dtcitron.bsky.social
Applied mathematics for epidemiology | Infectious disease modeling | Digital data for health | HIV | Malaria
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Pull Fincher off of directing the Tarantino sequel and let him make this instead
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Sin City, 2006, was extremely misguided
Not sure if that’s worse than my friend who took a date to see Caché
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Animal: (quietly) “You know who I am. You know what I do.” *pause* (loudly) “HUNT SHARK HUNT SHARK”
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I float as an alternative option: Brody is a human, Quint is Animal.
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The shark is a shark Muppet named Bruce.
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And very, very hard to kill
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I recommend just spending time noticing stuff. I found that after a while the days became very very dense with all the new stuff I was discovering.
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Ooh narrate your progress so I can relive a beautiful week of discovering through you
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Dance like no one is watching
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Looking forward to season 3
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People in the zombie show: “at least on land we don’t have to worry about sharks!”
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For poster presentations: less is more! Assume that everyone who sees your poster will be exhausted and overwhelmed, so give them one cool figure and one memorable takeaway up front. The goal is to start a conversation, not force people to read paragraphs of text.
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"I can't fly"
"You won't have to."
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Exchange interactions! How do they work!
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During my defense one of my committee members fixated on one section of a book, and demanded that I change my thesis to an incorporate it. Turns out that section cited an irrelevant document. I spent a week on a wild goose chase trying to find anything that would justify using that book section.
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“I once asked a magic eight ball if I should break it open and drink the fluid inside.”
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One variation was to assign some participants to be doctors/medics who would remove your pathogen stickers if you came in contact.
For timing, we would play for a minute at a time, freeze, then do a headcount of how many people were "infected," unfreeze, repeat.
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The students can then build out the contact networks of the classroom, and chart the epidemic. Also they can suggest and discuss ideas for changing the rules of the game to investigate other phenomena, and iterate on the activity as time allows.
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For the last couple years I’ve been guest teaching epidemiology in NYC public schools, and one activity that I’ve done with high schoolers is a game where students mingle, record their contacts, and exchange stickers that represent pathogens.
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How advanced are your students?
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Well there was that one time he agreed to be Tyrion’s champion in a trial by combat
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I imagine it’s talking about my college roommate Al
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Ah! Thank you for sharing this!
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I’m so glad I know this now
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Or, if you had anxious parents, waiting 24 hours before going for a swim.
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Everyone knows that the human head has 10 times the surface area compared to the rest of the human body
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What if I’m starting a rumor about my friend right now and this goes viral?
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It works if you wrap your coat over your mouth and nose
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Does British counterintelligence count as an urban myth? 🤔
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People eat dozens of spiders in their sleep every year.
Twist: in college a friend of mine told me this fact was seeded as part of a sociology study to see how rumors spread. I have been unable to verify this claim.
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Every single one of these projected deaths was preventable in December 2024, and is just as preventable today as long as the resources that were stolen are restored as promised.