irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠

scientist modelling infectious disease spread @GovCanHealth. find me @papsti.bsky.social instead.

[The Data Science & AI Conference @TheDataConf]

We’ve gone from scripts to pipelines, learned to make FOIA requests and suing for information access, and what not to do in data visualization #rstats #RStatsGov @irenapapst @GaryHarki @jschwabish

[The Data Science & AI Conference @TheDataConf]

🚨R Gov is just around the corner! Join us on Oct 19-20 in DC or virtually!

Hear from @davidshor, @abbystat, @davidmeza1, @irenapapst, @SoubhikBarari & many more!

🎫Visit https://t.co/XfRNjpKouM to get your tix & for the full list of speakers & workshops.

#rstats | #rstatsgov

[Dawn Bowdish @MsMacrophage]

The protocol has been updated to include any number of mRNA vaccine doses. Email [email protected] if interested and to see if you are eligible. Read more about it here: https://t.co/reQM1ohATL

[Dawn Bowdish @MsMacrophage]

Please RT: Haven't had COVID yet and want to help researchers develop an inhaled vaccine? Live in the Hamilton area and can get to @mcmasteru? Consider being part of this research study! #vaccineswork

[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

@dmimno when you translate text, it doesn’t feel like new information has been added (though it has). chatGPT outputs feel like they’ve built upon the text prompt, as if it’s more creative than translation.

[@jdushoff.bsky.social @[email protected] @jd_mathbio]

Evaluating undercounts in epidemics https://t.co/ki3OoysqNb

We evaluate a mark-recapture approach used to estimate bounds on the number of monkeypox and find that it is fundamentally flawed; it is impossible to estimate undercounting using incidence data alone.

[Science Monkey @sciencemonkeyca]

Lots of people asking if I think we should get 2nd booster now, or wait for bivalent vaccine in the Fall. IMHO, one should get boosted NOW for the following 5 reasons: (Thread)

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[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

i often give a version of this advice to my students:

while in a course, maintain a list of _specific_ questions to ask in office hours. usually the hardest part is verbalizing precisely what you're confused about. once you do, you're sometimes able to answer the q yourself!

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

debugging strategy: write a message asking for help

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

TL;DR - 9 must-follow rules to design slides that pop

• #1: Don't read them out
• #2: Use large font
• #3: Use emphasis
• #4: Keep words & pictures near
• #5: Add quality images
• #6: Use white space
• #7: Be consistent
• #8: Skip animations
• #9: Create the slides last

[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

note too: many students have to use their scholarships to cover program tuition (avg ~$7.5k/yr), which is a big chunk of the PGS-D and CGS-M awards

[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

NSERC scholarships are a key source of funding for science/technology/engineering/mathematics grad students in canada, and their award amounts haven't been updated (not even for inflation!) in 20 years.

an open letter to PM @JustinTrudeau & @FP_Champagne

https://t.co/GpT8991Hkw

[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

@DavidBindel get well soon!

[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

@sharlagelfand get well soon!

[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

@mikes91 apology video now

[Stephen Lapinsky @StephenLap]

“We have the capacity” says @fordnation

My ICU group’s WhatsApp chat over the past week tells a different story

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

Our paper with @irenapapst and @Kevsational has finally been published. The preprint (non-paywalled) version of it is at https://t.co/pIinpK0SRl. (Incidentally, the research for it was finished long before the pandemic, which is why there is nothing about covid in it.)

[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

also for academics!

[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

@sharlagelfand i need this palette for everything 🤩

[irena papst, phd 👩‍💻📉🦠 @irenapapst]

@RaeLJewett @wklumpen NO absolutely not!!