An HSE master's programme, COVID, and blacklists

We decided to launch the “Computational Biology and Bioinformatics” master's programme at HSE University in St. Petersburg. To promote it, we made a very deliberate attempt to ride the COVID-19 hype. After all, as people who had spent the previous few months actively developing several vaccines, we did have some right to do so. I think the result was a rather good post on Habr.

We gathered the little we are allowed to say about our lives over the past few months and wrote about it on Habr. https://t.co/LMWFRqZU78

— Pavel Yakovlev (@zmactep) June 10, 2020

Almost a full day after publication, however, we realised that we had tried to ride the wrong hype train. 😂

After one day we had 1,300 views and not a single comment
After one day we had 1,300 views and not a single comment
Meanwhile, this topic attracted far more interest
Meanwhile, this topic attracted far more interest
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