BW ID Fellow
@bw-id.bsky.social
Med-Peds ID Fellow Doing EHR Informatics Research | Driven by data, music, bicycle | Thoughts & typos: both my own
🧵How do you study 8 respiratory viruses across 265K (now 369K) patients across the US?
We built computable phenotypes using #AllofUs EHR data - out now in Scientific Reports!
📊 Spoiler: performance varies wildly by pathogen
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41598-025-02183-9
#IDSky #EpiSky
We built computable phenotypes using #AllofUs EHR data - out now in Scientific Reports!
📊 Spoiler: performance varies wildly by pathogen
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41598-025-02183-9
#IDSky #EpiSky
Computable phenotypes to identify respiratory viral infections in the All of Us research program - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Computable phenotypes to identify respiratory viral infections in the All of Us research program
nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🧵How do you study 8 respiratory viruses across 265K (now 369K) patients across the US?
We built computable phenotypes using #AllofUs EHR data - out now in Scientific Reports!
📊 Spoiler: performance varies wildly by pathogen
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41598-025-02183-9
#IDSky #EpiSky
We built computable phenotypes using #AllofUs EHR data - out now in Scientific Reports!
📊 Spoiler: performance varies wildly by pathogen
🔗 nature.com/articles/s41598-025-02183-9
#IDSky #EpiSky
A second school-aged child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell.
Second child dies from measles-related causes in West Texas, where cases near 500
A second school-aged child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell.
www.npr.org
April 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Good people trying to do good work because they believe in the promise of science. This is a dark, difficulty day for the NIH.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Good people trying to do good work because they believe in the promise of science. This is a dark, difficulty day for the NIH.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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THREAD
The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter
In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.
By quite a lot.
Release the Kraken...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
1/11
The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter
In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.
By quite a lot.
Release the Kraken...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
1/11
March 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
THREAD
The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter
In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.
By quite a lot.
Release the Kraken...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
1/11
The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter
In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X.
By quite a lot.
Release the Kraken...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
1/11
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14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov
March 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
“It is a strength of the scientific enterprise that we have diverse ideas, identities, and approaches to communication...just as leaders deserve some leeway to decide when to speak out most effectively, they should support their constituencies by not trying to squelch or steer more strident voices.”
Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
www.science.org
March 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“It is a strength of the scientific enterprise that we have diverse ideas, identities, and approaches to communication...just as leaders deserve some leeway to decide when to speak out most effectively, they should support their constituencies by not trying to squelch or steer more strident voices.”
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🧵Censor, purge, defund - how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science & universities.
This isn't chaos - it's deliberate & well-established methods.
I've mapped 40 actions into 3 categories covering attacks on science, attacks on universities and international collaboration.
1/16
This isn't chaos - it's deliberate & well-established methods.
I've mapped 40 actions into 3 categories covering attacks on science, attacks on universities and international collaboration.
1/16
March 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🧵Censor, purge, defund - how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science & universities.
This isn't chaos - it's deliberate & well-established methods.
I've mapped 40 actions into 3 categories covering attacks on science, attacks on universities and international collaboration.
1/16
This isn't chaos - it's deliberate & well-established methods.
I've mapped 40 actions into 3 categories covering attacks on science, attacks on universities and international collaboration.
1/16
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A lot of people who got the measles as children died or suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. The measles vaccine was a godsend to worldwide public health, and it’s an absolute scandal that this lethally ignorant dolt has any power over public health.
March 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A lot of people who got the measles as children died or suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. The measles vaccine was a godsend to worldwide public health, and it’s an absolute scandal that this lethally ignorant dolt has any power over public health.
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Are we surprised? No.
Horrifying? Yep.
Dark Age 2.0.
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake wapo.st/3Dw7WG0
Horrifying? Yep.
Dark Age 2.0.
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake wapo.st/3Dw7WG0
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake
The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.
wapo.st
March 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Are we surprised? No.
Horrifying? Yep.
Dark Age 2.0.
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake wapo.st/3Dw7WG0
Horrifying? Yep.
Dark Age 2.0.
NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake wapo.st/3Dw7WG0
The data shouts for itself.
(Yes, data is plural, but it didn’t sound as good to me.)
(Yes, data is plural, but it didn’t sound as good to me.)
March 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The data shouts for itself.
(Yes, data is plural, but it didn’t sound as good to me.)
(Yes, data is plural, but it didn’t sound as good to me.)
Disrupted “treatment and diagnosis during the Covid pandemic resulted in doctors seeing “more complicated” forms of TB, Ditiu said, including some with holes in their lungs. It was a pattern she expected to see repeated, particularly among the poor and vulnerable.”
Chillingly bad US policy on this
Chillingly bad US policy on this
March 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Disrupted “treatment and diagnosis during the Covid pandemic resulted in doctors seeing “more complicated” forms of TB, Ditiu said, including some with holes in their lungs. It was a pattern she expected to see repeated, particularly among the poor and vulnerable.”
Chillingly bad US policy on this
Chillingly bad US policy on this
2 deaths from measles w/ most “cases across [TX, NM] in people < 18 and people who are unvaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status.”
This IS unusual
#vaccinate #VaccinesSavesLives #IDSky #EpiSky
apnews.com/article/measles-texas-new-mexico-deaths-mmr-vaccine-a1295c78fade561479da65d72d8a5774
This IS unusual
#vaccinate #VaccinesSavesLives #IDSky #EpiSky
apnews.com/article/measles-texas-new-mexico-deaths-mmr-vaccine-a1295c78fade561479da65d72d8a5774
West Texas reports nearly 200 measles cases. New Mexico is up to 30
Health officials say West Texas now has almost 200 measles cases and New Mexico's case number has tripled to 30. The case counts were updated on Friday.
apnews.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
2 deaths from measles w/ most “cases across [TX, NM] in people < 18 and people who are unvaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status.”
This IS unusual
#vaccinate #VaccinesSavesLives #IDSky #EpiSky
apnews.com/article/measles-texas-new-mexico-deaths-mmr-vaccine-a1295c78fade561479da65d72d8a5774
This IS unusual
#vaccinate #VaccinesSavesLives #IDSky #EpiSky
apnews.com/article/measles-texas-new-mexico-deaths-mmr-vaccine-a1295c78fade561479da65d72d8a5774
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I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
Great work, @standupforscience.bsky.social!
It was so great to be in community with believers in the transformative power of science.
#IDSky #ScienceSavesLives #SciencePowersEconomies
It was so great to be in community with believers in the transformative power of science.
#IDSky #ScienceSavesLives #SciencePowersEconomies
March 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Great work, @standupforscience.bsky.social!
It was so great to be in community with believers in the transformative power of science.
#IDSky #ScienceSavesLives #SciencePowersEconomies
It was so great to be in community with believers in the transformative power of science.
#IDSky #ScienceSavesLives #SciencePowersEconomies
Incredible turnout at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally today!
Science isn't political—it's what cures cancer, defeats pandemics, and reveals our universe's secrets.
When politicians silence scientists, people die. Period.
Share widely. Let science work!
Science isn't political—it's what cures cancer, defeats pandemics, and reveals our universe's secrets.
When politicians silence scientists, people die. Period.
Share widely. Let science work!
March 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Incredible turnout at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally today!
Science isn't political—it's what cures cancer, defeats pandemics, and reveals our universe's secrets.
When politicians silence scientists, people die. Period.
Share widely. Let science work!
Science isn't political—it's what cures cancer, defeats pandemics, and reveals our universe's secrets.
When politicians silence scientists, people die. Period.
Share widely. Let science work!
This dork is reporting for duty!
But you don’t have to be a dork to fear for what will happen if we gut universities, cancel grants, shutter graduate programs, and set back a generation of science.
#IDSky #EpiSky #StandUpForScience
But you don’t have to be a dork to fear for what will happen if we gut universities, cancel grants, shutter graduate programs, and set back a generation of science.
#IDSky #EpiSky #StandUpForScience
Get in Dorks, we are going protesting.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS.
More information to come.
March 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This dork is reporting for duty!
But you don’t have to be a dork to fear for what will happen if we gut universities, cancel grants, shutter graduate programs, and set back a generation of science.
#IDSky #EpiSky #StandUpForScience
But you don’t have to be a dork to fear for what will happen if we gut universities, cancel grants, shutter graduate programs, and set back a generation of science.
#IDSky #EpiSky #StandUpForScience
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Starting your own members-only journal without peer review surely isn’t the answer either.
From your soon-to-be NIH Director: "Control over grant funding...and an amoral willingness to marginalize dissident scientists will buy a lot of silence."
Indeed.
Indeed.
March 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Starting your own members-only journal without peer review surely isn’t the answer either.
Stellar list of back-up resources if pubmed becomes unreliable
Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
#medlibs
What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
March 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Stellar list of back-up resources if pubmed becomes unreliable
A total sham and beyond cruel.
These grants survived intense scientific competition and scrutiny by expert peer scientists. It’s a sham to suggest they are unworthy. Pure bigotry to revoke them.
Another NIH grant rescinded -
The Epidemiology of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias in Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors - 1K01AG056669
The Epidemiology of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias in Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors - 1K01AG056669
March 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A total sham and beyond cruel.
#VaccinePreventableCancer
The HPV vaccine is one of my favorite scientific successes of recent history.
#IDSky
The HPV vaccine is one of my favorite scientific successes of recent history.
#IDSky
The #HPV vaccine has decreased high grade cervical dysplasia in the USA by 80 % in the youngest age group. Reported in today's MMWR.
#MedSky + #ObGynSky.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
#MedSky + #ObGynSky.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Trends in Cervical Precancers Identified ...
This report describes decreases in cervical precancer incidence among women ages 20-24 years.
www.cdc.gov
February 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#VaccinePreventableCancer
The HPV vaccine is one of my favorite scientific successes of recent history.
#IDSky
The HPV vaccine is one of my favorite scientific successes of recent history.
#IDSky
Louder for people in the back
If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration.
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
Tragic Childhood Death from Measles Reminds Us That Some Don't Understand Either the Medical Significance or the Human Heart
My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...
blogs.jwatch.org
February 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Louder for people in the back
Perfectly put.
Staff scientists, postbacs, and research fellows are bedrocks of the nih intramural system and these colleagues and programs transform raw talent to leaders in industry and academia. These recent ill-conceived policies are antithetical to EFFICIENCY as they waste years of public investment.
Important and under-covered attack on the guts of NIH's intramural program from @science.org NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
February 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Perfectly put.
All levels of American research.
BREAKING:
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled.
Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
February 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
All levels of American research.
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We cannot allow anyone to normalize disease outbreaks. #Measles and other preventable diseases expose failures in protection and education. Every preventable death is a failure that demands action, not indifference.
February 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We cannot allow anyone to normalize disease outbreaks. #Measles and other preventable diseases expose failures in protection and education. Every preventable death is a failure that demands action, not indifference.