Michael DeWitt

2020: what a great time to have expertise in infectious diseases and outbreak response!
2025: ...

Using the waiting periods during jury duty to catch up on reviews and papers. Nothing like being locked in a room to improve productivity....

Five years ago (Tuesday 31 Dec 2019), the news of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan was out. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission published a bulletin confirming the outbreak.

Less information than was already available at the time was shared: ▫️1/

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There was a Cichlids display at the children's museum and I excited turn around to talk about their importance for ecology and evolution and sadly no one was around lol

"It’s hard to form an effective control strategy when you don’t know exactly how it’s spreading.” Dr Brinkley Bellotti quoted in the MIT Technology Review about the #h5n1 outbreak in dairy cattle in the United States. Check out our ongoing research into #h5n1 https://buff.ly/3ZoW9Ak #idsky #medsky

One of my favorite material pleasures (admittedly very privileged) is setting up a stereo sound system and cracking the volume.

I started Thanksgiving as the pilgrims did--updating and reformatting biosketches for grant applications.

Really cool poster presentation from Dr Seth Addo, the 2024 @wakeforest.bsky.social Pennell Global Health Fellow award winner on VBD geospatial risk in Ghana #tropmed24 #astmh

Someone needs to do a study on the impact #rstats Shiny has had on public health communication. Nearly every presentation at #tropmed24 with a dashboard, had one that was a Shiny.

Wandering the Internal Workboat Convention looking for TropMed...might stick around and check these rigs out

Cocktails with the creative slide titles is just pure joy

Going to test how successful I can be writing on Overleaf using my phone.

Hear me out, instead of a Quarto website (which I love), a custom rust static site generator that takes my qmds and jmds. With Go code to parse some some of my Obsidian markdown notes. Along with a Sqlite powered, in-browser search function... id3es.com

The menacing masked man on the top of the parking tower near my child's daycare putting it into lockdown was not how I expected to start the week.

Oh I like those!

Great thread! Just taking the time to write down ideas is a major step in intellectual development (especially as soon as they come to mind...for some reason while brushing my teeth). Then flesh them out later.

I wonder how many of these "future of AI in x" executive types have solved eigenvectors like I find myself doing...

#winston-salem and @wakeforest.bsky.social fun Friday night of Hocus Pocus in the park

Zero wait time on the university HPC on Friday night. Come Monday morning though everything is in queue. Lesson- only work on weekends?

My vocabulary of Spanish language names of arthropods continues to expand over these last two weeks in Peru...

More neat is seeing someone from your childhood neighborhood on the same trip to Peru. Small world.

Seeing both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the same week is kind of a neat thing to have done.

Screenshot from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=exams - the CRAN landing page for R package "exams". This page now includes the DOI 10.32614/CRAN.package.exams

PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI!

This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors.

Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:

Getting my yellow fever and rabies vaccines along with three others and then driving to the beach might have been a bad idea

I've reached that point in my life where I only have a 4am-6am email time slot

Being the youngest person on any team means you are responsible for formatting the Word document. Enjoy it while it lasts...

Coached a 7 year olds in back to back soccer matches in the rain. Ask me anything.

POC affordable molecular assays will be vital for tailoring ABX to treat GC...

Formatted for Science....

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Loren Ipsum in the wild in my morning NPR brief