Jonathan M Berman, PhD
@jonathanberman
Renal physiologist, author, assistant professor (he, him) mastodon: https://fediscience.org/@JonathanMBerman
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This book I wrote about anti-vaxxers goes for sale today. If you are so-inclined you can read it. mitpress.mit.edu/books/anti-vax… @mitpress
New book out today mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553209/…
Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by @EvaRanehill, @annahsandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…
I don’t have a plan, I have concepts of a plan.
When I was a PhD student I was denied for subsidized housing, despite meeting income requirements, because of student status. So really this is a good deal if you think about it
Abdicating any responsibility to think critically. From now on, I'm only doing smug moral condemnation. No understand, only condemn
The cognitive dissonance of working on antibiotic resistance @HarvardDBMI and looking out my window to see first-year MD students ceremonially receive their combination fomite and appropriated emblem of the intellectual hubris of medicine
Technically possible to get brain worms from undercooked bear meat pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8916808/
I've been giving someone updates on RFKjrs campaign, and I think they think I'm messing with them. Brain worm, eating dogs, and posing a bear corpse just don't sound like the kinds of things from an actual person's life.
There's a form of uncompensated emotional labor imposed on us by people like RFKjr when we need to explain something like the bear cub roadkill fake cycling accident story to a generally apolitical spouse.
Tenure isn't about free speech. It's about self-governance: where the standards for success are set by people who live and understand the relevant kind of success.
This week I found myself advocating for abolishing tenure at universities. Since giving up tenure myself (and seeing how the private sector operates) I’ve become confident that experimenting with (higher paid) merit-based contracts would be a smart move for universities that want…
Breaking bread can bridge political divided, but at my table I could not bring myself to invite JD Vance to have a seat
If you are on a linux or unix based system you can prevent the crowdstrike problem by running the following terminal command "sudo rm -rf"
Most of these models don't do better than a model that the number of new cases will remain exactly the same. Generally a poor showing
We (@AviralChharia @jonathanberman) just published our analysis of the US CDC COVID case prediction models. Most did not pass two simple base lines- static, and linear extrapolation. Best was a machine learning model from @IQVIA_global. frontiersin.org/journals/publi…
frontiersin.org
Frontiers | Accuracy of US CDC COVID-19 forecasting models
Accurate predictive modeling of pandemics is essential for optimally distributing biomedical resources and setting policy. Dozens of case prediction models h...
Pretty impressed with the level of detail you can get these days with regular $11.50/kg @Elegoo_Official PLA and 0.08 mm layers, 0.4mm nozzle with an FDM print. 0.2mm nozzle might be able to stack up to resin...
The bureaucratic work academics need to do before they are free to actually do science for 5 minutes
Imagine how intense movies in the Disappointed Max universe would be
Korean edition of the vaccine book from a while ago
If you arrest all the students then all the faculty what's left at a university is an asset portfolio to manage. Administrators will be glad to be free from the distractions
They're setting up a situation where the admin actions are so nuts that professors have to get arrested just to maintain their intellectual credibility
If you ever have to drive over the bridge into memphis at the right time of day, the glare reflected off this pyramid will blind you right on a really terrifying part of the bridge
The lore behind the Bass Pro Shops pyramid is crazy, a thread: It's originally known as the Great American Pyramid, and it was conceived in 1954 as a concept with THREE pyramids like Giza! But it took until the 1980s for it to be resurrected as just one pyramid and opened in 1991
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