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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.557 [SLACK_000771] · slack_pm:msg:05814

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Date
2021-03-01 14:33
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen

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"Christmas break was lost to crunching further sequences and briefing journalists".

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  1. 2021-03-01 14:31 Andrew Rambaut open
    And she thinks her Christmas break was ruined -
  2. 2021-03-01 14:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    Exactly!!
  3. 2021-03-01 14:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Well, at least she didn't die from COVID-19 or had to take care of patients with COVID-19, so there's a silver lining...Unreal.
  4. 2021-03-01 14:33 Edward C. Holmes open
    Would be quite good if you Tweeted this:stuck_out_tongue:
  5. 2021-03-01 14:33 Kristian G. Andersen
    "Christmas break was lost to crunching further sequences and briefing journalists".
  6. 2021-03-01 14:33 Kristian G. Andersen open
    So, so, so sorry for her.
  7. 2021-03-01 14:35 Andrew Rambaut open
    I am so livid. But I can't say anything as Emma is a former student. Someone needs to call this out. I can't believe the limited set of citations too - Franky Bollocks'' paper? FFS.
  8. 2021-03-01 14:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah - this really should be called out. Some of the worst I have read. What the heck went wrong here? Or are these people just so full of themselves by now that this seems ok?
  9. 2021-03-01 14:36 Andrew Rambaut open
    ```The 'phylogenetic' tools used to track these variants were largely developed by evolutionary biologists to study the lineage of organisms. They were designed to construct phylogenetic trees that can ask, for example, whether flightevolved twice in mammals, or whether two large groups of bats began as one that then diverged.Now, co-opted to track a pandemic, the leaves of the phylogenetic tree represent SARS-CoV-2 sequences taken from individuals, and the tree grows with the number of cases ```Now co-opted?

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