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Kelly-Ann Allen, PhD FAPS

Dr. Something or other.

@matthieuchapman

I don't belong, and that is both the violence and the fun of it.

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@drkellyallen

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Writing a book chapter on feeling a sense of belonging in academia. Asking for input: What do you tell yourself when feelings of imposter syndrome or thoughts about not belonging creep in?

imagine looking at the world & thinking the biggest problem right now is people who care about other people’s feelings

The answer is: I’m overtired. I forgot I was using an RMD & so the output was below the code chunk & not in the console 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

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Question for #RStats: why am I not getting any output displayed when I use the “margins” command on my regression model, even though I can clearly see it is computing the margins?

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Question for #RStats: why am I not getting any output displayed when I use the “margins” command on my regression model, even though I can clearly see it is computing the margins?

While They "Have the Tools," We Are Still Suffering and Dying in Our Thousands

My latest for

. In the Orwellian world of White House Covid messaging, some Americans are more equal than others. While They "Have the Tools," We Are Still Suffering and Dying in Our Thousands

thenation.com

In the Orwellian world of White House Covid messaging, some Americans are more equal than others.

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DATA SCIENCE CAREER ADVICE: Read this if you're interested in a data science career but feel like you might not belong.

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Looks like Nature agrees with me that tools like ChatGPT belong in the methods section and they should not be listed as authors!

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Lakshmi G

@Lakshmi_RKG

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7/ In the absence of that, at least have quantitative claims checked by experts who have looked at the data throughout the pandemic. Evidence-free quantitative claims couched as facts is also mis/disinformation.

Are COVID deaths overcounted? The answer is clear: no they are not.

@astokespop

is the only expert you need when you want to know about excess death & we’re all lucky that he has written this explainer for us👇🏼

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Andrew Stokes

@astokespop

A recent @washingtonpost opinion piece speculated that COVID-19 deaths are over-counted. Our new @ConversationUS article explains why this piece is flawed. COVID-19 deaths are not overcounted; most evidence indicates they are undercounted. Thread 1/6 theconversation.com/covid-19-death

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COVID-19 deaths in the US continue to be undercounted, research shows, despite claims of 'overcou...

A recent

opinion piece speculated that COVID-19 deaths are over-counted. Our new

@ConversationUS

article explains why this piece is flawed. COVID-19 deaths are not overcounted; most evidence indicates they are undercounted. Thread 1/6

theconversation.com

Taking into consideration the number of excess deaths caused by COVID-19 compared with pre-pandemic years is critical to getting an accurate accounting of the pandemic’s real toll.

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Cat Jones

@CatLucyJones

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So…. you can get the class email list if you’re planning a birthday party but not so I can notify my kids’ contacts of COVID exposure #MakeItMakeSense

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Biden's Former Covid Czar Steps Up to Run the Show

Gregg Gonsalves

@gregggonsalves

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Jeff Zients is going to sacrifice American lives to the private market. Putting #COVID19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics in the hands of pharma, biotech and insurance companies is good for business, not for pubilc health or people's lives.

thenation.com

As public health remains an ongoing concern, Biden’s next chief of staff enters his new role with a record of privatization.

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I did not know how badly I needed to see someone else clearly acknowledge in print that the *only* lesson this pandemic has really taught us is that we simply do not learn the lessons of pandemics. Thank you

@avierkant

& Beatrice Adler-Bolton for this paragraph👇🏼

“For all of the horrors of the pandemic, we are aware of no actions taken during it by states or private industry that are not explained in full by the preexisting health-capitalist framework articulated in these pages. While it may be tempting to say that we have "learned from the pandemic," it is clear that none of its lessons were previously unknown, and we are unconvinced that any such learning has taken place. Just ask anyone who lived through the dawn of the ongoing AIDS crisis.”
-Introduction, Health Communism, by Beatrice Adler-Bolton & Artie Vierkant.

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Maria Van Kerkhove

@mvankerkhove

WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing – 24 January 2023

>170,000 people have died from #COVID19 in the last 8 weeks 10,000-30,000 people dead each week, that we know of Each week Take that in Parents, grandparents, siblings, children, friends, cherished people… This is appalling when we can prevent them

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This is the entirety of the problem, IMO: people who do not know anything about outbreak response cannot imagine how to do it & assume that means no one else knows either.

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Eric Levitz

@EricLevitz

Biden’s pandemic management has left much to be desired. But given Omicron’s contagiousness, the popularity of anti-vax ideology, and the federal structure of the U.S. government, I have a hard time envisioning how the White House could have prevented death on a massive scale twitter.com/avierkant/stat…

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Opinion | The Enduring, Invisible Power of Blond

I got my hair dyed today and feel so much more myself but I can’t stop thinking about

@tressiemcphd

’s column. I do still think of myself as blond despite going brown at ~14 but I also never saw myself as “a blonde”. Now I’m all: why, what, wherefore?!🤔

nytimes.com

Blond is more than just a hair color.

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Sean Kennedy, MPH

@phealthsean

if you find a factual/data error in one of my tweets, please, please tell me! all i ask is that you provide the correct info, and a citation if you aren’t an expert.

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In fall 2020, I tried a model of “all deadlines are suggestions” to ensure sufficient flexibility for students in a pandemic. They HATED it. Now, that course has weekly assignments & the students love it. I learned my lesson for sure.

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Emily Brier

@Emily_Brier_

Is ANYONE doing "zero deadlines ever" because I see this strawman floating around a lot and I don't know anyone in real life that doesn't have at least a SUGGESTED turn-in date for students.

Twitter friends, do any of you work at the Mass Health Department & would you be willing to speak with one of my fabulous students?

