Nikki Mastrud, MPH

MPH Global Epidemiology, RSPH 2024 | If I'm not doing epi, I'm probably on a mountain 🥾🌵

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

I love starting a new fantasy series because you'll hear a sentence like "they were cursed by the goddess" and....is it a metaphor? Superstition? Fantasy racism? Or an actual literal curse by an actual literal goddess? Who knows! Not me!

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

@KYT_ThatsME Nope same here

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

If I had a nickel every time a teenage girl essentially invented a literary genre I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

Last Saturday, I graduated with my MPH in Global Epidemiology from the Rollins School of Public Health with a certificate in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. It has been a truly amazing and life-changing 2 years, and I can't wait to see what's next!

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

Just submitted my very LAST assignment for grad school 🥳🥳🥳

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

@Wobbologist This is such a mood I don't know what's in the air this week but I have several major projects in the next week + thesis due in less than 2 weeks. Breathing and sleeping? I don't know them

[Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA]

“Starting Friday, the country is implementing a nationwide vaccination drive hoping to inoculate 3.2 million people and encourage residents to eradicate stagnant water sources, known breeding grounds for mosquitoes.” https://t.co/h6HhitmD7Z

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

Earlier this week I was dripping my faucets so they didn't freeze. This ain't right.

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

I once had a professor respond to my question "do you think I *should* do grad school" with "I think you're *going* to do grad school"

[William B. Fuckley @opinonhaver]

academics: the market is horrible. do not go to grad school. I have 36 publications and the only job I got was a 4/4 in a county where the primary industry is racism. I am suicidial daily

22-26 year olds: wow, that is so bad. it's a real problem. luckily though, I am built diffe

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I’m awake but I would like to go to sleep again.

[Brittany Terwilliger @Brttnyblm]

Me, every year at this time

[trash jones @jzux]

sorry i can’t come out tonight the sun’s setting at 5

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

Every year around Halloween I remember that as a kid, I always sorted my candy like a bar graph after trick or treating.

What I'm saying is, even 20 years ago, I was pretty on-brand 🎃

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

A while back I saw someone post about doing a community-science style acitivity with an undergraduate (maybe high school?) lab class, having students do tick-borne disease testing which contributed to real surveillance data (iirc)

Does anyone know who/where this was?

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

Doing my civic duty by nodding encouragingly during lecture

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

Wait I have more fantasy math those are like 2 of my favorite things

Consider: Fantasy math is when the first 700 pages take 3 months to read, and the last 300 pages take 1 night to read

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

@bookbaddiebri Fantasy math is a 2 month road trip taking 4 pages and a 2 minute battle taking 40 pages

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

@bookbaddiebri Fantasy math is a 2 month road trip taking 4 pages and a 2 minute battle taking 40 pages

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

I am So Normal about the Doctor Who 60th anniversary. I reacted very Normally to the trailer. I am a Normal level of excited about David Tennant.

So Normal about this

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

@hankgreen Don't even get me started on 6:47 and 7:03

[Nikki Mastrud, MPH @VectorSciNikki]

Tragic: I tried to make a doctor who reference in class and the kids (grown adults in college) just looked at me confused