A: The goal of my current project is to identify novel pandemics, even if they're caused by something we've never seen before, most likely by looking at growth

A: The goal of my current project is to identify novel pandemics, even if they're caused by something we've never seen before, most likely by looking at growth patterns. At a broader scale, I'm trying to learn enough about working in this field that I'll be able to contribute on whatever future projects seem most appropriately important to me. B: unlike my previous work, I'm back to being an individual contributor. Very few meetings, mostly coding and analysis. Current thing is trying to understand what drives per-sample variability in wastewater sequencing data. C. Our group is currently philanthropically funded, and is focused on determining whether/how this is possible/practical. D. I'm mostly working in (bio)python, with a few bits written in C and gluing things together with bash. E. I was most recently working on (a) JS infrastructure to fetch and render ads and (b) working with browsers on platform features that would improve privacy, security, and efficiency.