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Daniel MacArthur
@dgmacarthur
Genomics, big data, open science. Director, Centre for Population Genomics at @GarvanInstitute + @MCRI_for_kids. Opinions my own.
Sydney, Australia
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    Daniel MacArthur
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    May 8, 2021
    The FBI is going after the founder of Sci-Hub, for the appalling crime of making publicly funded research freely available.
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    Alexandra Elbakyan
    @ringo_ring
    May 7, 2021
    received a few minutes ago to my GMail. at first I thought it was a spam and was about to delete the email, but it turned out to be about FBI requesting my data from Apple
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    Daniel MacArthur
    @dgmacarthur
    Jul 29, 2022
    Chris Goodnow is a world-renowned immunologist. Before catching COVID in May, he was also an avid cyclist and surfer, the director of a major medical research institute, and my boss. And then, like many other COVID patients, the virus hit his heart.
    Illustration of a hand holding a hammer playing whack-a-mole with COVID-19.
    Three myths about COVID-19 — and the biggest challenge that lies ahead
    From abc.net.au
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    Daniel MacArthur
    @dgmacarthur
    Aug 23, 2022
    I shouldn’t have to say this, but calibrating COVID measures with the goal of keeping health systems *right* at the brink of collapse - but never over that line! - is not sustainable. It’s a recipe for healthcare workforce burnout + massive long-term disability. Stop it.
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    Daniel MacArthur
    @dgmacarthur
    Sep 24, 2018
    Having a rough day? In 1988 a Russian technician missed a single hyphen in his code, transmitted it without checking, and thus instantly and irreversibly bricked a 6,200 kg spacecraft en route to Mars. So. You’re doing OK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_1
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    Daniel MacArthur
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    Nov 22, 2021
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    Daniel MacArthur
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    Jun 3, 2017
    I will never stop being astonished by this plot. (via @Noahpinion)
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    Daniel MacArthur
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    May 27, 2020
    It's live! After years of work and more than 16 months in peer review, the gnomAD package is now up at Nature. We have seven papers in total, exploring different scientific aspects of this collection of more than 140,000 exomes and genomes: nature.com/collections/af…
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    Daniel MacArthur
    @dgmacarthur
    Nov 20, 2019
    After seven amazing years in Boston, I am both sad and excited to (finally) be able to officially announce that I'll be returning to my native Australia in 2020 to start a new adventure!
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    Daniel MacArthur
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    Aug 12, 2018
    “Working to benefit humanity is a priority,” says the company extracting 40% profit margins while blocking rare disease families from accessing publicly funded research. GFY.
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    Elsevier
    @ElsevierConnect
    Aug 10, 2018
    We're hiring for a new position at Elsevier: Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion. Working to benefit humankind is a priority at Elsevier and we know that diverse minds are key to creating better solutions. Apply now: bit.ly/2w3TvCz
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    Daniel MacArthur
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    Jan 12, 2022
    The majority of senior academics still don’t understand how fast this is coming. This isn’t about trainees pursuing industry when academia doesn’t work out. Many of the best trainees are looking at academic life and deciding, quite sensibly, that there are better options.
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    Daniel MacArthur
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    Mar 10, 2021
    *ﾟ 　 ･ ﾟ* ･｡ *･｡ *.｡ ｡･ °*. Those clever methods you made for your study matter so much less than your sample size ﾟ*. ｡｡ ･ ｡ ･ﾟ ｡°*. ｡*･｡
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    Daniel MacArthur
    @dgmacarthur
    Jul 23, 2022
    This has been the most surreal phase of the pandemic in Australia - mass infections, widespread absences, burned-out workforces, catastrophic load in hospitals, and total silence from the people who should be in charge. thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
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    Daniel MacArthur
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    Jun 5, 2023
    Amazing. Someone in Ohio is shitting out a *staggering* amount of COVID from a chronic GI infection, making up almost the entirety of the detectable virus in local wastewater.
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    Marc Johnson
    @SolidEvidence
    Jun 4, 2023
    Ohio cryptic lineage update. We’ve made no progress identifying the individual, but we have learned a few things. 1/
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    Daniel MacArthur
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    May 28, 2018
    Five years on, it's disappointing that the data visualization community never fully recognized the benefits of 3D stacked scatter pie columns: eagerpies.com/better-than-mi…