James Miraflor
@miraflor.bsky.social
public health informatics | complex systems | political-economy
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We're advertising a PhD position! 😎 Modelling the epidemiological impact of HIV prophylaxis on a backdrop of social, cultural, and behavioural complexity
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Modelling the epidemiological impact of HIV prophylaxis on a backdrop of social, cultural, and behavioural complexity at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Modelling the epidemiological impact of HIV prophylaxis on a backdrop of social, cultural, and behavioural complexity at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We're advertising a PhD position! 😎 Modelling the epidemiological impact of HIV prophylaxis on a backdrop of social, cultural, and behavioural complexity
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
“… as Congress failed to raise the minimum wage by a couple of hundred pesos & facilitate a transfer of a measly ₱259 billion to close the ₱5 trillion wage-profit gap, the BSP has effectively subsidized capitalists to the tune of ₱300-400 billion.”
medium.com/@futilityfun...
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Subsidizing Bankers, Shortchanging Workers
“… as Congress failed to raise the minimum wage by a couple of hundred pesos and facilitate a transfer of a measly ₱259 billion to close…
medium.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
“… as Congress failed to raise the minimum wage by a couple of hundred pesos & facilitate a transfer of a measly ₱259 billion to close the ₱5 trillion wage-profit gap, the BSP has effectively subsidized capitalists to the tune of ₱300-400 billion.”
medium.com/@futilityfun...
medium.com/@futilityfun...
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Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:
May 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:
CDC ends COVID vaccine recommendation for healthy kids and the pregnant. HHS cancelling Moderna contracts for developing vaccines vs. future flu pandemics. RFK, Jr. may ban US scientists from publishing. #EpiBluesky
May 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
CDC ends COVID vaccine recommendation for healthy kids and the pregnant. HHS cancelling Moderna contracts for developing vaccines vs. future flu pandemics. RFK, Jr. may ban US scientists from publishing. #EpiBluesky
This is interesting theredline.versionstory.com/p/why-lawyer...
Why Lawyers Will Never Use Google Docs
Last November, I published "On Building Git for Lawyers" about building Version Story, the first concurrent version control system for lawyers.
theredline.versionstory.com
May 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is interesting theredline.versionstory.com/p/why-lawyer...
Workers don’t only hold jobs; they create them - every time they buy, save, discover, or create. So-called “financial strategy” is mere exploitation of signals by workers to workers.
May 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Workers don’t only hold jobs; they create them - every time they buy, save, discover, or create. So-called “financial strategy” is mere exploitation of signals by workers to workers.
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Stancil and the leftists have been shouting the two parts of this sentence at each other for years now when they should just be shouting the name at the top to everyone else
April 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Stancil and the leftists have been shouting the two parts of this sentence at each other for years now when they should just be shouting the name at the top to everyone else
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🆕 New week, new pub! @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social (Assistant Prof) published in Statistics in Medicine with @wakeforest.bsky.social colleagues @ashleymullan.bsky.social (MS alum, now PhDing @vanderbilt.edu), @lucystats.bsky.social (Assistant Prof), and Staci Hepler (Vice Chair/Associate Prof).
Combining Straight‐Line and Map‐Based Distances to Investigate the Connection Between Proximity to Healthy Foods and Disease
Healthy foods are essential for a healthy life, but accessing healthy food can be more challenging for some people than others. This disparity in food access may lead to disparities in well-being, po...
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🆕 New week, new pub! @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social (Assistant Prof) published in Statistics in Medicine with @wakeforest.bsky.social colleagues @ashleymullan.bsky.social (MS alum, now PhDing @vanderbilt.edu), @lucystats.bsky.social (Assistant Prof), and Staci Hepler (Vice Chair/Associate Prof).
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📢 Mark your calendars for our next webinar next week!
“My 'Accidental' Career as a Social Epidemiologist” featuring Professor Naomi Priest
📅 Thursday, May 1st, 2025
🕗 06:00 New York / 11:00 London / 20:00 Melbourne
👉 Register now at bit.ly/3YABrxB — and please share widely!
#SocialEpi #SDoH
“My 'Accidental' Career as a Social Epidemiologist” featuring Professor Naomi Priest
📅 Thursday, May 1st, 2025
🕗 06:00 New York / 11:00 London / 20:00 Melbourne
👉 Register now at bit.ly/3YABrxB — and please share widely!
#SocialEpi #SDoH
April 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
📢 Mark your calendars for our next webinar next week!
“My 'Accidental' Career as a Social Epidemiologist” featuring Professor Naomi Priest
📅 Thursday, May 1st, 2025
🕗 06:00 New York / 11:00 London / 20:00 Melbourne
👉 Register now at bit.ly/3YABrxB — and please share widely!
