I don’t care what we’re talking about; the goal should be zero dead children.

850 Tomahawk missiles could be $3,060,000,000... That is 3 billion sixty million US dollars.

That is 1224 5 year biomedical research grants. Literally, over 6 millennia of biomedical research.

Yes! Almost all of our responses are like that. 🤨

a cartoon cat is laying down with the words `` im annoyed '' above it . ALT: a cartoon cat is laying down with the words `` im annoyed '' above it .

I typically like good reviewer feedback and sometimes can tell that my writing needs to be more clear.

However, it is REALLY FRUSTRATING when it seems the reviewer only half read the paper and the comments are wrong or asking for things that are already in the paper.

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

Maybe the slogan "Measles will make us lose money" is what would finally break through in a society suffering from end stage capitalism.🤷🏽‍♀️
1.5 billion dollars cost annually for every percentage drop in vaccination coverage just might be what does it.
www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

As an old out of touch fart I’m not familiar with her, but kudos! 👏👏👏

rules are rules

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

I was an opportunity scholar at #positconf in 2023, and I hope that this encourages you to apply, just like someone encouraged me to apply.

It was a life-changing chance to do something I never dreamed I could do! What have you got to lose?

#databs #rstats #pydata #WiDS

#rstats

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics will be running a special issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the official release of R. (The Univ. of Auckland was the birthplace of R.) They invited various people to contribute articles, including me. 🧵 1/

This feels a lot like academia in the U.S. right now

Design and analysis to estimate diagnostic test accuracy without universal verification at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Design and analysis to estimate diagnostic test accuracy without universal verification at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

📣 PhD studentship - Biostatistics 💻
University of Bristol, UK
Help improve methods for something that affects us all - how accurate are tests for disease?
Learn, apply & develop Bayesian models to estimate accuracy from varying study designs, synthesise evidence & optimise design of future studies

Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.

Mail ballots currently lean overwhelmingly Democratic and the party is likely to be disproportionately affected if thousands of votes are tossed out because of bans on grace periods for mail ballots in Ohio and elsewhere.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

if you want 100% nonfictional stories from measles patients and their families, follow voices for vaccines! more: voicesforvaccines.org/resources/blog/

"Homicide, suicide, and drug overdose accounted for more than one fourth of maternal deaths (2018 of the total of 7901) from 2018 through 2023; deaths from these causes nearly equaled the combined toll of cardiovascular disease, infection, hypertension, and hemorrhage." Correspondence "Overdose, Homicide, and Suicide as Causes of Maternal Death in the United States" by H.A. Azad et al. Leading Causes of Death among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in the United States, 2018–2023. Shown is the number of deaths per 100,000 live births according to cause of death among women who were pregnant or no more than 42 days post partum. Violence includes homicide and suicide by any means. Deaths in which the underlying cause was not specified are not included. AFE denotes amniotic fluid embolism, and Covid-19 coronavirus disease 2019.

Analysis of U.S. deaths of pregnant and postpartum women from 2018–2023 indicates that obstetrical complications and disease are no longer the leading causes of maternal death, replaced by homicide, suicide, and overdose. Read the full analysis: nej.md/4a96wPp

#MedSky #Psychiatry #OBGYN

Just cloned Stand With Minnesota for another state.

I am so excited someone finally took me up on the offer. I even made them a little logo and redid the site in their colors.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall, informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport...

Just when demand for passports is rising…

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.

I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

“What is most disturbing is not the specifics of this case but the arbitrariness and capriciousness of the process. The EU, Canada, and Australia have all accepted Moderna’s application for review.”

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Another NIH institute loses its director Health department declines to renew Lindsey Criswell, head of arthritis institute, to another 5-year term

The chief of NIAMS, Lindsey Criswell, has told her staff that her 5-year leadership appointment had not been renewed, meaning 16 out of 27 NIH institutes and centers will be operating without a permanent director. https://scim.ag/4cr5wHI

This is amazing.

One of my life goals is to be able to one day say “I whipped up this little site last week”… at the moment, I can make a quarto html 😂

“If you are free, then you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”

— Toni Morrison

Screenshot of a question posted to quora: "Why do older people not like putting spaces in file names when saving documents?"

Just put me on a flaming raft and push it out to sea.

In Celebration of Black History Month, we honor Black Nurse Anesthetists whose shoulders we stand on

In 1966, Annette Fuller Hightower, Nurse Anesthetist graduated as the 1st Black student at Charleston Memorial Hospital, WV. Notably, she was the 1st Black CRNA to work in WV.