Elizabeth Arkema

Happy lunar new year! 🧧

Uppsala University is hiring:
Postdoctoral Researcher in AI and Epidemiology

#postdocposition

Much better doom scrolling this than other options!

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
”It depends…” #episky

Anyone out there on #episky working with natural language processing to get data from electronic health records? It’s a steep learning curve but I think it will be worth it in complex immune mediated diseases like lupus and sarcoidosis. Just submitted my first grant on this topic🤞

Starting off the Olympics with watching some curling. Never watched curling before I moved to Sweden!

What is the point of a letter of intent? Mine (2 pgs) was rejected & the reviewer said that the details of the plan were not clear....

How many details for a project are expected in a 2 page LOI?!? Or is this just an excuse for the reviewer to tank a project that they didn't like?

I make all of my pubilcations open access. Why do people still ask for them on ResearchGate? Is it laziness or do they not understand they can get the papers themselves?

📢 Hiring: Postdoctoral Fellow in LGBTQ Reproductive Health Disparities at Harvard Medical School 🌈🧬

Focus on rigorous epi methods + big data (longitudinal cohorts, EMR, claims) 📊

Ideal for epi/biostats folks who want rich cross-Harvard collaborations

Details👇 Please boost + tag! 📣

I'd like to learn how to better leverage students’ diverse backgrounds - their unique knowledge, experiences and perspectives. I also hope to integrate more global issues and perspectives.

I have just started a course called Two2Tango - teaching in the Glocal (global and local) classroom. I am really looking forward to exchanging views with other teachers from around the globe on teaching in the international classroom. Looking forward to learning more and improving my practice.

The other portraits of women at the time were sitting in dresses in gardens or doing their hair or posing for the artist or doing something passive in a refined setting, a decoration.

Soldan was depicted as a manual laborer and artist, dedicating herself to her work without caring about her looks. Radical for the time period (glad I didn’t live then!!). A groundbreaking depiction of female professionalism.

Gladly! The painting is “Portrait of Venny Soldan-Brofeldt”, the artist’s friend (who was also a painter and sculptor) whom she shared a studio with in Paris. Apparently it was unconventional to portray a bourgeois woman in a relaxed way with casual dress and behavior.

I enjoyed the Hanna Hirsch Pauli exhibit at the Swedish National Museum today. A little inspiration and beauty to brighten up the day. This painting was considered controversial at the time (1886) because of how the subject was depicted and what that implied about women’s roles and behavior.

Ice is the Gestapo.
Trump is insane.
Elon’s Grok is publishing child porn.
Stephen Miller is a white supremacist.
JD Vance is making shit up.
Somebody release the Epstein Files.

Beginning of job description. It states: "The Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor who has expertise in a broad range of epidemiologic methods. About the Job The Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, invites applications at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track). As a faculty member, the individual will actively contribute to the Division’s mission through research, teaching, advising, and professional service activities. Key responsibilities include: ● Maintain and expand expertise in the application of foundational and cutting-edge epidemiologic methods. Candidates are expected to have a deep understanding of causal inference, bias mitigation, and statistical modelling. Expertise across diverse epidemiologic methods and content areas is welcomed. ● Develop a research program that incorporates rigorous epidemiologic methods, and collaborate with other faculty as a co-investigator on new grant initiatives. Example areas of possible methodologic applications include, but are not limited to, causal analysis, bias analysis, infectious disease modelling, mutational signatures in cancer, -omics data applications, spatial and temporal analyses, pharmacoepidemiology, quasi-experimental methods, implementation science, generative artificial intelligence and/or machine learning, digital health, wearables, etc. ● Contribute to Epidemiology curriculum development, teach epidemiologic methods as part of the Epidemiology PhD methods sequence and other classes as needed, and participate in development of the PhD qualifying examinations. Advising PhD, post-doctoral, and master's students is also expected. ● Actively engage in service, including at a national level through professional organizations focused on epidemiologic methods. ● Serve as a resource for translating up-to-date epidemiologic methods to applications i…

Good morning epi methods community! Please consider applying for (and spreading the word about) this position here at Minnesota. It's a great place to be! (You can read the whole description and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/179313) #EpiSky

It got rejected from one journal, but I usually aim high. The 2nd journal sent comments from 3 reviewers which we responded to. Then it was sent to us for a 2nd round, the 3 reviewers were satisfied but they added a 4th reviewer (?!) who didn't add much. Just extra work (& time) for everyone!

On a positive note, got an article accepted for publication today which we started over a year ago. 🥳

A good thing in a grant: a figure which summarizes the project.
For a paper, use regular and simple language. some people use more complicated words and formulations because they think it sounds smarter.

When someone tries to cram as many words on the page as possible, it’s frustrating to read. It’s nice when there are a few bolded sentences in a grant to catch the eye when flipping through but when people bold every other sentence or partial phrase it goes too far.

Manuscript and grant reviewers in biomedical sciences: Do you have any major pet peeves when it comes to formatting of papers or grants that you're reviewing? Anything else not format-related? I'm putting together some recommendations for trainees in our #epidemiology program. Thanks!

Just got two grant rejections in one day! Merry Christmas to me!

Nothing like a good old reply-all message thread affecting what it looks like most of KI as an early Christmas present! 😂

Sending articles I’ve read to people I think will enjoy them is my love language. #episky

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Show me the money! Just kidding, I'm usually flattered and I spend a bit of time responding to the email in great detail. This is probably why I have a million side projects and am behind on my own...

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I have learned a new term today: Productive Procrastination

Avoiding the thing you most don't want to do by doing something else you've also been avoiding.

Example: avoiding grading student exams by picking up long-dormant projects to complete.

If it's not in my outlook calendar, it doesn't exist.

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The international relations office has sent out an email only in Swedish. I sometimes wonder if internationalization means something different than I think it means.