Brief COVID update When speaking with NPR last week, I said the plateauing of hospitalizations for 3 weeks made me feel like a downturn was coming. In FL, the data are suggestive of improvements in the # of people being hospitalized w/ COVID. 1/

Dear federal grant auditors: I spend my time exactly as apportioned. Exactly. Without deviation. The most accurate pie chart ever created.

You clearly have too many parameters in your model. The algorithm will not converge. #Saturated #epitwitter

As someone who was in 1st grade in 1983, 💯% truth.

“I am pleased to inform you that you are being promoted to the rank of professor…” Well, that’s pretty darn cool...and a nice way to commemorate the upcoming 10-year anniversary since I earned my PhD. I really love what I get the opportunity to do each and every day. ❤️🤘

This week, I got to represent the USF Public Health and USF Health and throw out the first pitch at the USF Baseball game. Not too bad for a near 47-year-old arm that hadn't thrown a baseball in years. I love the community at University of South Florida and feel blessed to be there! GO BULLS!

We're thrilled to welcome Dr. Sten Vermund as the new dean of @USFCOPH starting Jan. 2025! With decades of expertise in infectious disease epidemiology, leadership at Yale, and as president of Global Virus Network, he's set to advance our public health impact. bit.ly/USFH-COPHDean

A very kind new student of mine found out it was my bday today from LinkedIn and joined a teams call w a happy birthday background. Of course then they proceeded to ruin it by saying they thought it was cool that they were two years old when I started as a graduate student.

Haven't been on this thing in a while. Thank you for well wishes. We're blessed to be good so far. A mild breeze 😉

OMG. We all had a collected gasp when we saw this from our reporter. The fabric on the roof of Tropicana Field is shredded. #StPete #Milton

Yeah, #Milton needs to find something better to do. I just cannot imagine. We're only seeing Cat 1 winds. Praying for everyone! #TampaStrong

This morning, University of South Florida was honored to host Gregory R. Hancock, Professor, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, and quantitudethepodcast rockstar, for an incredibly insightful and practical research talk on power analysis. What a treat!

Jason Salemi (Jason L. Salemi, PhD, FACE) just shared with us this interesting Shiny App that allows you to explore the models of the Crash Course in Good and Bad controls! (Links in the next tweet)