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The US, one big tree made of immigrants #immigration #datavis #datavisualization #dataviz

“Dr. Hussein, our transfer is here. She’s Muslim and is wearing a hijab. I got the history but sense that she won’t be comfortable if I examine her. Do you mind doing her exam?” -resident We go and talk to the patient and family together.

God bless the students who nod at you while you lecture in class. Most of them look at you like you're a like dead fish, but there is always one, nodding along. A hero.

health economics and overdiagnosis want to have a word

"We argue the lower severity of Omicron is a coincidence and that ongoing rapid antigenic evolution is likely to produce new variants that may escape immunity and be more severe" nature.com/articles/s4157… Peter Markov Aris Katzourakis Nature Reviews Microbiology

What happens in the UK and Europe doesn't stay there. 5 out of 5 warnings predicted what would happen in this US. Let's make believe the 6th won't.

Pitfall: Unnecessary Use of Complex Models So often, a logistic regression model or similar will do just fine. If your application can handle a tiny bit less performance, go for the interpretable model. I know it's fun to build complex models. Be strong.

Join the Alden March Bioethics Institute & Ruha Benjamin (!!!) giving the keynote for #AMSEC22 “Solidarity in Healthcare” next week. All are invited! Registration link below. Nada Gligorov Johanna Crane Alden March Bioethics Institute Albany Med Health System Alan S. Boulos @dph4health

I'm a doctor who does research. I've annoyed DOZENS of statisticians. Here are 5 proven ways to exasperate them. #medtwitter #epitwitter #statstwitter

Congratulations to American College of Surgeons Regent, Dr. Steven Stain, who was elected President-elect of the ASA, and Dr. David Hoyt, former executive director, who was elected Vice President! #AmerSurg22

“People think I’m crazy. Like maybe people think I am on drugs. I am not… I am fasting.” 😂😂😂😂 Zack is the Ramadan hero we didn’t know we all needed! 👏🏽

The more we threaten the fossil fuel status quo, the less the media covers it. 41 Extinction Rebellion NYC 🌎 climate activists were arrested this week in New York and only the Village Voice and Common Dreams covered. We must boost and support climate disobedience on social media. Scientist Rebellion

I’ve been away with Sea-Watch for the last few weeks. I feel that I want to share what happened with one of the boats we went to rescue. Boat 4 out of 5 boats rescued. A sinking rubber boat, with over 50 people in the water had been spotted by a plane. It was over 10 miles away.

My paper on Poisson underdispersion in reported Covid-19 cases & deaths is out in Significance. The claim is that underdispersion is a HUGE RED FLAG and suggests misreporting. Paper: rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… Code: github.com/dkobak/covid-u… Figure below highlights 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇦. /1

ML researcher: Then I trained this model using an ML dataset and— Statistician: A what? ML researcher: An ML dataset. You know, a dataset for doing ML. It’s how we advance the field. Statistician: … ML researcher: Don’t you people have statistics datasets? Statistician: …

Worked there as a grad student (stacking books and sorting mail) c.2001 Wonderful place to study/work or just browse the collection (the history section was my favorite)

Very interesting! Australia election: Why is there compulsory voting? - BBC News bbc.com/news/av/world-…

To academics annoyed that a billionaire is destroying Twitter, let me introduce you to academic publishing.