Kathleen Bachynski

bachynski.bsky.social

15 March 2026 08:41

“Damage to a single large desalination plant, including a plant shutdown, could have immediate and widespread effects on the region, said Menachem Elimelech, an environmental engineer at Rice University. The Al Dur plant in Bahrain, for example, supplies over one million people with water each day”

Adam Kucharski

adamjkucharski.bsky.social

08 March 2026 08:28

New post, on whether I could get Claude Code to complete a data task that had taken me AGES a decade ago… kucharski.substack.com/p/how-much-t...

Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀

mackayim.bsky.social

13 December 2025 10:18

Another small Australian December (!) #flu thread. In the ~13 days since my last update (03DEC), detections have risen by 16,155. That's a daily rate of 1,616 (_up_ again, from 1,293 in the previous update).

Michael Marks

drmichaelmarks.bsky.social

13 November 2025 08:05

Partner notification is a key part of STI care but uptake in many LMIC settings is low. Our RCT in Zimbabwe tried to improve uptake via financial incentives. Results out in Lancet Global Health. tl;dr Answer was no. Possibly as incentive only averted indirect costs of care & that wasn't enough.

Thiago Carvalho

cyrilpedia.bsky.social

18 October 2025 08:43

Or 'how to avoid studying spherical frictionless horses.' "Therefore, I often run my AI findings past colleagues with expertise in the field. This ensures that the AI’s results are grounded in current biological knowledge and applicable in a real-world context."