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by Fomite 4y ago
Agreed. I've just also seen "That's a huge effect size" as a way to dismiss observational results as probably wrong, and so felt it should be noted that for things with infectious etiologies this is impressive but not pa
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by Fomite 4y ago
Whether or not that's an incredible effect size sort of depends. For infectious disease epidemiology, which regularly sees extremely strong effects because of the very short causal chain between an infection and an outcome, it's
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by Fomite 4y ago
Honestly, I wasn't particularly impressed with the rigor of said savagery - it mostly came off as a combination of senior people wanting to flatter their own ego and accepted rudeness. I've been completely dismantled in a presen
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by Fomite 4y ago
My wife left her Kindle on a United Airlines flight, and two days of searching later, they found it and shipped it to us. A friend left an iPad on a flight. That was shipped back to him as well, albeit with a dick drawn on the screen in sha
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by Fomite 4y ago
Now do checkbooks and the US
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by Fomite 4y ago
Agreed. I was familiar with "Salami Slicing" well before I had ever heard "Minimum Viable Product"
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by Fomite 4y ago
VAERS (along with other systems) has helped pick up and prompt investigations for both the J&J COVID-19 vaccine and investigating myocarditis in adolescent males for the mRNA vaccine. VAERS is also important for monitoring the rotavirus
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by Fomite 4y ago
A couple thoughts, from an academic who doesn't mind working with industry partners: "In industry, though, no skeptical journal editor will review your work. It’s going to be a bunch of PMs and engineers, who will take you at your
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by Fomite 4y ago
Coming from public health, but being involved in several economics hires, economics is fucking savage when it comes to presentations.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Given the UK's vaccine program uses the inactivated vaccine form, it's almost certainly an import case.
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The inaccuracy of the VAERS system has been known for the entirety of my career - it's not meant to be accurate, it's meant to be permissive, because there are other systems that are much narrower but also more accurate. People
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by Fomite 4y ago
The COVID-19 vaccine has fully spilled over into outright skepticism about childhood vaccines: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2021/07/13/tenn...
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by Fomite 4y ago
They know the vaccine that's causing it - this isn't new, it's just very rare in a country that predominantly administers the inactivated vaccine. This is just the result of the joint probability of someone recently being vac
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by Fomite 4y ago
In countries that struggle with polio vaccination, we often use a "live attenuated" vaccine - that is, you are getting an infection with live virus, but one that has been engineered to cause little to no disease. The advantages of
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by Fomite 4y ago
...this seems to ignore the huge amount of scrutiny these kinds of practices are getting in the medical field.
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In contrast, my expert witness work is expressly founded on papers I published, and it absolutely goes on my CV.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I ended up having some expert witness work during the pandemic, about pandemic related stuff. It was interesting, and engaging, and was indeed a nice bit of side income for a bit, but I'd be happy if I was never called upon again.
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by Fomite 4y ago
So, the caveat to all of this is I'm actually in a field (epidemiology) where getting scooped matters less in many cases than it does for some others (math). Getting scooped doesn't just matter for high profile discoveries. The ex
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by Fomite 4y ago
Some of the HPC code that I've used is definitely "Good luck, and god speed..." if I gave you the code. Some of it is just really clean Python code that generates a bunch of simulated data to train some machine learning code
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by Fomite 4y ago
Honestly, the stuff I run on a cluster is an order of magnitude easier than the stuff that can run on a basic laptop to share.
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by Fomite 4y ago
Hell, even things like journals requiring formatting after acceptance being taken as a godsend.
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by Fomite 4y ago
A colleague of mine during graduate school who by consensus did everything right, and then just...no one in her cohort had the exposure she was interested in. To this day, no one is sure why. The answer for a lot of this is to put in the ha
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by Fomite 4y ago
To illustrate a couple problems with it being standard (importantly, note this paper was in a clinical epidemiology journal, so we are invariably talking about human health data): 1) Are you sure the data is deidentified? Can your analysi
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by Fomite 4y ago
The amount for a non-modular (i.e. the default, you don't have to have a super detailed budget) NIH R01, which is the basic unit of biomedical science funding, has been stagnant since 1999. Budgeting for a separate person to do this wo
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by Fomite 4y ago
Am a researcher, and also work in data governance, data sharing, etc. for medical research data. It's not about an "open source mentality" - almost all of my analytical code is online, and when I work with simulated data sets
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by Fomite 4y ago
Washington State University | Pullman, WA | Full-time | Remote or Onsite, VISA | The Paul G. Allen School for Global Health (Allen School) at Washington State University (WSU) is seeking to fill two positions to support multiple research pr
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by Fomite 4y ago
I'm in a field that requires no more advanced equipment than a decent laptop, and there's not a vast array of private citizens "putting a fire" under anyone.
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Because this is extremely hard to predict.
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by Fomite 4y ago
I once had someone told me their organization "Didn't do curiosity driven research". I have never lost interest in a long-term position faster. Having a position that doesn't require me to peg everything to a practical d
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by Fomite 4y ago
"2. State subsidies. We know these kill worker efficiency. If that weren't true the USSR would never have fallen behind the USA in terms of wealth. What the article refers to as science is really academia, and academia is dominate

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