Amanda Warr
BBSRC Discovery Fellow #Genomics & #Metagenomics I like long reads, 3D printing, swimming in cold places and cats. Also on threads.net/amandatron89
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- Reposted by Amanda WarrQuickly telling someone you’ve liked something they’ve done (e.g. telling a writer you like their writing, or a researcher you like their research, or a teacher you like their teaching) has a phenomenally high effort-to-impact ratio.
- Reposted by Amanda WarrAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
- "I know we'll come to (Nato's) rescue, but I just really do question whether or not they'll come to ours"- Trump Mate, article 5 has been invoked exactly once and guess who it was in aide of...
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- I've once again failed to tag appropriately for the various sciency bluesky feeds. 🧪🧬🖥️ #ViroSky #VirEvol
- I am paw-sitively thrilled to say that out latest work is out in Nature today! #Virology #Genomics #Coronavirus #AnimalHealth #InfectiousDisease #Sequencing #FIP #FCoV23 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Amanda WarrA hybrid coronavirus, formed of cat and dog coronaviruses, caused a severe outbreak of disease among cats in Cyprus, researchers found. Their work, in Nature, showed how this new virus was able to cause widespread cases of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) among the island’s cats.
- I am paw-sitively thrilled to say that out latest work is out in Nature today! #Virology #Genomics #Coronavirus #AnimalHealth #InfectiousDisease #Sequencing #FIP #FCoV23 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- *our I'm so not redoing the whole thread for one typo though 😅
- As a side note, Nature including "Thank you for choosing to publish your work with us." In an acceptance email is wild. I'm not convinced we were the ones doing the choosing, but you're welcome?
- Me waiting for my extension request to be granted
- Reposted by Amanda WarrWow! Scientists engineered E. coli to convert plastic waste (PET) into pain medicine paracetamol (acetaminophen or Tylenol) in under 24 hours with up to 92% yield. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #medsky #pharmsky 🧪
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- Reposted by Amanda WarrChatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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- MAN this paper is long. I'd better ask ChatGPT to summarise it.
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- Fun story: This wasn't really burnout. It was a several year long B12 deficiency. To anyone who spoke to me over the last couple of years, I might have seemed unusually tired and unenthusiastic. A lot of injections later, I'm more fun to be around now (I think...). I don't recommend this either.
- Reposted by Amanda WarrThis is the last thing the BBC needs
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- One problem with the speed of Nanopore improvement is that we have to do significant, time consuming updates to this course every year. Sitting here watching London Calling updates, I'm resigning myself to the idea that this year we might have to just write the whole thing from scratch...
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- I did not have Harvard suing Trump on my bingo card
- Reposted by Amanda WarrAbsolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
- Ok Microsoft
- Sad to be missing #nanoporeconf this year, but I'll catch up online! Have fun everyone!
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- If both of the Microsoft office programs I am using freeze for no reason at 4:30 pm, I can just give up and go home, right?
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- Reposted by Amanda WarrEven accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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- I just said "Thanks" to Gemini and it said "I'm not able to help with that, as I'm only a language model." Yes you are, Gemini, yes you are...
- Good morning! You're at risk of redundancy again, btw. Good morning to you too, academia...
- Reposted by Amanda WarrDo you (like me) create a bunch of conda environments, then later forget what they're for, when they were last updated, or which tools are in them? If so, you might this little project: github.com/rrwick/conda...
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- Reposted by Amanda WarrI have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...
- Research Fish be like "Did the award result in [useful thing], yes or no?" Dude, I've not finished yet, chill... Can I get a "not yet" option, please?
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- Reposted by Amanda WarrWorth reading this alongside @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social's analysis of our finances, which paints a rather different picture, highlighting financial mismanagement: www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/3fzpaa5...
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- Reposted by Amanda WarrWhen I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
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