Donna Slonim

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

Proud to be part of this exciting project with such a strong interdisciplinary team!

[Edlow Lab @EdlowLab]

Excited to share this pre-print, a multi-year gestation in collab w @aceasrine #RebeccaBatorsky @LydiaShook10 @evanbordt @royperlis @KislalSezen @BenDevlin18 @dkslonim & @staci_bilbo. Shared embryonic origin & programs bt microglia and placental HBCs-🧵 https://t.co/LeyQUQUVXN

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@ErinSandersNP Ask your pediatrician’s office. Ours does the PCR in the building and we’ve sometimes gotten results in a couple of hours. No waiting, beyond getting a sick-kid appointment, and immediate notification.

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@michelebusby I like the Berkshires. Lots of kid-friendly stuff (swimming, hiking, amusement parks) plus world-class music, theater, dance. Big name places may book early but you can usually find decent last-minute rooms online or via visitor centers.

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@EricLander46 Thanks for sharing that, Eric. Great story!

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@bearloga Totally using this in class next term. Thank you.

[Arjun Raj @arjunrajlab]

This one is really on point

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@zakkohane I'm calling it white rain to make myself and my daffodils feel better.

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

Definitely not missing the irony of listening to an NPR piece on how vaccine access is still inequitable while multiple people on multiple devices attempt to schedule one household member for vaccination.

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

Big accomplishment today: after 2 hours, 2 people, and 5 devices, my husband finally succeeded in booking an appointment for the vaccine. Let's throw a big party to celebrate! Oh, wait...

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

Kella wants to celebrate #SeniorPupSaturday too. She'll be eleven next month but still acts like a puppy.

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@statesdj Many colleges are finishing their semesters about now. I've no data to back this up, but I'd bet a lot of that travel is students heading home until February. No good options when dorms close, so it's a tough call either way.

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@statesdj I'm cracking up but it's not really funny. I guess in these days we have to look at the light side. Maybe we could put one of those $150 UV "air purifiers" in the middle to complete the picture?

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

Sad, but not surprising. Another example of bad data science driven by using the wrong tool for the job. If your software is limiting your analysis in any way, it's time to use something else.

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

In the UK the number of cases rose rapidly.
But the public – and authorities – are only learning this now because these cases were only published now as a backlog.

The reason was apparently that the database is managed in Excel and the number of columns had reached the maximum.

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

I just made this point in class today. Wish I'd had this image a few hours earlier!

[Steph Stammel @StephStammel]

When linear regression would have done the job, but someone just really wanted to be using deep learning.

[Timm Triplett @timmtriplett]

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): The ideal subject for totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end, through her cancer, with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals. That’s how we remember her. But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored. My statement: https://t.co/Wa6YcT5gDi

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

Brilliant, esp since my go-to teaching example on multiple testing adjustment and the family-wise error rate is conducting multiple clinical trials asking whether chocolate chip cookies cure the common cold. (My mom always said they did...)

[Andy Slavitt 🇺🇦 @ASlavitt]

Therapies: not much enthusiasm for convalescent plasma. Much excitement about monoclonal antibodies.

Steroid treatment (Dexa) > Remdesivir
Cookies & milk > Hydroxy

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[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@VanAllenLab University student registration or class management software?

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@zakkohane @Tesla Then how will they get people to use autopilot, which in a recent model 3 upgrade would recognize and stop at many (but not all) stop signs? The need for data to improve the cars' software may be at odds with insurance incentives...

[Donna Slonim @dkslonim]

@drgitlin You have a point, but given that I've had to have a few zoom meetings from my parked car, I could see a use for this. It's ok if it doesn't work while the car is moving. We can't just bop into a coffee shop for an hour to connect anymore.