Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 07/10/2026well the easiest way would be go to one of their holiday community service events, which are sorta outgroup friendly by design (eg less pushy proselytizing). Otherwise ask around.. find one and you will find them all 020
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yeah that pipeline will prob also offer basic instrument lessons, that’s another secret Mormon perk 010
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Pro tip: make friends w/ Mormons, they will know a lot of sitters 120
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This crap is not that different from patent medicine like snake oil liniment 000
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the playbook hasn’t changed: co-opt democratic values, point out failings in orthodox med, create marketable products w/ a simple story 100
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In all seriousness, im reading starr’s book on history of American medicine and it is a good primer for answering “why Russell?” or “why rfk?” 100
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 26/09/2026lay medicine as an entertainment product is the most American thing I can think of 😂 120
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I like that AI has associated both togas and white tank tops with italy 000
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 17/09/2026his feature in the handsome boys album “So…How’s Your Girl” is so legit 120
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Is this phenomena also true for suicide? If not, maybe just different medical practices 000
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 16/09/2026They need some studies w instrumental variables - I feel like phone use effects are confounded by related variables (do you get sleep, do you have friends) 130
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026people should be more worried about cattle farms than AI synthetic biology 031
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 20/07/2026i looked at the fda assay for cyclospora - it does in fact prescribe triplicate & NTC. I think they announced bc the initial qpcr results were promising, but still sent the sample off for sequencing to check 030
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 20/07/2026my hunch on this is that they had a presumptive positive result that was later verified to be contamination via sequencing. the assay uses a synthetic positive control. only way to know for sure is if they elaborate in a follow up i guess. 010
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 20/07/2026my educated guess is they had a synthetic positive control contamination, which they later identified via sequencing (hence the delay) 130
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 20/07/2026follow up - i looked at the fda assay for cyclospora. it uses a synthetic positive control, which in their words "allows sequence verification". my guess is they had a presumptive positive which was later identified to just be contamination via sequencing 0160
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 20/07/2026parasites are hard to culture, so you rely on targeted amplification (PCR) to deal with the low starting material. this sensitivity comes with a price (false positives) 1220
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 15/07/2026& these will be individual samples, not pooled wastewater 050
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 15/07/2026yes, my estimate shows an increase in dna sequencing runs for campylobacter, vibrio & yersinia. I wouldn't attribute it to lapses in public health funding necessarily. that scenario would cause more pathogens, not more pathogen surveillance data 180
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 15/07/2026SRA is publicly accessible. I queried it to see if pulsenet records for the listed pathogens has gone down in 2025/2026. I don't see a decrease 1150
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 15/07/2026sure thing! pulse net is a network of ~80 public health labs all over the US. they collect samples, and submit DNA sequencing data to the sequence read archive (SRA) at the nih 2190
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 15/07/2026this is my line of work - keep in mind the usa also has pulsenet. bc im insane, i pinged the SRA cloud bucket to see if these pathogen seqs were still being surveilled. don't see any drop-off over the past 3 years 1310
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 13/04/2026one day McD's will sell "doordash degenerate value meal" with built-in air fryer-ready oil/texture technology. 020
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 17/03/2026growing up lds, i can promise that wishy washy ecumenism is way better than the alternative! internal consistency & loyalty has pointless costs! 080
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 12/03/2026and, most importantly, very little time to do a lot of necessary busy work 000
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 11/03/2026www.youtube.com/live/jTJG4GF... heres the one I saw, although there are many othersyoutube.comMyth Busting Science Lecture Series - Mike Worobey: Origins of the Covid-19 PandemicYouTube video by UAZScience 110
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 11/03/2026when i got this email my 1st thought was "ive already seen a great talk by worobey fairly addressing this question!" 220
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 10/03/2026his show was a maga laundry machine from 2015-2025, i dont think its that surprising. all they heard were the "secrets" from contrarian renegades 000
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I was like this as a kid for a while - what helped me was gently walking through the "bad outcome" to understand it wasn't the end of the world. I *think* anxiety therapy takes this approach. Best of luck to them! 020
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 04/03/2026my demand for chart nonsense is higher now that its price has fallen 010
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 04/03/2026You can’t have any AI drones until you finish your missles 090
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Does this use breadcrumbs or sawdust, I would not be surprised if the latter 010
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Out of curiosity, I asked claude code to parse a study w/ the consort checklist. it did decently well! I'd love to see a paper comparing the accuracy of a purely LLM systematic review vs human review 020
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 19/02/2026americans are suckers for fat, sugar, and fancy words. at least they carmelize better 000
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 17/02/2026more importantly, why did they edit this with windows movie maker 020
Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I would not be surprised if he thinks polyester seeps into your thighs and lowers your testosterone 000
