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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference - Nature Methods BEAST X advances Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic analysis by incorporating a broad range of complex models and leveraging advanced algorithms and techniques to boost statistical inference.

BEAST X accelerates Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic inference with enhanced scalability and geo spread modeling.
#BEASTX #Phylodynamics #VirusEvolution
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Congrats to our #PhD student Sandra! She shared her discovery of conserved #RNA #secondarystructure features in the #Pestivirus family using a full genome alignment method at the #GfV2025 with an informative #poster

📢 Fresh paper alert!
🧊 Tom wrote a Python framework called sugar, which aims to facilitate rapid application development in bioinformatics.
📖 Check it out here: joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
#python #bioinformatics

The quantum quest reveals story-telling and imagination Inspiring kids to understand quantum mechanics relies on imaginative story-telling, if the recent "Cosmos Quantum Quest" is anything to go on.

Results in…how do you teach kids about Quantum? #physicssky #quantumsky 🧪 cosmosmagazine.com/science/phys...

Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip Chip takes minutes to complete tasks that would otherwise take 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years It measures just 4cm squared but it possesses almost inconceivable speed. Google has built a computing chip that takes just five minutes to complete…

Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip

About Time!

Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology Market: Industry Insights and Future Trends The Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (INAAT) market is poised for remarkable growth as the demand for efficient, cost-effective, and rapid nucleic acid testing escalates. This technology, which enables the amplification of nucleic acids under constant temperature conditions, has transformed molecular diagnostics by providing an alternative to the traditional PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction). INAAT's ability to offer fast, reliable results without the need for expensive thermal cyclers makes it an attractive option for a variety of applications, from clinical diagnostics to food safety and environmental monitoring.

Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology Market: Industry Insights and Future Trends

The Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (INAAT) market is poised for remarkable growth as the demand for efficient, cost-effective, and rapid nucleic acid testing escalates. This technology,…

Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (INAAT) Global Info Research announces the release of the report 'Global Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (INAAT) Market 2025

Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (INAAT)

https://www.europesays.com/1957311/

Global Info Research announces the release of the report “Global Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (INAAT) Market 2025…

Tequila before lunch today at #RNAcanadaARN
That's Lab Lin's Targeted Enrichment and Quantification Using Isothermal Linear Amplification, a long read hybridization capture protocol that is 100x cheaper than classical solutions. ¡Arriba!🧂🥃🍋🪇

A novel isothermal amplification diagnostic test for detecting Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi directly in raw milk https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.25324623v1

rooster, chicken, and chicks

Cambodia reports fifth human HPAI (H5N1) fatality in 2025, in a 52-year-old man with exposure to sick chickens
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Cambodia logs fifth death from H5N1 avian flu as USDA weighs poultry vaccination

Cambodia logs fifth death from H5N1 avian flu as USDA weighs poultry vaccination. It is not yet known which strain of H5N1 was involved in the latest Cambodian case.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

The Future of Molecular Diagnostic Testing Will Depend on TREs If your company has years worth of rich patient assay data and/or has a line of sight to generating large amounts of assay data, it is in a unique position to leverage that growing trove of omics real...

Learn how diagnostics organizations can leverage their datasets to participate in the exploding #omics market, demonstrate real-world impact with outcomes data, & work with healthcare providers to get more from their own patients' data.

Read now: blog.dnanexus.com/the-future-o...

Clinical Bioinformatician Body of Knowledge—Bioinformatics and Software Core With the evolution of next-generation sequencing–based testing in molecular diagnostics laboratories, the clinical role of bioinformaticians has also evolved. The Association for Molecular Pathology's...

#ArticleinPress: Clinical Bioinformatician Body of Knowledge—Bioinformatics and Software Core: A Report of the
@ampath.bsky.social.

Read for free: www.jmdjournal.org/article/S152...

