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Bennett Waxse

@bwaxse.bsky.social
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Med-Peds ID Fellow Doing EHR Informatics Research | Driven by data, music, bicycle | Thoughts & typo-planting skill my own

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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I've been using #ClaudeCode for #research #informatics—cohort building, debugging pipelines, genomics in #AllofUs. Before any of that was useful, I had to set things up right. The setup isn't complicated, but it matters. Here's how I do it: 1/
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What I've been reading: a natural experiment to estimate the herpes #zoster vaccine's effect on dementia--did you know that the effect was predominantly observed in females? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 1/
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A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia
Neurotropic herpesviruses may be implicated in the development of dementia1–5. Moreover, vaccines may have important off-target immunological effects6–9. Here we aim to determine the effect of live-attenuated herpes zoster vaccination on the ...
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
There's something mesmerizing about watching an infant discover their smile. The way it floods the cheeks, squints the eyes, shakes down into the chest. They draw their gaze away--almost like it's too much--before turning back to do it all again. 1/
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The death of any child is tragic. We always think it will not be my child, they are healthy. Severe influenza can be unpredictable & deadly. Getting vaccinated considerably reduces dz severity and deaths. Please make sure you are vaccinated & your children are too. people.com/alabama-boy-...
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Boy, 11, Dies After Severe Case of the Flu: ‘Jace Never Even Got to Open His Christmas Gifts’
Jace Watkins, 11, of Alabama died on Dec. 27 after being hospitalized due to complications from the flu.
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
What I’m reading: a super cool real-time RWE EHR study by Truveta that assessed vaccination behavior during the recent Texas measles outbreak. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/
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Early MMR Vaccine Adoption During the 2025 Texas Measles Outbreak
This cross-sectional study examines early vaccination rates for measles in Texas following updated 2025 guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
What I'm Reading: Curiosity, a 1B-parameter model built on Epic Cosmos. It's genuinely interesting: zero-shot outputs rivaled supervised baselines across 78 real-world tasks, and the scaling laws (α=0.52) mirror NLP. Cool to see how information scales across domains. arxiv.org/abs/2508.12104 1/
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🧵How do you study 8 respiratory viruses across 265K (now 369K) patients across the US? We built computable phenotypes using #AllofUs EHR data - out now in Scientific Reports! 📊 Spoiler: performance varies wildly by pathogen 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41598-025-02183-9 #IDSky #EpiSky
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Computable phenotypes to identify respiratory viral infections in the All of Us research program - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Computable phenotypes to identify respiratory viral infections in the All of Us research program
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#VaccinesSaveLives
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Good people trying to do good work because they believe in the promise of science. This is a dark, difficulty day for the NIH. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 27/03/2025
THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11
Butterflies on a blue sky
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“It is a strength of the scientific enterprise that we have diverse ideas, identities, and approaches to communication...just as leaders deserve some leeway to decide when to speak out most effectively, they should support their constituencies by not trying to squelch or steer more strident voices.”
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Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🧵Censor, purge, defund - how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science & universities. This isn't chaos - it's deliberate & well-established methods. I've mapped 40 actions into 3 categories covering attacks on science, attacks on universities and international collaboration. 1/16
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A lot of people who got the measles as children died or suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. The measles vaccine was a godsend to worldwide public health, and it’s an absolute scandal that this lethally ignorant dolt has any power over public health.
Logarithmic chart showing the case and death rates for measles in the USA per 100,000 population. The chart maps dramatic near total declines in both over the last century.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Are we surprised? No. Horrifying? Yep. Dark Age 2.0. NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake wapo.st/3Dw7WG0
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NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake
The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The data shouts for itself. (Yes, data is plural, but it didn’t sound as good to me.)
