@explodecomputer

Statistical geneticist at the MRC IEU. My own opinions here only.

 Bristol, England
explodecomputer.com
Joined April 2010
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1. A short thread on the Sibling GWAS preprint now on bioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.05.4…
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Our paper on COVID-19 transmission in Universities is on medRxiv @Christensen_H @leondanon @emjnixon @katymeturner @amyc_thomas @adamhfinn @HPRU_BSE
medRxiv@medrxivpreprint
11 Sep 2020
High COVID-19 transmission potential associated with re-opening universities can be mitigated with layered interventions medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #medRxiv
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Our rapid review of modelling studies looking at how to stop the spread of #SARS_CoV_2 in universities is available now #medRxiv preprint (not yet peer-reviewed) @HPRU_BSE @BristolUncover #coronavirus medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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MRC IEU@mrc_ieu
27 Aug 2020
epigraphdb.org: a freely available integrated database and #DataMining mining platform for health data science. What more could you want! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @yiliu @elswob @pauerola @ValHaberland @explodecomputer @matt_s_lyon @oldz84 @tomrgaunt
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Genetic drift from the out-of-Africa bottleneck leads to biased estimation of genetic architecture and selection biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_genetic
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OpenGWAS@OpenGwas
17 Aug 2020
We built the OpenGWAS resource to be a free and open platform to support work on GWAS summary data. Much of it is based on extensive feedback on @mrbase2 from both internal and external colleagues. Paper here: bit.ly/2DRbHGT, key points below:
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NatureEcoEvo@NatureEcoEvo
13 Dec 2016
Anne Chao makes a pre-conference pilgrimage to meet her hero, Alan Turing #BES2016
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Anne Chao is a giant in the field of eco-statistics. What an honor to hear her kick off #BES2016 today with a plenary.
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Helen Roy@UKLadybirds
13 Dec 2016
Statistics explained so beautifully through the plenary this morning #BES2016
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@TheSpotlessLeop @jogwalker10 ah too late she read that one
Grit, heroism, intrepidness: just some of the characteristics exhibited on the ride to the @mrc_ieu retreat #mendrand
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Nooo! RT @mattgroh Writing efficiency using Word vs LaTeX: journals.plos.org/plosone/ar… tldr: Word wins
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker
23 Dec 2014
World Is Not Falling Apart: slated for New Republic @ moment of its collapse. Slate did a great job w it. slate.com/articles/news_and_… via @slate

Why the World Is Not Falling Apart

It’s a good time to be a pessimist. ISIS, Crimea, Donetsk, Gaza, Burma, Ebola, school shootings, campus rapes, wife-beating athletes, lethal cops—who...

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Good holiday read: "An economist's guide to visualizing data" aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=… by @jschwabish – at Geneva, Switzerland

An Economist's Guide to Visualizing Data

(Winter 2014) - Once upon a time, a picture was worth a thousand words. But with online news, blogs, and social media, a good picture can now be worth so much more. Economists who want to disseminate...

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That last retweet was nothing but nepotism
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Best request on Maun (Botswana) facebook bulletin board: "Hello. Where in Maun can I get snake repellent asap?" #Africa #desperateneed
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Marcus Chown@marcuschown
23 Dec 2014
She wrote the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century yet hardly anyone knows her name...
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@TheSpotlessLeop Oh, hello Louise. How is it going today?
My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over #Gaza & #Israel
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How the BBC reported on the birth of the Manchester "Baby" computer in 1948 youtu.be/SNwvJ7psoow (via @jim_boulton)
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