#SocialEpi #SDoH
“My 'Accidental' Career as a Social Epidemiologist” featuring Professor Naomi Priest
📅 Thursday, May 1st, 2025
🕗 06:00 New York / 11:00 London / 20:00 Melbourne
👉 Register now at bit.ly/3YABrxB — and please share widely!
#SocialEpi #SDoH
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that feel when you can’t reconcile the reality of historical contingency with the possibility of inductive inference
I think if history can easily hinge on who dies in a plane crash, and a plane crash can be caused by a lock pin being two millimeters too short, then effort to fit “historical change” into grand models are likely doomed
April 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
that feel when you can’t reconcile the reality of historical contingency with the possibility of inductive inference
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This is type of cool and quiet science that excites me. In 2023, #H5N1 hit California condors hard: >21 birds dead. Just ~560 remain globally. Researchers asked: could a poultry vaccine help? They ran a trial that might change wildlife conservation & save the species.🧪
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Safety and Immunogenicity of Poultry Vaccine for Protecting Critically Endangered Avian Species against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus, United States
Vaccine for Protecting Avian Species against HPAIV
wwwnc.cdc.gov
April 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This is type of cool and quiet science that excites me. In 2023, #H5N1 hit California condors hard: >21 birds dead. Just ~560 remain globally. Researchers asked: could a poultry vaccine help? They ran a trial that might change wildlife conservation & save the species.🧪
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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Peruvian Population Genomics: Unraveling the Genetic Landscape and Admixture Dynamics of Urban Populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.648256v1
April 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Peruvian Population Genomics: Unraveling the Genetic Landscape and Admixture Dynamics of Urban Populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.10.648256v1
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My recommendations on economic growth and development
April 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
My recommendations on economic growth and development
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We hear people saying that they haven't, for once in their lives, been interviewed for an electoral survey. This experience, of course, can lead one to cast doubt on the legitimacy of such surveys.
So, how likely is it for one to be interviewed? We can do that math on that. 1/
So, how likely is it for one to be interviewed? We can do that math on that. 1/
April 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
We hear people saying that they haven't, for once in their lives, been interviewed for an electoral survey. This experience, of course, can lead one to cast doubt on the legitimacy of such surveys.
So, how likely is it for one to be interviewed? We can do that math on that. 1/
So, how likely is it for one to be interviewed? We can do that math on that. 1/
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One of the implicit promises of fascistic misogyny is that stripping freedom from women will give men more freedom.
But it's a lie. Men aren't free in a patriarchal system. And in a sex-segregated patriarchal system, they spend more of their time around other men who seek to control them.
But it's a lie. Men aren't free in a patriarchal system. And in a sex-segregated patriarchal system, they spend more of their time around other men who seek to control them.
April 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
One of the implicit promises of fascistic misogyny is that stripping freedom from women will give men more freedom.
But it's a lie. Men aren't free in a patriarchal system. And in a sex-segregated patriarchal system, they spend more of their time around other men who seek to control them.
But it's a lie. Men aren't free in a patriarchal system. And in a sex-segregated patriarchal system, they spend more of their time around other men who seek to control them.
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Leveraging Bayesian Networks for Consensus Network Construction and Multi-Method Feature Selection to Decode Disease Prediction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.07.647660v1
April 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Leveraging Bayesian Networks for Consensus Network Construction and Multi-Method Feature Selection to Decode Disease Prediction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.07.647660v1
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This is quite fun.
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1
April 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is quite fun.
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
t.co/ycnHVZ1gT1
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Nipah virus would like a word, worm brain.
The mortality rate of the Nipah virus is 45-70%, depending on the geography and strain of the virus. It's carried by fruit bats is south and southeast Asia.
There are no vaccines or treatments available.
The mortality rate of the Nipah virus is 45-70%, depending on the geography and strain of the virus. It's carried by fruit bats is south and southeast Asia.
There are no vaccines or treatments available.
April 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Nipah virus would like a word, worm brain.
The mortality rate of the Nipah virus is 45-70%, depending on the geography and strain of the virus. It's carried by fruit bats is south and southeast Asia.
There are no vaccines or treatments available.
The mortality rate of the Nipah virus is 45-70%, depending on the geography and strain of the virus. It's carried by fruit bats is south and southeast Asia.
There are no vaccines or treatments available.
The world needs a better system for managing and pricing accumulated capital than the stock market, which ironically only functions well under economies where stock owners are well-disciplined by the state administrators.
April 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The world needs a better system for managing and pricing accumulated capital than the stock market, which ironically only functions well under economies where stock owners are well-disciplined by the state administrators.
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Numerous writers & activists who came of age in the “Battle of Seattle”/World Social Forum warned that far right-wing nationalism wld be the response to neoliberal globalization if the social contract - welfare, unionization, wage growth - were not restored.
April 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Numerous writers & activists who came of age in the “Battle of Seattle”/World Social Forum warned that far right-wing nationalism wld be the response to neoliberal globalization if the social contract - welfare, unionization, wage growth - were not restored.