Nicholas G. Reich

UMass professor, biostatistician, public health and infectious disease researcher, data scientist, juggler, puzzler, English major. Tweets are my own.

[IIForecasters @IIForecasters]

Scientific Meeting: Forecasting natural and social systems, 13 - 14 March 2023 @royalsociety @reichlab #forecasting https://t.co/ltrqsCrKXI

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Join our upcoming scientific meeting on the topic of #forecasting and methodologies used across different scientific disciplines, with Professors Sebastian Funk (@sbfnk), Nicholas Reich (@reichlab), Steven Riley (@SRileyIDD) & Rachel Lowe (@drrachellowe): https://t.co/tDNbQW6dUB

[Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) @sbfnk]

Excited that these two meetings on forecasting (one general, one specific to infectious diseases) are finally happening, 13-16 March, having been years in the making and delayed multiple times due to the pandemic https://t.co/blvaNb6zbW and https://t.co/KDnlFXTA7E 1/5

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@JPWeiland Interesting predictions. What kind of model is this coming from? do you submit the predictions anywhere so they can be evaluated later on for accuracy? E.g. COVID-19 Forecast Hub? https://t.co/VE7rd7e2yl

[Spencer J. Fox @FoxandtheFlu]

I’m excited to announce that I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab! I feel like most ads focus on the research/project/PI, so here’s a thread about what YOU will get as part of the position.
https://t.co/dKJcBLJpGm

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@seabbs Hat tips also to @JustinLessler and @andrewazman who have collaborated on pieces of this (both the paper and the software).

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@m_hoehle @seabbs Makes the annoying/time-consuming update requests from CRAN worthwhile to see it getting some usage!

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@seabbs Always makes me happy to see this work getting used! This was my start in the infectious disease modeling/software dev world, as part of my PhD.

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

It was great to have you up here, @FoxandtheFlu! Looking forward to the next visit.

[Spencer J. Fox @FoxandtheFlu]

Just finished an awesome day spent with the Epi/Biostats department @UMassAmherst. Thanks for letting me see the amazing colors up here 🤩😍🍁 @reichlab

[Metaculus @metaculus]

We’re excited to collaborate with @LehighU computational scientist @tomcm39, leader of the Computational Uncertainty Lab, @UMassAmherst’s Evan Ray, a biostatistician developing infectious disease forecasting models, & @GeorgiaTech biomedical engineer & lecturer Todd Fernandez.

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

With 2 TT positions in Stats and 2 in Biostats @UMassAmherst this hiring season, I'm excited for the growth in our Five College Stats community! @FiveCollegeStat

biostat: https://t.co/TpNTWplNbu
stat: https://t.co/CisHSWEezV

[Maryclare Griffin @mcmcgriffin]

We are hiring *at least two* tenure track faculty in statistics this year! Come be my colleague!

https://t.co/CKYSLFXmp8

[Maryclare Griffin @mcmcgriffin]

We are hiring *at least two* tenure track faculty in statistics this year! Come be my colleague!

https://t.co/CKYSLFXmp8

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

Here's another new @UMassAmherst TT faculty opening, with a focus in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, w/in the Dept of Biostats and Epi.

This position has...
- 9 mo. hard money salary 💰
- support from @UMassIALS

Come join our team!

https://t.co/J9nd2vzbfB

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@geospacedman @StatModeling And with everything/everyone remote, I know very very few of the grad students in our programs with whom I'm not directly working. That is very different from "before".

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@geospacedman @StatModeling totally fair point. this is a complicated issue. what is your professional scope for being engaged with students? I find that I am a better teacher/mentor/advisor in-person, but I imagine that not all feel the same way.

[Andrew Gelman et al. @StatModeling]

(Now that faculty aren’t coming into the office anymore) Will universities ever recover? https://t.co/1CFKH93IVm

[Nicholas J. Sanders @nj_sanders]

In what kind of an environment is your institution, and are people generally "around" on campus these days, or does it feel like nobody's there?

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@Alexander_Tin @CDCgov I will also add that
1. We don't know what's going to happen beyond 4 weeks.
2. The numbers of COVID deaths in the US each week right now are "low" compared to Omicron highs.
3. The number dead from COVID in the past ~1 month is ~= as those who die in 1 yr due to mild flu season

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@Alexander_Tin We have updated our weekly reports now... https://t.co/9koDzGmLBu

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@Alexander_Tin The state reports at the Hub are correct, we are working on fixing/updating a hard-coded date in the US reports. Should be up in an hour or two. e.g. correct report for CA https://t.co/nrSMWk2F4t

[Nicholas G. Reich @reichlab]

@Alexander_Tin good catch. looking into this.