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Federico Andrade-Rivas

@federicoandrade.bsky.social
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🇨🇴 in 🇨🇦 Assistant Professor Global Public Health, Geography, CU-Boulder |Planetary health, human ecology, health geography, epidemiology| Engineer+Anthropologist Uniandes 🇨🇴 | MPH UCT 🇿🇦| PhD UBC + Postdoc UVic 🇨🇦| federicoandrade.github.io

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/08/2026
1. Recently I’ve received lots of emails from people I don’t know personally, asking for my feedback on their books or papers. They explain the connection between my work and theirs and ask me to take a look. The catch, of course, is that the emails are transparently, obviously, written by AI.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The National Science Foundation’s entire budget is $10 billion.
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Dear funding agencies, I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development. Sincerely, Looking for basic research grants.
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Federico Andrade-Rivas @federicoandrade.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Are you passionate about solutions-based research to help address planetary health challenges? The Planetary GeoHealth Lab may be the right place for you! Looking for 1-2 graduate students Interested? Please fill out this form: federicoandrade.github.io
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Scott Lear, PhD @drscottlear.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Work less, be more productive? Study in 6 countries found 4-day work week led to: ⬆️wellbeing ⬇️burnout ⬆️job satisfaction Likely due to better sleep, improved work ability & less fatigue. This was compared to companies that stayed with 5-day work week. #publichealth www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Federico Andrade-Rivas @federicoandrade.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Diane Langberg, PhD @dianelangberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It is never helpful to remind one grieving of what they have not lost or of the fact that it could have been worse. We do not grieve what we have but what we do not have. We compare our loss to the good we had, not to the bad that never happened. The empty space is that — empty.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Once again, to inject some research into this conversation...although millionaires often threaten to move if taxed, that tends not to actually happen. The millionaire tax flight thing is a myth. See book below ⤵️ www.sup.org/books/sociol...
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The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight | Stanford University Press
In this age of globalization, many countries and U.S. states are worried about the tax flight of the rich. As income inequality grows and U.S. states consider raising taxes on their wealthiest residen...
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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
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N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Advice to incoming interns:
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 26/06/2025
Congratulations, the universe sent you this dog because you have been chosen. Joy awaits. 13/10
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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It’s weather like this when you really start to realize how many streets have zero trees. ☀️🥵 More funding for more trees! 🌳
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I challenge Sam Altman to climb K2 using an AI route shortener
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
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There Were Still Old People When Life Expectancy Was 35.
A demography myth that won't die
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/06/2025
The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🔴The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent” bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
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The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Another excellent piece from a demographer, this time Stuart Gietel-Basten, on how "pronatalism is a dead end" "Without addressing the root causes of low fertility—inequality, instability, and the incompatibility of work and family life—top-down efforts to “encourage” childbearing will fail"
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The politics of pronatalism and the two-child benefit cap - British Politics and Policy at LSE
Nigel Farage supports the scraping the two-child benefit cap as a way of encouraging people to have more children. But pronatalist policies that offer a one-off "baby bonus" are not effective.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/06/2025
Ok, time for a short thread about this paper. My sense over the past six months or so is that chain-of-thought prompting as used in e.g. ChatGPT o.3 improves substantially upon previous systems such as ChatGPT 4.o, at least for certain tasks. But how revolutionary is it?
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Here's a baby otter to start your week.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/06/2025
Tips For First-Time Hikers theonion.com/tips-fo...
Tips For First-Time Hikers

