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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Jan 26

2020: what a great time to have expertise in infectious diseases and outbreak response!
2025: ...

Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Jan 7

Using the waiting periods during jury duty to catch up on reviews and papers. Nothing like being locked in a room to improve productivity....

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · Dec 31

Five years ago (Tuesday 31 Dec 2019), the news of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan was out. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission published a bulletin confirming the outbreak.

Less information than was already available at the time was shared: ▫️1/

web.archive.org/web/20200131...

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Dec 30

There was a Cichlids display at the children's museum and I excited turn around to talk about their importance for ecology and evolution and sadly no one was around lol

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Wake Forest Section on Infectious Diseases @wakeforestid.com · Dec 13

"It’s hard to form an effective control strategy when you don’t know exactly how it’s spreading.” Dr Brinkley Bellotti quoted in the MIT Technology Review about the #h5n1 outbreak in dairy cattle in the United States. Check out our ongoing research into #h5n1 https://buff.ly/3ZoW9Ak #idsky #medsky

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Dec 14

One of my favorite material pleasures (admittedly very privileged) is setting up a stereo sound system and cracking the volume.

Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Nov 28

I started Thanksgiving as the pilgrims did--updating and reformatting biosketches for grant applications.

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Nov 16

Really cool poster presentation from Dr Seth Addo, the 2024 @wakeforest.bsky.social Pennell Global Health Fellow award winner on VBD geospatial risk in Ghana #tropmed24 #astmh

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Someone needs to do a study on the impact #rstats Shiny has had on public health communication. Nearly every presentation at #tropmed24 with a dashboard, had one that was a Shiny.

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Nov 13

Wandering the Internal Workboat Convention looking for TropMed...might stick around and check these rigs out

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Nov 9

Cocktails with the creative slide titles is just pure joy

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Nov 9

Going to test how successful I can be writing on Overleaf using my phone.

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Nov 5

Hear me out, instead of a Quarto website (which I love), a custom rust static site generator that takes my qmds and jmds. With Go code to parse some some of my Obsidian markdown notes. Along with a Sqlite powered, in-browser search function... id3es.com

Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Oct 28

The menacing masked man on the top of the parking tower near my child's daycare putting it into lockdown was not how I expected to start the week.

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Oct 23

Oh I like those!

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Oct 23

Great thread! Just taking the time to write down ideas is a major step in intellectual development (especially as soon as they come to mind...for some reason while brushing my teeth). Then flesh them out later.

Stats For Bios @statsforbios.bsky.social · Oct 22

As always the first thing is to just start practising. Spend some time trying to think of original ideas and write them down. You won't get to "do" all the projects, but you can look back a week/month later and assess which ideas were good or not. 2/n

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Oct 21

I wonder how many of these "future of AI in x" executive types have solved eigenvectors like I find myself doing...

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Oct 19

#winston-salem and @wakeforest.bsky.social fun Friday night of Hocus Pocus in the park

Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Aug 6

Zero wait time on the university HPC on Friday night. Come Monday morning though everything is in queue. Lesson- only work on weekends?

Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Jun 27

My vocabulary of Spanish language names of arthropods continues to expand over these last two weeks in Peru...

Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Jun 16

More neat is seeing someone from your childhood neighborhood on the same trip to Peru. Small world.

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Jun 16

Seeing both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the same week is kind of a neat thing to have done.

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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · Jun 11

PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI!

This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors.

Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:

Screenshot from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=exams - the CRAN landing page for R package "exams".

This page now includes the DOI 10.32614/CRAN.package.exams

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Jun 11

Getting my yellow fever and rabies vaccines along with three others and then driving to the beach might have been a bad idea

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Michael DeWitt @medewitt.bsky.social · Jun 6

I've reached that point in my life where I only have a 4am-6am email time slot

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