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Andrew Lover

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Infectious disease surveillance & epidemiology Associate Professor, Epidemiology @UMassSPHHS (all posts & views my own) http://loverlab.io https://www.umass.edu/public-health-sciences/ #epidemiology #IDsky #academicsky #episky

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Oct 29

▶️▶️ Endemicity is not a single "thing"- it's a range of scenarios, & 𝙙𝙮𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙘.

▶️ Malaria has been classified into 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙮 forever.

▶️ Below, a quick schema mapping these malaria endemicity categories to what #COVID19 or #mpox 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 look like.

#episky

Info on different levels of infectious disease endemicity, as opposed to one static "thing."

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · 8d

"The answer is AI- obviously! Sorry, what was the question again?"

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · 23d

Evergreen cartoon (source: x.com/redpenblackpen)

Cartoon showing "improvements" (all silly) to a car after peer review.

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Sep 14

Sadly- this is no longer reliable. There are multiple plugins that take AI text and type it into g-docs at human speed, with errors/deletions/edits.

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Aug 26

𝒈𝒆𝒏𝑨𝑰- 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓!

丂ㄖ尺尺ㄚ, what was the question?!?!

AI-generated image of human and robot analysts, labeled "Outsourcing cognitive functions in public health research"

Reposted by Andrew Lover

Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · Aug 26

How's this?

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've had good luck here:
datasetsearch.research.google.com

Dataset Search

datasetsearch.research.google.com

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Jul 31

There are several extension in Chrome that block all AI searches.

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Jul 26

NB: the reported case in CT was imported from the Four Corners area.

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Jul 23

Evolution 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩.

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Jun 24

Also, Carl Djerassi's "Science in fiction" novels- www.djerassi.com

Carl Djerassi - Science-in-fiction

www.djerassi.com

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Jun 17

[PSA enters the chat] "Hiiii--- it's meeeeee!"

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Jun 16

An older colleague in chemistry recounted that twice in his career while researching something in a (paper!) journal, he stumbled across something in an unrelated article that 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 (eg, project breakthroughs that led to major promotions at big pharma).

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Jun 11

bsky.app/profile/andr...

Hear hear!

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Nov 22

🅞🅤🅣🅑🅡🅔🅐🅚 🅔🅟🅘 Rules of thumb --->

𝗥𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝟭: all early data are wrong.
𝗥𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝟮: never trust weekend/holiday data.
𝗥𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝟯: don't assume anything.
𝗥𝘂𝗹𝗲 𝟰: double-triple check your denominators.

John Snow, father of ID epidemiology/outbreak science.

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · May 9

Let's just say... refluxing Br2 is mesmerizingly-horrifying in a pretty unique way.

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · May 7

Cristol-Firth Hunsdieker for the "win" .....

CCl4 ✅
HgO ✅
Light ✅
‼️ Refluxing Br2 ‼️

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · May 6

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Nov 22

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Apr 18

link x.com/redpenblackp...

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Apr 18

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Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Apr 2

When is "GWD" 𝒏𝙤𝒕 𝒒𝙪𝒊𝙩𝒆 "GWD"? 😵‍💫

Andrew Lover @andrewalover.bsky.social · Apr 2

Prior study from Vietnam in 2021 found novel Dracunculus sp (so not GWD specifically), but these may be different....?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...