Proud to be part of this exciting project with such a strong interdisciplinary team!
Excited to share this pre-print, a multi-year gestation in collab w @aceasrine #RebeccaBatorsky @LydiaShook10 @evanbordt @royperlis @KislalSezen @BenDevlin18 @dkslonim & @staci_bilbo. Shared embryonic origin & programs bt microglia and placental HBCs-🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Definitely not missing the irony of listening to an NPR piece on how vaccine access is still inequitable while multiple people on multiple devices attempt to schedule one household member for vaccination.
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Big accomplishment today: after 2 hours, 2 people, and 5 devices, my husband finally succeeded in booking an appointment for the vaccine. Let's throw a big party to celebrate! Oh, wait...
Kella wants to celebrate #SeniorPupSaturday too. She'll be eleven next month but still acts like a puppy.
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Sad, but not surprising. Another example of bad data science driven by using the wrong tool for the job. If your software is limiting your analysis in any way, it's time to use something else.
In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly.
But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog.
The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.
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Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): The ideal subject for totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end, through her cancer, with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals. That’s how we remember her. But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored. My statement: obama.medium.com/my-statemen…
Brilliant, esp since my go-to teaching example on multiple testing adjustment and the family-wise error rate is conducting multiple clinical trials asking whether chocolate chip cookies cure the common cold. (My mom always said they did...)
Therapies: not much enthusiasm for convalescent plasma. Much excitement about monoclonal antibodies.
Steroid treatment (Dexa) > Remdesivir
Cookies & milk > Hydroxy
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"I will survive" sung from the POV of an academic. Pretty well sums up this past week.
youtu.be/CCe5PaeAeew
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My colleague, @KBJVanderbilt, created a podcast Informatics In the Round. Kevin and his guests bring timely topics about computers, data and healthcare to a lay audience. Take a listen and please share with friends! kevinbjohnsonmd.net/post/ann…
Tufts is hiring faculty in two relevant areas: comp bio in the Biology Dept, and computational statistics in the Computer Science Dept. Come join us! apply.interfolio.com/66978 apply.interfolio.com/67115
TIL it is not safe to assume that my undergraduates understand the concept of tab-delimited text, or even just what the mysterious tab key on their keyboards actually does. Most have never seen a typewriter.
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For the first time in NIH’s history, we have 10 women leading institutes and centers. This is "The Power of 10: Women Leaders of NIH". nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2019…
Brilliant: Gen X confronts anti vaxxers with twangy 70s music and graphics. nytimes.com/2019/03/11/opini… via @NYTOpinion
So relieved to hear that the amazing, endangered Drama Book Shop, my high school midtown home base, will continue! Not how I'd have expected, but a very 21st century solution to 21st cent problem. nyti.ms/2RCRzO3?smid=nytcore…
Also, am I the only one who wants to shout "whom!" every time Twitter makes these recommendations?
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Happy to be part of this effort. Please read the editorial, and submit to this new article category!
@PLOSCompBiol is excited to announce the launch of our new #Benchmarking section! 🥳 Read the editorial today to find out more … plos.io/2zPLnqU #Science #Publishing