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Disrupted “treatment and diagnosis during the Covid pandemic resulted in doctors seeing “more complicated” forms of TB, Ditiu said, including some with holes in their lungs. It was a pattern she expected to see repeated, particularly among the poor and vulnerable.” Chillingly bad US policy on this
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
2 deaths from measles w/ most “cases across [TX, NM] in people < 18 and people who are unvaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status.” This IS unusual #vaccinate #VaccinesSavesLives #IDSky #EpiSky apnews.com/article/measles-texas-new-mexico-deaths-mmr-vaccine-a1295c78fade561479da65d72d8a5774
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West Texas reports nearly 200 measles cases. New Mexico is up to 30
Health officials say West Texas now has almost 200 measles cases and New Mexico's case number has tripled to 30. The case counts were updated on Friday.
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines
Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them.
By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Great work, @standupforscience.bsky.social! It was so great to be in community with believers in the transformative power of science. #IDSky #ScienceSavesLives #SciencePowersEconomies
Man holding a sign protesting the dismantling of American science
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Incredible turnout at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally today! Science isn't political—it's what cures cancer, defeats pandemics, and reveals our universe's secrets. When politicians silence scientists, people die. Period. Share widely. Let science work!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Photo of the Lincoln memorial from the stand up for science rally
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This dork is reporting for duty! But you don’t have to be a dork to fear for what will happen if we gut universities, cancel grants, shutter graduate programs, and set back a generation of science. #IDSky #EpiSky #StandUpForScience
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Starting your own members-only journal without peer review surely isn’t the answer either.
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Stellar list of back-up resources if pubmed becomes unreliable
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A total sham and beyond cruel.
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#VaccinePreventableCancer The HPV vaccine is one of my favorite scientific successes of recent history. #IDSky
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Louder for people in the back
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Perfectly put.
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
All levels of American research.
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Robyn R. Sadoon, MPP, MPH @ralsadoon.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We cannot allow anyone to normalize disease outbreaks. #Measles and other preventable diseases expose failures in protection and education. Every preventable death is a failure that demands action, not indifference.
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is a brazen attack at all levels of America’s research engine. NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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2025 Study section tracking
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 26/02/2025
We have a government for a reason, and it turns out that when you start randomly pulling it apart because of your hatred of the public sector & love for tax cuts, we all suffer
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Might call that peer review
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Every patient with HIV I've met has already navigated tremendous adversity. They deserve access to lifesaving healthcare, not uncertainty in exchange for tax cuts. PS: Imagine where HIV care would be today without NIH research and funding… #IDSky #PublicHealth
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Click through the whole thread. Cuts to Medicaid would be devastating for our patients.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"It’s time for the American people, across the political spectrum, to recognize what is happening. America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledge that and respond." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...
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Opinion | America Has a Rogue President
The firing of three judge advocate generals is one more element of this administration’s attack on the rule of law.
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Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Infectious Disease Society of America issues a statement on the political interference with the CDC vaccine information and the advisory committee on immunisation www.idsociety.org/news--public...
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Statement on Removal of Vaccine Promotion and ACIP Meeting Postponement
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Not at all what genomics research needs right now. Are there other archived materials available in addition to the resultant manuscript?
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A tracker estimating deaths caused by the partial PEPFAR funding suspension: pepfar.impactcounter.com. Methodology here: pepfar.impactcounter.com/methodology.
Deaths from PEPFAR disruption
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WESA @wesa.fm · 21/02/2025
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
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The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Delta variant spread ⬇️ with: - vaccination - isolation measures The data keeps confirming what we know works. Funny how that happens... #IDSky #EpiSky #vaccinespreventinfections
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/02/2025
Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee. The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Pass it on. #vaccineswork
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
thing is, the notice was chock-full of weird errors, phrases, and content that anyone used to reading NIH notices would recognize as foreign
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Bennett Waxse @bwaxse.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“Federal investment in American research and open scientific dialogue have been the lifeblood of medical breakthroughs.” The integrity of American research depends on the free exchange of evidence-based findings. Censored science isn’t science.
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