Scott Edmunds

@SCEdmunds

Iranian-Scottish Londoner lost in the East, trying to get his head around omics and scientific publishing whilst at the BGI. Tweets are my own opinions, etc.

Hong Kong
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  1. 13 hours ago

    Not exactly packed, but great to see Bogyoke Aung San Market in Yangon open for the first time since COVID and the coup

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  2. May 27

    Really shocked to hear of the passing of my old BMC colleague . Memories of the last meeting in Edinburgh are going to be bittersweet now, as it was the last time I saw him and . RIP Triggsy

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  3. May 27

    Its easy to find evidence that Cummings is lying about the Cabinet Office & Michael "can't get the chemical reagents" Gove not being responsible for procurement. The testing companies have long paper trails showing CO didn't want tests till the summer (when Deloitte got the bid)

    Cummings asked if he thinks Michael Gove, behind procurement, is at all culpable. He pauses... "I don't think Gove had a huge responsibility for this"
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  4. May 23

    Where are the British Zhang Yongzhen’s when we need them? Government pushing Public Health England into very Hubei Provincial Health Commission situations.

    i'm furious. The report is really bad. I think it's too late to contain. And it's released late on a Saturday night hoping that no one is paying attention. We *should* be paying attention FFS. Will do a tweet thread tomorrow. report is here
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  5. May 21

    And then they came for the cyclists. I never knew getting on a bike was a seditious act, but this is where is now...

    The Cycling Alliance condemns the police after they gave the green light for an event commemorating cyclists killed & injured on the roads, but then turned out in force and issued participants with fines adding up to tens of thousands of dollars
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    May 20

    Priti Patel’s parents & mine were told to leave Uganda & Kenya, in some cases to save their lives. After much protest (at one point they wanted to dump them on the Falklands) UK let them in. To think years later a daughter of that generation would pose for a photo opp like this.

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  7. May 19

    Oh Eric, not again. Where is Rock Against AntiVaxxism when you need it?

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    May 14

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  9. May 12

    Live from Myanmar, with a trishaw in the background. My contribution to the "Research Intelligence: Open Research, Open Data and Open Publishing" webinar is archived here

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    May 11

    'there are currently nine open investigations into Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s conduct – more than double the number of voter fraud convictions in 2019.'

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  11. May 12

    At least Berlusconi had the decency to pay for his own bunga bunga parties. Boris has carried out his bunga bunga partying on the tax payers dime, or paid for by (no strings attached) “donors”...

    This is all true & disturbing. But I've seen it all with berlusconi in the 2000/2010s. He'd shrug accusations off as a clear sign of obsession & bias from lefty prosecutors helped by right wing media & a large part of the public would buy into that narrative. Sounds familiar?
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  12. May 11

    Daisy Tam and channel their inner Adam Curtis in this great primer introducing a new series on digital humanities

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  13. May 10

    The good news: Myanmar state newspapers have stopped publishing arrest lists of Doctors. The bad news: they seem to be working their way through Nurses now. Arrests under section 505 of the penal code now automatically lead to 3 years imprisonment.

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  14. May 10

    Yangon Street Ludo – at Anawyahtar Traffic

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  15. May 6

    Hunter gathering in the time of military coups. This is why I had to queue in the 36°C heat for over 2 hours today just to withdraw the daily limit of 140 quid

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    May 5

    After 2d of getting the runaround for their 2nd vax in Hyd, my parents finally got it! A part time driver they hired checked several centres, found one with stocks, made his son stand in line while he brought my parents. All to minimize their exposure. His name is Ashraf. (1/n)

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  17. May 5

    I celebrated my first night of later curfew by visiting my favourite kulfi and lassi joint in Yangon “New Life” – at Sule Pagoda

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  18. May 5

    The extended curfew makes a huge difference to the Yangon’s large Islamic community, as finally in the last week of people can go out after and do the evening Tarawih prayers. Could hear the azan and see busy mosques as a result – at Mogul Shah Masjid

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  19. May 5

    First night that the curfew in Yangon has been pushed back to 10pm and the beer and BBQ stalls on 19th St have made an immediate comeback. First time for months it’s been possible to go out for dinner and do stuff after dark – at 19th Street

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  20. May 3

    Penal code 505a goes back to the India Act of 1860, brought into effect in the wake of the 1857 mutiny and can lead to up to 2 years imprisonment. Thanks British Empire.

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