Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Clinic on Dynamical Approaches to Infectious Disease Data (DAIDD): 29 Nov–5 Dec. Nairobi, Kenya Run by us, the International Clinics on Infectious Disease Dynamics and Data (ICI3D) A great opportunity to meet people fighting infectious disease and to learn about dynamical modeling. 172
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Every Fibonacci number is the difference for a sequence of length six that contains: * three other Fibonacci numbers * the negative of yet another Fibonacci number * a Lucas number * the negative of a Lucas number. 130
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I know it sounds insane, but I really believe we've invented the best Go variant. xGo has Go-like play, a global win criterion (no counting) and is elegantly balanced by the pie rule -- accomplishing the goals of Gonnect more beautifully. IMHO. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:He...commons.wikimedia.org 120
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.data4democracy.substack.comHook and SqueezeHow Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations. 17745321584
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 15/08/2026xkcd.com/3285/ @xkcd.com reminds me so much of the final scene of Total Recall -- people solving an urgent problem with a geologic-scale process.xkcd.com 040
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think this is pretty remarkable, but it's a bit of a story. 140
Reposted by Jonathan Dushoff Minor Leaguer @minorleaguer.ca · 23/07/2026Brendon Little honours a great Blue Jays season with his ERA 3408
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/07/2026It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts... 5447052041
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This is the best opening paragraph in history. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comPunctuation: A Generational DivideCan parents ever learn to text like their kids? Should they even try? 062
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026A timely puzzle: four teams enter a tournament structured like the World Cup Final Four (there is a bracket, the two first-game winners play for first and the other two teams play for third). What is the probability that the second-best team will take second place? ... 140
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffDr. Rowan Durrant @rowandurrant.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Now out in Virus Evolution! CpG content is higher in carnivore-associated rabies virus clades than in bat-associated clades. Coauthors on here: @jdushoff.bsky.social @matt-arnold-bio.bsky.social @khampson.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comValidate User 052
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/06/2026This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...404media.coA Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center InsteadIn 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas town to use as a park. The town sold to a data center developer for $10 million. 25466072968
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Led by @rowandurrant.bsky.social, we're trying to develop rules of thumb to estimate under-reporting from sequence data. Today rabies, tomorrow the world! With @khampson.bsky.social, @kirstynbrunker.bsky.social and others. 1103
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The parable of the polygons is a super-cool way of thinking about pedagogy, a super-cool way of thinking about the usefulness of dynamical modeling, and a super-cool way of thinking about how our world became so polarized (maybe even a thought about how to address that): ncase.me/polygons/ncase.meParable of the PolygonsA playable post on how harmless choices can make a harmful world. 1112
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The Callais ruling is the latest evidence that the real problem with #SCOTUS is that it can do whatever it wants without any fear of pushback from Congress. The way to fix that is by making the Court *accountable* again, something that expanding it or imposing term limits won't actually accomplish:stevevladeck.comBonus 223: "They Are Who We Thought They Were"The Callais ruling has prompted renewed calls for Court reform. It's also a reminder of why the most popular proposals *aren't* how we should fix the Court. 831393378
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffAndrei R. Akhmetzhanov (吳亞克) @aakhmetz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026In our recent EID letter: Serial Interval and Intervention Efficiency in Pertussis Outbreak, South Korea, 2024, we re-analyzed Cho et al.'s outbreak data to recover the unmitigated serial interval — what would be expected without case isolation. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... @jdushoff.bsky.social 131
Reposted by Jonathan Dushofflauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/04/2026you are creating a culture of violence against us by accurately reporting on the culture of violence we're gleefully inflicting on others 274272792
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Liverpool FC is not mathematically out of the EPL title race! They've been on the knife's edge since last week, but still survive. (1/3) 110
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/04/2026Priceless post from the official White House social media 229100492730
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 13/04/2026What do British people even think "clear" means? For that matter, what do they think "ahead" means, if anything? If the other team has two games in hand, you're not 9 points "clear" -- you're merely 9 points ahead-for-now. More like 3 points clear. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. 021
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one! 4145681293
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 04/04/2026A student told me the other day that I reminded him of Phil Jackson. He knows about Phil Jackson from The Last Dance, so maybe Jackson reminded him of me. In any case, other than tall, old, white guy, I'm really not seeing it. 020
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026My whole family is Eastern European Jews. We got out decades before the Holocaust, but there's still a connection. 1/3 110
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Protip: If you're wearing a golden noose on your lapel, you're not one of the good guys. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...cbc.caIsraeli parliament approves the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis | CBC NewsThe bill's passage marked the culmination of a years-long push by Israel's far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis. 210
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Remember this when the Supreme Court rules against Trump on this one: they've done a lot on the way that will make things worse in the future. When right-wingers rage about the decision, it will be in part to cover that up. Poopoopoo 110
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Not sure I've ever seen anything like this: a predicted 10°C increase in three hours – after dark! Curious to see if this will happen in reality. 100
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 01/04/2026When you laugh, you make a "la" 🎶 out of "ugh" 😒 030
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I like it when people handwrite "Out of courtesy to others" on signs, because I can choose to read it to myself as "out of courtesy to otters". 141
