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[Eddie Holmes] I will be criticising NextStrain if so. I'm just checking with the Melbourne people now. [2020-08-14 15:44:18] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2020-08-14 14:27:13] @Eddie Holmes Pretty incompetent analysis. I'm going to enjoy this. [2020-08-14 15:45:17] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2020-08-14 14:27:13] @Eddie Holmes Does anyone actually pay attention to these 'sit reps'? [2020-08-14 15:46:52] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2020-08-14 14:27:13] @Eddie Holmes No idea. But the hotel quarantine thing is huge in Australia. There's a formal inquiry at the moment and heads will roll. [2020-08-14 15:47:46] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2020-08-14 14:27:13] @Eddie Holmes My worry is that these young, talented scientists have squandered a huge opportunity to do great science and help understand the pandemic and instead do silly ephemeral shite like this. [2020-08-14 15:50:16] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2020-08-14 14:27:13] @Eddie Holmes Completely agree. They are being dragged along by Trevor's ego. [2020-08-14 15:57:58] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2020-08-14 14:27:13] @Eddie Holmes Andrew, you trained them, so we blame you... :smiling_imp: [2020-08-14 16:01:38] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2020-08-14 14:27:13] @Eddie Holmes Mostly, I'm just a little confused - because these are big and important questions so we all know that we need to be really careful what we say (especially because of a few prior misfires). And some of these mistakes are really simple - as in, I can spot them and I'm still in elementary school when it comes to these types of questions (hence I collaborate with people who graduated already - just so I don't cock up too much). [2020-08-15 00:46:06] [Andrew Rambaut] This is what they are inferring the Baja/CA thing from: [shared file(s): image.png] [2020-08-15 00:48:44] [Andrew Rambaut] They all come off that large polytomy. They need to stop looking at the time tree. [2020-08-15 01:08:43] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, I can confirm that the Australian thing is definitely a NextStrain cock-up.