Eric Lofgren

Microsoft apparently got jealous of all the press Amazon was getting.

Truly the universal phrase of the field

DARPA: “We designed a decentralized communications platform resistant to attacks at a single point of failure.”

Amazon: “Hold my triple hop microbrew IPA.”

As a moderator in a very gamer-heavy online space, this is so very, very true.

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

Please stop making rural hospitals political pawns. Treating rural hospitals as political currency sends a message that rural communities do not matter, hardens already large divides, and punishes populations that are far more diverse than most on social media would like to acknowledge.

The veterinary field gives us a preview of how this will play out— with no major federal funding for companion animal medicine, potential return on investment dictates what is or is not researched and developed. It’s one of the reasons we have far fewer drugs licensed for cats than dogs.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Nina and I are currently working on a retrospective on this

Covid has killed ~5-6x the number of people this year as those who died in 9-11. Both are heartbreaking, ❤️‍🩹 but only one is grieved publicly. The other is barely noticed & declared over

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.

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I cannot imagine someone who would be more opposed to this than Orson Welles.

A graph of Nate Silver being very wrong about COVID-19 and how public health professionals are overreacting.

Oh Nate...

I once explained to someone that if any study I ran had results like this, it would be the highlight of my career.

Carlpocalypse Now?

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

🧵There's a lot of talk today to the effect that "public health shouldn't be political," & with respect:

The notion that government has a responsibility to guide & support the health of every last resident, regardless of background, status, & to some extent even citizenship, is PROFOUNDLY political.

I have a message to the staff at CDC who have dedicated their careers to protecting Americans from health threats of all kinds: Thank you.

Your courage and dedication have improved or saved the lives of people who may not even know it.

We’re with you.

You've seen how much damage RFK has done at HHS. RFK is a disorganized, age-addled maniac, and most of his job is PR stunts. I cannot begin to tell you how much damage a Thiel-verse technocrat like O'Neill will do in CDC. Starting with: he will persecute women you know and love for their abortions.

Just call Congress. I am asking you to do that for the women in your life, if not for public health. You don't even need to find a script or write down what you're going to say before you call. Hell, you don't even need to shave your nasty little beard before you take a video and post it on Bluesky.

resigned leaders all speaking live now

Unexpected Transmission Dynamics in a University Town:... : Epidemiology ck to campuses worried many that transmission within student populations would spread into surrounding communities. In light of this, many colleges and universities implemented mitigation strategies, ...

Work on the COVID-19 outbreak in Whitman Co, WA with Erin Clancey & @mietchen.bsky.social is published! TLDR: Modeling supports the idea that our outbreak was driven by import cases and that the university and surrounding area had little cross transmission. #episky journals.lww.com/epidem/fullt...

putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

If it helps, I have things un-checked off on a sticky note labeled "To Do, Summer 2017".

Time series of Nate Silver being catastrophically wrong about COVID-19.

"Much better bullshit detector"

Rickets being a disease famously unassociated with starvation.

Science faculty begging my peers to stop trying to throw humanities under the bus. You’ll be better scholars for it, and the administration isn’t going to give you points for doing so when they come for you.

As a science professor at a STEM-only university, I think this is a very bad idea.