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Infectious disease epidemiologist, mathematical modeling ... and Lucy's person.

Director, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (@ciddpsu.bsky.social) at Penn State

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Be sure to stretch first. Don't want to rush into awesome unprepared.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears and one white paw doing a big stretch, shot from head on.
November 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Savor this moment. It will get hard again soon, and is now for many. That doesn’t take away from the feeling and is all the more reason to bring this taste to as many as possible for as long as possible.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears, a white chest, and a white right paw, laying on a wood floor in the sunlight.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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sometimes folk ask how she gets in the backpack. The answer is ... passively. She's very excited to get in, then is totally unhelpful about actually getting in.
A brown dog with a white chest in a backpack lying on the floor on her back. The dog and backpack are in-between the feet of the photographer, shot from above.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Lucy and I went voting this AM
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Any member of the press that doesn't refer to this as Johnson's "secret plan to solve health care" should be stripped of their credentials.
four panels from the TV show The West Wing: Josh: They said "Do you think if the President has a plan to fight inflation, it's right that he keep it a secret?" I said "Of course not!" President Bartlett: Are you telling me that not only did you invent a secret plan to fight inflation, but now you don't support it? Josh: ... Josh: ... when you put it like that.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Did I offer extra credit for costumes? Yes, yes I did.
Students in Halloween costumes working in a computer lab
October 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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President Truman sitting at his desk. In the foreground is his famous "the buck stops here" sign, edited to say "the buck stops somewhere else"
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Biiiig stretch. Wishing you all sunbeams.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears, stretching in the sunlight.
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I care not for your "Monday"
Wattson, a white and brown dog with up ears lounging across a pile of grey and green pillows in the sunshine.
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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There’s a lot of America worth saving.
A view, from a picnic table, of farm fields under a blue sky. There is a coffee iced donut and a bike in the foreground. To the right is a wooden ramp lined with pumpkins.
October 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Maybe no record. But there IS precedent ...
men in suits sitting at a wooden table with microphones. Scene from The Godfather II when Frankie Pentangeli was being questioned about crimes by the Corleone family. A man in a black suit with a short red tie and a black hat, surrounded by police. From The Godfather II scene when Frankie Pentangeli was being questioned under oath about crimes committed by the Corleone family. At the right is Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, behind is Diane Keaton as Kaye Corleone.
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I have whiplash
Democrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill as Shutdown Drags On A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Any reporter that doesn't ask him to explicitly name the 57 members of the Communist Party in the US Congress should lose their credentials.
A man pouring Heinz Ketchup on a plate of steak.
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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10 years and we've hardly changed -- great to celebrate 20 years of Infectious Disease Dynamics at Johns Hopkins with @justinlessler.bsky.social and @jessmetcalf.bsky.social.
A selfie of two men and a woman smiling and standing in front of the White House. A selfie of two men and a woman smiling in a bar.
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Lucy is trying to think about the fact that the executive branch is increasingly acting like the legislative branch has no power and, in response, the legislative branch is ... sitting at home.
Lucy, a brown dog with a white chest, lying on a wood floor in the sun.
October 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Wishing you sunbeams
Lucy, a brown dog with a white chest, lying on a wood floor in the sun
October 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Rest in peace Dr. Goodall.
One gorilla grooming another with the caption: "Well, well - another blonde hair ... Conducting a little more "research" with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Sunset and outtakes.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears wearing a yellow and orange vest sitting on a field beneath a pink sky. Her head is turned and her tongue is out. Lucy, a brown dog with down ears wearing a yellow and orange vest in a field beneath a pink sky. She is awkwardly lunging towards the camera. Lucy, a brown dog with down ears wearing a yellow and orange vest in a field beneath a pink sky. She is awkwardly lunging towards the camera.
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Coffee break
POV shot of Lucy, a brown dog with down ears. Laying at my feet. In the foreground is a cafe table with an espresso.
September 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Wishing sunbeams to you all.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears and a white chest, laying on a wood floor in the sunlight.
September 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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while you wait
September 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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how are the dogs out here catching strays?
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears and a white chest, sitting on a blue chair with her head cocked to one side in disbelief at this bullshit comparison.
September 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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This week was a long year.
POV of me laying on the couch with a brown and white dog with up ears lying in my lap.
September 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Am I spoiling her. Or is she spoiling me?
POV shot of a brown dog lying at my feet with a cafe table and an espresso in the foreground.
September 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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A story about how complicated something as simple as vaccination is, everywhere. In Fall of 2024, I was part of a team that argued to the WHO to recommend that rubella vaccination be added to the national schedule for all countries. That recommendation was approved, and we were elated. 1/
8 people standing in an open stairway smiling with their hands in the air, cheering.
September 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM