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Usama Bilal

@usamabilal.bsky.social

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Social Epidemiologist and many more multitudes

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

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Jeff Weiner @jlweiner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The CSR comm I'm on just pulled all Diversity F grants from the current review cycle. These apps are reviewed alongside (and by the same criteria) as all other F grants. So, instead of helping these trainees, they will actually be punished by having their grant reviews delayed at least 1 cycle !?!?

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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In case the census API were to not work at some point, we have used findSVI to back up all potential combinations of the SVI for all census geographic units (e.g., census block groups, tracts, ZCTAs, CBSAs, etc.) for all available ACS years. You can find that here: zenodo.org/records/1481...

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CDC Social Vulnerability Index across time and space

Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) Multi-Geographic Level Dataset 2012-2021 Description This dataset provides a comprehensive compilation of Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) calculations across multiple...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Let's all say it out loud. These people are fascists & this is a fascist take-over of the United States. You can couch your words more carefully, but the speed and ferocity of what is happening now is part-and-parcel of a coup. The GOP in Congress has surrendered. The Dems are out of their depth. 1/

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Usama Bilal @usamabilal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

If you need access to the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, folks here had created the findSVI R package to reconstruct it using the Census API (which still works): cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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findSVI: Calculate Social Vulnerability Index for Communities

Developed by CDC/ATSDR (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) serves as a tool to assess the resilience of com...

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