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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Scientist at IDM ♥s epidemiology, running, prob+stats, 🦀/🐫, fly fishing, greyhounds, backpacking. Author of book Bioinformatics Data Skills. All views my own.
Seattle, WA
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    May 15
    Happy to share the alpha release of camdl, a new compartmental modeling framework I've been cooking up. With coding agents writing more of our scientific code, I think it's more important than ever to shift to architectures that engineer in robustness...
    Introducing camdl: engineering rigor for stochastic compartmental modeling
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    Feb 11, 2025
    Replying to @jessesingal
    I think he's legitimately cooked — this little sleep compounded over years, let alone weeks, severely impacts cognition and decision making.
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    Oct 19, 2024
    You know what would be far more impactful and inclusive @Nature? Not charging people around the world to read scientific articles on your site.
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    Oct 18, 2024
    Stop using ‘summer’, ‘winter’ and the rest when inviting researchers to events — it’s a small step, but it’s necessary and inclusive go.nature.com/4dUMxT0
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    Vince Buffalo
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    Mar 5, 2020
    Friends tell me I take #COVID19 too seriously, it doesn't kill people our age, ask why I'm social distancing, etc. I do this all to flatten the curve. I do this as a service to older folks and those with compromised immune systems. I do it because I think it's our moral duty.
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    Vince Buffalo
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    May 18, 2021
    This is perfect. (from instagram.com/thedissertatio…)
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    Vince Buffalo
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    Sep 30, 2024
    Step aside Monty Hall, Blackwell’s N=2 case for the secretary problem is way weirder.
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    Jun 4, 2024
    Replying to @LTF_01
    Sorry to hear. I’ve had very similar experiences with neurologists. One neurologist was so keen to reach a particular diagnosis he just kept asking me the same question again and again.
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    Vince Buffalo
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    Jun 15, 2022
    The postdoc labor shortage isn't a labor shortage, it's industry out-competing academia for good talent by offering higher wages.
    As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for structural change in academia intensify
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    Vince Buffalo
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    Dec 7, 2023
    I am not a fan of this meme format mocking people for having read popsci books. It’s elitist in-group signaling. It’s quite commendable when someone’s curiosity leads them to explore a topic in their free time. Many scientists, including me, were inspired by popsci books.
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    Vince Buffalo
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    Jun 14, 2021
    “The most important thing for young people to do is…”
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    Feb 11, 2025
    Replying to @harryh and @jessesingal
    Yea, and use published estimates of the relationship of cognitive performance and sleep to predict how much worse his reasoning is — add that in.
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    May 12, 2021
    The longer I'm in academia, the more I see a resemblance between our field and professional sports. But I think folks in pro sports understand and embrace the competitive aspect and difficult parts of training in a more honest and healthier way. This advice resonated:
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    Vince Buffalo
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    Aug 3, 2019
    It's pretty awesome to think in the future, there will be coevolution between weeds evading detection by mimicking crops, and machine learning algorithms improving to detect them.
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    Erik Solheim
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    Aug 2, 2019
    Wow. This solar powered robot will weed your field for you. So innovative, let’s get moving!
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    Vince Buffalo
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    Jan 12, 2022
    I've been thinking about Andrew Wyeth's 1948 painting "Christina's World" and how art can enrich how we teach genetics. At first glance, it features a woman sitting in a pleasant field. Yet look closer, and you notice tension in her arms and hands.