In a bizarre twist of fate, I am the unofficial photographer for Caroline and the Green Line show at the Ponderosa, a super Trumpy but kinda fabulous dive bar in Acushnet MA. It is funny to try to jibe the venue with working on my post about why we need a strong CDC!!! I shoulda brought my own sign.

I wrote a LinkedIn post on advice for incoming Master's students in public health and epidemiology. tl;dr: do hard things, get help when needed, make friends and thank people, and have fun - it's amazing. #EpiSky #DataSciSky #PublicHealth #GradSchool
Full article: bit.ly/4neVYlE

Most pertinent of my slides:

Watching Scott Zimmerman and Erin Ferguson lead a workshop on reproducible research and multiverse analysis. It's their practice for a workshop at #EpiResearch #SER 2025. epiresearch.org/annual-meeti... Drawing on Erin's paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... So cool.

Here's a map of where all the HCAP data are being collected or data are available + a great blog from Lindsay Kobayashi: g2aging.org/blog/post/4c...

Wow- I had not realized how rapidly TriNetX applications had grown. Are there standards for how to report when publishing on the data set? I haven't used it either- can you at least document how the data were pulled from their database?

Thus they need an automated pipeline to do all this. Qiu Brain 2020 published a framework to classify based on MRIs: doi.org/10.1093/brai...

are typically in the tails of the outcome distribution, therefore the tails should be evaluated, specifically.
QR can be used for formal tests of Rose’s “population strategy” in his seminal paper “Sick Individuals and Sick Populations”

Here's the picture showing how the timing of spikes in excess natural cause deaths NOT due to diagnosed COVID changed in sync (or just a little earlier) than COVID death spikes. What would explain that? If the excess natural cause deaths were basically all undiagnosed COVID.

Amazing work from colleagues (1st author E Paglino, sr author A Stokes) counting the unrecognized COVID deaths www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/.... I'm pasting the maps here b/c everyone loves maps, but the evidence that most convinced me was the timing of excess deaths vs COVID deaths (next skeet).

Until we find a bsky invite for Dr. ER Mayeda, I'm posting her upcoming UCLA info webinar for prospective epi students (#EpiSky #PhD #How_does_this_tag_thing_work_on_bsky???)

Looks like fantastic news: the new Boston University President-Dr. Melissa Gilliam MD MPH has a track record of excellence in health and educational equity. Dr Gilliam spent most of her career at the University of Chicago- which also suggests a passion for the special role of universities.