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PhD Candidate @ University of Colorado Boulder Infectious disease modeling Views are my own
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In September in Geneva we applauded a major milestone in the effort to eradicate measles and rubella viruses from the face of the earth. Today an unvaccinated child has died of measles in the country where the vaccine was developed. This is not greatness.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

It’s Saturday afternoon. You get a work email from someone claiming to be an auditor, but they don’t sign the email. Who is this from? Is it legit? They ask you to describe what you accomplished last week. What do you do? You do what those security trainings taught you. *Report as phishing*

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Last week, I had the honor of receiving 2nd place at CU Boulder's 3MT competition. This competition challenges grad students to distill their thesis down into a 3 minute talk for a general audience. My talk focused on how viral kinetics and probability theory inform testing policies... in < 3 mins ⏰

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 23 days ago • 793 comments

Continuing the recruitment trend! Our lab has 2 (!) open postdoc positions🥳 We're looking for creative and curious scientists to lead new projects: one on deep-sea biological rhythms and another on the evolution of biological communication🐚🦗🦋🐙🦉 If you know someone who'd be a good fit, please share!

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Back in 2023 I went to a workshop on “complex network contagion” that was mostly about simulations of disease spread and some real-world data analysis. Yesterday Ted Cruz declared it was a “questionable project promoting DEI or advancing neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.”

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

We have come to the point where the world's largest international health organization is doing a $1b GoFundMe. This is unfortunately entirely legit. Until we can use our votes, our voices and our wallets are the tools we must rely on.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

submitted 28 days ago • 51 comments

We need to be giving this more attention - measles outbreaks are rough on patients, taxing on response, and indicative of larger public health vulnerabilities. Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

When everything is on fire, just visit coolors.co and get lost in the color schemes you may use in your next manuscript

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

While we’re banning apps, Microsoft Teams is right there.

submitted 50 days ago • 9 comments

TFW your citation rabbit hole lands you at one of the first examples of vaccine clinical trials 🤓 This trial gained approval for public use of a vaccine that was originally developed to protect troops against influenza A during WWII.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

submitted 75 days ago • 20 comments

A thread🧵 on application systems for postdoc jobs in the UK (applies to my university, but I've seen others and they're similar). I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how

submitted 94 days ago • 7 comments

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. A remarkable achievement. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 409 days ago • 16 comments

New preprint out with Ziyuan Zhang (master's student) and Chris Boyer www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... showing through simulation that a variant of the test-negative design can estimate the protection associated with an exposure-proximal correlate of protection for immunity to symptomatic infection

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Wondering if high schoolers still use Prezi for their class presentations 😵‍💫

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 The Colorado Index of Complex Networks (icon.colorado.edu) is reborn! ICON 2.0 indexes 699 distinct research-quality network data sets, classified into 6 domains (Social, Biological, Information, Economic, Technology, Transportation) and 53 subdomains /1 #networkscience

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

Guess it's time to bite the bullet leave 🐥er or whatever they call it these days

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments