#MedSky🧪 #IDSky #Immunometabolism #PedSky #immunosky #publichealth #Globalhealth Vaccines play a crucial role in preventing deaths and illnesses caused by infectious diseases. Yet despite the high coverage of immunization programs, in 2019, 1 in 5 children globally remained unprotected,

Today, I travelled back in time, to the pre polio vaccine era

I closed my eyes, imagined being paralyzed… unable to breathe

I imagined being stuck in this claustrophobic iron lung, to breathe

Maybe we all need to time travel, to appreciate how science & public health saves us, every day.

We're looking at perfume data for #TidyTuesday this week - focusing on the most common scents!

🟣 Circles arranged with {packcircles}
📊 Plotting with #ggplot2 and {ggforce}
📷 Image added with {ggimage}

Code: https://buff.ly/4f653bT

#RStats #DataViz

The December issue of The Lancet Microbe is now online:

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all the content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #AMR #schistosomiasis #pneumococcus #endocarditis #Mycobacterium #influenza #YellowFever #malaria

A little louder for the folks in the back:

The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind.

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

This is a fun dataset! It'd be good for teaching this. #Rstats

Here's the latest variant picture for Japan.

DeFLuQE variants have been rising to take over dominance from FLuQUE variants.

XEC.* grew to around 14%, but might have stalled there.

The recent rise in FLiRT variants is led by the LP.8.1 variant.

#COVID19 #Japan #DeFLuQE #FLiRT #FLuQE #XEC
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📚 Spatial Statistics for #datascience w/ #rstats

Chapter 1: Spatial Data Types
🔹 Areal: aggregated number of events (disease counts)
🔹 Geostatistical: observations at known locations (air pollution)
🔹 Point patterns: event locations (fires, trees)

Examples 👉 www.paulamoraga.com/book-spatial...

You can take real #ClimateAction, whether it's a big or small step. Here's how 👇 #COP29

Re-introduction for new followers!
Hello! 👋
I am currently a freelance research data management consultant. I also co-organize R-Ladies St. Louis. I mostly post about data management and #rstats data wrangling tips. I also recently wrote this book.
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Hi BlueSky! 👋 I am a spatial statistician & university professor working on methods & #rstats packages for disease surveillance 🌍💻📊 I wrote books on #Geospatial Health Data & Spatial Statistics for #DataScience 📚

👉 bit.ly/bookspatial

Excited to connect, share, and learn with you all here! 💜 ✨

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS.

For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship).

Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...