Nance Cunningham
@nancecunningham.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Experimental Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Studying hepatitis C and why people don't get treated
Spoiler: It's mostly about equity
#UBC #BCCFE
#HumanitarianHealth with #MSF
#healthpromotion, art, maps
#HCV #healthequity #EpiSky #HepSky
Studying hepatitis C and why people don't get treated
Spoiler: It's mostly about equity
#UBC #BCCFE
#HumanitarianHealth with #MSF
#healthpromotion, art, maps
#HCV #healthequity #EpiSky #HepSky
Pinned
Discharge with insufficient or inappropriate care in Canada’s EDs: overcoming the challenges for people who use drugs
rdcu.be
People who use drugs report poor experiences in emergency care in Canada. We wrote a commentary presenting common experiences, effects, and a substantial list of suggested ways to improve the emergency room experience for staff, other patients, and people who use drugs. Read for free: rdcu.be/eqyRZ
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JFC. Dunning Kruger is an epidemic.
Almost nothing is tested against "inert placebo" because we have a thing called "non-inferiority trials", meaning they are required to be NOT WORSE than the existing treatment. Because all modern drugs would be more efficacious than placebo.
Almost nothing is tested against "inert placebo" because we have a thing called "non-inferiority trials", meaning they are required to be NOT WORSE than the existing treatment. Because all modern drugs would be more efficacious than placebo.
December 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
JFC. Dunning Kruger is an epidemic.
Almost nothing is tested against "inert placebo" because we have a thing called "non-inferiority trials", meaning they are required to be NOT WORSE than the existing treatment. Because all modern drugs would be more efficacious than placebo.
Almost nothing is tested against "inert placebo" because we have a thing called "non-inferiority trials", meaning they are required to be NOT WORSE than the existing treatment. Because all modern drugs would be more efficacious than placebo.
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New from us @plosglobalpublichealth.org
"Cholera vaccines for the rich, #cholera for the poor: While the global cholera vaccine stockpile runs dry, a booming market for high-income countries exemplifies the chasm between commercial interests and global health needs" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
"Cholera vaccines for the rich, #cholera for the poor: While the global cholera vaccine stockpile runs dry, a booming market for high-income countries exemplifies the chasm between commercial interests and global health needs" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
March 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
New from us @plosglobalpublichealth.org
"Cholera vaccines for the rich, #cholera for the poor: While the global cholera vaccine stockpile runs dry, a booming market for high-income countries exemplifies the chasm between commercial interests and global health needs" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
"Cholera vaccines for the rich, #cholera for the poor: While the global cholera vaccine stockpile runs dry, a booming market for high-income countries exemplifies the chasm between commercial interests and global health needs" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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If anything, statistics is clearly not hard enough.
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If anything, statistics is clearly not hard enough.
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People are being significantly more excited about this Voynich manuscript episode than a typical bonus episode and it's just really fun to see!
If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀
If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀
A book containing puzzling drawings and a strange writing system has intrigued cryptographers, historians, linguists, and more for centuries...
In our latest bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript with @chirila.bsky.social!
In our latest bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript with @chirila.bsky.social!
Bonus 106: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript - Interview with Claire Bowern | Lingthusiasm
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December 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
People are being significantly more excited about this Voynich manuscript episode than a typical bonus episode and it's just really fun to see!
If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀
If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀
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I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I took care of numerous kids with fulminant hepatitis B in the 90s before the switch to getting the first vaccine at birth. I don’t recall having one since. I do not miss caring for that disease.
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Don't miss the final Methods Series talk this year!
Arvid Sjölander @ki.se presents, "A generalization of the mechanism-based approach for age-period-cohort models."
📆 Dec 16, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CET/9.00 ET
📍 Online
2026 talks TBA. Register 👇
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Arvid Sjölander @ki.se presents, "A generalization of the mechanism-based approach for age-period-cohort models."
📆 Dec 16, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CET/9.00 ET
📍 Online
2026 talks TBA. Register 👇
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Don't miss the final Methods Series talk this year!
Arvid Sjölander @ki.se presents, "A generalization of the mechanism-based approach for age-period-cohort models."
📆 Dec 16, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CET/9.00 ET
📍 Online
2026 talks TBA. Register 👇
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
Arvid Sjölander @ki.se presents, "A generalization of the mechanism-based approach for age-period-cohort models."
📆 Dec 16, 2025
⏰ 15.00 CET/9.00 ET
📍 Online
2026 talks TBA. Register 👇
stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...
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It’s an interesting approach to provide clarity on a tanker ban while failing to meet with the Coastal First Nations despite repeated requests - the community that would be directly affected by any spill - while having dozens or more meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists, AB, Sask.
Hodgson says Ottawa is close to providing clarity on B.C. tanker ban nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/25/h...
Hodgson says Ottawa is close to providing clarity on B.C. tanker ban
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It’s an interesting approach to provide clarity on a tanker ban while failing to meet with the Coastal First Nations despite repeated requests - the community that would be directly affected by any spill - while having dozens or more meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists, AB, Sask.
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Canada's #Budget2025 (which grotesquely frames a $2.7billion cut in international assistance as "Savings", & rather than leading by continuing to give more to global health than "other similar economies" chooses to follow those similar economies despite clear & deadly impacts of their cuts) passes.
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Canada's #Budget2025 (which grotesquely frames a $2.7billion cut in international assistance as "Savings", & rather than leading by continuing to give more to global health than "other similar economies" chooses to follow those similar economies despite clear & deadly impacts of their cuts) passes.
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The result is a simulated VDA regime; symbolic verification, symbolic deliberation, symbolic accountability. All the procedural shapes of reasoning with none of the real-world safeguards.
