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bradfordptaylor.bsky.social
Infectious disease modeler. Interested in: social drivers of infectious disease, evolution of abx resistance, math models. He/him.
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@npr.org is contributing to misinformation by not contextualizing Musk’s statements with 1) all feds responded to prior required DOGE emails (existence proof) and 2) that some agencies notified their employees of security dangers in responding to the non-mandatory 5 bullet email

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Should I stay or should I go? 🎵 In a new opinion piece, Claudia Igler, Andrina Bernhard and I discuss how conjugative plasmids and temperate bacteriophages balance vertical and horizontal transmission: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Our framework sheds light on many aspects of MGE biology (1/7)

submitted 133 days ago • 2 comments

It's real. Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics Pre-order in advance of 10/22 release by Johns Hopkins University Press. bit.ly/asymptomatic... More soon on events and interactions to come. .

submitted 188 days ago • 1 comment

There is now a cover. Asymptomatic is available for pre-order, forthcoming from JHU Press on October 22, 2024. www.amazon.com/Asymptomatic...

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Cool work from friends & mentors: "we deployed a high-throughput combinatorial screening platform, DropArray, to evaluate the interactions of over 30,000 compounds with up to 22 antibiotics and 6 strains of Gram-negative ESKAPE pathogens, totaling to over 1.3 million unique combinations"

submitted 342 days ago • 0 comments

New @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social preprint on optimizing experiments to infer multiphasic decay of infectious viruses, led by Jeremy Seurat w/Justin Meyer & team, we leverage synthetic sims to design, implement, & identify a hidden majority of rapidly decaying phage www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 370 days ago • 0 comments

A thread on using 'Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics Across Cells, Organisms, and Populations' & the computational guides in Python, R or MATLAB in a classroom setting (release 3/5/24 via @princetonupress.bsky.social). The central point for students: you can do it! bit.ly/qbios_book

submitted 376 days ago • 1 comment

After nearly 10 years in development, delighted to share news that 'Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and Populations' is available for pre-order from Princeton University Press: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

submitted 390 days ago • 1 comment

Ross McInnes, a post-doc in my group, will sadly be leaving in Spring 2024 as we reach the end of a grant. He is now looking for a job. Ross is excellent and has a skill set that includes molecular biology, functional and comparative genomics, and microbiome research: rosssmcinnes.github.io

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Are you an undergrad and love math modeling (or tolerate it and want to know more)? One week left to apply for the Workshop to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling & Public Health! March 4-5, 2024 in Boston. #episky #idsky ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/increase-div...

submitted 476 days ago • 0 comments

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

submitted 500 days ago • 14 comments

I like to read *real* microbial ecology research periodically to remind me that opportunistic pathogens and model systems exhibit only a narrow range of possible interactions. For example, this makes our fascination with surface-sensing seem small: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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“The more uncomfortable truth is that academic science has never been a trade that selects for or supports the best scientific minds in the world.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-prize-debate-misses-the-mark-on-the-real-culprits-ignoring-scientific-merit/

submitted 515 days ago • 3 comments

I'm excited to share our most theoretical work yet, led by 3rd year PhD student Paul Torrillo. We revisit the old observation that dN/dS depends on the distance between compared sequences. We arrive at a radically different conclusion than current prevailing theory. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 533 days ago • 5 comments

Caught an interesting wnyc bit on the “enshittification” of the internet. Why things like fbook, amazon, twitter etc start off too good to be true and inevitably get worse over time. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

submitted 547 days ago • 1 comment