Kamil Slowikowski
@slowkow.com
Computational biologist 🧬🖥️ at Mass General Brigham and Broad Institute, PhD at Harvard. Bioinformatics, transcriptomics, COVID, genomics, immunology, genetics, statistics, and web development. I made #ggrepel and I blog at https://slowkow.com
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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Check out our new paper @nejm.org. RSV, COVID-19 & Influenza vaccines continue to show consistent effectiveness & safety based on a review & synthesis of 500+ research studies👇! We worked hard to evaluate the evidence so you can be confident about getting vaccinated this fall!
Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease"
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Check out our new paper @nejm.org. RSV, COVID-19 & Influenza vaccines continue to show consistent effectiveness & safety based on a review & synthesis of 500+ research studies👇! We worked hard to evaluate the evidence so you can be confident about getting vaccinated this fall!
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South Carolina schools recently sent home unvaccinated kids to stem a growing measles outbreak. It turned out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly spread it to their classmates for days.
That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.
That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.
Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...
www.propublica.org
October 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
South Carolina schools recently sent home unvaccinated kids to stem a growing measles outbreak. It turned out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly spread it to their classmates for days.
That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.
That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.
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New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout.
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout.
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
Now includes:
- Power analysis summary report
- Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON)
- Calculations validated against R
- Hypothesis region visualization
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
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Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
A visualization of average resting heart rate in Germany from 2020 through 2022.
Link: corona-datenspende.github.io/en/vitaldata...
Data: zenodo.org/records/8229...
Link: corona-datenspende.github.io/en/vitaldata...
Data: zenodo.org/records/8229...
October 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
A visualization of average resting heart rate in Germany from 2020 through 2022.
Link: corona-datenspende.github.io/en/vitaldata...
Data: zenodo.org/records/8229...
Link: corona-datenspende.github.io/en/vitaldata...
Data: zenodo.org/records/8229...
I'd like to announce the medRxiv preprint of our latest work:
A multimodal atlas of COVID-19 severity identifies hallmarks of dysregulated immunity.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A multimodal atlas of COVID-19 severity identifies hallmarks of dysregulated immunity.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I'd like to announce the medRxiv preprint of our latest work:
A multimodal atlas of COVID-19 severity identifies hallmarks of dysregulated immunity.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
A multimodal atlas of COVID-19 severity identifies hallmarks of dysregulated immunity.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Search #Pubmed and view the results on a 2D embedding. Each point represents a paper, and similar papers are near each other. Colors indicate clusters of similar papers.
By Viktor Petukhov
github.com/multicore-ca...
By Viktor Petukhov
github.com/multicore-ca...
September 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Search #Pubmed and view the results on a 2D embedding. Each point represents a paper, and similar papers are near each other. Colors indicate clusters of similar papers.
By Viktor Petukhov
github.com/multicore-ca...
By Viktor Petukhov
github.com/multicore-ca...
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
1. Make an Excel file with your author information
2. Drag and drop
3. Copy a nicely formatted author list into Word
🐶 slowkow.com/authorbud
2. Drag and drop
3. Copy a nicely formatted author list into Word
🐶 slowkow.com/authorbud
August 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
1. Make an Excel file with your author information
2. Drag and drop
3. Copy a nicely formatted author list into Word
🐶 slowkow.com/authorbud
2. Drag and drop
3. Copy a nicely formatted author list into Word
🐶 slowkow.com/authorbud
July 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️
🫵 WHO: You + all our friends
🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.
🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community
🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th
🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
🫵 WHO: You + all our friends
🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.
🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community
🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th
🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
May 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️
🫵 WHO: You + all our friends
🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.
🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community
🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th
🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
🫵 WHO: You + all our friends
🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts.
🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community
🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th
🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.
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June 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The destruction of the medical research enterprise in the U.S. will go down in history as one of the most damaging choices a government has made in setting its population backwards
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The destruction of the medical research enterprise in the U.S. will go down in history as one of the most damaging choices a government has made in setting its population backwards
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
May 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab
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Illegal arrests made by the Trump administration are intended to spread fear and silence dissent.
We cannot allow Trump and his cronies to turn the United States of America into an authoritarian society in which people can be disappeared for their political beliefs.
We cannot allow Trump and his cronies to turn the United States of America into an authoritarian society in which people can be disappeared for their political beliefs.
April 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Illegal arrests made by the Trump administration are intended to spread fear and silence dissent.
