Peter Ellis

@pjie2

Father, husband, scientist, singer. Prone to getting over-excited about nerdy stuff in public. He/him.

Canterbury, England
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Joined December 2008
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    Jul 14
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    New preprint looking at a model of how ABO blood type incompatibility could interact with virus transmission.

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    6 hours ago

    But also, when you start punishing students for their social activities, you are destroying away any hope of contract tracing or risk-targeted testing. And not just on your campus; even we don't do that here, our students will be wary about reporting their activities now.

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    6 hours ago

    Why am I so frustrated at the universities suspending large numbers of students for attending parties? Partly it's the blame-shifting from administrators who failed to develop feasible proactive strategies for return from campus.

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    11 hours ago

    Disappointing they went with this headline rather than: "NOW IS THE SUMMER OF THIS-C***'S-TENT"

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    22 hours ago

    At a Harvard new employee orientation, an icebreaker was “What have you learned since coming here?” Most of us said stuff like “how to make a human ear from pig cells.” BUT somebody said, “There are dumb people everywhere.” That was 2010 — I still think of her once in a while.

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    10 hours ago

    Months of careful planning for reopening college in a pandemic undone “in the blink of an eye” by students having off-campus parties. Who could have even imagined this astonishing possibility? h/t

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    11 hours ago

    Uni Admin Algorithm: 1. Build a business model around social aspects of campus life 2. Realize pandemic destroyed that business model 3. Double-down on the model by bringing students back 4. Blame students for enjoying your product so you can continue to charge them

    University administrators are competing fiercely to be the first and most vehement in blaming students for the inevitable flip to online classes. J. Michael Haynie, Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation at Syracuse University, took a strong early lead.
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    16 hours ago

    ONE FELL ON HARD TIMES: The Mail can report exclusively that Her Majesty is now forced to live in a park*. *With Buckingham Palace attached.

    "A tent with a cottage attached". Their brains are broken.
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    16 hours ago

    "A tent with a cottage attached". Their brains are broken.

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    16 hours ago

    Boris just throwing a tent up when he's clearly staying in that cottage so the media can talk about how he's camping in Scotland is just so laughably transparent and depressingly effective.

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    18 hours ago

    Data is/are

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    Jul 8

    I will never be anything other than proud that I voted remain and against the Tories, particularly against this Johnson govt. Yes, I lost every time. But my conscience is clear. My votes are not responsible for any of this tsunami of shit.

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    Aug 20

    What explains this? It’s probably partly cultural/structural. It may be easier to WFH in a service-based economy. Meanwhile Britons are more likely than any other Europeans to already shop online so avoiding physical shops is easier. 6/12

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    Aug 20

    Meanwhile, here are some numbers from the on retail footfall, showing UK versus other countries. 3/12

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    Aug 20

    Here’s a survey on Working From Home (reported in the ) Far more Brits are still working from home, much more than in other European countries. 2/12

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    Aug 20

    THREAD: Chatting with about why the UK hasn’t seen Covid cases rise on the same scale as many other countries. Has the government actually got something right? Probably not. Instead looks like Brits have decided – of their own accord – to change their behaviour 1/12

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    Aug 20

    This is really unacceptable...

    1/ Ok as things stand, it looks like the University of Essex (UoE) is insisting we teach face-to-face (f2f) as well as online next term
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    Aug 20

    Anyone else notice the word “remainer” - as a pejorative - is undergoing a change in meaning? It no longer just means “opposed to brexit” - it’s also increasingly used at anyone who points out corruption & low standards in the British state. This is very revealing in many ways.

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  19. Aug 20

    * Lower-ranked universities will have HUGE shortfalls this year and some will likely go bust, leaving even fewer places available next year. What. A. Clusterf*ck. (end)

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  20. Aug 20

    * Home entrants are likely to hold steady or go up - but may will defer to next year so as to get to their first choice university * High-ranking univerities will be oversubscribed this year and next year's spaces will be taken by this years' students (2/n)

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  21. Aug 20

    So: * Non-EU students are down because Covid travel problems (plus many couldn't get their English language tests done because venues were closed) *EU entrants are likely to be down because Brexit (1/n)

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