Nature snapshots [10 November]
As I was reading Nature in a [noisy] train from Coventry to London, I came across
- India (federal) government scapping nearly 300 science awards this year
- a re-analysis of a sudden infant death conviction in Australia relying on rare genetic mutations rather than statistics (as in Sally Clark’s case)
- a book review about a story of the Huxley family that made me realise I had confused most of them as a single person
- a DNA analysis of Black Death survivors (in both London and Denmark), showing natural selection occurred very quickly during the pandemic and increased the risk of autoimmune diseases
- a genuine design of experiment that demonstrated that light grazing by sheep increases diversity, while fertilization does not
- an astronomy paper on cooling supernovae using Bayes factors
- an attempt at rationalising the answer to the Covid threat involving a large panel of experts (and my colleague Miquel Olui-Barton as a co-author)
- a pessimistic assessment by graduate students of their career prospects
Xi'an's Og 
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