Nance Cunningham

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Interested in using data to tackle health inequalities? Join a 1-day, online hackathon for undergrad & grad students w/ at least 1 coding or stats class. Learn about epidemiology and how quantitative methods can answer urgent public health questions. Feb 28. Info: bit.ly/3MtiJFq #EpiSky #DataSciSky

Pediatrics published the Vaccine Integrity Project’s hepatitis B birth dose vaccine evidence review online. The review looked at: 400+ studies/reports, 40 years of data—and the conclusion was unmistakable.
There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose.
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What Past Atrocities Teach Us about Residential School Burials | The Tyee The decision to dig in search of children's bodies should rest with the communities and families.

To fight denialism "is to insist, without qualification, that it is up to the affected communities & only the affected communities to decide whether to exhume the remains of their loved ones."

What Past Atrocities Teach Us about Residential School Burials thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... @thetyee.ca

Toronto hospital to double housing program that reduces ER visits | CBC News A Toronto hospital network will double its unique permanent housing program for homeless people who frequently visit emergency departments that has seen great success.

Toronto hospital to double housing program that reduces ER visits

via Liam Casey @cdnpress.bsky.social #publichealth #healthequity #housing
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Public Domain Film Remix Screening Party January 21 @ 7pm PT

JUST ADDED: Can't make it to the Internet Archive for our Public Domain Film Remix Contest screening party? Join the LIVESTREAM to watch the winning films and honorable mentions!

LIVE from the Internet Archive
January 21 @ 7pm PT
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Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled $1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease

Important to highlight: This move is coming from African health officials. It signals that “the institutions are getting stronger” by pushing back on unethical and exploitative studies in Africa, @boghuma.bsky.social said.
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a man is standing in a kitchen drinking from a cup and talking about flu season . ALT: a man is standing in a kitchen drinking from a cup and talking about flu season .

Keeping this up in the new year!
For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice. Let's do this.
#AskAnIDDoc January 2026 edition.

I worked for MSF for 3 years, because I appreciate the approach. Effective, flexible, and constantly doing research on their operations so the findings can inform best practices.

Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Led Pistols Sex Zeppelin

An orange and white cat is reading a book with running title Pasteur and the Mad Dog

Mario makes his #Caturday debut, doing some very serious reading #catsofbluesky #catscalledmario

Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.

It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.

The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.

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Positive trend between monolingualism and accelerated ageing.

Negative trend between per capita GDP and accelerated ageing.

A recent study purports to have found that multilingualism protects against accelerated ageing. I've taken a closer look at it, and it doesn't look good.

New blog post: "Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Some critical comments"
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Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.

Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”

Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

JFC. Dunning Kruger is an epidemic.

Almost nothing is tested against "inert placebo" because we have a thing called "non-inferiority trials", meaning they are required to be NOT WORSE than the existing treatment. Because all modern drugs would be more efficacious than placebo.

Image of the Dec 2 daily update from the Ethiopian ministry of health found here https://x.com/FMoHealth/status/1995907476013658364/photo/2

Update on the #Marburg outbreak in Ethiopia:

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New from us @plosglobalpublichealth.org
"Cholera vaccines for the rich, #cholera for the poor: While the global cholera vaccine stockpile runs dry, a booming market for high-income countries exemplifies the chasm between commercial interests and global health needs" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

If anything, statistics is clearly not hard enough.

People are being significantly more excited about this Voynich manuscript episode than a typical bonus episode and it's just really fun to see!

If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀

I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.

December 16 Methods Series talk, "A generalization of the mechanism-based approach for age-period-cohort models"

Don't miss the final Methods Series talk this year!

Arvid Sjölander @ki.se presents, "A generalization of the mechanism-based approach for age-period-cohort models."

📆 Dec 16, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CET/9.00 ET
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2026 talks TBA. Register 👇
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It’s an interesting approach to provide clarity on a tanker ban while failing to meet with the Coastal First Nations despite repeated requests - the community that would be directly affected by any spill - while having dozens or more meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists, AB, Sask.

Congratulations, deeper understanding of pain is so important

Canada's #Budget2025 (which grotesquely frames a $2.7billion cut in international assistance as "Savings", & rather than leading by continuing to give more to global health than "other similar economies" chooses to follow those similar economies despite clear & deadly impacts of their cuts) passes.

The result is a simulated VDA regime; symbolic verification, symbolic deliberation, symbolic accountability. All the procedural shapes of reasoning with none of the real-world safeguards.

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.

What happens in nature in eight minutes? What does a frog look like on the inside? What was the first written language? These questions, and many more, are answered in the books shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize: #YoungSciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/11...