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I’m off to Leipzig to visit Svante Pääbo’s group at the Max-Planck Institute there, to try to get in on future Neanderthal analysis.

The first Neanderthal paper should be out soon(ish) so of course it is too late to get in on that, but we hope to be able to use our CoalHMM methodology on future data.

I don’t know how much I will be able to blog while away, so you might not hear from me for a few days… we will see.

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I’m in London now, working with David Balding on HapCluster.  We had a late dinner yesterday and I am slightly hung over and a bit lacking in sleep, which is not the optimal state of mind to be trying to solve a mixing problem in an MCMC…

I’m writing this sitting on Jotun Hein‘s floor where I slept last night.  I’m on a trip to the UK, starting here in Oxford.  I arrived pretty late last night — the plane out of Billund was delayed — and I woke up early this morning when Jotun got up to prepare a talk for later today.  Four hours of sleep is a bit on the small side, but the very strong coffee Jotun brews should get me through.

I’m looking forward to chatting with people here in Oxford.  It’s been a while since last time I was here, and I’ve somewhat lost touch of what is going on.  I’ll only be here over the weekend, though, but a lot of people come to the office in the weekend anyway, so it shouldn’t be a problem.

Monday morning I’m moving on, to London, to visit David Balding‘s group to do some work on HapCluster.