📢 I'm looking for a job! I'm mostly looking for a healthcare/medical research position at a *nonprofit* research institute in the US. I love using #rstats to extract insights from complex medical datasets (like EMRs) and doing lots of data viz! Please send any leads my way 🤩

Fantastic article on the process of making our new book and the community behind it. “It's giving the general public a little peek into the creative side of data science” - Max Graze Link: data.berkeley.edu/news/new-antho… w/ Tim Schoof, Váleri Vásquez, Sara Stoudt, PhD, Ciera Martinez, PhD

West Virginia v. EPA is potentially the most consequential US Supreme Court case remaining to be decided. The immediate issue is the limits of the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases. The broader issue is the ability of Federal agencies to regulate anything at all. 1/

🚨 Exciting new job at UC Berkeley, in environmental justice and health equity, in the school of public health. It's part of a campus-wide initiative to expand research in climate equity and environmental justice. Pls consider applying! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03546

New paper with Mike Reddy & John Marshall proposing metrics for the model-based evaluation of vector control tools. Metrics common across technologies & targets can help design environmentally-appropriate public health interventions. In time for #ESA2022! bit.ly/3we4Csr

🔥Excited to announce DSxD’s Reconnect! A free virtual gathering to refuel your inspiration and plan for our next book themed “Our Environment”. Bring your creativity and data love! When: Fri. Sept. 30, 2022 Apply: tinyurl.com/dsxdReconnect Learn more: datasciencebydesign.org/events &🧵

We'll all be watching this extended heatwave in the US West (esp. California). Two main reasons are its impact on potential wildfire activity and its impact on the electric grid. These impacts also motivate thinking about how climate change is affecting these temperatures...

First discussion with Data Science by Design (DSxD) with beautiful live illustrations 💗 patsy@playthink

Announcing our new manuscript, now live on bioRxiv: "wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change"! Thrilled to have worked with Lara Kueppers, Gordana Rašić, and John Marshall #climatechange #wolbachia biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm looking for at least one new PhD student Colorado School of Mines Hydrology at Mines in Fall 2023! Work would involve macroscale hydrology modeling for climate change impacts on water and energy in the western US.

Excellent analysis by Taryn Fransen would love to see this on Ezra Klein podcast!

La hinchada #ECU ya tiene el primer hit del #FIFAWorldCup : “Queremos cerveza, queremos cerveza”

Establishing a global project registry before releasing gene-drive modified organisms into environment may help coordinate research, collect data to monitor/evaluate ecological impacts, & facilitate communication. Cinnamon Bloss Riley Taitingfong, PhD Cynthia today.ucsd.edu/story/experts-…

Weirdest days in SF weather history: - The orange day (2020) - The day it reached 106F (2017) - Whatever this is

Today is the day! The Data Science by Design (DSxD) "Our Environment" Anthology is available for purchase and the first two pieces are freely available to read online. This time around we are excited to have options to read online in both English and Spanish. datasciencebydesign.org/book-2

Special thanks goes out to our funders (Academic Data Science Alliance and Code for Science & Society) and the members of the leadership team (Ciera Martinez, PhD, Váleri Vásquez, Ren, Natalie O'Shea, and Tim Schoof) for making this possible.

Happy to share our paper, "wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change", out today in Nature Climate Change. #climatechange #wolbachia #infectiousdisease With Lara Kueppers, Gordana Rašić, and John Marshall: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Váleri Vásquez John Marshall Yay! Also check out a nice commentary piece about this work by @caragata_eric nature.com/articles/s4155…

A new study led by ERGBerkeley grad student Váleri Vásquez and professor Lara Kueppers suggests that a method used to stop the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases is resilient to current climate change but could be hampered by future heat waves. nature.berkeley.edu/news/2023/08/h…

Some more stats + poetry, this time "Song of Myself" is sampled to reveal more Whitman-like poems within (the poem does in fact contain multitudes). mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/…