We cannot allow Trump and his cronies to turn the United States of America into an authoritarian society in which people can be disappeared for their political beliefs.
We cannot allow Trump and his cronies to turn the United States of America into an authoritarian society in which people can be disappeared for their political beliefs.
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My colleagues and I demand answers from Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio about the illegal and inhumane abduction of Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent legal resident of the United States.
The Constitution guarantees people within our borders basic rights, including due process and free speech.
The Constitution guarantees people within our borders basic rights, including due process and free speech.
April 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My colleagues and I demand answers from Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio about the illegal and inhumane abduction of Mohsen Mahdawi, a permanent legal resident of the United States.
The Constitution guarantees people within our borders basic rights, including due process and free speech.
The Constitution guarantees people within our borders basic rights, including due process and free speech.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be released and brought home to Maryland. He is innocent. No government can snatch people off the street and ship them to prison without due process. It should terrify us all.
I'm thankful @vanhollen.senate.gov is headed there to demand his release.
I'm thankful @vanhollen.senate.gov is headed there to demand his release.
I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.
Just landed in El Salvador to discuss release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be released and brought home to Maryland. He is innocent. No government can snatch people off the street and ship them to prison without due process. It should terrify us all.
I'm thankful @vanhollen.senate.gov is headed there to demand his release.
I'm thankful @vanhollen.senate.gov is headed there to demand his release.
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"It is critically important that we as Americans, regardless of party, stand up for all of these students who are being detained," says Vermont's @balint.house.gov. "This has got to stop. This is Trump creating his own army of brownshirts right here in our country."
April 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"It is critically important that we as Americans, regardless of party, stand up for all of these students who are being detained," says Vermont's @balint.house.gov. "This has got to stop. This is Trump creating his own army of brownshirts right here in our country."
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We often use discretization to approximate continuous laws of physics, but it also goes the other way:
You can use continuous equations to approximate the behavior of discrete systems!
Here we'll see how electrical circuits can be modeled using the Laplace equation Δφ=0. [1/n]
You can use continuous equations to approximate the behavior of discrete systems!
Here we'll see how electrical circuits can be modeled using the Laplace equation Δφ=0. [1/n]
April 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We often use discretization to approximate continuous laws of physics, but it also goes the other way:
You can use continuous equations to approximate the behavior of discrete systems!
Here we'll see how electrical circuits can be modeled using the Laplace equation Δφ=0. [1/n]
You can use continuous equations to approximate the behavior of discrete systems!
Here we'll see how electrical circuits can be modeled using the Laplace equation Δφ=0. [1/n]
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I got the news this morning on two COVID related grants that were being terminated because its no longer seen as a research priority by Health and Human Services. My people have been given their notice. I have no words to express my feelings.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.
“Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.
www.nbcnews.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I got the news this morning on two COVID related grants that were being terminated because its no longer seen as a research priority by Health and Human Services. My people have been given their notice. I have no words to express my feelings.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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I am so grateful for the reporters who are doing the work on telling the story of the incredible negative impact of the cessation of US aid. The human toll is hard to wrap one's head around. This article is a must read.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I am so grateful for the reporters who are doing the work on telling the story of the incredible negative impact of the cessation of US aid. The human toll is hard to wrap one's head around. This article is a must read.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Measles, one of the most contagious diseases, was at Dulles airport last week. Get vaccinated/boosted or at least check your titers. This is serious, and, alas, the CDC is increasingly incapacitated. health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...
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Release: One Case of Measles Confirmed in Maryland Resident with Recent International Travel
An official website of the State of Maryland.
health.maryland.gov
March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Measles, one of the most contagious diseases, was at Dulles airport last week. Get vaccinated/boosted or at least check your titers. This is serious, and, alas, the CDC is increasingly incapacitated. health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...
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Trump and Musk are going after Social Security, Medicaid, the VA, and public education.
In what universe, in what world, in what religion is it morally acceptable to cut programs for hungry children in order to reward the wealthy?
In what universe, in what world, in what religion is it morally acceptable to cut programs for hungry children in order to reward the wealthy?
March 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Trump and Musk are going after Social Security, Medicaid, the VA, and public education.
In what universe, in what world, in what religion is it morally acceptable to cut programs for hungry children in order to reward the wealthy?
In what universe, in what world, in what religion is it morally acceptable to cut programs for hungry children in order to reward the wealthy?