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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1m

⚽️ Well read by NZ keeper, safely taken.

NZ wins corner. Coming up to 70 minutes. No goal.

NZ sub, Thomas off. DIdn’t catch who came on.

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 8m

⚽️ Pre-arranged, I think.

Norway scores, now 1 - 1.

Norway subs in 3 players.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 10m

⚽️ No dice.

60 minutes gone. NZ 1 - 0.

Nice save for NZ, right on 60 minutes. Left hand up, and buffs it back.

Wood coming off, replaced by Ben Waine.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 14m

⚽️ Corner to NZ. First for the match, I think.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 16m

⚽️ Shame, it’d be great to see Wood get one. It’d also have been fun to see NZ up 2 - 0.

NZ holding on well.

Wood with another shot. Keeper stretches and takes the ground ball.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 24m

⚽️ Again! Close. Can’t quite get his head on it, should have gone in had he made contact.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 25m

⚽️ Play resuming for the second half, NZ up 1.

Oooh. Wood, clips the bar!

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 43m

⚽️ Half time. NZ leads 1 - 0.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 44m

⚽️ OK. Goal given. NZ leads as half time approaches.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 45m

⚽️ Bah. VAR check.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 46m

⚽️ GOAL! Just in stoppage time. NZ 1 – Nor 0.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1h

⚽️ Ruled out 😞 Had hoped the bounce back reset the position call.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1h

Arrgh. Goal, but not going to count, just offside. Referred to VAR.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1h

⚽️ Early play in NZ half, but now NZ getting a few chances 😊

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1h

Chris Wood leads the NZ team out on to the pitch.

National anthems done.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1h

⚽️ OK, so there‘s football to be had. NZ v. NOR. Norway are of course ranked far above NZ, but let’s see what they can do.

Coverage on Duke, to be replayed at 6am. I happened to wake at night (bah), so I guess I might as well watch it live.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1h

In addition to the waste of far too many lives, and pouring enormous sums of money into destruction that could be spent on better, positive, constructive things, the pollution of war must be awful too 😔

Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 2h

kyivindependent.com/oil-depot-ab...

'At least 5 tanks hit' — Ukrainian drones spark massive blaze at Russia's largest oil terminal in occupied Crimea, source confirms

The strike reportedly occurred around midnight, marking the second attack on the facility in a week — the previous one took place on Oct. 6, according to the Crimean Wind Telegram channel.

kyivindependent.com

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 1h

Another kind of "undermining" is the HoD or whomever of your new job not supporting your finishing and writing up work from previous grants.

I could tell some stories about that, which crippled (outright blocked in my case) my ability to get my work out, and thus show and build my own research.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 8h

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
 CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
 But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 2h

Periodic reminder to followers ⬇️

Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · Nov 21

Just a quick note to followers -

If you don’t want NZ politics, just mute the hashtag #NZpol

I try to tag political posts with this to help those who are more interested in science, science communication, etc.

Similarly, most posts meant for New Zealanders are tagged #NZ or #kikorangi

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 2h

Related -

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · May 11

🧪Did you know that America is known for its cancer research b/c of the National Cancer Act in 1971 signed by Nixon. Mary Lasker took her cause to congress and the American public as a leading proponent of the National Cancer Act. She said, "If you think research is expensive, try disease!"

Letter to Mary Lasker from Richard Nixon dated Jan 11 1972.
Regarding the signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971.
https://laskerfoundation.org/the-promise-of-the-cancer-moonshot/

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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 2h

Reminder of our postdoc position! Happy to meet at #ASHG25 this week to discuss.

Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 6d

We're hiring! My team at @nygenome.org is looking for a statistical genetics postdoc to decipher functional architecture of complex diseases from cutting-edge CRISPR+scRNA-seq data, with @nevillesanjana.bsky.social lab. Happy to meet at #ASHG25, apply here
jobs.silkroad.com/NYGenome/Car...

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lappalainen & Sanjana Labs - 101 Avenue of the Americas, 7th Floor, New York, New York - New York Genome Center

Find a career with New York Genome Center

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 2h

3/3! – I forgot to add, the incoming government dropped this, IMO because they were focused on "opposing" rather than if a policy was good or not. Or rather their idea of "good" was a "watch us smash their stuff" show for their supporters. It’s something we need to disincentivise.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 3h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 2h

That last, for example, is why the previous government dropped the pharmacy charges: research had shown if you did, people were more likely to get treatments sooner, that would lean to fewer have their conditions get worse and need hospital attention. Both patient and hospitals were better off.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 2h

Similarly for #NZ, the return on investment in most preventative medicine can be high.

Not spending might "save money" in the very short term, but cost later. Investing would be better.

This isn’t just for vaccines, it’s also early detection of illnesses, starting treatments early, etc.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 3h

🧪A good perspective.

Mothers from the 1950s, who saw how polio affected children's lives would like a word.

For every $ spent on the MMR vaccine, the healthcare system saves $13. Now, The direct medical costs of a measles case is $1793. This translates to $~1.79B/yr for Americans.

RFK Jr. says vaccines don’t save lives. He’s wrong

Now RFK Jr. is claiming vaccines don’t actually save lives. Here’s the math to show what he gets wrong.

www.statnews.com

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