Noah Silva de Leonardi
@nosilva.bsky.social
research scientist, disease ecologist, data enthusiast, dog-haver, chicano, food lover, R, movie positivist
The problem with sans serif fonts is that I saw a post about Trump sharing a Weird AI video and I got tricked because I usually love a Weird Al video
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The problem with sans serif fonts is that I saw a post about Trump sharing a Weird AI video and I got tricked because I usually love a Weird Al video
Does this link work for anyone? Trying to see if my house is being affected by an outage but the map won’t load. www.xfinity.com/support/stat...
Xfinity Outage Map - Comcast Internet and WiFi Outages
Check for potential outages in your area that may be affecting your Xfinity Internet, TV, or phone services.
www.xfinity.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Does this link work for anyone? Trying to see if my house is being affected by an outage but the map won’t load. www.xfinity.com/support/stat...
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it is incredibly telling and unfortunate that every single publication seems hell-bent on punishing WB for giving a successful black director money for an original movie, even if it's actually going over well. and that's something the industry should examine but of course they will not
April 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
it is incredibly telling and unfortunate that every single publication seems hell-bent on punishing WB for giving a successful black director money for an original movie, even if it's actually going over well. and that's something the industry should examine but of course they will not
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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
April 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
“There are no small-government conservatives in a disaster zone” is definitely going into the lexicon
there are no atheists in a foxhole and no small-government conservatives in a disaster zone.
April 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“There are no small-government conservatives in a disaster zone” is definitely going into the lexicon
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americans fantasized they were in a recession, and then elected a man who could make their dreams come true
The vibecession and its consequences will be the primary historical narrative of 2024 and aftermath
6 months ago
April 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
americans fantasized they were in a recession, and then elected a man who could make their dreams come true
I’m just going to say it.
I respect the Trump Administration’s bold stance against the Heard and McDonald Islands. We can’t let them keep getting away with it!
I respect the Trump Administration’s bold stance against the Heard and McDonald Islands. We can’t let them keep getting away with it!
April 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I’m just going to say it.
I respect the Trump Administration’s bold stance against the Heard and McDonald Islands. We can’t let them keep getting away with it!
I respect the Trump Administration’s bold stance against the Heard and McDonald Islands. We can’t let them keep getting away with it!
Watching the Elbows Out episode of Drive to Survive and it is hilarious with the perspective we have now from this week.
March 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Watching the Elbows Out episode of Drive to Survive and it is hilarious with the perspective we have now from this week.
@lujan.senate.gov your office phones aren’t picking up right now but I urge you to remain a hard no on the CR and Cloture. Don’t give in to Republican demands and keep fighting for New Mexicans and all non-billionaires. #nmtrue
March 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
@lujan.senate.gov your office phones aren’t picking up right now but I urge you to remain a hard no on the CR and Cloture. Don’t give in to Republican demands and keep fighting for New Mexicans and all non-billionaires. #nmtrue
@senatorheinrich.bsky.social your phones aren’t picking up but I urge you to remain a no on the CR and Cloture. Don’t give in to Republican demands and keep fighting for New Mexicans! #nmtrue
March 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
@senatorheinrich.bsky.social your phones aren’t picking up but I urge you to remain a no on the CR and Cloture. Don’t give in to Republican demands and keep fighting for New Mexicans! #nmtrue
The Kids Aren’t Alright by The Offspring was written when Dexter was 34. I loved the song as a kid but now as a person in my mid 30s it hits a looooot different
March 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The Kids Aren’t Alright by The Offspring was written when Dexter was 34. I loved the song as a kid but now as a person in my mid 30s it hits a looooot different
There should be a Warhammer 40k cozy mystery with Gregor Eisenhorn
March 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
There should be a Warhammer 40k cozy mystery with Gregor Eisenhorn
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Must read 🧵:
Roald Dahl on Measles: "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it.
Roald Dahl on Measles: "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it.
February 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Must read 🧵:
Roald Dahl on Measles: "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it.
Roald Dahl on Measles: "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it.
