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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Added some more improvements to BookPilot - you can run some of the key scripts (import csv, run the lookup, etc) from the webpage now. Plus, new features to make marking series as read and finding uncompleted series easier. bsky.app/profile/dana...

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Matthew Pfab @matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

If you have air conditioning or a box fan, use one of these enhanced filters with our #smoke coming in. Having some N95 respirator masks isn’t a bad idea too, if you’re sensitive or outdoors for long periods of time. #wawx #Seattle #Portland #orwx

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 18/06/2026

I have a $30 stationary bike that I got at Goodwill and I have an old Android tablet stuck to it, but I don't have a Peloton membership. Nor do I have the interest to ride 80 miles to the beach. So I made PedalScape.com It's a local PWA, no backend at all, no tracking, just 4k bike rides.

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PedalScape

Any bike. Any screen. Beautiful rides from home.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

(Note that this isn’t telling anyone what to do, but sharing some of my thought processes and how they’ve clarified after reading the new gluten-exposure study. (Primarily it helps me articulate why quantity of food going up matters and gives a numeric framework for it).)

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There’s a new good study on what dose of gluten exposure triggers an immune response in people with celiac. I wrote about that and how it helps me refine my ‘algorithm’ for deciding what to eat as a person with celiac: diyps.org/2026/06/04/a...

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A heuristic approach to deciding what is safe to eat with celiac disease

When you’re diagnosed with celiac disease, it is nice in the sense that you have a known issue (consuming gluten causes an autoimmune reaction and damage to your body) and that the solution is known: ...

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Washington State Department of Ecology @ecology.wa.gov · 03/06/2026

We heard the internet loves fan edits. Did we do it right? 🔥 It's important to be #SmokeReady during wildfire season, and making a clean air fan is a cheap and easy way to keep your indoor air clean. All you need is a box fan, furnace filter, and bungee cord!

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

8/ If you have been a part of a clinical trial; considered joining one (but didn’t); or left a clinical trial, you have perspective that we need to hear on these topics. Please consider participating in the upcoming CTTI Patient Summit on April 28, 2026, 10am-noon PT / 1-3pm ET.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

7/ We don’t have to always have consensus on all of these topics. We can have layered approaches that support all of this, but to do so, we need clarity on where these perspectives overlap/not.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

6/ There is not one universal answer or perspective on this, though. Which we know! But what we don’t discuss - and use to move forward - is that tech now enables us to accommodate BOTH sides of this preference spectrum for clinical trials.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

5/ The discussion about “harm” should not solely be ‘additive’ harm, but also take into consideration the flip side: harm from under-sharing, under-preserving, or under-reusing data that already exists or is easy to collect.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

4/ This is why the conversation about data re-use in clinical trials is also important to have in tandem. If data collected in and around trials is never made available to inform future learning, then we keep narrowing what can be known.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

3/ …These questions point back to the underlying data ecosystem. AI does not invent those gaps out of nowhere. It inherits them. (Humans have the same inheritance.)

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

2/ AI use raises a lot of questions. What is it trained on? Whose experiences are represented? What is missing? What biases are embedded in the evidence it draws from? Those are important questions. But…

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

1/ What if the topic of AI use in clinical trials, and data re-use beyond the initial clinical trial, are two parts of the same conversation? (Spoiler: they are!) But I don’t see either talked about enough, which is why I appreciate @ctti-trials.bsky.social hosting a summit to discuss these:

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Using a password manager really helps for this! (And as you save each one, editing the name so you can at a glance see the journal name first and not have to guess the 4 letter acronym at the end of the url 🤣)

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Project Hail Mary for those who haven’t read it yet (or listened to it: fabulous as an audiobook!)

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Researcher here who gets VERY excited when people email for paper access! Also, authors can usually post author copies to their own sites (even if journal site is paywalled!). I do - you’ll find links to all mine via DIYPS.org/research But you can also always email 🥰

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DIYPS.org

#WeAreNotWaiting to make the world a better place

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

PERT Pilot (iOS) update! It, too, now has the recipe builder feature and you can now send - or receive! - meals and recipes from either PERT Pilot and Carb Pilot. 🎉 PERT Pilot is designed for tracking pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy, for those of us with EPI (PEI).

Screenshot of PERT Pilot in the iOS App Store. It’s on the what’s new section highlighting the new recipe builder feature in the latest version, released tonight.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

….coming shortly will be interoperability between PERT Pilot and Carb Pilot (on iOS)! This means you can share a recipe or meal between users, whether PERT Pilot to Carb Pilot, or between two Carb Pilot users (even if you track different things!).

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Just pushed a new version of Carb Pilot 🎉 with a new feature: a recipe builder (which gives you the ability to adjust your estimates by each ingredient, plus designate portion sizes). Would love feedback if you try it out! (And share any other feature requests). Plus… 👇🏼

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Meta-thoughts about software-shaped feelings after solving for last week’s software-shaped feeling: diyps.org/2026/02/09/s...