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026This legislation is disgusting on many levels. The Analysis link is also worth reading. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...cbc.caIsraeli parliament approves the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis | CBC NewsThe bill's passage marked the culmination of a years-long push by Israel's far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis. 100
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 30/03/2026This article from @uk.theconversation.com makes some interesting points, but I find the statistical philosophy horrifying. theconversation.com/truth-or-mis....theconversation.comTruth, or misinformation? A statistician explains the challenge of assessing evidenceThe word misinformation is loaded, and overused. The difficulty of assessing evidence is partly to blame. 110
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Just look at the difference 834274
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 09/02/2026When I woke up this morning the centigrade temperature was three times the fahrenheit temperature. But by 9 AM it was already 10 times the fahrenheit temperature and the ratio was climbing at a dizzying rate! 250
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026In a long-form piece, I address recent claims by the Editor-in-Chief of @science.org that "quiet" insiders rather than "heated" activists should be credited for passage of top-line budget numbers for science and medical research. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/science-ad...joshuasweitz.substack.comScience Advocacy: The Risks of Playing the Long Game vs. Playing the Game For Too LongReflecting on the establishment view of recent ‘wins’ for research and what real winning looks like when public-facing advocacy is credited and included in broader coalitions. 23012
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Accounting for heterogeneity among hosts, even if done very simply, can have dramatic effects on models' ability to parse out patterns. 030
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Why indeed? Because it's exactly what you would expect. The shots are excellent -- and led to "measles-elimination status". But they're not perfect. 020
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Measles is spreading. The number of cases in vaccinated people will continue to go up (although not as fast as the number in unvaccinated people). These "breakthrough" cases will be used for #antivax propaganda. Public health needs to be ready. 010
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I need somehow to recast how I think about the US Executive branch: I have to stop being horrified that they cross this line or that line and just accept that they are the enemy, and that nothing is holding them back except public opinion -- no law, no morality www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...stevevladeck.com205. Chief Judge Schiltz and the Department of JusticeEvery federal judge (and justice) should read the two letters from Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz in the church protest case—and what they tell us about the Department of Justice's litigation behavior. 200
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 25/01/2026This post about violence and norms www.popehat.com/p/we-should-... from @kenwhite.bsky.social is both perceptive and bold.popehat.comWe Should Talk About The Morality of Political ViolenceWhat Are The Best Moral Arguments Against It? 100
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Any continuous function that is both non-increasing and non-decreasing attains its global maximum at exp(τ), and its global minimum at -exp(-τ)!, where τ≈6.283 is the circle constant. You can read actually interesting perspectives on τ at www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto.tauday.comNo, really, pi is wrong: The Tau ManifestoFor millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant π captured the geometry of the circle in a single number. But π is wrong, and it’s time to set things ... 020
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I know it's everything all the time these days, but this feels like a big deal: Until now, [the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press] said, the Justice Department had “never executed a search warrant at the home of a reporter in a national security leak case.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/m...cnn.com‘Tip of the iceberg’: The FBI search of a reporter’s home has newsrooms bracing for more | CNN BusinessInside The Washington Post, the impact was immediate. Reporters called the search “incredibly disturbing.” Hannah Natanson, whose home was raided, urged her Post colleagues to keep reporting. 120
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffDr. Rowan Durrant @rowandurrant.bsky.social · 13/01/2026New preprint! We had a look at the codon and dinucleotide usage of rabies clades that circulate in specific host species, and found some interesting differences, particularly between carnivore- and bat-associated clades 👀 Coauthors on bluesky: @jdushoff.bsky.social @matt-arnold-bio.bsky.socialbiorxiv.orgDifferences in codon usage between host-species-specific rabies virus clades are driven by UpA and purine contentViral genes sometimes use certain codons more than others due to their nucleotide content, translational efficiency, and selection pressure from the host immune system. The rabies virus (RABV) is a ne... 153
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers? Stephan Peischl's group is running an ethics-approved study. Learn more at: peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html Contact ana-hermina.ghenu@unibe.ch to receive the survey link. @spei.bsky.socialpeischllab.github.ioMEEW 040
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffFederal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...youtube.comStatement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. PowellYouTube video by Federal Reserve 1134238259100
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Some nice press coverage from our #DavidEarn-led article on CANDID (Canadian Notifiable Disease Incidence Dataset) archive.ph/jRBfz See also journals.plos.org/globalpublic... bsky.app/profile/jdus... @davidearn.bsky.social @cfts.bsky.socialarchive.ph 083
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffJake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part. 3033911355
Reposted by Jonathan DushoffJoshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Many thanks to cofounder @asinclair.bsky.social & the entire SCIMaP team (scienceimpacts.org) for collaborative work to confront federal cuts to science and medical research; together, our effort was recognized as a 2025 Public Health Hero in @thenation.com. a 🧵 www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comThe Public Health Heroes of 2025The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight. 14819
Jonathan Dushoff @jdushoff.bsky.social · 18/12/2025This is a really cool project, I was lucky to have the opportunity to participate. news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-res...news.mcmaster.caMcMaster research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease dataThe new, publicly accessible database contains more than a million infectious disease incidence counts dating back to 1903. 44214