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Michael Baym
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Michael Baym
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Microbiology, evolution, antibiotic resistance, applied math, molecular biotech. Associate Professor @HarvardMed. Basic research is the engine of progress. 🦠🧬
- Can we just take a second to appreciate how bonkers it is that you can inject mRNA into someone and the body is like “ok cool I’ll translate that, recognize it as exogenous, and develop lasting immunity to what it codes for”
- Three infected travelers at a scientific conference have now infected at least SEVENTY others. If you're organizing a conference in next several months, please ask yourself whether you want the same to happen there. Because it will. The conference can wait.BREAKING: Massachusetts has just announced 51 *new* cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of presumptive cases to 92 -- a 124 percent increase from yesterday. Seventy of the cases are related to the Biogen conference in Boston. Six people are hospitalized. #WBZ
- Delta calling it “the B.1.617.2 variant” makes my morningBREAKING: Delta Air Lines says unvaccinated employees must pay $200 per month surcharge for health insurance.
- I will never understand why statisticians say “Type I error” and Type II error” when false positive and false negative are the same number of syllables and self-definingUnderstanding Type I and Type II errors is the secret to unlocking the full potential of your statistical analysis. These errors are pivotal in hypothesis testing, where Type I errors represent false positives (incorrectly rejecting a true null hypothesis) and Type II errors
- Twenty years of being a mathematician and only yesterday I learned omicron and omega were “little o” (o-micron) and “big o” (o-mega)
- There’s no doubt N95/KN95/KF94/FFP2 is better than surgical is better than cloth but the numbers in this graphic are classic data bullshit
- Is there a word for the mix of burnout with the sense that you haven’t done enough to warrant it?
- GPT-6 will have an advice blog on how to switch from academia to industry
- Nothing in biology makes sense even in the light of evolution
- I appreciate journals making Covid19 work open access, and I hope when this is over we don’t forget that their logic in doing so tacitly admits that their traditional model slows down the advancement of science
