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More from Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓

1. Updated Thread on:
A, Wuhan Seafood Market Positive Environmental Samples, B. Early Local Reports about Animals at the Market
C. CCP Censorship and Police harassment of local activists uploading censored news reports to GitHub.
The original thread was a mess!

2. CCP Censorship & Police harassment of local activists uploading censored news reports to GitHub.
It all started with a simple search query:
"market" "animal" on a github database:
https://t.co/q2HxuUuHKa
Only to find that it had been deleted on github due to CCP pressure!

3. Github is Censorship proof, right?
It does not get deleted! But..
https://t.co/k7BJWUgWDq
Arms get Twisted!
https://t.co/ckzicj7NlE
Please remember these brave young activists for creating a permanent record of censored news from the early days while CCP rewrites history


4. What a shock!
But thanks to the very nature of GitHub, "forks" and "clones" had been made & saved.
The best one is here:
https://t.co/ZWiyWK9SAa
Obviously all in Chinese ;) but tks to Google Chrome we can right click translate to English & find archived scrubbed Chinese news


5. "This is an archive of in-depth reports and personal narratives on the COVID-19 outbreak in China"
Contains media reports, non-fictional works and personal narratives related to the 2020 coronavirus pneumonia.
Part of the archive is provided by netizens, I am grateful.
Same covid-19 mutations are appearing in different places, which may or may not be strange....
41,000 mutations documented in 880 lineages.
Most in spike protein
What explains it?


https://t.co/MvHzUb4peo


https://t.co/PAwgC3lgsO


https://t.co/f9rnyFI0vq


https://t.co/wAlyNzuI0W
"The coronavirus in Italy since September 2019"
Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the prepandemic period in Italy
First Published November 11, 2020
https://t.co/nhlccks5AS
Smashed Paywall thanks to @Sci_Hub
https://t.co/wWPFJMjjFJ

Maybe a coincidence but an agreement was recently signed by the authors' institute and guess who?
https://t.co/vh7qX3hyPD


The Lead Author specifically of the paper:
"Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the prepandemic period in Italy"
is Giovanni Apolone of the "Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori" Milan, Italy


Some funding is involved....
Anyone good at Italian feel free to comment?


"You findee sars cov 2 in old sample back September time, we give you big fat red envelopeee, okey dokey?"

More has emerged regarding the Chinese connection
"Oncology research, Italy and China close to the collaboration protocol"
.https://t.co/Mt5hO9Dggc
1. Thread: RaTG13 Real or Fake?
A Norwegian Scientist @Vehuardo recently claimed RaTG13 is an "authentic virus"
https://t.co/tAXMNTwdhA
This failed to take into account the work of our DRASTIC colleagues & other published analyses.
This thread is a polite attempt to educate.

2.
https://t.co/tw606vgHwp
which says RaTG13 doesn't make sense on how it was sequenced, or how the data got so messed up in the lab as to include copy paste mistakes, bat dna, pangolin dna, rice dna, mice dna, & nobody should use it to form conclusions until it's properly vetted

2 (cont)
"sequence is incomplete & provided segment doesn't function. The identified markers suggest partial match basis & actual virus itself as described by the sequence can't functionally exist due to incoherent structures that appear to be the result of sample contamination"


3. RaTG13 integrity is further attacked here:
The Validity of critical pieces of evidence for the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 is Dubious, and needed to be

4. and here:
Major Concerns on the Identification of Bat Coronavirus Strain RaTG13 and Quality of Related Nature

More from Science

It was great to talk about reproducible workflows for @riotscienceclub @riotscience_wlv. You can watch the recording below, but if you don't want to listen to me talk for 40 minutes, I thought I would summarise my talk in a thread:


My inspiration was making open science accessible. I wanted to outline the mistakes I've made along the way so people would feel empowered to give it a go. Increased accountability is seen as a barrier to adopting open science practices as an ECR

It also comes across as all or nothing. You are either fully open science or your research won't get anywhere. However, that can be quite intimidating, so I wanted to emphasise this incremental approach to adapting your workflow

There are two sides to why you should work towards reproducibility. The first is communal. It's going to help the field if you or someone else can reproduce your whole pipeline.


There is also the selfish element of it's just going to help you do your work. If you can't remember what your work means after a lunch break, you're not going to remember months or years down the line

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