Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH

I don’t think LLMs have much of a future in the arts; music, video, cinematography, etc.

it’s just like, I want music and art created by real human beings. I don’t understand why anyone would want anything else. This is why I listen to music. To connect to other human beings.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

March 10th Update:
After a relatively low transmission winter, we had a long shoulder, but numbers are starting to trend further down. Still elevated in the Midwest and Northeast. NWSS & WWScan:

Estimates:
🔸325,000 new infections/day
🔸~1 in 200 currently infected

Mother of wounded Maya Gebala sues OpenAI over mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. The family the girl critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has launched a civil court lawsuit against artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.

OpenAI helped a teen plan a mass shooting at a Canadian high school.

The conversations were flagged and reviewed by staff, but upper management declined to involve law enforcement.

Multiple children lost their lives because the company chose profit over people.

Canada and countries in the E.U. are wise to boost their research post funding to lure top scholars from the U.S. This is a once-in-a-lifetime brain drain from the United States.

#Health #Science

Percent change in number of NIH awards by career stage, FY 2022-2025

Source: bouviergrant.com/fiscal-year-...

#PublicHealth #MedSky #Health #Science

74 degrees today in Boston, breaking the record high of 71 set in 1878. ♨️

Yes, Some Adults Do Need to Be Revaccinated Against Measles A new measles outbreak — along with a population improperly vaccinated in the 1960s — has many Baby Boomers wondering if they need to be revaccinated.

"The recent measles outbreak in the Northwest has sent demand for the MMR vaccine surging. Anyone who hasn’t been vaccinated is urged to get the vaccine, but do people who have already had it need another dose?

For a small subset of adults, the answer is yes."

#PublicHealth #IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

we have saved daylight

but at what cost

Would be interesting to see a graph of average age at first R01 award by year.

Would be great if @bsky.app could add a poll function here.

So many questions to ask #EpiSky #PublicHealth #MedSky #EconSky #Science among others

‘My scientific career is essentially over.’ A brain drain imperils Massachusetts’ biomedical future. In a first-of-its-kind survey, the Globe asked hundreds of scientists about the impact of federal funding cuts.

In a first-of-its-kind survey, the Boston Globe asked hundreds of scientists about the impact of federal funding cuts.

A prominent cancer scientist is uprooting his Harvard lab of 2 decades and moving it to Texas. And a women’s health researcher made the wrenching decision to start over in Canada.

U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in February The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department said Friday, missing expectations.

In an unexpected downturn, the U.S. lost 92,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate rose to 4.4%.

$1 billion a day could fund so many beneficial things—SNAP benefits, childcare, and healthcare subsidies—to name a few.

The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated. Incredible reporting from @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

It might be time to admit that the worst Covid peaks are currently in summer, which has implications for vaccine strategies

1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT. If You Cancel, Make Sure You Do This First Find out how you can take years of stored memory with you if you decide to leave ChatGPT and join a new AI service.

1.5 million of 50 million subscribers leave ChatGPT. That's only 3%.

My main piece of advice to students and early career researchers is to hang in there and to talk to your peers and mentors. Everyone is struggling in one form or another in their research and teaching and we can provide support to each other during these unprecedented times.

#EpiSky #PublicHealth

In this panel, the PJM market monitor states plainly that data centers are almost exclusively to blame for high and rising wholesale electricity costs in the Midatlantic. It's not EVs, heat pumps, or industrial electrification. Data centers. Panel discusses how to make Big Tech pay their fair share.

L’ILE LONGUE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announces France will increase its number of nuclear warheads for 1st time in decades.

Sorry, but I gotta stand up for raisins

I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents

My painting WINTER SUNRISE

If this continues for a prolonged period, how will soft money institutions (including many schools of public health) and the researchers there survive?

"It's just like the flu", except it isn't.

#Covid #EpiSky #PublicHealth

Are obesity drugs causing a severe complication? What the science says Nature - The United Kingdom and Brazil have issued warnings about a possible link between GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and pancreatic inflammation, but the connection is murky.

A rare and potentially fatal illness that might be linked to GLP-1 drugs is now causing alarm

go.nature.com/46to3j2

The new normal

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Terrible...have good memories of it.