Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 6hIn retrospect, a somewhat obvious thought. If generative AI makes us all say...10 times as productive, and it's so straightforward that we all should be using it... Doesn't that leave us in exactly the same place we were, just with a higher peer review burden? 120
Reposted by Eric LofgrenAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026Democrats defend "science," but what they really should be defending is "wissenschaft." No major social problems - from global warming to AI - can be solved without non-commercial research across multiple fields, including the social sciences and humanities. Really wish the party understood this. 513836
Reposted by Eric LofgrenTadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Systems Ecology, a new journal launched today, "run by researchers, for researchers, and is free to read and free to publish, with no article processing charges" systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...systems-ecology.org Systems Ecology 15727
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So ah...Elsevier's been hacked. This is what you get visiting their site - which I did trying to buy a textbook >.< Credit for the image is Reddit. 230
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I am disturbed, as both a lapsed Catholic and an avid Warhammer player, how often current events have caused me to unironically make the statement "I'm pretty sure that's heretical." 140
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I used to do more biodefense work than I do now. The whole AI-driven pathogen development fear is *not new*. There were worries about the development of synthetic viruses, etc. for bioterror back when I was in undergrad, that hit all the same notes. 161
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Working on a problem with using AI example for a class. Claude: "Good catch — Scandinavia never made it into the coastline data at all." Good news Sweden, Norway and Finland, the Promised Anthropic Apocalypse will not be coming for you. (Denmark and Iceland, sorry, it knows about you) 010
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026No context quotes from my household: "So I was sitting there wondering why my life is being consumed by mediocrity, and then I remembered I was in Qdoba." 030
Reposted by Eric LofgrenEd @notdred.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Also this oral history of the making of cutscenes is a fantastic read. Complete with unexpected appearance by @astrokatie.com and a side discussion of whether there’s capitalism in space?? Everything an oral history should be down to the fantastic kicker. 122054
Reposted by Eric LofgrenDarcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 27/08/2026I wrote “Codebreaker” as a commission from the West Point Jazz Knights. I thought long and hard about whether I would accept a commission from the U.S. Military Academy, and if so, what that piece would be. I settled on a musical tribute to Alan Turing. He was, and remains, my favorite antifascist. 14613
Reposted by Eric LofgrenThe Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The distinction is important and has been a know issue for years. “Measles” is rarely the cause recorded on an autopsy record or in household surveys; pneumonia or diarrhea (dehydration) at the more likely proximate causes due to secondary infection. 1316
Reposted by Eric LofgrenJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7253894611287
Reposted by Eric LofgrenLibrary of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️ 194335187164
Reposted by Eric LofgrenMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026RIP to a legend 9104631948
Reposted by Eric LofgrenBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This whole thread, but especially this part. "We're going to steal the intellectual property of your faculty, then demand those faculty find use cases for our lying theft machine." 11442152
Reposted by Eric LofgrenDaniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Reminder as fall semester is starting that teaching materials (including lectures + exercises etc.) for my textbook EPIDEMIOLOGY BY DESIGN are available FOR FREE at epidemiologybydesign.com as well as by request to me (including additional, non-public materials if you're a teacher!)epidemiologybydesign.comEpidemiology By Design 163
Reposted by Eric LofgrenJess Edwards @edwardsjk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I'm recruiting a postdoc to join a small and collaborative team at UNC focused on causal inference and measurement error in HIV research. Come work with us! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/324... #episkyunc.peopleadmin.comPostdoctoral Research AssociateThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Epidemiology is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate to contribute to projects related to quantitative epidemiologic methods and H... 087
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026In honor of the start of the year, reposting my assertion that this scene is the most accurate representation of pre-tenure faculty life that has ever been filmed.static.klipy.comThe Good Place Chidi AnagonyeALT: The Good Place Chidi Anagonye 020
Reposted by Eric LofgrenRose on Mars @rose.fantasyheartbreaker.com · 27/07/2026Insanity is writing the same regex twice and expecting the same results. 0162
Reposted by Eric LofgrenJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Alina Chan worked hard to remain ignorant of her fellow lab leakers. She knew she couldn’t defend their disinformation so she pretended it didn’t exist and refused to learn about it even though I handed it to her on a silver platter. Toxic apathy. 03811
Reposted by Eric LofgrenRobert Talisse @roberttalisse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Preparing my pep talk for the incoming grad students. (The joke is that the explanations will fail.) 2352
