Michael DeWitt
@medewitt.bsky.social
Infectious disease epidemiology and dynamics using #rstats, #stan, and #julialang. Opinions are my own.
2020: what a great time to have expertise in infectious diseases and outbreak response!
2025: ...
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January 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
2020: what a great time to have expertise in infectious diseases and outbreak response!
2025: ...
2025: ...
Using the waiting periods during jury duty to catch up on reviews and papers. Nothing like being locked in a room to improve productivity....
January 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Using the waiting periods during jury duty to catch up on reviews and papers. Nothing like being locked in a room to improve productivity....
Reposted by Michael DeWitt
Five years ago (Tuesday 31 Dec 2019), the news of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan was out. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission published a bulletin confirming the outbreak.
Less information than was already available at the time was shared: ▫️1/
web.archive.org/web/20200131...
Less information than was already available at the time was shared: ▫️1/
web.archive.org/web/20200131...
December 31, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Five years ago (Tuesday 31 Dec 2019), the news of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan was out. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission published a bulletin confirming the outbreak.
Less information than was already available at the time was shared: ▫️1/
web.archive.org/web/20200131...
Less information than was already available at the time was shared: ▫️1/
web.archive.org/web/20200131...
There was a Cichlids display at the children's museum and I excited turn around to talk about their importance for ecology and evolution and sadly no one was around lol
December 30, 2024 at 9:09 PM
There was a Cichlids display at the children's museum and I excited turn around to talk about their importance for ecology and evolution and sadly no one was around lol
Reposted by Michael DeWitt
"It’s hard to form an effective control strategy when you don’t know exactly how it’s spreading.” Dr Brinkley Bellotti quoted in the MIT Technology Review about the #h5n1 outbreak in dairy cattle in the United States. Check out our ongoing research into #h5n1 https://buff.ly/3ZoW9Ak #idsky #medsky
December 13, 2024 at 12:40 PM
"It’s hard to form an effective control strategy when you don’t know exactly how it’s spreading.” Dr Brinkley Bellotti quoted in the MIT Technology Review about the #h5n1 outbreak in dairy cattle in the United States. Check out our ongoing research into #h5n1 https://buff.ly/3ZoW9Ak #idsky #medsky
One of my favorite material pleasures (admittedly very privileged) is setting up a stereo sound system and cracking the volume.
December 14, 2024 at 4:16 PM
One of my favorite material pleasures (admittedly very privileged) is setting up a stereo sound system and cracking the volume.
I started Thanksgiving as the pilgrims did--updating and reformatting biosketches for grant applications.
November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
I started Thanksgiving as the pilgrims did--updating and reformatting biosketches for grant applications.
Really cool poster presentation from Dr Seth Addo, the 2024 @wakeforest.bsky.social Pennell Global Health Fellow award winner on VBD geospatial risk in Ghana #tropmed24 #astmh
November 16, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Really cool poster presentation from Dr Seth Addo, the 2024 @wakeforest.bsky.social Pennell Global Health Fellow award winner on VBD geospatial risk in Ghana #tropmed24 #astmh
Someone needs to do a study on the impact #rstats Shiny has had on public health communication. Nearly every presentation at #tropmed24 with a dashboard, had one that was a Shiny.
November 15, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Someone needs to do a study on the impact #rstats Shiny has had on public health communication. Nearly every presentation at #tropmed24 with a dashboard, had one that was a Shiny.
Wandering the Internal Workboat Convention looking for TropMed...might stick around and check these rigs out
November 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Wandering the Internal Workboat Convention looking for TropMed...might stick around and check these rigs out
Going to test how successful I can be writing on Overleaf using my phone.
November 9, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Going to test how successful I can be writing on Overleaf using my phone.
Hear me out, instead of a Quarto website (which I love), a custom rust static site generator that takes my qmds and jmds. With Go code to parse some some of my Obsidian markdown notes. Along with a Sqlite powered, in-browser search function... id3es.com
November 5, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Hear me out, instead of a Quarto website (which I love), a custom rust static site generator that takes my qmds and jmds. With Go code to parse some some of my Obsidian markdown notes. Along with a Sqlite powered, in-browser search function... id3es.com
The menacing masked man on the top of the parking tower near my child's daycare putting it into lockdown was not how I expected to start the week.
October 28, 2024 at 12:35 PM
The menacing masked man on the top of the parking tower near my child's daycare putting it into lockdown was not how I expected to start the week.
Great thread! Just taking the time to write down ideas is a major step in intellectual development (especially as soon as they come to mind...for some reason while brushing my teeth). Then flesh them out later.
As always the first thing is to just start practising. Spend some time trying to think of original ideas and write them down. You won't get to "do" all the projects, but you can look back a week/month later and assess which ideas were good or not. 2/n
October 23, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Great thread! Just taking the time to write down ideas is a major step in intellectual development (especially as soon as they come to mind...for some reason while brushing my teeth). Then flesh them out later.
I wonder how many of these "future of AI in x" executive types have solved eigenvectors like I find myself doing...
October 21, 2024 at 6:28 PM
I wonder how many of these "future of AI in x" executive types have solved eigenvectors like I find myself doing...
#winston-salem and @wakeforest.bsky.social fun Friday night of Hocus Pocus in the park
October 19, 2024 at 12:12 AM
#winston-salem and @wakeforest.bsky.social fun Friday night of Hocus Pocus in the park
Zero wait time on the university HPC on Friday night. Come Monday morning though everything is in queue. Lesson- only work on weekends?
August 6, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Zero wait time on the university HPC on Friday night. Come Monday morning though everything is in queue. Lesson- only work on weekends?
My vocabulary of Spanish language names of arthropods continues to expand over these last two weeks in Peru...
June 27, 2024 at 2:49 AM
My vocabulary of Spanish language names of arthropods continues to expand over these last two weeks in Peru...
Seeing both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the same week is kind of a neat thing to have done.
June 16, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Seeing both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the same week is kind of a neat thing to have done.
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Getting my yellow fever and rabies vaccines along with three others and then driving to the beach might have been a bad idea
June 11, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Getting my yellow fever and rabies vaccines along with three others and then driving to the beach might have been a bad idea
I've reached that point in my life where I only have a 4am-6am email time slot
June 6, 2024 at 12:50 AM
I've reached that point in my life where I only have a 4am-6am email time slot
Being the youngest person on any team means you are responsible for formatting the Word document. Enjoy it while it lasts...
May 21, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Being the youngest person on any team means you are responsible for formatting the Word document. Enjoy it while it lasts...
Coached a 7 year olds in back to back soccer matches in the rain. Ask me anything.
May 4, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Coached a 7 year olds in back to back soccer matches in the rain. Ask me anything.
POC affordable molecular assays will be vital for tailoring ABX to treat GC...
My latest for JAMA. Dire headline but focuses on solutions - eg PCR test showing if patient responds to "older" antibiotic, modeling study suggesting how to deploy new drugs w/ national surveillance on shoestring budget.
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jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“Super Gonorrhea” Has Arrived
This Medical News article discusses approaches to slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
jamanetwork.com
May 4, 2024 at 11:29 AM
POC affordable molecular assays will be vital for tailoring ABX to treat GC...