@Microbiome all good here. Hope you’re well. But not much posting lately

Important reminder that quantifying prevalence of #AMR at population level does not predict well the risk of #antibiotic resistance at individual patient level
👏 @EliP
#IDMastodon #infectiousdiseases #microbiology
@infectiousdiseases @microbiology @MicrobioJC #PersonalizedMedicine #personalisedmedicine
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad467/7240295?searchresult=1

Scientists warn and protect us from disease outbreaks, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, heatwaves, and much more. Bullying them, doxxing them, and harassing them off social media and public platforms will put *everyone* at more risk no matter what your politics.

Here's the agenda #IDMastodon #ObGynodon & #Peds - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/index.html

If rising prices of housing is one of the last remaining drivers of #inflation in the US, increasing interest rates is the wrong solution. We need to build more affordable #housing

Reminder that Republicans have chosen to wage war on teachers and librarians. We need teachers and librarians. They are people who are always underpaid, working for our children and our culture. How can attacking teachers and librarians be a good political strategy? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/01/hernando-county-ron-desantis-book-bans-democratic-governors/

@mike_johansen you should email the authors and ask them this question. It’s pretty clear this is iteration #1. How many in their cohort fit that scenario?

@mike_johansen good control group, strong analytical approach and good attempt at an actual definition

Really important progress on long covid/PASC definitions from the NIH RECOVER cohort. 12 points from a combination of 12 symptoms. #JAMA #OpenAccess https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2805540

Great article on the failed “herd immunity” plan and an even better book by Jonathan Howard https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-05-23/column-these-experts-sold-the-u-s-on-a-disastrous-covid-plan-and-never-paid-a-professional-price

#RIP Andy Rourke #TheSmiths were my HS soundtrack https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65644596

This is the correct answer constitutionally, legally, and politically.

Numerous sources claim that TurnItIn has a generative AI detector with something like 98% sensitivity and 99% specificity.

For example, the Washington Post, below.

This is completely implausible given that OpenAI themselves only claim to be able to achieve 26% sensitivity and 91% specificity.

So where does this wild claim come from? I think I've figured it out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/01/chatgpt-cheating-detection-turnitin/

#LLM# #generativeAI #aiDetection #chatGPT#

Maybe it’s because I’m currently parenting a toddler but I strongly approve of calling the Rs bluff on the debt limit.

Threatening to ruin the credit of the country every year a D is in office to get your way is hostage taking. It’s threating to throw a tantrum if you don’t get your way. You just have to be an adult and say “no” to the toddler, tantrum be damned.

Morning visitor sang while I drank my coffee. #redstart

The federal government is weeks away from running out of cash because Republicans during the Trump Administration enacted massive deficits (tax cuts, airline bailouts, military expansion). Now Republicans are holding the global economy hostage by refusing to allow the government to borrow the money it needs to cover the budget deficits they enacted. (We're less than a year into post-Trump Democrat-led budgets by my count. The debt is, currently, not Democrats' doing.)

So that makes sense.

Illinois is about to become the first state to ban . . . book bans at public libraries and public school libraries.

https://bookriot.com/illinois-to-become-first-state-to-ban-book-bans/

#Books #Libraries

Mozilla joins the fediverse, and asserts that "moderation is the product".

https://www.theverge.com/23710406/mozilla-social-mastodon-fediverse-moderation

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.”

― E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful.

This study doesn't get cited much, but should as it's a great cohort study. One group of students wore FFP2 at school, one group didn't. Group wearing them had significant reduction in cases. Masks buy time to implement vent+filter+UV.
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/20/13511