Stuart MacGregor
@stuartmacgreg.bsky.social
Head of Statistical Genetics lab at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia. Views are my own.
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Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 :
2,052
Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0
October 2025 • Source: Harper's research
2,052
Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0
October 2025 • Source: Harper's research
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 :
2,052
Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0
October 2025 • Source: Harper's research
2,052
Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0
October 2025 • Source: Harper's research
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Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.
October 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.
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The debate about defence ignores that Australia is already a spends a huge amount on defence and the military. As @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writes lifting spending to 3% of GDP would be more than Sth Korea! #OffTheCharts
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
April 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The debate about defence ignores that Australia is already a spends a huge amount on defence and the military. As @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writes lifting spending to 3% of GDP would be more than Sth Korea! #OffTheCharts
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
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A high polygenic risk score (PRS) for screening prostate cancer was superior to a PSA test or MRI for detecting clinically significant disease (Gleason ≥7). A big step forward for supporting utility of PRS @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Assessment of a Polygenic Risk Score in Screening for Prostate Cancer | NEJM
The incidence of prostate cancer is increasing. Screening with an assay of prostate-specific
antigen (PSA) has a high rate for false positive results. Genomewide association studies
have identified...
www.nejm.org
April 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A high polygenic risk score (PRS) for screening prostate cancer was superior to a PSA test or MRI for detecting clinically significant disease (Gleason ≥7). A big step forward for supporting utility of PRS @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
December 4, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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The New York Times recently had an article on IVF and embryo selection which I think buries a few important ledes about these products ...
Opinion | Should Human Life Be Optimized?
Advances in genetic testing and artificial intelligence are changing what’s possible for those undergoing I.V.F. Are we ready for the future of fertility?
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The New York Times recently had an article on IVF and embryo selection which I think buries a few important ledes about these products ...
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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January 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Stuart's songs of 2024
open.spotify.com/playlist/4Bs...
open.spotify.com/playlist/4Bs...
Stuart's songs of 2024
Playlist · Stuart · 20 items
open.spotify.com
December 31, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Stuart's songs of 2024
open.spotify.com/playlist/4Bs...
open.spotify.com/playlist/4Bs...
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Four good quality #solar panels - costing around $500 - would produce enough power for an EV for 20 years. Low cost solar is an incredible opportunity we should not ignore
Imagine if just $500 could fuel your electric car … for the next 20 years
Four good quality solar panels – costing around $500 – would produce enough power for an EV for 20 years. Low cost solar is an incredible opportunity we should not ignore.
thedriven.io
December 16, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Four good quality #solar panels - costing around $500 - would produce enough power for an EV for 20 years. Low cost solar is an incredible opportunity we should not ignore
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Preprint used UK biobank data to show that when testing both common and rare variants, the appropriate genone-wide significance threshold is 5*10^-9.
GWAS significance thresholds in large cohorts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.09.627629v1
December 11, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Preprint used UK biobank data to show that when testing both common and rare variants, the appropriate genone-wide significance threshold is 5*10^-9.
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Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025
November 21, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025