palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Generative AI is melting our only planet. Don’t use it. ChatGPT wastes 10x the amount of water as Google. And last year, Google was in talks to purchase 8 nuclear reactors in order to power their own AI. This is not sustainable. Stop using it today. It’s literal Earth Day.

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

🚨 Deadline extended to May 1st! 🚨 Be sure to get your applications in for this summer's introductory workshop to the PBDB ASAP! More details and application form here: forms.gle/xQqDEQwwXeTH...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

At least after the 1918 pandemic they got to have the Roaring Twenties before fascism. We didn't even get to "after the pandemic"

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Eternal shout-out to the restaurant employee who ask whether my allergies included peanuts after I joked about only getting a starter due to having too many allergies, because the restaurant uses peanut oil that isn't mentioned on the menu to fry their chicken.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

After a brief reading break due to applications and grant proposal writing, WHO situation report reading is back on the menu for me. Expect me to become insufferable about Public Health again.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I see divisive eugenics takes now, I think about how the Neanderthal museum highlights three times on the groundfloor that race is a social construct and that separating humans is dangerous. This text wall on "One Species, No Races"

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean? In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

Really interesting looking phd on #papermills #researchintegrity at Leiden/Sheffield www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A PhD position open to anyone who wants to study how many people are getting PhDs that don't deserve to get PhDs. #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I like reading papers, I really do, but every time I open google scholar in the evening instead of morning, I am blinded.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Doctors urge travellers to stay vigilant as global outbreak of #measles makes its way to Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Today, it's time for science again. I'm on a trip in the Neanderthal

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

In case you don't know yet, I run a journal club at twitch.tv/AliceInQuant... where I talk about interesting papers every Tuesday at 2pm CET while playing Genshin Impact with Akademiya characters. On the 8th of April, join me to chat about squamate reptiles.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

After a brief break following a conference marathon, I'm back doing research. You don't want to see my ToDo list.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I love LaTeX beamer, I really do but please increase your fontsize! My astigmatism can't keep upm

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

So it’s over then, works for me

submitted 47 days ago • 358 comments

this: "Instead of teaching people to dodge stones that we have thrown at them, it would be better not to throw stones from the very beginning,”

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Science isn’t neutral. It never was. From funding priorities to methodological biases, every step is shaped by human values. The question isn’t whether science is value-laden, but whose values shape it—and who gets to call it ‘objective

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

I really hate going to an interdisciplinary talk and getting jumpscared with a positive betrayal of Dawkins' theories.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The long list of words flagged for review includes several fundamental epidemiology terms which likely show up in every paper, grant, report, presentation, or conference talk. Does this mean epidemiology as a whole is now forbidden? My thoughts at: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

submitted 48 days ago • 8 comments

Yes! Sometimes vaccines have side-effects. Let's actually compare them to the effect of measles. (Apropos of, gosh, I dunno.) www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/o...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Accidentally ended up in a session on disarmament while waiting for the one on archaeological physics.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

My chronic conditions put me in a fair amount of pain through the damage they do to my body, so I have now found out that I can sit on lecture hall chairs for 3 days worth of conference before the additional strain starts affecting my ability to concentrate.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I like to think that my astigmatism doesn't affect me as much, but I have to sit in the front during talks and I can't drive at night without getting a migraine.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Today, I've planned for a full day of Quantum Entanglement talks. Consider me a happy camper sitting there with a notebook and colour-coded pens.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta love being called Alice while sitting in a quantum physics session 🧪⚛️

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

For the love of everything, increase the font size in your beamer .TeX files! People from the middle of the room backwards will thank you.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Me, increasing the number of spatial dimensions in a compartmental disease transmission model: How dare the system of differential equations become more complicated? #MathSky #EpiSky 🧮

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to all finalists of the SAMOP Dissertation Prize! The talks were really fascinating #DPGBonn25

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Me: The conference is in the state I live in. I'll just drive there in the morning - parking is 20€ a day and fuel for the week would be ~80€ Me: Oh, then I'll take the train - train is at 6:13am and now I have to skip the evening programme, because the last one back is at 9pm

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

As someone whose research involves mathematical models of disease transmission and population dynamics, I feel a little bit like an awakened sleeper agent every time someone says "Markov"

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Kicking of the first day of the conference programme with a session on "Collective Effects and Disordered Systems" after some brilliant plenary talks. #DPGPhysik

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

It's DPG Frühjahrstagung starting today! I'm so excited for all the physics.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Enigmatic discoidal macrofossils with central ring from the Ediacaran Jiangchuan biota, SW China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #FossilFriday

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Why the Royal Society is torn over Elon Musk Many fellows feel the billionaire has breached its code of conduct, but others say scientific neutrality is at stake #AcademicSky #ElonMusk

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Did I stay calm or did panic and spoke twice as fast as planned during my talk? Take your guesses below.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Putting multiple ebolavirus latin species names next to each other with forever make me smile.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing myself in my laptop camera on zoom makes me feel like the vampires in my horror novels I wrote have a tan in comparison.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

My two weeks of conferences starting has me realise that since I don't train/play rugby 6 times a week anymore, I actually can't sit still.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

#VCWAP is kicking off and I couldn't be more excited. Starting the day of well with a session on "Exploitation on natural resources and raw materials".

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

The slides are ready and if you tune in at 14:40 on Thursday you can see the cutest little anglerfish at #VCWAP @women-archeopal.bsky.social

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I am perfectly willing to have conversations about possible inefficiencies in how the NIH and NSF fund science in this country but I need to know that these conversations are in good faith and will not be used to fuel the current focus on chaos, confusion and dismantling the NIH and NSF

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

I have strayed so far from mammals with my current active research and I'm honestly loving it.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Funding application #1 has been written. Now, some working on the novels before project summary #2.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

How has it been months since Forest announced the focus challenges and they had a whole subscription model introduced and annouced before the focus challenges stop being buggy on android?

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments