Ewan Birney
ewanbirney
Dear UK Journalists. I suspect some of you are going to be rightly asked to write up the striking jump in SARS-CoV-2 cases registered today by PHE, and quite rightly.
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As I got my vaccine boost yesterday I was talking to the nice clinician researcher (midwifery expert - interesting person) and we swapped research notes - in particular as we
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People's intuition about how "human genetics" works (how DNA variation is distributed around people around the world) and how it relates to "ethnicity" (the boxes people tick when asked to
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Post holiday, having digested some sites+preprints from last week, I'd like to give my perspective on COVID. Context: I am a genomics + biological data science expert; for most other
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Grant writing advice. Many people get too detailed and assume background knowledge of the reviewer too quickly. Your grant early on needs to answer (in my view) these questions: 1.
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A perspective on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, on what I consider a positive day in the pandemic: Firstly a reminder; this virus is highly infectious and causes a severe, often fatal,
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A reminder: Ethnicity is something you tick on form with a series of boxes ("White, British", "Afro-Caribbean", "British Asian", "African-American", "Deutsch-Türken"). Genetics and genomics
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I know this is obvious, but in the UK the lifting of restrictions on the 4th of July (allowing households to mix and stay overnight with responsible behaviour) is *not*
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Some more threads on human genetics. Firstly, as many people have noted, having a diverse group of scientists doing human genetics is healthy - it is healthy for *all of
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