OK Zoomer.

“Working from home” is starting to feel like “living at work”!

All models are wrong, but some are dangerous.

Attention all scientists: I declare next week "Zoom Call Halloween". show up to all zoom meetings in costume. please RT

The US has spent more money in the last 2 weeks on one stimulus bill than the total amount it spent on biomedical research from 1887-2020.

More states starting to ease social distancing. Important again to take stock of #COVID19 trends around US. On national level, first trend is there continues to be ~30,000 new cases a day. More than 200,000 new cases of #COVID19 in past wk alone. coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html 1/x

In April an average of ~2,000 people died of coronavirus in the US each day. That is more than daily average from cancer or heart disease. I fear there is growing complacency that this level of loss is a new normal. Are we really ready to add a new leading cause of death? 1/

#AhmaudAubrey

Daniela Witten Natalie E. Dean, PhD Maybe he’s worried about too many research findings being right?

If you're just getting unfollowed or unfriended now by racists then you've been too quiet for too long!!!

Could the explanation for the dropping mortality be the extensive use of convalescent plasma in the USA? Correlation is not causation but several studies suggest plasma use associated with lower mortality. Worth keeping an eye on this possibility. Michael Joyner

NLM is launching the first phase of a pilot to make preprints from #NIH-funded research available in PubMed Central. Phase one will focus on preprints related to #COVID19. nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2020/06/09/the…

FYI, Goodyear has this service called Roll. They come to you to replace your tires. Seems like a pretty good thing if you happen to need tires during a pandemic and don't want to spend hours sitting in a tire shop.... rollbygoodyear.com

When showing a graph in a talk, be sure to say some variant of these phrases: “Each point is a ___, the x axis is ___, the y axis is ___.”

Overestimated Polygenic Prediction due to Overlapping Subjects in Genetic Datasets biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Mt Rushmore of TV shows… The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, WandaVision and Stranger Things.

“Association of Common Infections with Cognitive Performance in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study Follow-Up” by Adam Spira et al. Alzheimer’s & Dementia alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…

People who think this air quality is bad must’ve never been to a 1970s indoor family get together!!

Nice paper - An evolutionary perspective on complex neuropsychiatric disease: Neuron cell.com/neuron/pdf/S08…

"Hypothesish-driven." Feel free to borrow...