@nancecunningham
PhD Candidate, Experimental Medicine, Infectious Diseases Studying hepatitis C and why people don't get treated Spoiler: It's mostly about equity #UBC #BCCFE #HumanitarianHealth with #MSF #healthpromotion, art, maps #HCV #healthequity #EpiSky #HepSky
In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏
It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there!
@sortee.bsky.social #rstats
events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc March 2026 edition.
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
My friend
the climatologist
tells me
what worries him
is the climate.
My friend
the epidemiologist
tells me
what worries them
are infections.
My friend
the historian
tells me
what worries her
are the people
who aren’t worried.
A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
People often focus on the bad side effects of vaccines, but they can have some great side effects too, says columnist Michael Le Page. They don’t just protect us from contagious diseases but can also lower the risk of dementia and heart attacks
The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
WHO now recommends near point-of-care tests, tongue swabs, and sputum pooling for TB diagnosis!
Big advance!!
www.who.int/teams/global...
@sjmelchor.bsky.social writes for @nature.com about how to spot dubious papers, interviewing @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @abalkina.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, myself and and my fellow @cosig.net maintainers @solalpirelli.bsky.social and Yagmur Ozturk!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Canadian-based The Metals Company (@themetalsco.bsky.social) is pushing to mine the deep sea. Canada must double-down to #StopDeepSeaMining and oppose the Mining Code that would open oceans to irreversible damage. @greenpeaceca.bsky.social Add your name: act.gp/3ZXB5ll
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
I can't unlearn that in french, "ChatGPT" sounds like "chat, j'ai pété" which means "cat, I farted."
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Interested in using data to tackle health inequalities? Join a 1-day, online hackathon for undergrad & grad students w/ at least 1 coding or stats class. Learn about epidemiology and how quantitative methods can answer urgent public health questions. Feb 28. Info: bit.ly/3MtiJFq #EpiSky #DataSciSky
Pediatrics published the Vaccine Integrity Project’s hepatitis B birth dose vaccine evidence review online. The review looked at: 400+ studies/reports, 40 years of data—and the conclusion was unmistakable.
There is no evidence supporting a delay in the hepatitis B birth dose.
tinyurl.com/4kbsm49f
To fight denialism "is to insist, without qualification, that it is up to the affected communities & only the affected communities to decide whether to exhume the remains of their loved ones."
What Past Atrocities Teach Us about Residential School Burials thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026... @thetyee.ca
Toronto hospital to double housing program that reduces ER visits
via Liam Casey @cdnpress.bsky.social #publichealth #healthequity #housing
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Public Domain Film Remix Screening Party January 21 @ 7pm PT
JUST ADDED: Can't make it to the Internet Archive for our Public Domain Film Remix Contest screening party? Join the LIVESTREAM to watch the winning films and honorable mentions!
LIVE from the Internet Archive
January 21 @ 7pm PT
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/1980757251...
Important to highlight: This move is coming from African health officials. It signals that “the institutions are getting stronger” by pushing back on unethical and exploitative studies in Africa, @boghuma.bsky.social said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Keeping this up in the new year!
For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice. Let's do this.
#AskAnIDDoc January 2026 edition.
I worked for MSF for 3 years, because I appreciate the approach. Effective, flexible, and constantly doing research on their operations so the findings can inform best practices.
Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
Led Pistols Sex Zeppelin
An orange and white cat is reading a book with running title Pasteur and the Mad Dog
Mario makes his #Caturday debut, doing some very serious reading #catsofbluesky #catscalledmario
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
Looking for practical tips on how to make your Stats Comms more accessible?
Join our Statistics for Every Body event 👇
🗓️ Wed 28 Jan
🕛 12:00
🌐 Teams link sent after registration
🔗 Bit.Ly/Stats4Every1 to register
#StatsSky #DataScience
Positive trend between monolingualism and accelerated ageing.
Negative trend between per capita GDP and accelerated ageing.
A recent study purports to have found that multilingualism protects against accelerated ageing. I've taken a closer look at it, and it doesn't look good.
New blog post: "Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Some critical comments"
janhove.github.io/posts/2025-1...
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.
Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”
Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
