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Infectious disease epidemiologist, mathematical modeling ... and Lucy's person.

Director, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (@ciddpsu.bsky.social) at Penn State

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Seatmate
Wattson, a brown and whit dog with up ears curled up with his chin resting on his hind legs. He is on a blue chair and partially covered by a light blue pillow.
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I keep seeing AI driven presentations of publicly available data that are like this guy looking for his wallet with radar.
A man on his hands and knees under a streetlamp with a police officer standing nearby. the cop is asking "this is where you lost your wallet?" and the man replies "no, I lost it in the park. but this is where the light is"
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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To rationalize their own loss, these folks must trivialize the overwhelming loss around the world. But ignoring the deaths of 300 children per day, however cathartic, can never be "virtuous" or "righteous".
Suffering without meaning is very hard for most people to bear. Children’s Health Defense, like religion, helps people put their suffering in context. It offers people explanations that fuse spirituality and science. It suggests that sinister forces are promoting impurity for profit and that purity is achievable through virtuous behavior and righteous action.
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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I can tell time by where on the floor she is.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears lying on her side on a wood floor in the sunshine.
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Feelz
Lucy, a brown dog it’s down ears and white toes, sleeping in the sunshine on a black pillow on a blue ottoman
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Blistered skin.
A bone in pork shoulder, roasted for 8 hours. The skin has been blistered under high heat. A bone in pork shoulder, roasted for 8 hours. The skin has been blistered under high heat.
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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8h. Resting.
A pork shoulder after 8h of cooking.
November 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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2h and 6h updates.
A pork shoulder in a roasting pan in an oven after 2h of cooking A pork shoulder in a roasting pan in an oven after 6h of cooking
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Lucy’s not complaining about the extra time for walkies, but she’s a little incredulous that 1” of snow resulted in a university delayed start.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears wearing an orange vest and sitting on a path in the woods with 1” of snow on the ground
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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We will go to any length* to avoid using an intuitive system of measurement.

*pun absolutely intended

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...
Every day for the past two and a half months, Mr. Anderson, 27, a building engineer from Portland, Ore., has worn a pair of gargantuan jeans from the Canadian jeans brand Naked & Famous Denim. The jeans, with a 100-inch inseam, are about the length of a full-size alligator or a brag-worthy Christmas tree. When unfurled, their legs look like the arms of the inflatable tube men that sit outside car dealerships. a white man sitting at the top of a set of stairs of a building painted red wearing a pair of jeans with an inseam of 100 inches (the length of a full sized alligator). The hem of the jeans extend well below his feed and are blowing in the breeze, nearly touching the ground below.
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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But, we’ll see you all at Virginia Tech in June!! @eeid2026.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Northeast EEID meeting is a wrap …
Meeting participants standing for a group photo in front of a projected logo
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Northeast Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease meeting kicking off! At @ciddpsu.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Be sure to stretch first. Don't want to rush into awesome unprepared.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears and one white paw doing a big stretch, shot from head on.
November 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Savor this moment. It will get hard again soon, and is now for many. That doesn’t take away from the feeling and is all the more reason to bring this taste to as many as possible for as long as possible.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears, a white chest, and a white right paw, laying on a wood floor in the sunlight.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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sometimes folk ask how she gets in the backpack. The answer is ... passively. She's very excited to get in, then is totally unhelpful about actually getting in.
A brown dog with a white chest in a backpack lying on the floor on her back. The dog and backpack are in-between the feet of the photographer, shot from above.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Lucy and I went voting this AM
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Any member of the press that doesn't refer to this as Johnson's "secret plan to solve health care" should be stripped of their credentials.
four panels from the TV show The West Wing: Josh: They said "Do you think if the President has a plan to fight inflation, it's right that he keep it a secret?" I said "Of course not!" President Bartlett: Are you telling me that not only did you invent a secret plan to fight inflation, but now you don't support it? Josh: ... Josh: ... when you put it like that.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Did I offer extra credit for costumes? Yes, yes I did.
Students in Halloween costumes working in a computer lab
October 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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President Truman sitting at his desk. In the foreground is his famous "the buck stops here" sign, edited to say "the buck stops somewhere else"
October 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Biiiig stretch. Wishing you all sunbeams.
Lucy, a brown dog with down ears, stretching in the sunlight.
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I care not for your "Monday"
Wattson, a white and brown dog with up ears lounging across a pile of grey and green pillows in the sunshine.
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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There’s a lot of America worth saving.
A view, from a picnic table, of farm fields under a blue sky. There is a coffee iced donut and a bike in the foreground. To the right is a wooden ramp lined with pumpkins.
October 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Maybe no record. But there IS precedent ...
men in suits sitting at a wooden table with microphones. Scene from The Godfather II when Frankie Pentangeli was being questioned about crimes by the Corleone family. A man in a black suit with a short red tie and a black hat, surrounded by police. From The Godfather II scene when Frankie Pentangeli was being questioned under oath about crimes committed by the Corleone family. At the right is Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, behind is Diane Keaton as Kaye Corleone.
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I have whiplash
Democrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill as Shutdown Drags On A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM