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[2021-01-19 12:01:02] [Robert Garry] shared file(s): image.png [2021-01-19 12:26:39] [Eddie Holmes] Thanks Bob! I'll contact Tommy shortly and ask what his plans are. Would be great if we could get him into our post with this. [2021-01-19 14:22:14] [Eddie Holmes] Ok, uber-confidential...they are planning to submit to Nature later this week (and preprint). Figure 2 is interesting. [shared file(s): 2021-01-12_BatCoV_draft.N.docx] [2021-01-19 14:27:04] [Andrew Rambaut] Nature - Really? Doesn't seem interesting or useful enough. Just another sarbecovirus. [2021-01-19 14:28:06] [Eddie Holmes] I told them Nature Micro was a better choice [2021-01-19 15:01:14] [Robert Garry] Agree Nat Micro likely landing spot - I also agree Fig 2 is interesting and appreciate the long region of similarity to RmYN02 and RaTG13 plus the variation on the indel theme Fig 3c. [2021-01-19 16:37:07] [Eddie Holmes] At the very least it's a nice counter to the 'RaTG13 ain't real' bridgade. [2021-01-19 16:46:43] [Eddie Holmes] Tommy is in for our post! Can someone give him access to the Google doc to edit? I doubt I have the skills to do this. His email address is: [2021-01-19 17:05:39] [Robert Garry] Great! Will modify the figure. I think not a lot of changes to text are needed - will keep those minimal... [2021-01-19 17:34:42] [Kristian Andersen] Not a great day for confident immunologists. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.18.427166v1 [2021-01-19 17:35:06] [Kristian Andersen] A little better. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.15.426911v1 [2021-01-19 17:51:27] [Eddie Holmes] Thanks Kristian, this is really doing wonders for my mental health. [2021-01-19 18:06:02] [Kristian Andersen] You live in Australia. No sympathy.