Saddened to hear about the passing of a good friend and a public health champion, Richard Cash. Richard was one of the masterminds behind the first clinical trials of oral rehydration therapy — a simple innovation that has saved millions of lives in the past several decades. He

💪Thanks to monthly donors, @HKFP continues to exist to tell stories like these recent ones. Unsure who else can be trusted to be a voice of the voiceless, and to hold the powerful to account, in today's #HongKong. Help us close our HK$1.3m funding gap this year:

Forty-five democrats received jail terms of up to 10 years on Tuesday in Hong Kong's largest national security case. They were arrested in January 2021 and charged the following month. The case revolves around a primary election in July 2020 that aimed to help the pan-democrats

Eleven quick tips for properly handling tabular data journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a… 🧪 #Rstats

For someone who grew up in Hong Kong & had personal experience with the US healthcare system while at Boston (a US$200 bill for an emergency visit with no treatment), I couldn’t sympathise with the comments about the United Healthcare CEO shooting more…

"Partnerships in feedback require reduction in power-differentials w teachers relinquishing some power & students taking increased responsibilities. Encouraging students to take part in dialogic interaction is a significant aspect of this ceding of power" shorturl.at/8G4gp

BREAKING: Ex-lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting found guilty of rioting in Yuen Long 2019 attacks 🔗 buff.ly/49Ae9wi

The two people who have watched me grown up here for the longest time 🙂

It was very nice to be back in Guangzhou after the pandemic to meet old and new friends, to deliver a talk on respiratory virus transmission for them and also learn from their current work across disciplines

Happy Holidays!

🦙With a bright new year ahead, I wish you all will live out a life you want🕴🏻 open.spotify.com/track/1w4etUoK…

Possibly useful little #Rstats trick: edit(names(iris)) will create a popup with the R code for the character vector containing the column names of your data frame that you can copy and paste, e.g. c("Sepal.Length", "Sepal.Width", "Petal.Length", "Petal.Width", "Species")

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DeepSeek 創辦人梁文鋒：「所以我们把价值沉淀在团队上，我们的同事在这个过程中得到成长，积累很多know-how，形成可以创新的组织和文化，就是我们的护城河。」 wallstreetcn.com/articles/37199…

My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.

In new study led by Caroline Kikawa, we provide near real-time data on human neutralizing antibody landscape to influenza by measuring ~26,000 titers to >100 recent viral strains. Data can inform vaccine selection & evolutionary/epidemiological modeling. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…