A painting I made as appreciation for all the work our public health labs do! With a subtle nod to genomics as a part of that ☺️ #publichealth #art #watercolor

It is certainly reasonable to question exactly how helpful covid boosters are for younger people, but the new FDA policy goes beyond that... hsph.harvard.edu/news/new-cov...

I am very excited to share that we have a publication describing the State Public Health Bioinformatics (StaPH-B) Docker container project!! 🧬🖥️ Amazing work by the community and a special thanks to the co-authors who keep this project going!! #Bioinformatics #StaPH-B wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Just finished a proof-of-concept using an LLM (Anthropic Claude) to connect genomic metadata fields from an internal LIMS system to NCBI's BioSample and SRA submission templates. A fantastic collaboration between Cal Poly, AWS, DCLS, and WSLH! aws.amazon.com/blogs/public... #bioinformatics

Saturday Morning Owl Painting #art #watercolor #owl

It's been a bit since I've had the emotional bandwidth to be creative but it felt good to paint this #art #watercolor

This has been a fantastic workshop. Great takes and participation from everyone!

It's rubbish how the dismantling of our education system is treated like an everyday bullet point 🤬🤬🤬

Big thanks to @torstenseemann.bsky.social for hosting me at the Centre for Pathogen Genomics. It was lovely to meet everyone and see the awesome binfo work happening in Asia-Pacific! #Austrakka #Bioinformatics #PublicHealth

🎤 Ask us anything! 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️🙋 In honor of reaching 100K (❣️) followers, we are holding an AMA right now! This is an #AltGov tradition and since we stand on the shoulders of our AltGov fam, we have gathered our team and are happy to take questions in the responses. ⚠️ We do not give medical or legal advice.

Make no mistake. This is an all-out attack on health in America. Not only is the EIS vital to controlling infectious disease; it was where a remarkably high fraction of our public health leaders received formative training and experience. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

ASM is an embarrassment - plain and simple. Just disgraceful. @vscooper.micropopbio.org, will we see more courageous leadership this summer? If there's anything left by then, it's going to be necessary, I'm sad to say.

Crow friends are the best!

"Shock and awe" was the strategy from the start. Its goal, create confusion and paralysis. Pick issues and fight them, coordinate and resist. Write senators and representatives and donate to organizations taking action if you can.

Withdrawing US funding from the World Health Organization is a potential disaster for public health worldwide, due to the impact it will have on the important work the WHO does. Preventing the CDC from even *talking* with WHO personnel is a step much farther toward undermining global health & safety

Amongst sailors, the swallow represents a hope of returning home. Perched on a sunflower of warmth and joy it is a symbol of hope. That we can return from the insanity that has begun. #watercolor #swallow #art #painting

It's Friday afternoon, it's 18 F outside, I'm in the basement with a space heater, it's dark, and I don't have any more meetings today... It's time to code!

As one of the faculty helping with this program I am really excited for the content that is being put together for this program! I wish something like this existed when I was starting in public health

My first Bluesky painting post and also my first duck! Here is a Barrow's goldeneyes watercolor from a reference photo taken by @carlbergstrom.com

Strategic investment in innovative laboratory and informatic technologies is critical for both public health and national security. Read more about our work to build resilient, adaptable, and pathogen agnostic infectious disease surveillance across the US public health system www.cdc.gov/amd

Agreed, It will be sad to leave Instagram since I follow so many amazing artists. I was concerned when they started scraping images to train meta AI models but this officially the end for me.