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The result is a simulated VDA regime; symbolic verification, symbolic deliberation, symbolic accountability. All the procedural shapes of reasoning with none of the real-world safeguards.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
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What happens in nature in eight minutes? What does a frog look like on the inside? What was the first written language? These questions, and many more, are answered in the books shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize: #YoungSciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/11...
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
What happens in nature in eight minutes? What does a frog look like on the inside? What was the first written language? These questions, and many more, are answered in the books shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize: #YoungSciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/11...
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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ICYMI: New online! Improving surgical treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma
Improving surgical treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma
Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Published online: 17 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41575-025-01143-yThis Review examines how advances in tumour biology, immunogenomics and graft preservation are redefining surgical management of hepatocellular carcinoma. Malik et al. describe the shift from anatomical to biology-informed paradigms to individualize surgical decision-making.
www.nature.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
ICYMI: New online! Improving surgical treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma
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It's that time again.
For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc November 2025 edition.
For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc November 2025 edition.
a man is standing in a kitchen drinking from a cup and talking about flu season .
ALT: a man is standing in a kitchen drinking from a cup and talking about flu season .
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November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It's that time again.
For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc November 2025 edition.
For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc November 2025 edition.
Are you in Yangon? Love the old buildings? Come to this event! This Friday, 24 October
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Are you in Yangon? Love the old buildings? Come to this event! This Friday, 24 October
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“There’s the huge unspoken burden to save a world, which frankly, we didn’t break in the first place/ I think that pressure is so overwhelming for so many of us, it deteriorates and completely destroys our mental health in ways that I think we’re only beginning to understand.”
#ClimateSky
#ClimateSky
'If we don’t act on climate change within the next few years, the world as we know it disappears.'
"Climate anxiety is...weighing on younger Canadians’ emotions... More mental health awareness will not cure climate anxiety if the forests keep burning..."
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/social-...
"Climate anxiety is...weighing on younger Canadians’ emotions... More mental health awareness will not cure climate anxiety if the forests keep burning..."
www.theglobeandmail.com/life/social-...
Young Canadians’ happiness has nosedived. They’re coping by redefining a meaningful life
Economic hardship and the climate crisis have forced young adults to reshape their ideas of a successful life
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“There’s the huge unspoken burden to save a world, which frankly, we didn’t break in the first place/ I think that pressure is so overwhelming for so many of us, it deteriorates and completely destroys our mental health in ways that I think we’re only beginning to understand.”
#ClimateSky
#ClimateSky
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I'm SO thrilled for the return of the CIIG this term with the most exciting presenter possible 💃 Everyone sign up join us!
Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈
You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...
October 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I'm SO thrilled for the return of the CIIG this term with the most exciting presenter possible 💃 Everyone sign up join us!
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Great article by a polio survivor. Salk declined to patent the polio vaccine, saying “it belongs to the people.”
"Physician-scientists are the artisans working through the night, arguing, racing, debating seemingly crazy ideas, all the while taking on complex questions to find a cure to benefit all of humankind. Vaccines are manmade miracles among us." www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...
The Polio Vaccine Was a Miracle—and We Must Not Forget It
As a polio survivor, I am a dinosaur today. My great hope is that our country’s living memory of the disease ends with my generation.
www.thebulwark.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Great article by a polio survivor. Salk declined to patent the polio vaccine, saying “it belongs to the people.”
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Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!
𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData
The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit
The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.
tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8
𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData
The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit
The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.
tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8
September 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!
𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData
The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit
The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.
tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8
𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData
The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit
The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.
tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8
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Another week, another magical #rstats gift from Emil.
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I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Another week, another magical #rstats gift from Emil.
🥰
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What is the credibility or purpose of an AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or tropical medicine conference without scientists from the Global South, and people with deep, lived experience?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Global North is increasingly unsafe for global health meetings
American civil rights activist Maya Angelou once wrote, “prejudice is a burden that
confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible”.1 At
a time of unprecedented national...
www.thelancet.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
What is the credibility or purpose of an AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or tropical medicine conference without scientists from the Global South, and people with deep, lived experience?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) who could use advice about navigating peer review? Are you stuck on a manuscript submission or revision? Have general questions about peer review?
Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊
Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊
Formative And Interactive Review (FAIR)
🌱 Formative And Interactive Review (FAIR) 🌱
Reviewer Zero's Formative and Interactive Review (FAIR) draft feedback program is designed for early career researchers (ECRs) to receive feedback on a draf...
www.reviewerzero.net
September 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) who could use advice about navigating peer review? Are you stuck on a manuscript submission or revision? Have general questions about peer review?
Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊
Schedule a 30-min chat with any member of @reviewerzero.bsky.social! We'd love to help 😊
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Xinka leaders are visiting Toronto next week. They have been fighting Canadian mining company Pan American Silver's attack on Indigenous self-determination Don't miss this event at York University on Thurs Sept 18!
September 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Xinka leaders are visiting Toronto next week. They have been fighting Canadian mining company Pan American Silver's attack on Indigenous self-determination Don't miss this event at York University on Thurs Sept 18!
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#MSF in @lancetgh.bsky.social - "Evolving crises and unprecedented need: research on health in humanitarian settings must not be overlooked" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Evolving crises and unprecedented need: research on health in humanitarian settings must not be overlooked
Humanitarian crises have evolved dramatically in scale, duration, severity, and complexity
since Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded in 1971. In 2024, over 120 million
people were forcibly disp...
www.thelancet.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#MSF in @lancetgh.bsky.social - "Evolving crises and unprecedented need: research on health in humanitarian settings must not be overlooked" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...