Screenshot of cases from the U.S. CDC’s website showing the number of national measles cases indexed by rash onset date. Are they going down?

📝 "Publish a Quarto project using GitHub Pages+GitHub Actions in 6 minutes (no need to render locally!)" 👤 Melissa Van Bussel 📖 Publish Quarto projects on GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions – effortlessly & free! 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arzBRW5XIkg #rladies#rstats

Great work by @andreevallecam.bsky.social leading an @epiverse-trace.bsky.social training working at the School of Public Health in University of Chile last month: saludpublica.uchile.cl/noticias/227...

#EpiverseTRACE training empowers public health pros and policymakers with data skills for better decisions in health emergencies. Huge thanks to @andreevallecam.bsky.social Laura Gómez Bermeo data.org/people/laura-gomez-bermeo/ & Abdoelnaser Degoot linkedin.com/in/abdoelnaser-degoot-02089682/ (3/4)

what software do people use to generate pretty-looking causal DAGs for their papers? (answers that take the form of an R package preferred, but “we always use Powerpoint/Canva/… because doing it in code is too hard” is a useful data point too) cc @pwgtennant.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

🚨NEW STARTER PACK🚨 Hear about the latest #PublicHealth and #pandemicpreparedness news, views and research directly from our @lshtm.bsky.social academics. Join the conversation 👉 go.bsky.app/3rCaKBm

Here's a summary of our training materials.

Building #PublicHealth data science capacity is key! At #EpiverseTRACE, we combine open-source tools #rstats with hands-on #training to equip the next generation of public health professionals and data scientists with cutting-edge analytical skills. We host Spanish and English #tutorials! 🧵(1/4)

REMINDER: Please take our short survey (10 minutes or less!) to share your experience and help us make Glosario, our multilingual glossary of data science terms, even better! 📆 The survey is open until 31 March (anywhere on Earth). Read more here: carpentries.org/blog/2025/03...

Join Epiverse at the Pandemic & Epidemic Intelligence Innovation Forum! 🗓️ 24 March ⏰ 13:00–14:30 CET 📍 Online Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social & Hugo Gruson github.com/Bisaloo will present on cross-community collaboration! 👉 Register: shorturl.at/1h6Cc

Hi Bluesky! 👋 We're the Centre for Epidemic Preparedness & Response at @lshtm.bsky.social. Our Centre brings together experts from different fields to see the bigger picture, re-think collaboration and make a global impact on pandemic preparedness. Want to know more? 👇

It's publication day for "Asymptomatic" via Johns Hopkins U Press. The book explores the paradox of asymptomatic transmission and rationale for proactive steps to confront future pandemics: bit.ly/asymptomatic...

🔬 Malaria beyond primates? 🦌 Hi, Bluesky! 🌿 I study malaria in the Peruvian Amazon, and we just found Plasmodium odocoilei clade 1 in a red brocket deer (Mazama americana)—something unexpected! 🤯

We are delighted to announce the release of ellmer, an R package for accessing the power of LLMs in R! ellmer supports a variety of model providers. Chat, tool call, stream API calls, extract structured data, and more! Learn about it here: posit.co/blog/announc... #RStats #AI #LLM

#EpiverseTRACE is now on Bluesky & LinkedIn! 🎉 We’re expanding to be more inclusive & diverse, reaching a wider audience in public health & data science. Want to know more about what we do?⁉️🤔 🧵a thread!

A thread🧵 on application systems for postdoc jobs in the UK (applies to my university, but I've seen others and they're similar). I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how

Fomentando la Ciencia Abierta en América Latina - Programa de rOpenSci ropensci.org/es/commcalls...

Si el #chino y #español son los dos idiomas con más hablantes nativos, y junto al #hindi son los idiomas con mayor cantidad total de hablantes (Statista, 2023) ¿Por qué #BlueSky prioriza en su lista de idiomas de posteo al #inglés, #japonés, #portugués y #alemán? > es.statista.com/estadisticas...

#Positron, a primera vista, parece #Stata 🫠

In case you missed it: During the holidays we announced an exciting collaboration between The Carpentries and the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). Read all about it on our blog: carpentries.org/blog/2024/12...

1/ 📢 In our new PREPRINT - tinyurl.com/2pmudzrk - we evaluate how symptom-agnostic, population-wide screening interventions could significantly reduce the TB burden in Viet Nam. These require a substantial front-loaded investment but yield lasting cost savings. 🧵 #Tuberculosis #TBSky

[PAQUETE 📦] - 🚀 ¿Enseñas R? El paquete {messy} transforma datos limpios en "datos del mundo real" llenos de desorden. Ideal para que estudiantes practiquen manipulación y limpieza de datos. 🧹💡 🌐 nrennie.rbind.io/messy/ ✍🏼 @nrennie.bsky.social #RStats #RStatsES #Rtips #DataScience

Abro hilo con eventos pre conferencia y tutoriales de #LatinR2024 | Starting thread with pre-conference events and tutorials in LatinR Conference 2024 latinr.org #RStats #RStatsES #RStatsPT 1/