Happening TODAY at 12:00pm AEST! Join Prof Min-Suk Song’s seminar on a breakthrough capless self-amplifying RNA platform transforming vaccine development. Don’t miss it! 🧬 ow.ly/w4Jv50VNjyA

Can an essential oil injected in-ova improve the health of broiler chickens? Promising research from Dr Mila Meijer at the University of Queensland suggests it could activate immunity. Read about it via the link below:

bit.ly/4jTihfc
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Academic Abuse | Understanding & Combating Academic Misconduct Your hub for understanding, exposing, and addressing academic abuse. Access data dashboards, read survivor stories, and join the fight for change in higher education.

Academic abuse happens in classrooms, labs, studios, and behind closed doors. It happens quietly. Repeatedly. Systemically. But it doesn’t have to stay hidden.

✏️ Submit a tip at: buff.ly/RDoArVa

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For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

About | ComplexHeatmap Complete Reference Complex heatmaps are efficient to visualize associations between different sources of data sets and reveal potential patterns. Here the ComplexHeatmap R package provides a highly flexible way to arrange multiple heatmaps and supports various annotation graphics. This book is the complete reference to ComplexHeatmap pacakge.

I learned so much from Zuguang Gu, thanks for his awesome Complexheatmap package jokergoo.github.io/ComplexHeat... . it is my go-to tool for making heatmaps.

Making a heatmap is an essential skill for a bioinformatician. But you probably do not understand heatmap. 7 reading resources to understand heatmap! 🧵

Down a Rabbit Hole with ARIMA Models – R Works This post describes a chance encounter with a time series data set for which the forecast and fable packages found different ARIMA models that don’t look much alike, but produce surprisingly close for...

Fall down an ARIMA model rabbit hole with @revojoe.bsky.social and explore a time series where forecast::auto.arima() and fable::ARIMA() chose very different models but gave nearly identical forecasts.

A good case study in identifiability! #RStats

rworks.dev/posts/arima-...

Data extracted on 7 April 2025 COVID-19 81 people were in hospital with COVID-19, 13 (16%) were aged 65–74 years and 51 (63%) were 75 years or more. 502 people diagnosed in the last week, 63 (13%) were aged 65–74 years and 121 (24%) were 75 years or more. Influenza 94 people were in hospital with Influenza, 62 (66%) were aged 65 years and above. 1594 people diagnosed in the last week, 377 (24%) were aged 65 years or more. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) 57 people were in hospital with RSV, one (2%) was under 6 months of age and 16 (28%) were aged between 6 months to less than 2 years. 852 people diagnosed in the last week, 25 (3%) were aged under 6 months and 217 (25%) were between 6 months to under 2 years.

Queensland respiratory surveillance report: 2 Apr to 8 Apr 2025

Reported cases:

🔹COVID: 502 (-2.7%)
🔹Influenza: 1,594 (+41.3%)
🔹RSV: 852 (+27.3%)

Hospitalisations:

🔸COVID: 81 (-13.8%)
🔸Influenza: 94 (+25.3%)
🔸RSV: 57 (54.0%)

Source: www.health.qld.gov.au/clinical-pra...

dear machine learners,

“hallucination” are not “incorrect facts”. try “incorrect statements”, “lies” or “made up bs” instead. the very idea of an “incorrect fact” is an oxymoron and intellectually deceptive

thank you!

Thank you to Vince Young for this beautiful highlight of our early work developing an mRNA vaccine for C. difficile (Original paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)

Sunrise in Australia 🦘

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Deadly avian flu strain is spreading rapidly in Antarctica Expedition finds H5N1 in 13 bird and seal species on the Antarctic Peninsula

The #birdflu strain is spreading rapidly in Antarctica. An expedition found bird flu in 13 bird and seal species on the Antarctic Peninsula.
www.science.org/content/arti...

Certified Reposter! 😄

New #tidyplots use cases 🔥

The plot gallery from the tidyplots paper is now available, complete with data and code.

tidyplots.org/use-cases/

#rstats #dataviz #phd

Cann's Principles of Molecular Virology **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Microbiology**Cann's Principles of Molecular Virology, Seventh Edition provides an easily access...

"Cann's Principles of Molecular Virology 7th Edition revised extensively by Ed Rybicki, is an easily accessible introduction to modern virology, presenting principles in a clear and concise manner."

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Microbiology**
www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128...