Jon Bråte

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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

Only 4 days left to the deadline: Become our new colleague as associate professor in biostatistical machine learning at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social and our Centre of Knowledge-driven Machine Learning Integreat!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

OK, this is pretty cool. My first ever lab mate from the Ford Denison lab, @tobykiers.bsky.social and I had nearly back to back covers this month at Nature. Neither of us work on the legume-rhizobium symbiosis anymore, and both work in fungi!

Also- look at how similar those network topologies are!

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

What's new in R 4.5.0? Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes that have been introduced in R 4.5.0.

New version of R is out!

Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 — from new language features to graphics updates and more.

📝 Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n...

#rstats #Rprogramming #opensource

Kom koronaviruset fra naturen eller et laboratorium? Kristian Andersen mener han vet svaret Virusforsker Kristian Andersen trues på livet og anklages for å ha forledet verden om hvordan pandemien startet. I et besøk i Norge gikk han til kraftig motangrep på norske kritikere. Absolutt alle sp...

– Vi ga opp ideen om at viruset var konstruert, ganske raskt. Der endret både jeg og de andre mening i løpet av bare noen dager. Men spesielt jeg satt igjen med en tanke om at viruset kunne ha vært dyrket, sier Kristian Andersen. (M+)

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

It took four days from submission to publication, and nearly five years from publication to retraction. After campaigning by many, many scientists, and an investigation by Elsevier, an infamous paper on hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment has been retracted. 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...

How fast are viruses spreading in the wild? Check out our latest study now published in @plosbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1371/jour.... A study performed with Paul Bastide, Pauline Rocu, Denis Fargette, Olivier Hardy, @msuchard.bsky.social, @stephaneguindon.bsky.social, and Philippe Lemey (1/7)

Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute.

"Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind COVID"

That should settle it, right? The problem, of course, it won't because we're dealing with conspiracy theories and not scientific inquiry - no amount of additional data will change un-evidenced beliefs.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"What's happening with this mystery illness in the Congo"

I've gotten this text dozens of times in the past few days.

Here's what we know. What we don't.

And what really matters 🧵

Eldre bør ta oppfriskningsdose med koronavaksine www.fhi.no/nyheter/2024...

I’ve updated SARSCoV2 RBD antibody-escape calculator w new deep mutational scanning data of Yunlong Cao & Fanchong Jian.

My interpretation: antigenic evolution currently constrained by pleiotropic effects of mutations on RBD-ACE2 affinity, RBD up-down position & antibody neutralization