The Majumder Lab is hiring! Are you a prospective postdoc interested in machine learning & pandemic preparedness? Or a Boston-area under/grad student looking to study misinformation on social media? Apply today to work with us (& please retweet widely): airtable.com/shre9V9QeJUZ36…

I'll be teaching a 2-day, 8 hour course "The Epidemiology of Police Violence" in June through Columbia episummer. You can register here. In previous years, grad students & health department staff have often been able to get employers to cover registration reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page…

Breaking News: An FDA advisory panel found that the benefits of making a birth control pill available over the counter outweighed the risks. The agency is expected to decide this summer whether to allow nonprescription sales of an oral contraceptive. nyti.ms/42uQ9Gv

Today, ID experts get it right Annals of Int Med. It's not time to take off masks in healthcare settings. Should have been published as a companion to and in opposition to the 17 April one below. acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2… by Tara Palmore and David Henderson

1/ What's the global state of wastewater surveillance? On behalf of authors from >20 countries & all continents, A Keshaviah, Megan Diamond, M Wade, & me survey capacity & what's needed going forward. The Rockefeller Foundation Mathematica Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern The Lancet Global Health thelancet.com/journals/langl…

3 Postdocs (Boston, USA) Machine learning, pandemic preparedness, & socioepidemic misinformation with Dr. Majumder is writing 🖋 at CHIP Informatics More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/postdocs-…

The Majumder Lab at CHIP Informatics [Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's] is hiring! Dr. Majumder is writing 🖋 is recruiting multiple postdoctoral fellows & Boston-area under/grad research assistants for projects on ML, pandemic preparedness, & misinformation. Apply today: airtable.com/shre9V9QeJUZ36…

A poster inspired by the graphics of the 1930’s WPA movement and the many voices on here who give me hope for humanity (thank you.) #MasksSaveLives #KeepMasksInHealthcare #DoNoHarm

The fact that - presumably - the infected worker was not given clear and unambiguous instructions to remain in strict quarantine until results were available is a damning indictment of the state of UK public health. We are in a worse place now than 2019. dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…

“Medicine is the science that teaches us the conditions of the human body, in terms of what is healthy and what is not. The goal is to protect health when it exists and recover it when it is lost.” — Ibn Sina, The Canon of Medicine

🆕NEJM Why masking in health care facilities is still indicated nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

I will never get over this fragment by Danez. I'm writing about how the nuance, precision, double meaning, mutation, and clarity here are things SCIENTISTS and DOCTORS need to learn from.

How many excess deaths occurred in the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic? Our new study in Science Advances finds: 1.18 million deaths. Nearly as many deaths occurred in Year 2 as Year 1 with large increases in counties in the rural South. Thread. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

1/ More progress toward a new Lyme vaccine. The vaccine demonstrated a strong immunologic response & good safety profile in this Phase 1 clinical trial. Link: tinyurl.com/47s2pv27 by Dr. Bezay

People in some places in the US have more long ties — ties between people without mutual contacts. This is a map from our newly published paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Why does this matter? How do people end up with these different network structures? 🧵

Hi US friends- there is a clear rise in SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, suggesting a rise in cases and all the things that accompany that (biobot.io/data/covid-19). A reminder of some things you can (still) do to help reduce the risk of COVID: 1. Ensure you and your loved ones are...