Theoretical biologist, recreational mathematician, anti-fascist*.
* I had planned not to be political here, but when circumstances change, decisions sometimes have to change.
Jonathan Dushoff
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This is my hobby too!
you are creating a culture of violence against us by accurately reporting on the culture of violence we're gleefully inflicting on others
Led by @rowandurrant.bsky.social, we're trying to develop rules of thumb to estimate under-reporting from sequence data. Today rabies, tomorrow the world!
With @khampson.bsky.social, @kirstynbrunker.bsky.social and others.
The Callais ruling is the latest evidence that the real problem with #SCOTUS is that it can do whatever it wants without any fear of pushback from Congress.
The way to fix that is by making the Court *accountable* again, something that expanding it or imposing term limits won't actually accomplish:
In our recent EID letter: Serial Interval and Intervention Efficiency in Pertussis Outbreak, South Korea, 2024, we re-analyzed Cho et al.'s outbreak data to recover the unmitigated serial interval — what would be expected without case isolation.
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
@jdushoff.bsky.social
Boosted this on facebook 11 years ago today.
The parable of the polygons is a super-cool way of thinking about pedagogy, a super-cool way of thinking about the usefulness of dynamical modeling, and a super-cool way of thinking about how our world became so polarized (maybe even a thought about how to address that): ncase.me/polygons/
oops, I failed to link to the preprint, and nobody apparently noticed! Including me. Sure that doesn't mean anything worrisome about me, bluesky, or anyone, though. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
