DaveSue
@dsue.bsky.social
he/him::::in pursuit of elegant experimental design::::😎🌈🧑🏻🔧🌈😎
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In Beasley's classic paper on the risk of liver cancer from hep B:
He followed up thousands of people in Taiwan with hepatitis B surface antigen, and found they had a 223x higher risk of developing primary hepatocellular carcinoma (95% CI: 28-1497x)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
He followed up thousands of people in Taiwan with hepatitis B surface antigen, and found they had a 223x higher risk of developing primary hepatocellular carcinoma (95% CI: 28-1497x)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
December 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
In Beasley's classic paper on the risk of liver cancer from hep B:
He followed up thousands of people in Taiwan with hepatitis B surface antigen, and found they had a 223x higher risk of developing primary hepatocellular carcinoma (95% CI: 28-1497x)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
He followed up thousands of people in Taiwan with hepatitis B surface antigen, and found they had a 223x higher risk of developing primary hepatocellular carcinoma (95% CI: 28-1497x)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
December 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
You can do this right now:
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better.
Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.
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📢Persistent antibiotic resistance of cholera-causing bacteria in Africa revealed from a multinational workshop for strengthening disease surveillance, hosted by PulseNet Africa and @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social.
Read more here: microb.io/4aDdPze%F0%9... #MGEN #AntimicrobialResistance #Microbiology
Read more here: microb.io/4aDdPze%F0%9... #MGEN #AntimicrobialResistance #Microbiology
December 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📢Persistent antibiotic resistance of cholera-causing bacteria in Africa revealed from a multinational workshop for strengthening disease surveillance, hosted by PulseNet Africa and @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social.
Read more here: microb.io/4aDdPze%F0%9... #MGEN #AntimicrobialResistance #Microbiology
Read more here: microb.io/4aDdPze%F0%9... #MGEN #AntimicrobialResistance #Microbiology
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My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA
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December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA
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Our economic system doesn’t work if 37% of people on food assistance are working full time. These companies are exploiting and stealing from their workers.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Our economic system doesn’t work if 37% of people on food assistance are working full time. These companies are exploiting and stealing from their workers.
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Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!
apply.interfolio.com/176994
apply.interfolio.com/176994
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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hey folks, we (the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University) are looking for an Assistant Teaching Professor in microbiology and immunology. Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, or check it out if you are interested yourself!
apply.interfolio.com/176994
apply.interfolio.com/176994
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I am recruiting for a 3-year Post-doctoral position in molecular microbiology. The project is about antimicrobial heteroresistance (HR)— an emerging and challenging form of antibiotic resistance found in clinical isolates.
Please share post😀
See details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Please share post😀
See details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Postdoc in Molecular Microbiology
Department of Science and Environment, Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as postdoc in Molecular Microbiology from April 1st, 2026, or as
candidate.hr-manager.net
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I am recruiting for a 3-year Post-doctoral position in molecular microbiology. The project is about antimicrobial heteroresistance (HR)— an emerging and challenging form of antibiotic resistance found in clinical isolates.
Please share post😀
See details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Please share post😀
See details here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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WIRED recently published an AI special issue. I collected all the links in one place to save you the clicks through the little Tarot cards blog.stephenturner.us/p/wired-ai-o...
WIRED: AI of a Thousand Faces
WIRED published a special issue with 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age
blog.stephenturner.us
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
WIRED recently published an AI special issue. I collected all the links in one place to save you the clicks through the little Tarot cards blog.stephenturner.us/p/wired-ai-o...
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Jobs at Defend Public Health www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Jobs at Defend Public Health www.defendpublichealth.org/jobs-defend-...
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I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource.
But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker | Think Global Health
This map is updated weekly and visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource.
But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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For the 4th week in a row, we went state-by-state to check on flu, Covid-19 and RSV. All quiet, for now. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o...
Outbreak Outlook: Week 4 of DIY Surveillance
Unusually quiet autumn for respiratory infections
caitlinrivers.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For the 4th week in a row, we went state-by-state to check on flu, Covid-19 and RSV. All quiet, for now. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o...
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I am genuinely impressed by large language models - they can absorb disparate components of text into some consolidated view, they can produce extremely good language and - with the right model - translate pretty well between languages and they are an excellent text based UI for humans to use. But..
October 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I am genuinely impressed by large language models - they can absorb disparate components of text into some consolidated view, they can produce extremely good language and - with the right model - translate pretty well between languages and they are an excellent text based UI for humans to use. But..
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Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics:
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
Director, Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics
The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...
apply.refline.ch
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics:
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
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At the #STATSummit, Daniel Jernigan recounts what it was like at the CDC after a gunman had opened fire on the building.
October 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
At the #STATSummit, Daniel Jernigan recounts what it was like at the CDC after a gunman had opened fire on the building.
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#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Two (2) Open Rank Teaching Faculty
The Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks applicants for two (2) Teaching Faculty positions to be effective July 1, 2026. These positions will be fixed-term 9-...
unc.peopleadmin.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper
We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine.
1) Fundamental researc...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
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TIL the father of Joseph Lister (famous pioneer of antiseptic surgical techniques), J. J. Lister, developed far superior microscope lenses than were available at the time in his spare time while he was a wine merchant, and essentially kickstarted modern histology, along with Thomas Hodgkin.
September 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
TIL the father of Joseph Lister (famous pioneer of antiseptic surgical techniques), J. J. Lister, developed far superior microscope lenses than were available at the time in his spare time while he was a wine merchant, and essentially kickstarted modern histology, along with Thomas Hodgkin.
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Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous
Something Is Very Wrong Online
Our political conversations take place in very same spaces that incubate and perpetuate unthinkable violence.
www.theatlantic.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous
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OpenAI "acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated." techcrunch.com/2025/09/07/a...
Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations? | TechCrunch
How can a chatbot be so wrong — and sound so confident in its wrongness?
techcrunch.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
OpenAI "acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated." techcrunch.com/2025/09/07/a...
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London researchers estimate COVID-19 vaccines cost $79B in 2020–21 but returned $4.8–$37.8T in health and economic benefits.
That is $60–$475 gained for every $1 invested, making them one of the best global investments ever.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
That is $60–$475 gained for every $1 invested, making them one of the best global investments ever.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
The global return-on-investment of COVID-19 vaccines in the first year of the vaccination programme
COVID-19 vaccines played a critical role in reducing global health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, but their rapid development required extraordinary effort. This study aims to evaluate their glo...
www.medrxiv.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
London researchers estimate COVID-19 vaccines cost $79B in 2020–21 but returned $4.8–$37.8T in health and economic benefits.
That is $60–$475 gained for every $1 invested, making them one of the best global investments ever.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
That is $60–$475 gained for every $1 invested, making them one of the best global investments ever.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...