Don’t hike with anyone you’re not willing to eat.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/06/2025
I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.
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Dr. Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareemcarr.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The AI industry is full of blatant lies, but the claim that we can reliably detect AI-generated writing is one of the worst. The idea that these pseudoscientific AI writing detectors are being used to justify punishing young people makes me incandescent with rage.
Tweet from Elliot Rockart: I hate Ai so much. I spent five hours on a lab report. No outside help, didn't even use google. It wasn't even graded because turnitin software said it was "80% Ai". What the fuck does that mean and how do I appeal it?? I have literally never used Ai???
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Kimberly Nicholas @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Gorgeous, devastating writing by @tessairini.bsky.social telling the story of one of my grad school heroes, Daniel Janzen, witness the disappearance of life he's spent his career studying.
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Margot Smit @likeyoda1.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We're looking for a new PhD candidate to join the lab. Please share 🌱😄
A PhD position (initially 3 years) is available in our laboratory in the Center for Plant Molecular Biology (ZMBP), at the University of Tübingen (Germany). The position is available with an intended start date starting January 2026.
Interested applicants should submit a single PDF comprising a motivation letter describing your research interests, an up-to-date CV, and the names and contact information for 2 references to timing.lab@zmbp.uni-tuebingen.de ideally before July 21st.
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.
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Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Just sharing that this would make an amazing film and we need ⁦‪Taika Waititi‬⁩ to do it. The bizarre story of when Australia went to war with emus—and lost
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The bizarre story of when Australia went to war with emus—and lost
A military campaign meant to rid Western Australia of crop-destroying emus ended in failure. But the surreal showdown highlighted the birds’ critical role in the country’s ecosystem and cultural ident...
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Carl Sagan speaking at MIT in 1987 on lowering our C02 emissions. Apply these words to any technological problem our world faces today and it holds up.
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UBC SPPGA @sppga.ubc.ca · 23/05/2025
Hats off to the MPPGA Class of 2025! 🎓"The problems are big but so are our learnings, so is our hope, and so is our responsibility.” #UBCGrad sppga.ubc.ca/news/hats-off-to-the-m…
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Hard work. Friday. Good morning Blue Sky
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/05/2025
“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 20/05/2025
Ran into this beauty while out for a walk in the woods today. #wildlife #birds #owls
A Great Horned Ow, with yellow eyes, sits on a tree branch, close to the trunk of a tree.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
lol
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NPR @npr.org · 19/05/2025
The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.
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How to get to Sesame Street? Kids can now head to Netflix as well as PBS
The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.
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Federico Andrade-Rivas @federicoandrade.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
U.S. NEWS
Ohio police find raccoon holding meth pipe during traffic stop
When an officer took the pipe away, the raccoon pulled out another.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 08/05/2025
Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A graphic for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie Skłodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – €404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchers”
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thelxr @thelxr.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Only important news. (Rat)
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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Which academic communities have a good record of sharing domain-specific open source tools? Bioinformatics and geospatial analysis comes to mind. I am trying to think about if they are examples to follow or if there is some difference in the domain (to Infectious disease modelling).
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I made this video about Black Mirror and ChatGPT before the LAST season of Black Mirror, but I think all of this still holds and is a good reminder. :)
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I would love to never see the phrase "little is known about" in a paper ever again. (1) Most of the time the authors are far more confident about that statement than they should be. (2) There are lots of things we know little about because no one cares. Just not knowing isn't a good motivation.
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Federico Andrade-Rivas @federicoandrade.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
My daily reminder to just be present and enjoy myself
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ISEE Env Epi - Global @isee-global.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🌍📢 Exciting news! The ISEE Communications Committee is re-launching its support program to cover publication costs for early-stage investigators from LMICs publishing in Environmental Epidemiology. Apply before submission! 💡📝 🔗 To find out more: iseepi.org/news_manager...
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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 25/04/2025
If you know me, you know I am obsessed with building dashboards. 😅 Well, I am excited to share that @ernesto-deleon.com, Max Paulus, & I were awarded a small grant to build an #rstats package to make them accessible to other researchers. And we’re hiring a Research Assistant to help us do that!
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Andres Gonzalez @andresanalytics.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#TidyTuesday Week 15, 2025 - Base R Penguins 📊 A gender-based comparison of penguin body mass across species with median highlights, using Antarctic island data (2007–2009). 🔗: andresgonzalezstats.com/visualizatio... #DataViz #Rstats #ggplot2
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Peder B @braadland.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#30daychartchallenge 📊 Day 15 Complicated. Using simulations to plot and "prove" the surprising birthday paradox in #rstats #ggplot2. Why surprising? You only need to gather *23* random people for P(two or more shared birthdays) to exceed 50%! peder.quarto.pub/blog/posts/a...
Shows the association between number of (random) people in a room and the probability that two or more of them share the same birthday. The data were generated using simulations in R. Each dot represents the probability of two or more people having the same birthday in rooms with various number of people. The probabilities were calculated as the fraction of simulated cases where two or more people shared a birthday. The simulation was repeated 10 times for each room size, giving the distribution of probabilities. The birthday paradox is that only 23 people are needed for the probability of two or more of them sharing a birthday to exceed 50%!
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Harry T @turnerhaa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This week's #TidyTuesday looking at data on timely and effective care by US state 📊 % healthcare workers vaccinated against flu 🗃️ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services #DataViz #Rstats #ggplot2 #r4ds
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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We're hiring! Come work at UIUC! Assistant Professor in Molecular Epidemiology Tenure-track, 9 month position Closing date March 21 illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant Professor in Molecular Epidemiology
Duties & Responsibilities
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