Did I get very bored during the pandemic and make a fake horror movie poster based on this premise? Yes I did

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Someday I hope that a profile of ME as a public health statistician includes a slew of quirky personal facts as interesting as these

Thoroughly enjoyed this profile of Jessamine Whitney, a public health statistician from the 1930s, via @amstatnews.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Continuing on a theme: here are the ICD medical codes for a shark-related injury. Just searched some of my work data for shark injuries and of course did not find any… because, contrary to JAWS, they are exceedingly rare #Jaws #sharks

The primary benefit of being dragged back into the office full time is that I can track the owl in the woods behind our office in Maryland - got this amazing action pic today!!

Very good (and very funny) piece on the pointlessness of Medicaid work requirements from @jeffmightbwrong.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

U need help figuring out the cryptic dress codes for any of the weddings you've been invited to this summer?

I gotchu:
www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-...

love to stumble upon a crossword by @xws.bsky.social in the wild! 🙌

Another depressing political development this week: I finally solved the riddle of why, of all the musicals, Trump likes "Cats" the best. It's... the tights. It's because of the tights. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/a...

TIL at work today: there is an ICD10 code in medical claims data for crocodile and alligator attacks as well as *different types* of crocodile and alligator attacks 👀