Andrew Noymer

@andrewnoymer.bsky.social

Epidemiology, population health, demography. Nonpartisan science. Occasionally Arsenal content ⚽.

I don't post very much on here — but I will be posting even less in the future, as I am deleting the app off the device I use most often. I will still have an account and I will still check in on BSky. Just, less frequently. Cheers.

“Public lands are part of Colorado’s identity & once they’re gone, they’re gone forever,” said Will Roush of Wilderness Workshop. “This report is both a warning & a roadmap. It identifies ... steps we can take now to keep our most treasured wild places intact.” www.aspendailynews.com/news/new-rep...

New report identifies at-risk Colorado lands

Wilderness Workshop’s Wild for Good report represents “a call to action for current generations of public lands advocates and residents to come together to protect these places for the benefit of wild...

aspendailynews.com

BREAKING: Look at this. A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning. 30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF. Market dumped. The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours. Unusual.

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The corrections to the Pekar 2022 Science paper claiming multiple SARS-CoV-2 introductions are factorizable and simple, using data contained in the paper and minimal assumptions. Their data and model imply that a single introduction was more likely. arxiv.org/abs/2510.01484

Bayesian Re-Analysis of the Phylogenetic Topology of Early SARS-CoV-2 Case Sequences

A much-cited 2022 paper by Pekar et al. claimed that Bayesian analysis of the molecular phylogeny of early SARS-CoV-2 cases indicated that it was more likely that two successful introductions to human...

arxiv.org

Annual flu jab email from the campus administration. #MedSky “The COVID-19 vaccine will not be part of the seasonal vaccination campaign. Due to changes in FDA eligibility, co-workers are not required to report receipt or declination of the COVID-19 vaccine.”

email from UC Irvine administration, re: vaccination.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this