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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.304 [SLACK_000518] · slack_pm:msg:03182

Date: 2020-12-09 12:27
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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We need to get back to the good old days where Nick Loman was the only one with a lot of Twitter followers and was the only one really Tweeting - mostly about bowel movements, drinks, random stuff from an exciting day of being Loman, and, sometimes, good science.

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2020-12-09 12:15 Edward C. Holmes open

Does she not have anything else to do? She's another of those people that have just become obsessed by their Twitter following.
2020-12-09 12:27 Kristian G. Andersen

We need to get back to the good old days where Nick Loman was the only one with a lot of Twitter followers and was the only one really Tweeting - mostly about bowel movements, drinks, random stuff from an exciting day of being Loman, and, sometimes, good science.
2020-12-09 12:57 Andrew Rambaut open

But she only has 9000 followers!
2020-12-09 13:00 Kristian G. Andersen open

Andrew, it's the quality of your followers, not the quantity that counts.
2020-12-09 13:04 Andrew Rambaut open

She has many of the finest people following her
2020-12-09 13:08 Edward C. Holmes open

In her mind it is millions of followers and she is the voice of truth

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