Ross Laidlaw
@Ross_IgE
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PhD student with the MRC Precision Medicine DTP - Interested in all things Omics, ML and kinetoplastids (he/him)
Joined July 2020
Excited to share the work we've been doing in collaboration with @MDR_DDU and Dr Marta Garcia Sanchez on the first Trypanosoma cruzi scRNA-seq atlas. If anyone has any questions please reach out, I am always happy to discuss this cool project!.
The Trypanosoma cruzi cell atlas; a single-cell resource for understanding parasite population heterogeneity and differentiation. #biorxiv_micrbio.
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After four interesting years I officially passed my PhD last friday! This would not be possible without all the amazing people in the institute and the support of my supervisors: @BiottofnI, @rmc9z, @KeithRMatthews and @emmabriggs6.
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Was great to be able to present the work we've done on a T. Cruzi single cell transcriptome atlas at #KMCB. Thank you to @MDR_DDU and Dr Marta Garcia Sanchez for the collaboration on what has been a fascinating scientific journey! @BiottofnI.
@Ross_IgE here, straight off the bus to give a great talk at KMCB X @BiottofnI @WCIPGLASGOW @UofGSii
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Applications for this year's University of Glasgow Bioinformatics summer school are now open!! . If you want to know more about the wonderful world of genomics and transcriptomics, then come join us for a bumper one/two week odyssey.
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Check out this great spatial transcriptomics paper I helped do analysis on. It was a great experience to work with such cool data and try out all the new fancy spatial techniques. Watch this space for more interesting spatial work! #visium #spatialtranscriptomics.
New preprint is out! 📣 @MaizelsLab . We have done Spatial Transcriptomics on H. polygyrus infected guts 🪱🔬🧬 and found new insights into how the host defends itself against this very cool parasite!.
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This is a great nuanced summary of this paper. It gives the author's praise for the very cool idea they have, while (rightfully) criticising them for their thesaurus swamp of a writing style and their attempts to massively exaggerate their research.
New blog post just dropped!. "Assembly theory is cool. but doesn't quite do what its inventors say it does.". reviewing this recent Nature paper:. TL:DR: potentially interesting model, wrapped in utterly misleading packaging.
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A wrap on the UofG bioinformatics summer school 2023. Roll on next year for more bioinformatics fun!.
En fin! 🥳 I had the absolute pleasure of co-designing/teaching alongside the fantastic @Ross_IgE the first ever Advanced Single Cell course! We met AMAZING researchers bonding over the perks and pitfalls of scRNA-seq. Thank you to all who came! #bioinformatics #singlecell #UoG
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RT @OlympiaMHardy: Here we go!!!! Day 1 of the annual Bioinformatics summer school kicking off 🖥️ We’re all ready for a packed week full of….
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RT @lpachter: UMAP and t-SNE are widely used in single-cell genomics to identifying features of interest, and visually explore data. In a n….
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Dimensionality reduction is standard practice for filtering noise and identifying relevant features in large-scale data analyses. In biology, single-cell genomics studies typically begin with...
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RT @lpachter: This preprint is now published @PLOSCompBiol: Thanks to many of you who provided suggestions / asked….
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Dimensionality reduction is standard practice for filtering noise and identifying relevant features in large-scale data analyses. In biology, single-cell genomics studies typically begin with...
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Last thing. While looking up Mr Sachs wikipedia, the bit of the article that references Robert Garrys (of the University of Texas) response .to their PNAS opinion article, links to the wikipedia article of Robert Garry; a Scottish Doctor who has been dead since 1993. 8/8
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Harrison has studied SARS-CoV-2. He works in investigating .ion channels formed by the virus. He is however not a virologist of any kind. He certainly has more claim to argue about SARS-CoV-2 origin than Sachs, who is not a biologist of any kind but rather an economist. 7/8.
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Now let's move onto Neil L. Harrison and Jeffrey D. Sachs who co-wrote an opinion column published in PNAS mid last year titled:.A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. 6/8.
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You will of course know Public for such nuanced articles as:."Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Triggers Overdue Debate About China’s Secretive Ethnically-Targeted Bioweapons Research" and ."Brendan O'Neill: Britain's Greatest Living Heir To Orwell". 5/8.
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Now let's discuss some of the prominent voices of the pro-lab leak hypothesis. The first is the people who published the slack messages.in the first place; a substack called 'Public'. 4/8.
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Importantly, this paper came out in early 2020. Since then more and more evidence has come out to support thr.natural evolution of the virus and has been summarised quite well in these papers:. . 3/8.
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None of these messages are incriminating. Scientists discuss the evidence and debate different hypotheses .(which these messages show) and even in the paper they say they cannot completely refute any alternative hypotheses. 2/8.
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Nate is starting his retirement well by moving on from being wrong about elections, .to being wrong about SARS-CoV-2 origin. 1/8.
This is a huge scandal. Scientists like @K_G_Andersen believed a lab leak was extremely plausible, if not likely, they concocted a plan to deceive the public about it, and they've been caught red-handed. There's not really any ambiguity here. They are unethical as it gets.
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RT @glasgowcompbio: Another year, another conference! Thank you to all the speakers, sponsors and organisers. We couldn’t have asked for a….
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RT @BiottofnI: Pls RT: Our Glasgow #Bioinformatics summer school will happen from 21/08/2023. New: optional 2 weeks, first week basic of #L….
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