Megan Ranney MD MPH

@meganranney

Here is my plea: do not give up. Do not accept that this is normal. And do not ignore the fact that there are another 100 gun deaths a day - on top of the public horrors like #MontereyPark & #HalfMoonBay *Gun violence is a public health problem* which means we can fix it💔

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Justin Feldman

@jfeldman_epi

A new normal was inevitable. But a new normal with no mitigation of risk or compensation for risk (beyond whatever level health care you happen to have access to) was only probable. This is a profound loss for old and disabled and working class people

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TheUnmitigatedAss - "Assigned Ass at Birth"

i’ve been doing what now?

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@UnmitigatedAss

Replying to @SarahTheHaider

It's a totalizing ideology. Why wouldn't it try to infect totally? And Kareem Carr has been Queering math here on twitter for years. There was a time where you couldn't go a few weeks without "2+2=5" popping up.

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Anne Sosin

@asosin

A growing chorus of prominent journalists and pundits have taken aim at another target—the proponents of a more vigorous public health response.

War on Empathy: A growing chorus of prominent journalists and pundits have taken aim at another target—the proponents of a more vigorous public health response. pestemag.com/featured-posts In

@PesteMagazine

today, my new piece with

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War on Empathy — PESTE

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me, a statistician: the perfect shirt does not exi-

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Justin Feldman

@jfeldman_epi

I can decipher this one. The major source for covid mortality data is the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). But I'm 99% sure Ferrer is talking about the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NDSS), a better source for real-time trends.

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wsbgnl

@wsbgnl

LA County Dept of Public Health director says "CDC is looking at making some revisions to how [covid] deaths are counted..." which may reduce future reported covid deaths by 10-20% at 38:45 youtu.be/0Xbq5upK2xw?t=

Gregg Gonsalves

@gregggonsalves

Billionaires at Davos Don’t Think COVID Is a Cold

Doubtlessly you've seen the story of "COVID protections for me, not for thee" at Davos, but DC types, I'd like to know what safety protocols are in place in the West Wing. I am serious. Someone please find this out. It's a story that needs to be told. 1/

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Everyone deserves the protection that they’re getting.

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I'm developing an intution for how ChatGPT works. ChatGPT is a universal translator combined with a database.

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Dr. Tara C. Smith

@aetiology

Reading old papers is fun. Microbiologist Alice Evans, in a 1934 paper on brucellosis, writes about "odious" & stigmatizing name "Malta fever".

@TheLancet

knew it pissed folks off in 1896. But yes, tell me how "woke" it is to explain how such names cause harm 100 years later.

Excerpt from 1934 paper, suggesting changing name of Malta fever.

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Ethan Embry

@EmbryEthan

This is the story of a large parcel of land in the heart of Atlanta. For the last year activists have been working to stop plans to build a large police training facility on this public property. Police shot and killed an activist in the forest two nights ago.

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Atlanta Magazine

@AtlantaMagazine

The South River Forest has been many things: Indigenous land, a prison farm, a dumping ground—and the keystone of an ambitious proposal to incorporate nature into Atlanta’s growth. Then came the plans for "Cop City." Inside the battle for the forest: atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/th

Jon Levy

@jonlevyBU

Differences Between Reported COVID-19 Deaths and Estimated Excess Deaths in Counties Across the...

Important preprint just posted related to COVID deaths vs. excess all-cause deaths. 268K excess deaths not assigned to COVID. Excess deaths up when COVID deaths up, less likely reported as COVID in South and Mountain divisions and non-metro counties.

medrxiv.org

Accurate and timely tracking of COVID-19 deaths is essential to a well-functioning public health surveillance system. The extent to which official COVID-19 death tallies have captured the true toll...

Boston Public Health

@HealthyBoston

Wearing a mask that fits well and can be worn regularly will help you stay healthy from COVID-19, flu, and RSV when gathering. Also, consider testing right before getting together, especially if older people or others at high risk for severe COVID-19 will be present.

Text on a brilliant red background reads: Attending a Lunar New Year celebration? We recommend wearing a well-fitting, high-quality mask in public indoor spaces and getting tested for COVID-19 before and after attending. Visit boston.gov/bphc for more information on the Boston Public Health Commission

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sarah radz

@sarahradz_

Letter: Burnaby swimmers with kids "have effectively been shut out" of local pool

For every politician that claims to want accessible, family-friendly city amenities, there's a dozen administrators who close all the pool lanes during the only childminding times that exist and then call you selfish when you complain

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"I am frustrated and disheartened by this disruption," says a Burnaby mom.

A friend just started med school in Norway and the Norwegian government automatically assigned her a primary care doctor and the primary care doctor automatically scheduled her an initial visit and she didnt have to do anything at all! Why can’t the rest of us have nice things?!

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this looks like the work of a data scientist serial killer

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Having a midlife crisis because no one in my class had read Sense & Sensibility *or* watched the 1995 movie version 😱

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

Covid deaths are not being overcounted - if anything, they're being *undercounted*. In today's deep dive on the

@MehdiHasanShow

, I debunked Dr. Leana Wen's dangerous & fact-free op-ed in the Washington Post - her gift to the Covid deniers! Watch/share:

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Cat Jones

@CatLucyJones

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Our school also **refuses** to inform families of COVID cases in the classroom. How are we supposed to protect ourselves and slow the spread?

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Dispatch from a Manhattan Elementary School: 8 kids in class of 22 get covid. No note goes home to families because NYC DOE close contact letters have ended (1 covid test was sent). 2 parents run into each other at drugstore & start to put together how bad the situation is. 1/

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