Tjibbe Donker
@tjibbed.bsky.social
Infectious Diseases Modeller at University Hospital Freiburg, working on antibiotic resistance, hospital-acquired pathogens, and patient referral networks. www.tjibbedonker.nl
Years ago, my mother had the chance to join one of his workshops. Together, we prepared by going through the available "scientific literature".
So, immediately she started asking the right questions...
After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"
So proud of her
So, immediately she started asking the right questions...
After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"
So proud of her
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Years ago, my mother had the chance to join one of his workshops. Together, we prepared by going through the available "scientific literature".
So, immediately she started asking the right questions...
After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"
So proud of her
So, immediately she started asking the right questions...
After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"
So proud of her
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This motherfracker wants us to prove a negative. In science, you can prove a negative about causation by showing the causal pathway does not exist.
“Vaccines do not cause autism” has been proven in every scientifically meaningful sense. Read on.
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“Vaccines do not cause autism” has been proven in every scientifically meaningful sense. Read on.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This motherfracker wants us to prove a negative. In science, you can prove a negative about causation by showing the causal pathway does not exist.
“Vaccines do not cause autism” has been proven in every scientifically meaningful sense. Read on.
Thread [1/9]
“Vaccines do not cause autism” has been proven in every scientifically meaningful sense. Read on.
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The CDC updated its vaccine page to claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is "not evidence-based" and studies were "ignored." This is an outrage. Decades of research have found no link. This isn't science, it's RFK Jr. using the CDC as propaganda. Children will die because of this.
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The CDC updated its vaccine page to claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is "not evidence-based" and studies were "ignored." This is an outrage. Decades of research have found no link. This isn't science, it's RFK Jr. using the CDC as propaganda. Children will die because of this.
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#AMR #Klebsiella cause >100,000 neonatal deaths globally each year.
Our new preprint shows more than half of #Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis cases in African and South Asian are nosocomial, acquired through transmission in neonatal units. #WAAW
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our new preprint shows more than half of #Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis cases in African and South Asian are nosocomial, acquired through transmission in neonatal units. #WAAW
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
![figure showing estimated proportion of cases in clusters, for each site. range from 0.04 to 0.93, mean estimate in random effects model is 0.57 [0.46,0.68]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q5nky4heg5sfix4get4zh2pw/bafkreibshmuvkuafxwd2uk3r42ss6ma2dhmaidbysgvufnbkbv5cn4guai@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#AMR #Klebsiella cause >100,000 neonatal deaths globally each year.
Our new preprint shows more than half of #Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis cases in African and South Asian are nosocomial, acquired through transmission in neonatal units. #WAAW
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our new preprint shows more than half of #Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis cases in African and South Asian are nosocomial, acquired through transmission in neonatal units. #WAAW
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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🌳💻 Scientific Programmer position (7 years, TVöD E13)
Play an important role in the Cluster by making a contribution to the integration of process models for all components of the forest system, and by helping to shape research in this area.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
Play an important role in the Cluster by making a contribution to the integration of process models for all components of the forest system, and by helping to shape research in this area.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
University of Freiburg
uni-freiburg.de
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
🌳💻 Scientific Programmer position (7 years, TVöD E13)
Play an important role in the Cluster by making a contribution to the integration of process models for all components of the forest system, and by helping to shape research in this area.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
Play an important role in the Cluster by making a contribution to the integration of process models for all components of the forest system, and by helping to shape research in this area.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
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🌳📢 Modeling Coordinator position (7 years, TVöD E13)
Help coordinate modeling activities, develop synergies and collaborations, as well as contribute to socio-ecological modeling research, including your own studies.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
Help coordinate modeling activities, develop synergies and collaborations, as well as contribute to socio-ecological modeling research, including your own studies.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
University of Freiburg
uni-freiburg.de
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
🌳📢 Modeling Coordinator position (7 years, TVöD E13)
Help coordinate modeling activities, develop synergies and collaborations, as well as contribute to socio-ecological modeling research, including your own studies.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
Help coordinate modeling activities, develop synergies and collaborations, as well as contribute to socio-ecological modeling research, including your own studies.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
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Exciting news from the Future Forests Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg (@uni-freiburg.de)! 🌲🌳
Applications are invited for two (7-year) positions in the Socio-Ecological Systems Modeling Lab of the Cluster:
1️⃣ Modeling Coordinator
2️⃣ Scientific Programmer
Find details below 👇
Applications are invited for two (7-year) positions in the Socio-Ecological Systems Modeling Lab of the Cluster:
1️⃣ Modeling Coordinator
2️⃣ Scientific Programmer
Find details below 👇
November 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Exciting news from the Future Forests Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg (@uni-freiburg.de)! 🌲🌳
Applications are invited for two (7-year) positions in the Socio-Ecological Systems Modeling Lab of the Cluster:
1️⃣ Modeling Coordinator
2️⃣ Scientific Programmer
Find details below 👇
Applications are invited for two (7-year) positions in the Socio-Ecological Systems Modeling Lab of the Cluster:
1️⃣ Modeling Coordinator
2️⃣ Scientific Programmer
Find details below 👇
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“Basically, no matter what anyone tells you, a plug in hybrid is just a more complex petrol car. You are always either hauling a useless engine around or hauling a useless battery around. It will require the same amount of servicing as any petrol or diesel vehicle, it has 1000s more components…
I have scrawled a measured critique of petrol hybrid vehicle promotion.
