@altonrus
I make models to inform health policy, health services design, and clinical decisions 🏳️🌈 Decision science, blood banking, rstats, disease surveillance, health technology assessment. Native North Carolinian 🇺🇸, assistant professor at McGill 🇨🇦
Got ideas on the future of Canada's international cooperation? International financing architecture, aid policy, Canada's approach to Africa, anything else
Cooperation Canada is offering $2,000 for short papers with big ideas, especially from young people
cooperation.ca/call-for-big...
This week at the Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, d3center affiliate @jillianstrayhorn.bsky.social presented on using Bayesian methods to optimize multicomponent interventions, highlighting the value of considering multiple outcomes: myumi.ch/P3mQP #SMDM25
Omg @wrightcensored.bsky.social did it she’s wearing her old poster at #SMDM25
False headlines were more believed by folks with more trust in AI #SMDM25 Prof Val Reyna
I had a great impression of Jay during my PhD (2016-2019), and I know at least 2 other queer PhD students who took (and liked) his class. It's almost impressive how many ways he's managed to disappoint since then
Clinical Validation of a Circulating Tumor DNA–Based Blood Test to Screen for Colorectal Cancer
Most viewed this week from JAMA: A blood-based test demonstrated acceptable accuracy for colorectal cancer detection in an average-risk colorectal cancer screening population.
https://ja.ma/4knUjcd
I don't know Noah, but his R packages for propensity modelling and their documentation are a tremendous, free contribution to applied stats and epi. His next employer will be lucky to have him.
We’ve all met that academic
Cost-effectiveness of transplanting older candidates with acceptable quality deceased donor kidneys https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.25328892v1
Publication alert: "No evidence of immune exhaustion after repeated SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in vulnerable and healthy populations" @natcomms.nature.com The backstory is particularly interesting-it's a tale of the conflicting needs of scientists & decision makers in times of disinformation ....1/n
After over a decade we *finally* start seeing a drop in the overdose death rates & thanks to MAGA we’re going to go & undo that progress as fast as we can.
New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
Join us for an in-depth webinar on Understanding the ACIP: Evidence, Policy, and Practice in U.S. Vaccine Recommendations.
🗓️ 30 June
🔗 Learn more: smdm.org/meeting/unde...
#ACIP #PublicHealth #SMDM
I'm very excited to present the work I've been doing with @syndemicslab.bsky.social this year at @smdm.bsky.social annual conference! So grateful for the work done with my co-authors and excited to continue working with you!
Join #SMDM25 for a focused session on Causal Diagrams, Target Trial Emulation, and Causal Inference in health decision modeling! 🔍
🗓️ 15 June 2025
🕐 9:00 AM-12:30 PM ET
🎙️ Featuring: Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, ScD
👉 Register now: smdm.org/hub/page/cau...
Would you like to be featured in an SMDM social media post? Help build excitement and participation in our 47th Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Sign up today! form.asana.com?k=9Pjeoq_Ox8...
A legend died today.
In his memory, how about a heartwarming heme #skeetorial? #hemesky #nerdalert
Today the world lost the man with the "golden arm"
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Excited to see our work on Bayesian Decision Curve Analysis appear in Statistics in Medicine! doi.org/10.1002/sim....
Work led by @giulianonetto.bsky.social - check out the stellar thread (from the old platform) on our preprint here: x.com/giulianonett...
Great primer on Federated Learning (FL) methods and their potential for enabling large collaborative data analyses in transfusion medicine. Crucial for ML-worthy sample sizes
Key idea: Bring the model to the data, not the data to the model
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MLSky
Great (and very well written - a joy to read) work by @giulianonetto.bsky.social and @keegankorthauer.bsky.social, with rigorous theory and extensive empirical analyses (and well documented software).
How dare people not Trust the Science™️. Really now.
Related: metaror.org/kotahi/artic...
Stumbled on a nice quote I'll add to my lecture on why we still build decision models with limited info. #smdm
"Far better an approximately answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise" John Tukey 1962
Happy to see @isbt.bsky.social and @aabbupdates.bsky.social here! Looking forward to blood banking and transfusion medicine content in the feed
Smiling smol Shiba Inu in a red harness
Taro says hi 🐾
Unique to select Quebec schools, IVADO postdoc fellows receive a generous salary to do research for robust, reasoning, and responsible AI. A student I mentored was offered a fellowship last year. Contact me if you're interested in applying! Due Dec 1
ivado.ca/en/scholarsh...
Looking for a mind-growing distraction? How about my 3 part intro to Bayesian causal inference. It's like a condensed version of my book, 10 weeks of causal computation in 3 short blog posts. Take with plenty of water. #stats elevanth.org/blog/2021/06...
Think it's mostly about finding and following a critical mass of accounts you like. Starter packs and lists can help
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
Here's a starter pack of Black Scientists and Organizations (currently STEMM disciplines)! go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a
@aportnoy.bsky.social welcome 🤗
Added you to the small but growing SMDMer list. Lmk who I'm missing!
bsky.app/profile/did:...