ever think about how the most influential voices talking about public health in the media have an astonishing 0.00 hours of lifetime public health practice between them
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
gavi.org
Riley did a very good blog about this as a Library Science nerd that’s worth reading aftermath.site/google-searc...
Projection has become reality 22 years ago, Christoph Schär et al. published a landmark paper in Nature explaining that the 2003 heatwave was a harbinger of things to come. The study featured an iconic figure - shown in countless lectures - illustrating how outlandish the event was at the time
My "cleared by the FDA and CDC as safe from the Cyclospora parasite" t-shirt has people asking questions
If I see Ai food photos on a flyer or online I’m never coming to your restaurant, pop up, food truck, or any other event.
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
"So you expect every author to check every citation is real and accurate?" YES, in fact, we do. The very *best* explanation for having a fake or inaccurate citation is that you were misleading your readers by dishonestly padding your citations! That's unacceptable!
Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
While everyone is watching hantavirus I'm actually much more eager to learn more about the Ebola outbreak in DRC's Ituri Province that Africa CDC has confirmed. Early information makes it sound very large for an outbreak that has just been reported: "about 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths"
For all the pandemic deniers out there: "COVID-19 pandemic inflicted a setback of historic proportions. An estimated 22.1 million excess deaths occurred between 2020 and 2023, with nearly a decade of gains in life expectancy & healthy life expectancy wiped out by 2021" iris.who.int/server/api/c...
Congratulations to Dr. Deepit Bhatia on the successful defense of his dissertation!!
Really pleased to be able to share this work by @deepit.bsky.social on predicting subnational measles vaccination coverage in sub-Saharan Africa. He shows that a statistical model based on country-level surveillance data can generate estimates almost as good as the DHS-survey gold standard 🧵 /1
Prediction of subnational-level vaccination coverage estimates using routine surveillance data and survey data
Measles vaccination has significantly reduced the global burden of the disease, but disparities in vaccination coverage persist. Accurate and timely e…
sciencedirect.com
I fucking love gadgets. I like new things. I set up a gadget savings account ten years ago to restrict myself on gadget purchases because I am a gadget loving freak. Pretty amazing for the tech industry to make someone like me into a tech dethusiast in a matter of five years.
He was so eager for it, did it too soon
Travis@letsgosac.bsky.social · last yr.You KNOW Hali wants to do the choke sign to Spike Lee SO bad.
When I use Google now I just automatically scroll past the AI summaries like they’re banner ads
Lars Fischer@fischblog.bsky.social · last yr.This is really important. Do NOT use the AI summaries at the top of google searches. Ignore them. This is especially important if you don't have any prior knowledge about the topic, but also a good general rule. Search sources, scrutinize them carefully and double-check with other sources.
The strip club in Toronto took down their US flag and put another Canadian flag up
When companies forbid consumption of their own products, that should tell you something...
Clive Thompson@clivethompson.bsky.social · 2y agoI can’t i just … i can’t www.404media.co/anthropic-cl...
the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.
Medicaid financed the cost of 34% of births in Pennsylvania in 2022, according to KFF. If you live in PA, call McCormick and ask him what he thinks about slashing that program
Summer Lee@summerlee.bsky.social · 2y ago"Moderate" Republicans swore they wouldn't cut Medicaid yet last night they punked out as soon as Trump called. Last week, the Senate did the same Over 3M in PA rely on Medicaid + CHIP for healthcare I wonder if our Senator McCormick will keep serving Trump or start serving the people of his state
That’s why it’s so absurd when people say “we can’t fight Trump, he thrives on conflict.” Bullies like Trump do not thrive on genuine conflict with real stakes. They thrive on fake conflict they can win and control. They fear real conflict immensely. Conflict is how you beat them. They are cowards.
Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.
Dhume, as the descendant of a Partition refugee, I am saying this with my full chest: you can fuck right off.
Alan Allport@alanallport.bsky.social · 2y agoWSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”
me daring the cars to run me over when stepping onto a crosswalk
