I need help becoming a more competitive PhD candidate. I cannot waste another season/year without progressing my career. I want to continue my training for infectious disease modeling. I am willing to do anything / hear any hard truths about my competitiveness. Pretty please! 🎓🧪🛟 #iddjobs

We found that #TB epidemics are becoming increasingly urbanised. Important implications for supporting effective public health interventions to end tuberculosis epidemics. 🧪 #MedSky @uofgshw.bsky.social @kchorton.bsky.social @nswartwood.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Ever had a day where you question your fundamental understanding of a basic concept you use near daily. I'm down a rabbit hole with different log/exp transformation in models. Throw your best articles/book chapters/anything else at me. 🛟

I am particularly curious what phrases academics across disciplines and career stages use to describe an individual with their HIV status attached (both + and -). 🛟 Do you use PLWH and PLWoH? PLWH and person living without HIV? HIV+/- population? Something else entirely? #AcademicSky

TIL you are supposed to write a new cover letter when submitting manuscript revisions. I've been a professional in academia for 8.5 years. Apologies to every editor who has received my submission cover letter and thank you for still accepting my manuscripts. 🫠 #AcademicSky

Thank you to @troytassier.bsky.social for highlighting our work on COVID-19 waves (esp wrt the Strugis rally). Fun fact: I accidentally ended up at Sturgis once (pre-COVID) and I have the tattoo to prove it. It was so cramped and chaotic; I will never understand how 2020 attendees justified it.

Alt title: A love letter to anyone who tried to minimize concerns regarding Trump's reelection by claiming, "It's only four years." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Three years ago we set out to visualize and quantitatively examine the movement of SARS-CoV-2 leading up to the first two major COVID-19 waves in the US. Today all that hard work "hit the shelves" at PLOSCompBio. 🛟 Watch the spread (we have movies) and read more here: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Anyone know why the GBD 2023 covariate files end at the letter "R"? Having trouble tracking down updated smoking and underweight prevalence data for a revision due too soon. 🛟 ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-...

#ELI5 PhD applications in the US for applied math, biostatistics, and/or epidemiology. I'm in my 3rd application cycle with only a single interview over all years. I feel either I am fundamentally misunderstanding something or there's something about my profile that torpedos my chances. 🛟

every time I receive an email addressed to Dr. Swartwood another tiny piece of my soul dies.

how many years in a row does one need to be rejected from all PhD programs before they can completely spiral out? Asking for a frenemy. (it’s me, I’m my own best advocate and enemy).

I'm author on some upcoming systematic review manuscripts. Systematic reviews are often limited by language of the reviewers, but is AI the answer? Is its use going to improve public health? Below, I describe my experience and why I don't think it's the answer. 🛟🧪

Any BRMS gurus out there that can help me with my covariate analysis using a multivariate model? #stats #stan discourse.mc-stan.org/t/covariate-...

In case anyone needs last minute gift ideas for the public health academic in their life: cognitive-surplus.com/collections/...

Does anyone in US public health🛟 or @iddjobs.org world have any part time work? I'm looking for at least 9 hours of work at a non-profit or university so I don't lose my progress toward Public Student Loan Forgiveness.

we have to bring TB into the discussion of climate change and climate change into TB programs. The vulnerabilities are shared. We should be designing interventions that improve resilience to both. A huge thank you to Matthew Saunders for his fantastic presentation at #UnionConf2025

Heepity jeepity Curated poetry Makes LLMs do what- Ever you want Single-turn jailbreaking Vulnerability Bypass your guardrails and Serve us some cunt

come learn how TB varies across urban and rural areas via estimates based on data across the last three decades! #UnionConf2025

“Tuberculosis has become a metaphor for everything wrong with…and everything right about Public Health today.” - @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social #UnionConf2025

come stop by my ePoster today at the #UnionConf2025 to find out if men or women experience TB at a higher rate in LMICs. The answer may just surprise you… 🛟

Only I could go chasing hygge in Copenhagen, going so far as picking a cafe that bans laptops, and end up wedged between two groups discussing graduate school aspiration and professional resume building. I hear you universe, I’ll get my act together.

Impacts to food access can have severe effects on public health. Find the latest #SNAP updates from DSHS. www.dshs.wa.gov/sites/defaul...

NEW: Vaccine Preventable Disease Outbreaks, Global Tracker Shanghai: RSV Moscow: Chicken pox & Measles Prague: Hep A Mexico City: Measles (>5,000 cases) Southern US: Measles, Pertussis Alaska: Pertussis Peru: Pertussis h/t @angierasmussen.bsky.social @monscience.bsky.social #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

“Wow, I saw in the last GTB report undernutrition is much less important for TB than we previously thought” I hear you say… Well, no. We think this is an underestimate, & as much as 28% of TB could be attributable to undernutrition – see our latest comment here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In case any of these are helpful for folks job hunting in the health space, Reposting for feeds: #episky #phdsky #publichealth #academicsky

I wonder if this push will expand to three vaccines over three visits, resulting in two additional revenue generating visits for the same protection…

Public health and science professionals in the US - what are some small actions you've taken to feel less hopeless in the current political climate? I've started a few small reoccurring donations, but looking to move beyond monetary contributions. 🛟🧪

Hello #IDsky - as PhD application season (in the US) rolls around, I'm asking for any leads for mathematical modeling labs that may be looking for students. I've got 8 years professional experience in transmission modeling and strong Bayesian background. Please let me know if you know of anything! 🛟

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵 An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

While I would prefer that my historical research have less relevance, please read and consider what it was like to fall ill and die before germ theory. #histmed 🗃️ nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #Neurosky #Neurocovid #immunology #publichealth @nature.com A study of nearly 1,000 people revealed that brain ageing was not associated with viral infection status, particularly #SARSCoV2 virus, but cognitive decline was. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

crime is a public health issue and should be treated as such. police respond to crime, they do not lower it.

🧪 New research confirms climate change is a primary driver of worsening forest fires. The likelihood of extreme fire weather has doubled since the preindustrial era, contributing to a dramatic increase in burned forest area globally. #Climate #Fires

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #papermills #openaccessdata #AI #publichealth

The Trump admin is erasing critical federal data - including climate trends, water quality, wildfire risk, public health stats, and pollution monitoring. When the data goes dark, the American lives are at risk. This is how To Sabatoge A Nation👇 zurl.co/slECM

There is evidence that 100 year hazards, like floods, are now happening more like every 1 to 30 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

"This country has lost the most basic of all freedoms: the freedom that comes from being healthy." - RFK You know what protects and promotes people's health? Public health. Access to health care/health insurance. Health research. The very things the Trump administration is gutting.

“Over the past several months, the project has engaged more than 80 stakeholders, including clinicians, academics, public health officials, insurers &industry leaders, to assess how nongovernmental actors can defend vaccine science&use at a time when official public health channels are under stress”

As I cook my camping breakfast over and open fire, I find myself reflecting on the millions of women who use indoor cookstoves daily for their food preparation. These stoves are a source of indoor air pollution, a risk factor for many diseases, including TB.

shout out to the car rental person in Eau Claire airport who just casually dropped „that’s our free health care” while the blue angels were doing their test flights for this weekends air show. #whereisthelie

logging off 💕

I think this means there should be absolutely no debate at my #SMDM25 presentation this afternoon, right?

only 24 hours behind our original departure time but Miss Lemma and I are on our way to #SMDM25 Ann Arbor here we come!

(5/5) 🚨 It’s time to flood the zone. NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn. 📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration ✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support 👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

This is absolutely not normal. not okay. Protesting is not insurrection.

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