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Along those lines, here’s another @scottleibrand.bsky.social & I have been using, BaselinePilot, which provides a (much) quicker and reliable way to glance at key vital biometric data (HR, HRV, RR, etc) + shows variability from *your* baseline (based on SD). Details: diyps.org/2026/01/22/b...

Example screenshots from BaselinePilot which pulls in relevant data like heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, and wrist temp (or any combination of those that you have) out of HealthKit and also calculates how far off your baseline it is so you have a more proactive view toward meaningful changes. You can also share it with a partner (and hide/remove that anytime you don’t want to see someone else’s if you choose to sync their data when it’s shared with you).

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Trying to increase my cycle of doing/building and sharing it out, even if it’s not “done” or perfect to my standards. Not every custom software I like needs to be used by someone else, but it’s worth sharing in case there is a(nother) need for it. It might spur other ideas or others to build, too!

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Awesome! Post here describing the current functionality and original use case I was solving for. I’ll get it up into GitHub soon! bsky.app/profile/dana...

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

(Based on a few comments yesterday it sounds like there is interest from others so I plan to open source it so other folks can pick it up and tweak it to suit their use cases, too!)

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The intersection between “what should I read next?” and being someone who reads a lot means it would be nice to have something to recommend new books that takes into account what I have already read. …and now I have that! I called it “BookPilot”: diyps.org/2026/01/18/b...

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BookPilot: What Should I Read Next?

Book hangovers are the worst. By book hangover, I mean that feeling you get at the end of a book when you come up for air and don’t know what you’re going to read next. In general, or because you have...

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Awesome! I’m writing a post about it and will share that shortly - if it sounds like something you’d grab and use I’ll open source it! Would love for other folks to benefit 🙌🏻 and tweak to suit their setups

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

(Agree generally that LLMs are great recommenders across ideas, authors, genres! Gets obnoxious though to filter out “I already ready 6/10 of those”, though, which is why I started pulling in the already read list!)

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I built a tool to pull in Libby (library) book data & check for books I haven’t read by authors I have read > spot new books in series / new by authors I already know I like. Plan to add additional recommendation features for new authors, too. Nice if you have source of “already read” data!

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

A lot of these say something similar, eg the first visit is digital and “unsupervised”. This isn’t novel to AI or even the last 10 years. This is a 20+ years old experience. The thing that has slightly changed is scale (more ppl) due to improvements in accessibility and awareness due to tech.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

‘Tis the season…don’t forget you can consider situational masking, even if you don’t choose to mask in everyday life / lower risk situations. Planes, trains, shared automobiles, conferences and conference rooms… 👇🏼 here’s some data for informed choices: diyps.org/2023/06/07/a...

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Air Quality, CO2 monitoring, and Situational Masking

I do a lot of things most people don’t want to do themselves - and I get that. (For example, recording macronutrients while running? Running for up to 16 or 25 hours? Let alone other choices like buil...

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Obviously outdated references. Ex: claiming no/little evidence on topic Z, 2014 citation for that…but a quick search reveals a lot of new studies in last decade. (Sometimes an artifact of having published before those studies were done but authors aren’t updating their knowledge base & it shows).

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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Air Quality, CO2 monitoring, and Situational Masking

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

3. If you haven't got a #flu shot yet, now's the time. You may have heard that there's likely a mismatch this year — the #H3N2 virus mutated after the vaccine strains were picked. More on that in a bit. But that's not a reason to skip getting a shot this year. www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/f...

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Is a bad flu season on the way? Experts see reason to be anxious

There are early indications that this flu season could be a bad one.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/11/2025

Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

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Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Waiting for the day someone presents this type of stat juxtaposed against how often healthcare providers give misdirected or mistargeted information.

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James Fraser @fraserlab.com · 08/09/2025

If we want preprints to really catalyze faster, more open science, then leading infrastructure needs to reduce this friction. Authors should know when feedback exists — otherwise we’re shouting into the void.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

If the smoke in the air is bothering you: Reminder that an n95 mask can help (and you can wear one outside to reduce exposure). For inside, if you don’t have an air purifier, a furnace filter taped onto a box fan can help clean your indoor air.

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Joe Boomgard-Zagrodnik @joeboomzag.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Given the current wildfire growth across the PNW and the forecast winds over the next week, we could see a situation where smoke becomes persistent across much of the PNW by next week. Time to get those air filters / N95s / etc if you haven't already.

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California Department of Public Health @capublichealth.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Traveling soon? Stay protected during the COVID-19 surge by wearing a high-quality mask in crowded or indoor spaces like an N95, KN95 or KF94. Learn more: www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID...

Person wearing a mask sitting by an airplane window, using a smartphone, under a notice from CDPH recommending masks to reduce respiratory virus risk.

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

If you are accommodating someone with dietary restrictions, please refrain from having feelings about whether/how much they eat. "I got them this special thing, why didn't they eat as much as I want them to?" Could be they're full, they don't like that food, they decided it's not actually safe.

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