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I post about epidemiology/public health and other stuff that interests me. Bio: PhD/CS (2007); MSc/Epi (2018), currently work in public health. Was active on Twitter early in the pandemic, now escaped to here and @noisediver@med-mastodon.com
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Douglas Allchin, Jonathan Osborne, and I have a new paper out about teaching science in this age of online misinformation. The idea is simple: we tell people to trust the science, but we rarely teach students about the social processes that make it trustworthy. carlbergstrom.com/publications...

Transforming Science Education in an Age of Misinformation Douglas Allchin Carl T. Bergstrom Jonathan Osborne Abstract Misinformation and disinformation about science have reached alarming levels. Here, we summarize a recent expert report, Science Education in an Age of Misinformation, that outlines what science education can do to address this problem and, given the urgency, has to do. We highlight the significance of teaching how the social practices of science contribute to establishing a trustworthy consensus and how students should evaluate the credibility of second-hand claims reported in the media or on the internet. We focus on the concepts of epistemic dependence on experts, competent outsiders, credibility, expertise, consensus, deceptive tactics, and science media literacy.
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‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/fossil-fuel-industry-air-pollution-fund-research-caltech-climate-change-denial #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

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Federal Effort to Tackle AI Democratization NSF partnering w/ 10 other fed agencies & 25 orgs. from private, nonprofit, & philanthropic sectors "to create a shared research infrastructure to strengthen & democratize access to resources that support AI innovation." policysky 🧪lawsky 🧭academicsky

Federal Agencies Team Up to Tackle AI Democratization
Federal Agencies Team Up to Tackle AI Democratization

The U.S. National Science Foundation and other collaborating federal agencies are launching a national pilot to research, and ultimately bolster investment in, the area of artificial intelligence.

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I have entered the world CO2 monitoring. I will be insufferable now. More insufferable. Hah, said it first.

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"Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims." 🧭policysky medsky lawsky polisky 🧪

The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died
The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died

Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s ...

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Are we paying a premium for no- and low-alcohol drinks compared to standard drinks in the UK? I've written a new blog for SSA which digs into the data to try and answer this question:

Are consumers paying a premium for no- and low-alcohol drinks? - SSA
Are consumers paying a premium for no- and low-alcohol drinks? - SSA

New research suggests that no- and low-alcohol drinks tend to be more expensive...

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Long-term immunity following #YellowFever #vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00556-9/abstract

Text Shot: The gathered evidence suggests that a single dose of yellow fever vaccination provides lifelong protection in travellers. However, in people living with HIV and children (younger than 2 years), booster doses might still be required because lower proportions of vaccinees were seroprotected 10 or more years post-vaccination. Lower observed seroprotection rates among residents of endemic areas were partly explained by the use of a higher cutoff for seroprotection that was applied in Brazil. Studies from sub-Saharan Africa were scarce and of low quality; thus no conclusions could be drawn for this region.
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This quote here is either outright ignorance or intellectual dishonesty of gargantuan proportions. Simon Jenkins needs a primer on public health and the notion of modifiable risk factors. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/29/rishi-sunak-smoking-ban-liz-truss-vapes-tobacco-sales

Text Shot: As for priorities, the policy is even crazier. The cost to the NHS of smoking-related illness – calculated at some £3bn annually – is half the cost of obesity. Yet the government lies spineless in the face of the food lobby over a condition that now afflicts more than a quarter of the British population. This surely merits the status of a crisis. Yet what is the chance of Rishi Sunak banning the sale of pizzas and doughnuts to under-18s?
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Thailand reports more than 300% increase in #Zika infections in 2023 https://outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/thailand-reports-more-than-300-increase

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@noisediver.bsky.social
I post about epidemiology/public health and other stuff that interests me. Bio: PhD/CS (2007); MSc/Epi (2018), currently work in public health. Was active on Twitter early in the pandemic, now escaped to here and @noisediver@med-mastodon.com
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