At 22 years old, Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. She joined a small group of poets who have been recruited to help mark a presidential inauguration, among them Robert Frost, Maya Angelou and Miller Williams. nyti.ms/2M5Rstl

The JNJ vaccine results indicate we miraculously have at least 3 safe, highly effective vaccines. Headlines focus on the 66% overall efficacy. But the big deal is that the single-dose vax was 100% effective against severe disease after day 49, and 85% effective by day 28.

Excited to share that my commentary on medical racism, community engagement, & COVID-19 vaccination strategy has been published in @EClinicalMed - read it here: thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

Here's a NYC public health official pleading against "pathogen porn"—big media story gets published without letting the scientific community have even one day to digest/respond to a preprint. Happened too many times throughout last year to great harm. x.com/DrJayVarma/sta…

really great writing in Harper’s BAZAAR from Jakets.bsky.social on the solidarity between Black and Asian communities, and why we need to "put in the real, true, hard work of building mutual trust that humanizes and improves our lives" harpersbazaar.com/culture/a35698…

If you're interested in US mobility and social contact data, Network Science Institute's GLEAM Project (Directed by Alessandro Vespignani) has dashboards with national-, state-, and city-level data covering the past year. Work led by Matteo Chinazzi & Brennan Klein. Dashboard by robel., Agastya Mondal, & Nicole Samay.

Extremely proud of one of my first college friends Rohil Malpani, M.D. for matching at UCSF for his radiology residency. We used to gossip on the library couches before exams at Johns Hopkins University - come a long way since then. Congrats & see you in the Bay soon!

My new useless hobby is collecting vintage cookbooks. Here are a few ketchup-forward gems from "57 Prize-Winning Recipes", published in 1957 by Heinz.

A *slight* name mishap, but it was an absolute honor to work on the COVID-19 safety protocols for this year's #Oscars!

Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’ theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/…

I'm not convinced that these emails from predatory journals aren't written by poorly programmed algorithms

Even countries with high vaccination rates will be vulnerable to outbreaks caused by certain variants. The pandemic is far from over, write Larry Brilliant MD MPH FACPM 💛💙, Lisa Danzig, Karen Oppenheimer, Agastya Mondal, Rick Bright, and W. Ian Lipkin. trib.al/FVzUQCy

“Structural Inequality, the Carceral State and the Need for New Language in the COVID-19 Pandemic” medicalhealthhumanities.com/2021/07/01/str… via WordPress.com

University of California researchers have announced they have union authorization cards from a super-majority of 17,000 researchers — one of the largest union drives in recent US history. We spoke to three of the researchers about why they want a union. jacobinmag.com/2021/07/univer…

seriously though, immensely proud of my fellow coworkers and organizers for making this happen. next step: get recognition from the UC and win a contract that improves working conditions for all!

Student researchers are the backbone of University of California. Their attempts at discrediting our unionization drive are hypocritical & in bad faith. I'm voting 'YES' to ensure a safe & healthy working environment for UC's student researchers.

It was a great experience to march alongside 100s of UC Berkeley researchers, instructors, & postdocs to demand the recognition of the Student Researchers United-UAW union to support fair & equitable labor conditions for all researchers across the UC system!

Excited to share some of our work on mosquitoes, math, & health policy at this year's #Epidemics8 conference! John Marshall Váleri Vásquez Héctor M. Sánchez C.

BREAKING: UC agrees to recognize SRU-UAW in its entirety! This historic victory was brought about by the tireless efforts of thousands of SRs who organized to win a union & a direct response to our massive Strike Authorization Vote. Now let’s win a strong contract for all SRs!