I think I might have opinions
llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch...
I think I might have opinions
llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch...
Hybrid Schmybrid
The coming scandal about yet another fossil/automotive con job.
llewellyn.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Basically, no matter what anyone tells you, a plug in hybrid is just a more complex petrol car. You are always either hauling a useless engine around or hauling a useless battery around. It will require the same amount of servicing as any petrol or diesel vehicle, it has 1000s more components…
Sounds plausible.
And looks beautiful, btw.
And looks beautiful, btw.
October 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Sounds plausible.
And looks beautiful, btw.
And looks beautiful, btw.
Both my plantnet app and Google lens say it's a tobacco species... Weird. I'd love to hear from someone with proper botanical knowledge indeed.
Or see what this turns into.
Or see what this turns into.
October 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Both my plantnet app and Google lens say it's a tobacco species... Weird. I'd love to hear from someone with proper botanical knowledge indeed.
Or see what this turns into.
Or see what this turns into.
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Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics:
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
Director, Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics
The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...
apply.refline.ch
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics:
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
Herr Blume sorgt dafür, dass alle Porsche-Fahrer in 35 Jahre ein H-Kennzeichen führen können.
Ein innovatives Hybrid-Konzept: Verbrenner, die nicht nur Benzin, Diesel oder E-Fuels, sondern auch Profit verbrennen.
Porsche: Volkswagens Sportwagenbauer meldet 95,9 Prozent Gewinneinbruch: Mit einem radikalen Kurswechsel zurück zum Verbrenner will Porsche-Chef Oliver Blume das Unternehmen wieder erfolgreich machen. Das Manöver kostet Milliarden und frisst im laufenden Jahr fast den gesamten Gewinn auf.
October 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Herr Blume sorgt dafür, dass alle Porsche-Fahrer in 35 Jahre ein H-Kennzeichen führen können.
Tom Lehrer said some wise words about that
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Tom Lehrer said some wise words about that
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ...
Reposted by Tjibbe Donker
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
"The possibility of prompt injection" was not on my list of the dangers of using LLMs for peer review" ( www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ).
Then again, I didn't actually include a list, because I didn't use AI to write the bloody text.
Then again, I didn't actually include a list, because I didn't use AI to write the bloody text.
July 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
"The possibility of prompt injection" was not on my list of the dangers of using LLMs for peer review" ( www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ).
Then again, I didn't actually include a list, because I didn't use AI to write the bloody text.
Then again, I didn't actually include a list, because I didn't use AI to write the bloody text.
To be fair, it's Orange for the same reason.
July 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
To be fair, it's Orange for the same reason.
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PhD position (Rennes, France)
Model hospital preparedness for infectious disease crises (PReViX project)
with @pascalcrepey.bsky.social @Nicolas @Sirven @mtsofonea.bsky.social
at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP)
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2330
Model hospital preparedness for infectious disease crises (PReViX project)
with @pascalcrepey.bsky.social @Nicolas @Sirven @mtsofonea.bsky.social
at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP)
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2330
July 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
PhD position (Rennes, France)
Model hospital preparedness for infectious disease crises (PReViX project)
with @pascalcrepey.bsky.social @Nicolas @Sirven @mtsofonea.bsky.social
at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP)
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2330
Model hospital preparedness for infectious disease crises (PReViX project)
with @pascalcrepey.bsky.social @Nicolas @Sirven @mtsofonea.bsky.social
at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP)
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2330
Yes, that would also be my guess
July 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Yes, that would also be my guess
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Nothing could be more flattering, thank you so much @gmknght.bsky.social for highlighting our paper!
