Saloni

This is so good 👩‍🍳👌💋

you just need to befriend a Chad scraper

Oh wow. Impressive though

HTML table of countries that have eliminated malaria

If you're deciding between a PowerBI dashboard with no download button and a boring HTML table, please dear god choose the HTML table. At least it contains information people can use.

My expectations are so low at this point that even a PDF is usable, since the text is extractable

The file has 10 diseases, all raw country × year data plus a cumulative version ready to plot. Here's what's in it and what to watch for: Sources per disease (with caveats): DiseaseSourceNotesGuinea wormWikipedia ICCDE summary + WHO news releasesMost complete long-run series; goes back to 1997. Chad excluded (re-emerged after certification).TrachomaWHO fact sheet + 2019 WHO announcement28 countries through Libya in Feb 2026. Individual years for 2011–2018 come from the 2019 announcement listing the first 8; cross-checked against Hietanen.Lymphatic filariasisWHO LF programme page + PMC1225833623 countries through Timor-Leste 2024. China & Korea (2007–08) pre-date the formal dossier system.

'Let's see if Claude can do this!'

Claude: *makes up a dataframe with data that doesn't match its own linked sources*

Great, thanks.

Data scientist hell is when you're trying to grab the data from somewhere and the only source is a PowerBI dashboard with no download button.

My mom watched this episode and said she laughed so much at me singing Barbie Girl that her stomach hurt so much that she had to stop watching.

It didn't even occur to me that I'd have the highest score (7/10) 😭 but I was happy to do better than usual (2 or 3/10).

In previous quizzes, the high scores would be like 8 or 9 and I'd be so confused about how people knew so much about *checks notes* Oasis or the British automotive industry

The effect of nutritional status on historical infectious disease morbidity: evidence from the London Foundling Hospital, 1892-1919 There is a complex inter-relationship between nutrition and morbidity in human health. Many diseases reduce nutritional status, but on the other hand, having low nutritional status is also known to...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... I thought this was cool

Oh thank you :)

If I think of stuff I read, I often don't get to the end even if I appreciate and enjoy the parts that I do read. And that's fine!

But if there's good content that some people will find valuable, it's not worth cutting that just for the sake of people who read less.

I find it so odd when people use that metric on its own.

At the very least it should be something like [number of readers] x [% who reach the end]

Since longer pieces tend to be shared more widely, you could have more people reading to the end even if the % who get there is smaller.

🥲 I feel like my perception of time has been totally warped since the pandemic. Everything before it seems like AGES ago and everything since feels like yesterday.

Dragon Ball Z meme: It's over 9000!!!!

When people ask me what my article's word count is

Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner - Works in Progress Magazine Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria each year, but it took 141 years to develop a vaccine for it. Advance market commitments could speed things up next time.

Of course, I am biased. One of my most widely read pieces was over 9,000 words long.

People still bring it up in conversation 3 years later. I've heard the level of detail was practically useful for advocacy.

A few things I've learnt from writing >4,000 word pieces:

- They tend to be more popular than my short pieces!
- They're more definitive - like reference material, not a hot take.
- Not everyone will reach the end, and that's okay.
- Write so that the people who do find it incredibly satisfying.

People are so unnecessarily rude, I'm sorry. You're one of the best people here!

And I totally agree with the point you made. A lot of people are persuadable and flooded with misinformation.

It's depressing but I also think we can turn things around, and I think you've done a lot on that effort.

Surprisingly that's one I haven't watched! But I listened to a radio show version of it. open.spotify.com/episode/3x5z...

It was well made but I found it very unsettling

Just kidding, it was fun.

I'll make the quiz about screwball comedies, romance and film noir from the 1930s to 1950s, a topic I know very well because I watched over 200 films from that period during my bachelor’s degree.

darth vader is standing in a dark room with the letter n behind him Alt: darth vader is standing in a dark room; the word noooooooo (no with many o's) appears around him.

Me winning the weekly quiz at our office, this time about Miss Marple: Yes.. Hahaha.... YES!!!

Me realising this means I have to design next week's trivia:

Great title if we decide to publish a cookbook in the future!

Holy cow! Our new study showing that H5 mRNA-LNP vaccines are safe and effective in lactating dairy cows is now posted on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!

We found that our vaccine elicits protective responses in 2,000 pound dairy cows! 1/

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thank you so much! ☺️

Beautiful!! Related:locking up of clinical trial data by NIH&industry is tragic. Individual pt data from 1 large well done randomized trial can be worth all the meta-analyses you want & can be many times better than the largest observational study. Data completeness and quality are tops for RCTs.

Hahha fortunately it hasn't come to that yet

Great post on the emergence of clinical trials!
This section makes me wonder about "professionalization" in science in general. I do feel like many parts of the research process in my field are...surprisingly dilettantish.>

Thank you

😂 That's great