Guillaume Fontaine

@gfontaine.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Implementation Science, McGill University. Director of the RISE³ LAB (www.rise3lab.ca). Interested in health equity, behaviour change, infectious diseases, digital health, evidence synthesis.

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

A timeline titled "The Golden Age of Antibiotics" shows when each antibiotic drug class was first available for medical use, with example antibiotics labeled. Classes are color-coded by their source: actinomycetes, other bacteria, fungi, or synthetic. Milestones include the first antibiotics (arsphenamines in 1910), as well as the discovery of many actinomycetes-derived antibiotics, such as streptomycin, and sulfonamides, penicillins, and tetracyclines. Data: Hutchings, Truman, Wilkinson (2019). Created by Saloni Dattani for Our World in Data.

At the first ever D&I conference, I argued that we needed more theory but less theories. I stand by that and worry that the profusion of theories, models and frameworks is hindering progress by creating too much noise! @gfontaine.bsky.social

Taylor Watterson@wattersontl.bsky.social · 2y ago

When thinking about the pace of #DIScience24 , how do we deal with distractions of new frameworks and models and desire to quickly build new catapults and bridges? - @jhfordii.bsky.social Such a good question! It’s tempting to follow the newest “perfect” framework and restart all over again.

Because the below skeet went viral here, and people are arguing over it, I'm going to share some more info about it from a thread I did at the other place. I really need to just do an article about it but haven't done that yet. Until then, I hope readers find this thread useful. 🧵

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2y ago

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

It was a pleasure to contribute to this & continues to be useful to academics wanting to communicate effectively with policymakers

Falko Sniehotta 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇬🇧🇵🇹@fsniehotta.bsky.social · 2y ago

PRU practical guide to writing policy briefs has been downloaded 10.000 x from #OpenScienceFramework osf.io/preprints/os... It makes it easy to communicate relevant evidence to policy decision makers jointly developed by @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social & @ucl-cbc.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social