Have just returned home from this event and can confirm the discussion was of the highest quality and full of hope for a more just world.

Aboriginal Australians were very much centred and the importance of truth telling was a key take home message, especially as we chart our course as a nation.

Do obesity drugs treat addiction? Huge study hints at their promise Study of 600,000 US military veterans shows that those who took anti-obesity medications were less likely to develop some complications of substance-use disorders.

GLP-1 medications might help people avoid becoming addicted to drugs, including alcohol, cocaine, and opioids

go.nature.com/3N5l49Z

I didn&#39;t want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred…... I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred paym...

If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you

A world map showing the countries that have reported a case of polio within the last year. They are: AFRICA 1. Algeria 2. Angola 3. Benin 4. Burkina Faso 5. Cameroon 6. Central African Republic 7. Chad 8. Côte d'Ivoire 9. Dem. Rep. of the Congo 10. Ethiopia 11. Ghana 12. Guinea 13. Niger 14. Nigeria 15. Senegal 16. Somalia 17. South Sudan 18. Sudan 19. Tanzania 20. Zimbabwe EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 21. Afghanistan 22. Djibouti 23. Pakistan 24. Gaza 25. Israel 26. Yemen 28) 3 EUROPE 27. Finland 28. Germany 29. Poland 30. Spain 31. United Kingdom WESTERN PACIFIC 32. Papua New Guinea

The CDC has just issued a Travel Health Notice specifically related to polio popping up in about 30 countries.

They recommend making sure you’re up to date on your vaccinations, and if you are traveling to one of the countries in red, you should consider a booster.

wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notic...

Yes, but only if immediately followed by 6, 8 or 10.

I mean lets face it, they literally think they're dropping the Holy Grenade of Antioch

this all started with 'reporting covid deaths makes trump look bad'.

What happens if the explanatory and response variables are sorted independently before regression? Suppose we have data set $(X_i,Y_i)$ with $n$ points. We want to perform a linear regression, but first we sort the $X_i$ values and the $Y_i$ values independently of each other, forming data set $...

For those who haven't yet seen this classic: stats.stackexchange.com/q/185507/2126 (someone whose manager was insisting that they do this ...)

OMFG 😱

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

I mean it’s not like we can let a United Nations Special Rapporteur just rock up to a university! And give a speech about international law! It will be anarchy. Where will it end? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#BREAKING | Israeli and U.S. warplanes are carpet bombing the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

My first science video in 3 years How is it possible that this photo was taken at night?! Support Dianna and the Physics Girl team at patreon.com/physicsgirl http://physicsgirl.org/…

Wonderful to see Dianna Cowern's @thephysicsgirl.bsky.social first video up after 3 years.

Sending all our best and that she is able to continue 🙏

There have been suggestions internally that it was because the US have sanctioned her. Which, if true, would make Adelaide the first Australian University to bend the knee to Trump

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Uni criticised for reneging on hosting writers' week replacement event A panel discussion, as part of the replacement Adelaide Writers' Week, says it was forced to change its location after Adelaide University reneged on hosting the event at Elder Hall due to "health and safety" concerns.

A panel discussion, as part of the replacement Adelaide Writers' Week, says it was forced to change its location after Adelaide University reneged on hosting the event at Elder Hall due to "health and safety" concerns.