Reposted by Eric LofgrenEmjayess @em-jay-ess.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I knew I saved this for a reason! 419581
Reposted by Eric LofgrenWashington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 13/08/2026Spokane residents impacted by the wildfires can replace lost or destroyed birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates at no cost. Under the governor’s Emergency Proclamation, we can waive fees for replacement certificates for those affected by the fires. 23521
Reposted by Eric LofgrenKris 🎃 Lorischild @direkris.itch.io · 13/08/2026It's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains 3792336294
Reposted by Eric LofgrenSanta Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Applications for the 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are open! Katrin Schmelz just completed SFI’s Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she reflects on what the experience meant to her. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Requirements & application: santafe.edu/sfifellowship 02915
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Academic lies I tell myself: "This paper is like 400 words over the limit, but that'll be easy to cut." Reader, it is never easy. 070
Reposted by Eric LofgrenCaroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026GUYS. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgShattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder 49320
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The whole "We must work with MAHA" takes aged like Taylor Farms lettuce. 040
Reposted by Eric LofgrenMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I've met Dr Fauci and have two publications with him He has advised seven U.S. presidents across 50+ years of public service The man is a public health legend To see him being treated so badly is gutting 39819
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Any "If public health could only communicate better..." talk I go to from now on actively needs a section on robustness (or more accurately lack thereof) to bad actors in positions of power to have any credibility whatsoever. 140
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Somewhere there's an interesting study to be made of trends in propaganda and misinformation in Quora questions. 010
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In my opinion, the appeal of the lab leak hypothesis has always been that it makes the world deterministic, and moves the pandemic back into the realm of politics. Someone Bad did a Bad Thing and Needs to Be Punished. It is soothing in its righteousness. 160
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In retrospect, the weirdest part of turning 40 as a dude was suddenly possessing the ability to fall asleep in chairs with remarkable ease. 060
Reposted by Eric LofgrenJenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The fact that this image is not of Matt Damon but of his lil ripped lady stunt double is 🤌 041
Reposted by Eric LofgrenJackson O'Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands 4360732055
Reposted by Eric LofgrenSeth Trueger @mdaware.org · 18/07/2026youtube.comRogue One if it was a Vietnam MovieYouTube video by Kameron With a K 011
Reposted by Eric LofgrenCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing” 594396906
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026We talk about the productivity gains of genAI a lot. Has anyone estimated the aggregate time *lost* by everyone getting hit with "Are you a human" tests for literally every site they visit? 050
Reposted by Eric LofgrenMartin Modrák @modrakm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Just got my author copy of Bayesian workflow! Check out avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... if you want a copy, a discount code, get source code for our examples and stuff. 0376
Reposted by Eric LofgrenMichelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Tested hypothesis that LPAI H7 prev increases in wild brids prior to emergence of HPAI H7 + associated outbreaks in poultry. Here, no evidence for this, but relationship b/w puoltry outbreaks and rainfall. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 153
Reposted by Eric LofgrenAndrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 15/07/2026My investor told me he doesn't really see the moat in my plan. I explained that's the point. The glacis protects the base of the wall and obscures the ditch entirely. By the time the assault party reaches the counterscarp with fascines, they will be committed and under crossfire from grapeshot 343366
Reposted by Eric LofgrenAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 03/07/2026“Now we’ll see how professors fight” So much for the tolerant left 421819
Eric Lofgren @germsandnumbers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026static.klipy.comStar Trek PicardALT: Star Trek Picard 050
Reposted by Eric LofgrenAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Lee: “there was always a higher duty to Virginia” So that’s why your brother in law and two nephews remained loyal? 416511
Reposted by Eric LofgrenKathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 27/06/2026my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp 673818506
Reposted by Eric LofgrenUrsula Hofer @hoferu.bsky.social · 25/06/2026A one-stop dashboard for all your Ebola data needs -- well done Dav Ebengo and colleagues!thelancet.comReal-time epidemic intelligence in a public health emergency: the 2026 Bundibugyo virus outbreakThe Democratic Republic of the Congo is currently responding to its 17th recorded Ebola epidemic, declared on May 15, 2026.1 This is only the second outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus (Orthoebolaviru... 12410