Thanks to all our colleagues for supporting this drive with their incredible generosity: Congenica Eagle Genomics Genomics England EMBL-EBI Wellcome Sanger Institute Donations still welcome during this difficult year: bit.ly/Foodbank_Fundr…

Going to talk to OBO Foundry about the use of their bio-ontologies within industry and how we consume and support the consumption of ontologies more broadly. Feel free to pop in - you will need to register if you are not an OBO regular forms.gle/UHMWxdzJ1X6J3i…

AstraZeneca says it aims to have a ‘next generation’ Covid vaccine ready for use in the autumn which will incorporate some of the mutated variants of concern. Work well underway to design new vaccine structure at Oxford.

Let us never utter the words 'people have had enough of experts' again. Experts - scientists - are getting us out of this Covid pandemic. There is no other way out of this.

Why has the UK been so successful? (Think about the ROI on $45m given variants' ability to ruin your multi-billion dollar vaccine strategy!) Here's a blog by the head of COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium, the UK's sequencing operation, on what matters: (9/10) professorsharonpeacock.co.uk/why-has-the-uk…

Next, The Princess met two @TheQueensAwards winning companies. 🖨 Global Graphics Software provides software for digital printing for which they received a 2020 Queen’s Award for Enterprise 💿🧬 @SciBite works with scientists to harness the power of data, including COVID-19 research

Really interesting webinar if you are interested in deploying semantically enriched facts in a #graph database. Register below!

Really interesting study from multiple villages in Bangladesh. TLDR; large cohort study with good control groups showed mask wearing was effective in reducing covid transmission. Thread below and link to paper 👇

I've been having a play with the OpenAI Beta over the last few days. Very cool. Tried some code explanation using OWL-API and some ontology enrichment experiments. Just scratching the surface to see how much the model understands of biology. Blog: lnkd.in/d3-ABd-y #gpt3

Thoughs and prayers for web admin at NHS.uk this week after booster announcement...

Interested in solving hard data problems with important biomedical data & gifted engineers & scientists? We're hiring Engineering Managers at BenchSci to lead a Data Team & a #MachineLearning team. Challenging & rewarding jobs! jobs.lever.co/benchsci/36090… jobs.lever.co/benchsci/79cd7…

I presume, having made abortion illegal in half the USA, the Supreme Court are going to mandate better support to women in perilous positions of poverty if they fall pregnant, right? Right??

Incredible video. Own it Brexiteers.

I'm hosting SWAT4HCLS 2023 (Basel + remote). Would you like to attend? lnkd.in/ediF5AfN

AI is more dangerous than you think. Recently the founder of ChatGPT, Sam Altman, talked about AI regulation. The dangers, risks, and precautions to take. The recording is 4h 38mins. Here are 7 most important things you need to know: