Andrew Lover

Also, use Chrome- SciENcv is glitchy as hell with Firefox.

Mpox reporting, from CDC, showing large spike in late 2025, and increasing trends since 2023.

#mpox reporting, CDC data. #episky

▶️ Surprisingly large uptick in late-2025.
▶️ & clear increase overall since 2023.

▶️ Remarkably little reporting on this ‼️

CDC website has been scrubbed of all mentions of "mpox" with everything replaced by "monkeypox," even renaming linked articles in EID.

"The answer is AI- obviously! Sorry, what was the question again?"

Cartoon showing "improvements" (all silly) to a car after peer review.

Evergreen cartoon (source: x.com/redpenblackpen)

Sadly- this is no longer reliable. There are multiple plugins that take AI text and type it into g-docs at human speed, with errors/deletions/edits.

AI-generated image of human and robot analysts, labeled "Outsourcing cognitive functions in public health research"

𝒈𝒆𝒏𝑨𝑰- 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓!

丂ㄖ尺尺ㄚ, what was the question?!?!

How's this?

I've had good luck here:
datasetsearch.research.google.com

There are several extension in Chrome that block all AI searches.

NB: the reported case in CT was imported from the Four Corners area.

Evolution 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩.

Also, Carl Djerassi's "Science in fiction" novels- www.djerassi.com

[PSA enters the chat] "Hiiii--- it's meeeeee!"

An older colleague in chemistry recounted that twice in his career while researching something in a (paper!) journal, he stumbled across something in an unrelated article that 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 (eg, project breakthroughs that led to major promotions at big pharma).

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Hear hear!

Let's just say... refluxing Br2 is mesmerizingly-horrifying in a pretty unique way.

👀

Cristol-Firth Hunsdieker for the "win" .....

CCl4 ✅
HgO ✅
Light ✅
‼️ Refluxing Br2 ‼️

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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link x.com/redpenblackp...

When is "GWD" 𝒏𝙤𝒕 𝒒𝙪𝒊𝙩𝒆 "GWD"? 😵‍💫

Human infection with an unknown species of Dracunculus in Vietnam Guinea worm (GW) disease, caused by Dracunculus medinensis, is an almost eradicated waterborne zoonotic disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) c…

Prior study from Vietnam in 2021 found novel Dracunculus sp (so not GWD specifically), but these may be different....?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Politics and public health: smallpox in Milwaukee, 1894-1895 - PubMed Politics and public health: smallpox in Milwaukee, 1894-1895

Randomly, if you haven't seen this, highly recommended- a really fascinating read:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/797419/

Brutally Beautiful : UMass Magazine UMass’s architectural backbone—reconsidered #umass @UMassAmherst

www.umass.edu/magazine/fal...

Assessment of the “Case-Chaos” Design as an Adjunct to the Case-Control Design Abstract. In 2012, a novel case series method dubbed the “case-chaos” design was proposed as an alternative to case-control studies, whereby controls are a

shades of the "case-chaos" design!
(the moniker turned out to be... unintentionally informative)

academic.oup.com/aje/article-...

NOAA websites, offline.

How many repeated measures in repeated measures designs? Statistical issues for comparative trials - PubMed The proposed method offers a rational basis for determining the number of repeat measures in repeat measures designs.

Can you get repeated measures? Can dramatically improve power:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14580266/

eg, journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Copper: A Gentleman's Disagreement

A classic: "All you have to do is look at the vicious exchanges between Bruce Lipschutz and Steve Bertz during the 1990s about whether such as thing as a “higher-order cuprate” exists."

www.science.org/content/blog...

@dereklowe.bsky.social

Political cartoon- man drinking crude oil from a supersized mug.

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