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Daniel Citron

@dtcitron.bsky.social

Applied mathematics for epidemiology | Infectious disease modeling | Digital data for health | HIV | Malaria Opinions my own

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IAC - the International AIDS Conference@aidsconference.bsky.social · last wk.

📰 New from @npr.org : #AIDS2026 is in the spotlight. The story features leading experts, including IAS President-Elect Kenneth Ngure, and explores the latest advances in HIV prevention and treatment alongside the urgent need to sustain the global HIV response.

Amid U.S. funding cuts, the International AIDS Conference faces an uncertain future

Dr. Kenneth Ngure, president-elect of the International AIDS Society, says, "We have had very good scientific advances ... yet the funding cuts have also taken us back."

npr.org

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 7d ago

“The pandemic was a global phenomenon, but it seems to have broken the US in a unique way. Other countries had more serious lockdowns without entering a political psychosis.”

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d ago

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

Daniel Citron@dtcitron.bsky.social · last mo.

I've found that when I use LLM tools in my professional work - writing or coding - usually I have to put a great deal of thought into what I want the model to produce. If I don't do that, if I rely on the tool to do my thinking for me, the end result is not very useful.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last mo.

Why does planning an essay feel like you're doing all the work before doing the work, Grammarly? Because learning the subject, figuring out what you want to say, and planning out of the structure of how to say it *IS* the vast majority of the work of writing. Any writer knows this. You do too.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

Trump destroyed USAID. Now people are dying.

ProPublica’s Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester examine how America’s foreign aid cuts are threatening the survival of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

motherjones.com

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A 3,200 year-old painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet. From an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus showing animals taking on human roles in comic situations where they act against their natural instincts. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

The British Museum image shows a painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet. They are seated on low stools, facing each other, across a low table on which a board game with black playing pieces is laid out. It is probably the popular ancient Egyptian board game senet. The gazelle sits on the left of the table facing the lion on the right. The animals are seated on their haunches, sitting upright, legs hanging down from the chair seat, and their forelegs raised, being used as arms. Each animal holds a game piece with their hoof and paw respectively. The gazelle is painted brown within a black outline. It has black hooves, two long, black, s-shaped curved horns, and a black dot for its eye. It has long pointed ears at the back of its head. The lion is painted a sandy brown within a black outline. It has a darker-brown shaggy mane and a black nose and eye. It’s mouth is ajar as if speaking. Detail from an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus from Deir el-Medina