Congratulations to Dr. Deepit Bhatia on the successful defense of his dissertation!!

Really pleased to be able to share this work by @deepit.bsky.social on predicting subnational measles vaccination coverage in sub-Saharan Africa. He shows that a statistical model based on country-level surveillance data can generate estimates almost as good as the DHS-survey gold standard 🧵 /1

I fucking love gadgets. I like new things. I set up a gadget savings account ten years ago to restrict myself on gadget purchases because I am a gadget loving freak. Pretty amazing for the tech industry to make someone like me into a tech dethusiast in a matter of five years.

He was so eager for it, did it too soon

When I use Google now I just automatically scroll past the AI summaries like they’re banner ads

The strip club in Toronto took down their US flag and put another Canadian flag up

We love to see his “I want to wrestle” look

When companies forbid consumption of their own products, that should tell you something...

the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.

Medicaid financed the cost of 34% of births in Pennsylvania in 2022, according to KFF. If you live in PA, call McCormick and ask him what he thinks about slashing that program

That’s why it’s so absurd when people say “we can’t fight Trump, he thrives on conflict.” Bullies like Trump do not thrive on genuine conflict with real stakes. They thrive on fake conflict they can win and control. They fear real conflict immensely. Conflict is how you beat them. They are cowards.

Really wild how people continue to act like RFK Jr.’s problem is his remote history of heroin addiction in sustained recovery and not the fact that he’s a sociopathic, science denying, con artist, who wants kids to die so he can make a buck, which has nothing to do with him using heroin decades ago.

Dhume, as the descendant of a Partition refugee, I am saying this with my full chest: you can fuck right off.

me daring the cars to run me over when stepping onto a crosswalk

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

The Demographic and Health Surveys, a major effort supported by USAID and widely used across the world, are also not currently available.

🧵 🎉 Congratulations #Niger for eliminating Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, the first country in the African Region to do so bit.ly/40Ur7lV 1/4

A reminder of warmer days this past summer. 🎞️: Ektar (1), Provia 100 (2,3) 📷: Nikon N70 #filmphotography #believeinfilm

More lessons in photography in the snow (this time in b/w). I enjoyed shooting in b/w here as I could overexpose by 2 or more stops to show the brightness of the snow, and still resolve the sparkles in the snowflakes. 📷: Nikon F100 with 24-120 f/4 G 🎞️: Kentmere 100(?) #filmphotography

Learning some lessons in metering Kodak E100 in the snow (settling on +1.67 to 2 EV in the sun). 📷: Nikon F100 with 24-120 f/4 G 🎞️: Flic Film (respooled Kodak E100) #filmphotography #believeinfilm

Looks like I need to put both jackets on the dog and unguent on his feet today.

egg nog is actually so fucking gross, conceptually. like, yeah i think i'll drink a bunch of raw eggs and heavy cream today (i love egg nog so much)

God grant me the confidence of people on mushroom ID groups who will repeatedly ID Jack O’ Lantern mushrooms as chanterelles.

RIP to a legend. I don’t think I would have taken up tabla without his influence on my musical tastes.

Artist makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Artist nails cease and desist to a very very very long pole & holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...

Love that searching for information online now consists of “search query” + “forum”/“reddit” and then reading a bunch of posts to see if the website you’re looking for actually exists. In any case, but if anyone is putting on winter rims/tires and needs pressure info, tiresize.com/pressure-cal...

First time shooting with Velvia 50 and I was lucky to catch the sunset. #filmphotography #filmisnotdead

They died because they were women. Today is the 35th anniversary of the Dec. 6, 1989 Polytechnique Massacre. 14 women, most engineering students, were murdered by a misogynist gunman. December 6 is now the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...

The entire roster of health nominees is terrible. They are not there to reform the agencies they are nominated to lead but to promote quackery, indulge in conspiracies and carry out a bloodletting of expertise and experience that will leave this country reeling for a generation. 15/

Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

We All Make Sacrifices.

You know it's November in PA when you're not the only one wearing blaze orange clothing at the gym.

fascism is stopped when enough people say one of two things: 1) "nah, I'm not doing that" 2) "nah, you're not doing that" a lot of people want to imagine how they'll say the second thing, but you should *really* start practicing the first one

"A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter." defector.com/what-the-fuc...

its only identity politics if it comes from the left otherwise it's just sparkling economic anxiety

Did I have to hike in the dark after taking this photo? Yes. Was I speaking out loud to any bear that was in the vicinity? Also yes.

not me. it is not my job to say what a political party should or should not be doing. it is my job to tell the truth, and the truth is that a lot of people willingly abandoned their faculties to make a bad, destructive choice

my country elected a fascist 10 years ago and he's now arguably the most unpopular pm we've ever had and we still can't get rid of him because once a fascist gets into power, typically you do not get them out without a whole lot of mass violence. Don't be like us.

Excited to announce we've put all the big numbers in the Math Jumbler and it told us to go fuck ourselves

As someone who road trips a lot, electrolyte drink (non caffeinated), pizza pringles, banana+orange, and those frozen Twix ice cream bars.

so many ppl have left twitter they should call it ex

we're all stressed and insane this week for very valid reasons, but please try to take your stress out in other ways than a-feudin' and a fightin' with people you basically agree with

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

A bigger question I couldn't get to: why does the canadian business community suck and blow so much mediocrity that they put up with this? I guess things are fine over there at the Empire Club.