Private channel session 1198
42 messages over 3h 6m, 2021-04-05 – 2021-04-05.
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PREDICT ranked viruses likely to spill over... Take a look at their list - let me know if you spot any, hmmmm, (very well) known sequencing artifacts / contaminants. https://spillover.global/ranking-comparison/
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Alina - what hypocrisy. That's what you get from spreading lies. Don't get me started on SpillOver - I reviewed this paper and have a counter article in the wings. It's nonsense. Can you tell me which ones you think are dodgy.
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Many of the virus are from PREDICT. But if I look for these viruses online I see no record of them. For example, they mention Coronavirus PREDICT CoV-117 and Coronavirus PREDICT CoV-73 but I can't find any sequence orpublication.
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Yup. And in terms of contaminants - many of these show up frequently, especially things like the Human mastadenoviruses
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How is measles on this list?
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Yes, it's just garbage.
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No Bas-Congo Virus? Maybe I'm missing it. The only "human pathogen" discovered by PREDICT doesn't even make the list. How can that be?
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620987756
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Apparently there is now concern about an early Italian serology study - oh what a surprise
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Hey Eddie - I have asked to pull my name off that daft WHO variant nomenclature paper. I am not going to be callingB.1.351 'Focanuba' any time soon... [shared file(s): image.png]
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Shit. I didn't even read it. The last draft I saw never had this stuff in. Is this a joke?
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Who devised this? Did Oli agree?
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This is Jens Kuhn's handywork I think.
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Eddie, man, go focanuba yourself. But, please, don't go foc a nuba.
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You right - it be some sorta Creole language. Alcanopa - I can't open [my mouth]. Focaunba - Fock -a - u brain [out].Pomanycus - the po' man y cus all da time!
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@Kristian Andersen Does this ave anything to do with toasters? Just asking for a friend.
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@Kristian Andersen Not sure. But I hear it requires you to go down under.
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@Kristian Andersen Northern Territory I presume.
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I'
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m guessing this doesn't turn out well...
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I can't believe the amount of energy spent on this. Mainly Tulio's fault.
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Seems to be going quite well already. Al-ca-NOPA! :boom::partying_face:
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Nick thinks it should be Lomanycus
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I approve
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B.1.351 could be Rambo.
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I can't wait for this to get on twitter
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Please give us at least a 30 min warning so we can line them up.
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Andrew - I see your name is on the paper. Did you just email Frank asking to withdrawl? I
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Yup
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Ok, I had better do the same.
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But I have just noticed that it also says that 'Pango' is kind of officially endorsing it
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It does...do you think the reviewers will just go, 'nah, fucking stupid'.
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Pangos do actually like to foc a nubas so that makes sense.
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Somewhat amusing that we have now created a nomenclature of concern.
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"Labels will be chosen by WHO using lists produced by an algorithm that takes existing words, extracts useful syllables, and recombines them in a combinatorial fashion. The algorithm creates names that are novel (such as Alcanopa, Focanuba or Pomanycus) but will be easier to remember and more practical to use than alphanumerical designations". Easier to remember and more practical.
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@Kristian Andersen Is this what David - Captain China - Asher was referring to when he described Pangolins and Bats mating?
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@Kristian Andersen Pangos foccing a nuba was how this whole thing started
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@Kristian Andersen Foc a nu[de] ba[t]
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Actually I should bring this name up with Frank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuba_peoples
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I think you should. Ridicule is minutes away.
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I'm sure that the millions on twitter will have a field day. Not a good look for WHO.
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I'm emailing Frank now