Mihaela Zavolan

Wait, what?? Bi-directional ribosome scanning. Wow nature.com/articles/s4146…

This.👇 Statistics is "citizenship math". It's really hard to avoid being taken advantage of in modern society without having a good understanding of probability, risk, and how polls and research are reported to the public. Make Stats required and teach it in 9th or 10th grade!

I wanted to add to renewed discussion of early Wuhan #SARSCoV2 triggered by @MichaelWorobey's recent perspective (x.com/MichaelWorobey…). Although some the Twitter discussion has deteriorated into lab leak vs zoonosis yelling, there's some interesting scientific substance (1/n)

What you get is what you want?

Please spread the word: we are looking for a bioinformatician to support highly collaborative projects in @Zavolanlab and within the @NCCR_RNADisease. More info biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positions…