We found that for some #bacteria 🧫 , connectivity between hospital wards is as / more important for explaining #AMR as antibiotic consumption, especially for highly resistant 🏥 endemics
We found that for some #bacteria 🧫 , connectivity between hospital wards is as / more important for explaining #AMR as antibiotic consumption, especially for highly resistant 🏥 endemics
The complexity of #AMR is rarely understated but few studies tackle the selection vs. transmission challenge.
That's what makes this this analysis from 2020 led by @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social so great - look how much could be done with well linked hospital data ... doi.org/10.7554/eLif....
That's what makes this this analysis from 2020 led by @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social so great - look how much could be done with well linked hospital data ... doi.org/10.7554/eLif....
Metapopulation ecology links antibiotic resistance, consumption, and patient transfers in a network of hospital wards
Patterns of antibiotic use and the connectivity between wards are independently associated with the incidence of antimicrobial-resistant infections in hospital networks.
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Nothing could be more flattering, thank you so much @gmknght.bsky.social for highlighting our paper!
We found that for some #bacteria 🧫 , connectivity between hospital wards is as / more important for explaining #AMR as antibiotic consumption, especially for highly resistant 🏥 endemics
We found that for some #bacteria 🧫 , connectivity between hospital wards is as / more important for explaining #AMR as antibiotic consumption, especially for highly resistant 🏥 endemics
My pleasure, Julie. Honestly, it was quite a positive experience from a reviewer's perspective. A genuine discussion between reviewer and authors to improve the paper.
Although I can imagine that from your side, it was a slightly more frustrating process.
Although I can imagine that from your side, it was a slightly more frustrating process.
July 2, 2025 at 7:03 AM
My pleasure, Julie. Honestly, it was quite a positive experience from a reviewer's perspective. A genuine discussion between reviewer and authors to improve the paper.
Although I can imagine that from your side, it was a slightly more frustrating process.
Although I can imagine that from your side, it was a slightly more frustrating process.
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"it was the summer of 1918 and I was feeling a bit under the weather for no reason at all."
July 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"it was the summer of 1918 and I was feeling a bit under the weather for no reason at all."
Ooh, yes, I love that study. I was a reviewer on that one.
June 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Ooh, yes, I love that study. I was a reviewer on that one.
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Just like buses, here is a third role we are advertising for!
Come and help @philipwfowler.bsky.social use the large TB datasets we hold to help the OxCoD4TB consortium develop new therapeutics for tuberculosis.
Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July
bit.ly/4ndKOhF
Come and help @philipwfowler.bsky.social use the large TB datasets we hold to help the OxCoD4TB consortium develop new therapeutics for tuberculosis.
Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July
bit.ly/4ndKOhF
Job Details
bit.ly
June 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Just like buses, here is a third role we are advertising for!
Come and help @philipwfowler.bsky.social use the large TB datasets we hold to help the OxCoD4TB consortium develop new therapeutics for tuberculosis.
Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July
bit.ly/4ndKOhF
Come and help @philipwfowler.bsky.social use the large TB datasets we hold to help the OxCoD4TB consortium develop new therapeutics for tuberculosis.
Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July
bit.ly/4ndKOhF
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Postdoc (Paris, France)
Modelling the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria over healthcare networks
with Laura Temime
at @mesurs-cnam
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2323
Modelling the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria over healthcare networks
with Laura Temime
at @mesurs-cnam
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2323
June 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Postdoc (Paris, France)
Modelling the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria over healthcare networks
with Laura Temime
at @mesurs-cnam
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2323
Modelling the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria over healthcare networks
with Laura Temime
at @mesurs-cnam
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2323
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New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
Postdoctoral positions in epidemic mathematical/statistical modelling - Research
Job description We are recruiting postdocs to contribute to research projects in the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, at Institut Pasteur in Paris. The candidates will be expected t...
research.pasteur.fr
June 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...