Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

This just might be the coolest thing you see today. And without @npr.org, I may have never known it existed. Give it a spin, then check link in the comments for the backstory.

#Queen #Zulu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblj...

Special Report
Inside the CDC director’s ouster: Kennedy demanded acceptance of new vaccine policies; Susan Monarez refused
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one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

You’ve been badly misled over COVID origins theconversation.com/how-conspira...

“…by the time we recognize there are a bunch of H5N1 patients in a hospital, it will already be too late to contain.”

My thoughts exactly. And the level of arse covering that will follow will be unprecedented.

open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

AFD Blog `Preprint: Dairy Cows Infected with Influenza A(H5N1) Reveals Low Infectious Dose and Transmission Barriers' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/06/prep...

Excited to share my new preprint developed with @matsen.bsky.social, in collaboration with Marius Brusselmans, Luiz Carvalho, @msuchard.bsky.social, and @guybaele.bsky.social, on the biological causes and impacts of tree space ruggedness in phylodynamic inference. 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Good Lord. This is amazing. Not just the rescaling stuff, all the other features are extremely useful.

It's 23.53 here in Paris, so there's still time to wish you all a happy Glorious 25th. For truth, justice, freedom. And a hard-boiled egg.

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... This post about the importance of knowing the difference between truth tellers and myth makers in healthcare has already attracted a comment from a member of the “plandemic” community which nicely makes my point about the dangers of disinformation

An important read for this morning. A Harvard scientist wanting to perform research but detained in an ICE detention center in Louisiana for at least 3 months. 🧪 #science

Gift 🎁 link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

This week, I was attending the International Dynamics & Evolution of Human Viruses conference. 32nd meeting of the conference, first time for me. Today, the locations of the next meetings in the series was announced: Canada next year, Europe in 2027 and Mexico the year after that.

I love the idea of creating a maze for AI crawlers to get lost. Next time I'm teaching Markov chains, I will add a section on tarpitting for sure.

Comparative phylogeography and recombination patterns of SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2 related viruses. Both are derived from recent recombinations in their host bats, and then emerged in human hundreds of miles from their wild reservoirs.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

I am starting to think about posting again. I'll probably split my account into a personal and a professional one. In the meantime, here's something at the intersection of both. This is the image I will most strongly remember of Pope Francis, who will be buried today in Santa Maria Maggiore.