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David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸6x🩹🛡️ Profile picture
David Eccles 🌻🇵🇸6x🩹🛡️
@gringene_bio
Neurodivergent paid vaccine pusher, with a love for Free Software and the hacking thereof. Rangitāne. He / his. Mastodon: @gringene@genomic.social
Feb 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#SeenOnReddit Apparently SRR13441704, SRR13441705, and SRR1344170 contain hits to the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

reddit.com/r/COVID19/comm…

Reddit commenters are suggesting index hopping contamination.

doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.… "they had sequenced the samples with Sangon Biotech (Shanghai) after extracting the DNA in December 2019 from their samples.... They deleted the three most contaminated samples from the Sequence Read Archive. They do not know why the samples were then "un-deleted."
Nov 4, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Marsden Fund: is it worth it?

The Marsden Fund is a competitive fund in which the "top" researchers are given money to do proposed research.

This year, $82,345k was awarded to 120 projects. That's a mean of ~$230k per project.

#StopCompetitiveFunding When considering 100% institute overheads, that ~$230k over 3 years ends up as enough for 1.5 researchers at Massey's Step 1 lecturer salary ($74k).

Unfortunately those 120 projects had 394 named investigators, or around 3.3 investigators per project.

massey.ac.nz/massey/about-m…
Nov 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I've been looking at all these plots about vaccine effectiveness and hospitalisation, and thinking they're missing the exposure side of things... so I made another plot.

This plot shows how the vaccine reduces both hospitalisations *and* disease.

gitlab.com/gringer/covid-… otearoa Case Vaccine Demogr... I've assumed here that the number of exposed unvaccinated people is the same as the number of unvaccinated people with COVID. I could bump that exposure number up a bit, but it wouldn't change the overall visualisation because the proportions of vaccinated people wouldn't change.
Jul 24, 2018 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
The National Ethics Advisory Committee's National Ethics Standards for Health and Disability Research are now open to the public for feedback:

consult.health.govt.nz/neac/national-… I'll comment on the initial principles of this now in regards to the recommendations I've previously made public:

gringer.gitlab.io/presentation-n…

In short, they're great. My main comments are around needing more emphasis on participant control - making that implicit principle explicit.