Steven Salzberg

@StevenSalzberg1

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of BME, CS, and Biostats at Johns Hopkins University, tennis player, blogger at Forbes: …

Maryland, USA
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Joined August 2012
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  1. Jan 11

    and I should add that just dropped the price from $56,000/year to $28,000/year. Still outrageous, especially for a drug that doesn't work and has serious risks of brain swelling 2/2

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  2. Jan 11

    I just wrote about this problematic new Alzheimer's drug yesterday (). Now Medicare is about to announce a decision on coverage

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  3. Jan 10

    Yeah, right. 10Kb reads just like Moleculo, a technology that never worked that well and that doesn't span long repeats because essentially you still just have short reads that you assemble first. Call this "read length" is misleading. They won't beat with this!

    Infinity also enables 10x greater throughput with 90% less input than legacy long reads. We anticipate an early access launch for Infinity technology in the second half of the year.
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  4. Jan 10

    the new Alzheimer's drug, Aduhelm (aducamumab), costs $56,000 year, has dangerous side effects, and doesn't even work

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  5. Jan 10

    The $56,000/year Alzheimer's drug from Biogen should never have been approved by the FDA. Here's why:

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  6. Jan 9

    I am late to the game, but this is one reason why 2022 might be a good year. Ignore the photo, this new series is set 1000s of years before , and filming of season 1 is already completed. Premiere date: Sept 2, 2022

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  7. Jan 9

    Did not know the 14th amendment clearly makes Trump ineligible to hold office, because he has "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the [United States], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof." Let's ensure he can't run, ever again

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  8. Jan 9

    to see what Elmo is responding to, you have to watch this clip, where he gets super-frustrated (yes, Elmo goes on a rant!) when Zoe says her pet rock wants to eat the last oatmeal cookie 2/2

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    there are tears in my eyes y’all my stomach hurting
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  9. Jan 9

    this tweet literally had me laughing so hard I cried. 1/2

    Don't worry everybody! Elmo and Zoe practiced sharing and are still best buds forever! Elmo loves you Zoe! Ha ha ha! Elmo doesn't want to talk about Rocco.
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  10. Jan 6

    Here's an intriguing argument that the omicron variant originated in a lab leak. It is indeed plausible–and yet another argument for why NIH should immediately halt all gain-of-function (GoF) research

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  11. Jan 5

    what a great idea. I didn't know the Center for Open Science offered a way to publish your figures for free on their platform, so they'll always be freely available

    Pro-tip: you can publish your figures on OSF before the article is accepted and give them a CC-BY license then they will always be freely available.
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  12. Jan 5

    excellent

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  13. Jan 5

    this new Wordle game doesn't seem so hard, or else I'm just remarkably lucky Wordle 200 2/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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  14. Jan 5

    Well done, Australian PM! Pushing back hard on Djokovic's attempt to claim a (clearly bogus) medical exemption. is a great tennis player, but alas he is deeply confused about vaccines. isn't letting him get away with it

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  15. Jan 4

    Really, Australian Open? Djokovic is well known as an anti-vaxxer, and this move simply amplifies his mistaken views about vaccines. Your doctor might be qualified to give you tennis lessons, but your tennis pro is not qualified to give medical advice

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  16. Jan 3

    I wonder if knows that one of their faculty (Pedro Domingos) is posting misogynist, insulting tweets like the one below. Tweets from present the opposite view

    Anyone who has been on a faculty search committee knows this is not true.
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  17. Jan 2

    agree with , you have to shut down these sources of misinformation. I wrote a whole blog on just this topic back in the summer:

    I see some folks dismayed that Twitter banned MTG today, pushing the idea that the answer to bad speech isn't removal from the platform, but instead more "good speech" to counter it. I wish that was true and that it worked that way. But it doesn't. A short story... /1
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  18. Jan 2

    well done Twitter. I hope this is just a start

    Twitter’s statement: “We permanently suspended the account for repeated violations of our Covid-19 misinformation policy.”
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  19. Jan 2

    deep in this story is a reference to our ongoing effort to bring the Chinese genome database, GSA, into the INSDC (GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ), which I (and other INSDC advisors) would very much like to see. Pandemic distrust has made this so much harder

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  20. Jan 1

    China's authoritarian behavior keeps getting worse. And they still haven't allowed tennis player Peng Shuai to leave the country or speak freely

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