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germsandnumbers.bsky.social
Computational Epidemiologist and Associate Prof at WSU. Maker of artisinal, small-batch simulation models for the discerning infectious disease consumer. WoW and zombie epidemiology. Adopter of dogs. Not taking this terribly seriously. He/him.
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An anniversary worth marking. I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.

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<diligently updating the list of career paths on the university’s “Major in Mathematics!” poster>

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

C̶h̶i̶c̶a̶g̶o̶ ̶P̶o̶p̶e̶ Bayesian Pope

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The administration has already nerfed picks like Gaetz because they were embarrassed. RFK just said that the MMR vaccine contains aborted fetus debris. Absolutely psychotic. American public health, as an institution, should organize around one clear goal right now: this guy needs to be fired.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Does @gailsimone.bsky.social refer to her iPhone as "The Apple of Discord"?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Any infectious disease folks on #episky have a review topic they're burning to write? Lemme know.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

@ichejournal.bsky.social x ASHE collab coming soon—and also…an impact factor for us! Excited to celebrate the editorial board and most importantly—our authors and reviewers here at #SHEASpring2025.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Not my words. My parents generation is seriously just fucking me over at every turn lol Hooray for automation! /s

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I received a surprising and disturbing request from NIH on Friday. They wrote to cancel a subaward to Hong Kong on one of my grants. (This was disturbing but not surprising.) They also ordered us not to interact with our collaborators in Hong Kong on any work under the award:

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

submitted 17 days ago • 70 comments

Today's grant writing tip, brought to you by my thoughts during a recent panel: Do not phone in your power calculations. You might not get caught out, but if you do, in my experience this is the number one cause of reviewers doing things like voting outside the score range (that's bad).

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Submitting a grant in the Year of Our Lord 2025.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

speaking as a dog owner here - y’all, keep your dogs on leash when you’re out in public, my god. This isn’t hard

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

I cannot express the level of cognitive dissonance, as a Tufts and UNC SPH alum, to be looking at *Harvard* with genuine admiration.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 27 days ago • 251 comments

Every potential letter writer should internalize how difficult things have been for pre-tenure faculty since 2020 (for all the reasons)

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

www.youtube.com/shorts/7fBwd... I love it when YouTube content is made for me, and me specifically.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Come do summer graduate work on some very cool pandemic-related problems with some extremely neat people (and also me). appex.org/openpositions/

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

A colleague of mine alerted me to the fact that my most cited publication currently has 666 citations, so I'm going to need you all to look elsewhere when you need to source "We don't really understand influenza seasonality". Thank you for your cooperation.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Rep. McBride hasn't been getting credit for this subtle shade she's been throwing back when she is recognized this way, and this isn't the first time there's been a more senior Democrat objecting on her behalf (the loudest so far, certainly) Rep. McBride is in the position of playing respectability

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Having *this* president be the one recognizing that borders are just artificial lines drawn on a map is some straight up monkey's paw nonsense.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Disrupting a scientist's career by taking away their research grant funding, which partly funds their salaries, also means you've disrupted years of investment. Even an early career researcher has had years of schooling, other formal training, and other research experience.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Does "Posting in your local tabletop gaming discord about Hantavirus after there was a fatality in your county" count as outreach?

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases NSF program has been archived. Huge loss. Does anyone know if the current proposals in the queue for funding will not be reviewed or are panels still happening?

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Those who suggest that victims of vaccine preventable diseases are deserving of it will be insta-blocked. Most cases are children. And both kids and adults could be unvaccinated because of lack of access, misinformation, contraindications. Public health is not about leaving anyone behind.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

"Although the potential of AI models is evident, their ultimate value will depend on demonstrating a clear opportunity cost advantage over existing approaches—which has yet to be proven definitively." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments