Wife has been using the 3D printer at the makerspace a lot. Finally broke down and got one for home. Meet my Hippo of Disapproval. Its role will be to sit on my desk and unsuccessfully prod me into being productive.

Need an article for Journal Club? Apparently people are more willing to be decent if Batman is present… PubMed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41184421/ #AltJournalClub

Refilling the water reservoir for the NICU coffee maker this morning — mystified by the .XAM label. Yes, I really need this coffee badly.

Warned my NICU team to be careful about using the CDC as a source of reliable information. Hope the AAP steps up, perhaps expanding the Red Book to cover topics I used to go to the CDC for.

At least half a decade later, the bunny is still going strong… Copy paste the bunny and then put something else in his hand 😃 (\_/) (°-°) />🥕 My kids’ contributions: (\_/) (\_/) (°-°) (°-°) />🔪 🔫<\ (Bringing a knife to a gun fight…) (\_/) (\_/) (🕶️) (._.) / \ />🕶️

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

Pre-alpha public release of Kitten Space Agency!!! I played a bit of KSP and was disappointed by KSP 2. KSA is looking GREAT after very little time, and the devs seem to have their hearts in absolutely the right place — I’ll be making a contribution to support them! #ksa #KittenSpaceAgency

Met the on-call intern and fellow tonight. Was asked “Are you the one who went into SVT while working and got an EKG of yourself?” Why, yes, that would be me (20+ years ago as a peds resident). Caught the break and finished the overnight shift too. I guess it’s good to be known for… something…?

First time I’ve seen this, and even through light pollution of suburban Massachusetts

Took a night owl cross-country flight back home. There was a rather cranky toddler across the aisle. I no longer have any guilt whatsoever at splurging on noise-canceling ear buds.

I believe in peer review… …but, not in peer review limited to gate-keeping for acceptance for publication in academic journals for profit.

A moment of calm in the botanical gardens of Tilden Park, Berkeley CA

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

AI tells you what you want to hear, statisticians usually tell you what you don't want to hear

I accidentally left an apple outside my local doctor's office. Now he won't be able to get in.

Picked up Mythos by Stephen Fry in a #LittleFreeLibrary and it’s been a fun read — a slightly irreverent take on Greek mythology. Got thinking about giving back and after freecycle hunting, wife has found a free broken wine fridge (w/glass door) we’re planning to convert into a LFL. Fun project!

I am on the job market and wanted to advertise myself here! 🤠 Looking for full-time or contracting roles! Historically, my work spans population dynamics, healthcare informatics, robust adaptive controls, software engineering, and community engagement. 🧪 #STEMjobs #academicsky #publichealth

When you lie at the interview, but get the job anyway.

The difficulty with evidence-based medicine is that you must value truth over wishful thinking. This generally does not make you popular. #showerthoughts (Good thing my job is to take care of babies, not being popular.)

Artists Thibaut Garcia and Antoine Morinière It’s a really excellent arrangement of the Goldberg Variations. I’d recommend listening with headphones / earbuds as the 2 guitars are nicely separated and give a spatial feel to the counterpoint. #classicalmusic

TIL in the NICU that "Build-A-Bear Workshop" costumes are well-sized for a lot of our newborns. Missed opportunity for baby doing well after therapeutic hypothermia -- should have had an Elsa costume -- "The cold never bothered me anyway..."

Helped teach an intro to physical computing class at a local makerspace using the Circuit Playground tonight. The best part was when the initially slightly bored middle schooler got into tinkering and exploring, ending with a “WOW! That’s so cool!” as he showed off his creation. Gives me hope.

Ok I think I’m just dumb. How do you get the #medsky labeler to recognize you as working in particular field(s), and in which posts will it show up? I saw a thread with an endless scroll of possibilities but even that one seemed incomplete — saw pediatrics, but not neonatal-perinatal

#NoKings Boston, MA

The reason I provided to them was: "There are consequences to Disney being unwilling to do what is right."

Sad but grateful today. Told CFI that I'd be stopping flight training. Just under 100 hours total time, 33 hours solo, just needed school stage check + FAA checkride. I'm grateful that I fulfilled a childhood dream of FLYING, but this is enough. I'm going to miss the sky. #studentpilot #aviation

Thank you, Massachusetts

Great books and support a charity

I might not like using AI to replace thinking. But maybe I can forgive a little, because thanks to ChatGPT, I have this gem.

Boys with Noonan Syndrome at the 97%ile for BMI will collapse into a singularity at ~17.5 years age. It's very sad. In other news, learned in 2 days how to use #Rlang #quarto-preprint with #typst to submit a report on corrected LMS growth curve parameters to #MedRxiv doi:10.1101/2025.07.29.25332354

🎉 Quarto R package v1.5.0 is here! New features to boost your workflow: - Pass R values to Quarto metadata - Markdown in HTML tables - Light & dark themes for plots/tables - Work with R scripts & automate CLI Read more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #RStats #Quarto #DataScience #OpenSource

MOSAIC announcement! #aviation #studentpilot

We finally made it to Bluesky—just a few billion years after the Big Bang, and only slightly late to the party ✨🌌 We’re sharing some of our best stories from the year so far to kick off our Bluesky journey!

Oh yay, they announced it!!

Anyone know how to convince crows to visit? I wanna become a crowbro 🐦‍⬛ I’ve never personally seen/heard them close by home, but BirdWeather suggests they’re around. Roasted unsalted peanuts at the ready…

Yay!

I deployed a calculator for 2025 Fenton 3rd generation preterm growth charts. Also analyzed effect of Fenton 2013 vs 2025 with n=2516 births <34 weeks (2016-2024): • rate of SGA (10%ile) classification from 9.2% to 21%, • mean ∆Z wt birth to discharge changed from -0.67 to -0.43 #NeoSky #PedSky

TIL that if you deploy changes to a testing environment, but then assess it in the live server, you are unlikely to see the newly implemented changes functioning. And it only took me 2 days to figure out 🤦🏻‍♂️

The 3rd generation Fenton preterm growth charts were recently released, so being a data geek, I did some analysis of how the Fenton 2003/2013/2025 and Olsen 2010 preterm charts compared, and harmonization with the WHO growth standards. Also some opinionated musing. #NeoSky #PedSky #rstats #dataviz

Third generation Fenton growth curves #neosky #ebneo pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40534585/

Whether or not moving the controllers back to N90 (New York TRACON) might still depend on whether the FAA has already started ripping out equipment there. Newark's problems are not short-term fixes, but they could possibly be alleviated by moving controllers back to N90. 6/

For aviation types or curious public, this is a long one anonymously written by a controller on FB who works the Newark sector about what is really happening there. I'll post the screenshots of his post in the comments, but first I want to give you a sense of scale... 1/

Awesome news. I only wish I had been more successful convincing more parents to accept the prophylaxis. #NeoSky #PedSky

“Sometimes people do things to you that you can’t do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.” - #Murderbot (Artificial Condition, Martha Wells)

For Disney fans, a couple of #HiddenMickeys from Aulani

Going to be hard leaving this.

Beautiful day out so went on a mini-hike post-call and combined it with logging my first geocache in a year or two. Should get back into geocaching, if only as an excuse to explore cool places I would not have thought of to go to otherwise. www.geocaching.com