Watching Iron Man 2 and it is clear Elon Musk thinks he is Tony Stark when he is actually Justin Hammer
February 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Watching Iron Man 2 and it is clear Elon Musk thinks he is Tony Stark when he is actually Justin Hammer
MMWR is back! Good public health work here by officials in California ensuring that an Mpox case didn’t have and secondary infections.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
First Clade Ib Monkeypox Virus Infection ...
This report describes the first reported case of clade Ib monkeypox virus infection in the United States.
www.cdc.gov
February 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
MMWR is back! Good public health work here by officials in California ensuring that an Mpox case didn’t have and secondary infections.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Even though public health in the United States is federalized to a certain extent, we need to build more robust systems to harness that power to be more resilient against disruptions like the current one happening with this administration
February 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Even though public health in the United States is federalized to a certain extent, we need to build more robust systems to harness that power to be more resilient against disruptions like the current one happening with this administration
Guess I’m re-installing Apple Maps… can’t believe google maps changed it to “Gulf of America”
February 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Guess I’m re-installing Apple Maps… can’t believe google maps changed it to “Gulf of America”
It has been 3 weeks now since the last updated MMWR
February 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It has been 3 weeks now since the last updated MMWR
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
![This is the front page of a fraudulent research article that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. The word "RETRACTED" is written across it in large red letters.
Wikipedia: On 28th February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.[1] The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sox6xar4qdc3ujhi5h4whtlh/bafkreiazjyxk6foryp6lzxcqbls62uaokwhjrjmnzg5uqpdimg77xrt26a@jpeg)
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
Today marks the second missed Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) which is a weekly report generated by scientists at the CDC to talk about the state of diseases: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...
Home page for MMWR | MMWRMinusSASstats
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
www.cdc.gov
January 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Today marks the second missed Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) which is a weekly report generated by scientists at the CDC to talk about the state of diseases: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...
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I just received a stop-work order from HUD on the grant we won at Urban Institute to support our Housing Market Forecaster.
This work is designed to identify land-use reform strategies that can assist cities in adding housing supply and improve housing affordability.
www.urban.org/projects/hou...
This work is designed to identify land-use reform strategies that can assist cities in adding housing supply and improve housing affordability.
www.urban.org/projects/hou...
Housing Market Forecaster
www.urban.org
January 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I just received a stop-work order from HUD on the grant we won at Urban Institute to support our Housing Market Forecaster.
This work is designed to identify land-use reform strategies that can assist cities in adding housing supply and improve housing affordability.
www.urban.org/projects/hou...
This work is designed to identify land-use reform strategies that can assist cities in adding housing supply and improve housing affordability.
www.urban.org/projects/hou...
There is no bias in fact checking. It just happens that one side shares more disinformation and is thus suspended more.
🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
There is no bias in fact checking. It just happens that one side shares more disinformation and is thus suspended more.
A little optimism from Cory Doctorow about how maybe all of our worst fears about HHS run by RFK might be not come to pass because of government dysfunction. But I don’t like to underestimate Trump’s ability to let everyone be the worst version of themselves.
pluralistic.net/2024/12/20/c...
pluralistic.net/2024/12/20/c...
Pluralistic: Trumpism’s healthcare fracture-lines (20 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 21, 2024 at 5:27 PM
A little optimism from Cory Doctorow about how maybe all of our worst fears about HHS run by RFK might be not come to pass because of government dysfunction. But I don’t like to underestimate Trump’s ability to let everyone be the worst version of themselves.
pluralistic.net/2024/12/20/c...
pluralistic.net/2024/12/20/c...
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Health data quality research scientist: well you see not all data gaps are equal since some years and locations have low burden for disease and thus less need for data for that specific space-time combination
Health data quality research scientist: well you see not all data gaps are equal since some years and locations have low burden for disease and thus less need for data for that specific space-time combination
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Neuroscientist: It’s a membrane channel between adjacent cells that allows for the passage of ions, small molecules, and so on.
Neuroscientist: It’s a membrane channel between adjacent cells that allows for the passage of ions, small molecules, and so on.
December 21, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Health data quality research scientist: well you see not all data gaps are equal since some years and locations have low burden for disease and thus less need for data for that specific space-time combination
Health data quality research scientist: well you see not all data gaps are equal since some years and locations have low burden for disease and thus less need for data for that specific space-time combination