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Steve Ogada
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Population Geneticist 🧬 | Aspiring Virologist 🦠 | Interested in all things bioinformatics & One Health | Postdoc @QAAFI, UQ 💻
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BEAST X accelerates Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic inference with enhanced scalability and geo spread modeling.
#BEASTX #Phylodynamics #VirusEvolution
👤EVBC: Philippe Lemey
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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.
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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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
March 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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📢 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
Sugar: A Python framework for bioinformatics
Eulenfeld, T., (2025). Sugar: A Python framework for bioinformatics. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(111), 8122, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08122
joss.theoj.org
August 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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About Time!
Survey of 813 scientists finds that Bluesky is the more useful social media platform for professional scientists.

As anecdotal support, this journal article itself is references by 2731 Bluesky users and has 43 X posts (Altmetrics data, when posting this).

#sciencesky #academicsky #science
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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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 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.
linkewire.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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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…
Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (INAAT)
Global Info Research announces the release of the report 'Global Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Technology (INAAT) Market 2025
www.europesays.com
March 31, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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!🧂🥃🍋🪇
December 3, 2024 at 5:34 AM
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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
March 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Cambodia reports fifth human HPAI (H5N1) fatality in 2025, in a 52-year-old man with exposure to sick chickens
http://spr.ly/633214wxA1
June 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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...
Cambodia logs fifth death from H5N1 avian flu as USDA weighs poultry vaccination
www.cidrap.umn.edu
June 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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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...
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...
blog.dnanexus.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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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
May 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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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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May 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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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

🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #HigherEd #PhDChat
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.
academicabuse.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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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. 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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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.
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.
jokergoo.github.io
April 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Making a heatmap is an essential skill for a bioinformatician. But you probably do not understand heatmap. 7 reading resources to understand heatmap! 🧵
April 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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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-...
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...
rworks.dev
April 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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...
April 8, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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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!
April 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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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/...)
April 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Sunrise in Australia 🦘

[📷 @aerin.kr]
March 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM