Armin Deffur
@infohack.bsky.social
ID physician (HIV, TB), bioinformatician.
Genomic medicine (including PGx)
Digital health
#IDSky
Genomic medicine (including PGx)
Digital health
#IDSky
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I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource.
But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker | Think Global Health
This map is updated weekly and visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource.
But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
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Might be time to update your priors; it might not have been typhus that tore through Napoleon's army on the Russian campaign but rather two other fevers—one foodborne, the other from body lice
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
DNA from Napoleon's 1812 army identifies pathogens likely responsible for the army's demise during retreat from Russia
In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But by December, only a fraction of the army remained alive. Historical records...
phys.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Might be time to update your priors; it might not have been typhus that tore through Napoleon's army on the Russian campaign but rather two other fevers—one foodborne, the other from body lice
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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A new world record for ultra rapid whole genome sequencing and interpretation for critically ill individuals less than 4hrs! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Toward Same-Day Genome Sequencing in the Critical Care Setting | NEJM
Decisions about critical care are almost always made without access to genetic information.
The authors report the application of a new method of DNA sequencing in infants in
a neonatal intensive c...
www.nejm.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A new world record for ultra rapid whole genome sequencing and interpretation for critically ill individuals less than 4hrs! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Just chilling here in Cape Town, watching the eclipse
September 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Just chilling here in Cape Town, watching the eclipse
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Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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A reminder that South African researchers gave the world crucial early insights into the Beta, Omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5 variants, as well as valuable ongoing work into many other pathogens/outbreaks…
A not very happy Friday. CERI had 6 NIH grants canceled, which will impact operations, surveillance and response to epidemics. We are working to try to minimize disturbance but not easy with 6 grants terminated at the same moment. A crisis is unfolding in SA www.news24.com/southafrica/...
SA universities face funding crisis as US federal agencies freeze research grants | News24
An investigation into the impact of the US aid freeze on research funding to South African universities has found that 44 programmes worth R2.5 billion were affected.
www.news24.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
A reminder that South African researchers gave the world crucial early insights into the Beta, Omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5 variants, as well as valuable ongoing work into many other pathogens/outbreaks…
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"We might imagine that overdiagnosis occurs when diagnoses are made in the absence of illness, but O’Sullivan’s definition is more subtle. A condition is overdiagnosed, she writes, when the costs of the diagnosis outweigh its benefits."
theconversation.com/are-labels-l...
theconversation.com/are-labels-l...
Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far
A staggering rise in the prevalence of many medical conditions and the cultural attention we pay them is the subject of a new book, The Age of Diagnosis.
theconversation.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"We might imagine that overdiagnosis occurs when diagnoses are made in the absence of illness, but O’Sullivan’s definition is more subtle. A condition is overdiagnosed, she writes, when the costs of the diagnosis outweigh its benefits."
theconversation.com/are-labels-l...
theconversation.com/are-labels-l...
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We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
March 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
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Join bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer, at the The Carolina Theatre in Greensboro NC as he discusses Absolution!
Plus, a special screening of Annihilation—the not faithful film adaptation!
📅 April 9 | 7:00 PM
FREE and open to the public!
#greensborobound #greensboronc #jeffvandermeer #scifi
Plus, a special screening of Annihilation—the not faithful film adaptation!
📅 April 9 | 7:00 PM
FREE and open to the public!
#greensborobound #greensboronc #jeffvandermeer #scifi
March 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Join bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer, at the The Carolina Theatre in Greensboro NC as he discusses Absolution!
Plus, a special screening of Annihilation—the not faithful film adaptation!
📅 April 9 | 7:00 PM
FREE and open to the public!
#greensborobound #greensboronc #jeffvandermeer #scifi
Plus, a special screening of Annihilation—the not faithful film adaptation!
📅 April 9 | 7:00 PM
FREE and open to the public!
#greensborobound #greensboronc #jeffvandermeer #scifi
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openRxiv has arrived!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
March 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
openRxiv has arrived!
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
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This is why this space is vital. When COVID first hit, I knew to protect myself with an N95 because doctors worldwide shared information on social media before it reached NY. We must continue to keep each other informed no matter how hard Trump tries to stop us.
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH.
No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.
And no indication how long the pause will last.
With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.
And no indication how long the pause will last.
With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This is why this space is vital. When COVID first hit, I knew to protect myself with an N95 because doctors worldwide shared information on social media before it reached NY. We must continue to keep each other informed no matter how hard Trump tries to stop us.
Nice view o Signal Hill hiking up Lion’s Head!
January 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Nice view o Signal Hill hiking up Lion’s Head!
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Uhh ... Did you know Pfizer's RSV vaccine is now approved for certain 18-59 y/os? 😮 I feel like this hasn't been disseminated?
www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...
www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...
January 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Uhh ... Did you know Pfizer's RSV vaccine is now approved for certain 18-59 y/os? 😮 I feel like this hasn't been disseminated?
www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...
www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...
Great visualisation of transformer models in action:
bbycroft.net/llm
bbycroft.net/llm
LLM Visualization
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.
bbycroft.net
December 30, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Great visualisation of transformer models in action:
bbycroft.net/llm
bbycroft.net/llm
Amazing view from the top of Table Mountain. Enjoying some time off
December 30, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Amazing view from the top of Table Mountain. Enjoying some time off
Happy midsummer / midwinter (depending on where you are)!
December 21, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Happy midsummer / midwinter (depending on where you are)!
Great analysis of individualised set-points for physiological markers, and their implications. A further sign that pathology as a whole is evolving into a data-science direction
A new study this week showed how the most common blood test performed-—the CBC, complete blood count—contains a treasure chest of information that we are missing in reporting out to patients and doctors.
erictopol.substack.com/p/your-lab-t...
erictopol.substack.com/p/your-lab-t...
December 15, 2024 at 7:14 AM
Great analysis of individualised set-points for physiological markers, and their implications. A further sign that pathology as a whole is evolving into a data-science direction
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"What's happening with this mystery illness in the Congo"
I've gotten this text dozens of times in the past few days.
Here's what we know. What we don't.
And what really matters 🧵
I've gotten this text dozens of times in the past few days.
Here's what we know. What we don't.
And what really matters 🧵
December 6, 2024 at 4:53 AM
"What's happening with this mystery illness in the Congo"
I've gotten this text dozens of times in the past few days.
Here's what we know. What we don't.
And what really matters 🧵
I've gotten this text dozens of times in the past few days.
Here's what we know. What we don't.
And what really matters 🧵
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‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war
‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war
Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happens
Germany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a…
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:27 AM
‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war
Still trying to keep up with following back all new followers. And hopefully will post soon. Interests quite diverse: ID (#IDSky), bioinformatics, graphs and networks, knowledge graphs
November 19, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Still trying to keep up with following back all new followers. And hopefully will post soon. Interests quite diverse: ID (#IDSky), bioinformatics, graphs and networks, knowledge graphs
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This is the most accurate image AI has ever generated
November 15, 2023 at 10:35 PM
This is the most accurate image AI has ever generated
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