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Gregg GonsalvesSo, trying to figure out where all the epidemiologists are. I see them here and there on this site, but there is nothing like #epitwitter yet. If you see an epidemiologist wandering around Mastodon, send them my way!
Myrto Ashe@gregggonsalves Looks like she's pretty new on here @epiellie
RDS (shawphd on Twitter)
Michael Downey 🧢@Myrto That's not a real account, just a bot someone set up to copy her stuff automatically.
ChristinaAuria@gregggonsalves this is what I’m most concerned about. Between Twitter and TikTok, the amount of infectious disease info was unrivaled. How do we reconsolidate that?
@ChristinaAuria well, some of the best ID epi/clinical people are now on Mastodon!
JavierDeVilla MD@gregggonsalves @ChristinaAuria As a novice here, I found this article useful to understand the differences between Mastodon and Twitter. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03668-7
Kristy Murray
Jeffrey WaggonerAnd if or when they eventually do make the migration, please help introduce them at large so that others will know it, too. The relative gap on epi matters here is an essential part of my Twitter reading that I'm having no small trouble rebuilding here (and one other person I've met here said the same).
@justjeff @gregggonsalves You might try something like Fedifinder to scrape Twitter and generate a list of Mastodon addresses of the people you follow. It’s easy to use, though adding people afterwards is a bit of a pain (I did it one follow at a time). https://fedifinder.glitch.me
Htaggert@gregggonsalves well I’m here but on a different server….
Keith Devlin@gregggonsalves There's a certain irony that a group that studies how to prevent organisms spreading appear to be applying their skills to themselves 🙂.
#epidemiologists
#epidemiologists
Martha CrawfordRegular use of #epidemiology hashtags might gather folks.
Hashtags are the only way to subject search here.
Robert Thau@gregggonsalves You've probably already run across @ct_bergstrom
Steven Zekowski@gregggonsalves
Have you tried https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/ ? It’s worth using it periodically because new people are coming in all the time; eg, when I started 5 wks ago I looked for you and you weren’t here. Now you are.
Have you tried https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/ ? It’s worth using it periodically because new people are coming in all the time; eg, when I started 5 wks ago I looked for you and you weren’t here. Now you are.
Lars Mølgaard Saxhaug@gregggonsalves My better half and social epidemiologist @KHVinjerui
JeniParsons@gregggonsalves use some hashtags
Ruhi (she/her)@gregggonsalves good to see you here Greg!
Rosaleen O’Brien
Richard Shaw@DrRosaleenOBrien @gregggonsalves
There is an #Epiverse group on https://a.gup.pe/
Dr. Dan Killam@gregggonsalves the great health scicommer @HelenBranswell is here! 😀
Queen Anne Goon@gregggonsalves https://social.seattle.wa.us/web/tags/epidemiology Several seen there.
Paul Cantrell@gregggonsalves @ct_bergstrom One reason I keep a toe in twitter is that as a non-epidemiologist I •really• appreciate the accessible public communication epi twitter has done during COVID. It’s been a lifeline.
MvRiederberg – mavori@gregggonsalves It will be a good option to use always the #epitoot or #epifedi – following hashtags will be available in next version afain
Annoying Cynic@gregggonsalves create a hashtag - maybe #epimastodon keep posting with it - if you build it they will come ….
danielbolnick@gregggonsalves I’m waiting for Sam Scarpino to show up.
Giant@gregggonsalves there’s curated lists of academics here: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
It would be awesome for discoverability if someone were to put one together for epidemiology. I’m not the guy, but it looks like the instructions for how to do it are there in the readme
It would be awesome for discoverability if someone were to put one together for epidemiology. I’m not the guy, but it looks like the instructions for how to do it are there in the readme
S.Black@gregggonsalves - look here:
mstdn.science/explore
mstdn.science/explore
Jack Iwashyna 🫁@gregggonsalves I’m told they are calling it the #EpiVerse
Peter Tennant, PhD
Peter Tennant, PhD (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Attention to all #FediVerse users! The #EpiVerse hashtag has been (unofficially) claimed for the guild of epidemiologists! 😎 @ct_bergstrom @andreashandel
Lynne Jackier@gregggonsalves So glad to see you here!
Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools NZ@gregggonsalves I’ve seen a few around, e.g. Tara Smith, Christina Pagel.
sunny☀️
David Waltner-Toews@gregggonsalves I’m an epidemiologist
Bruno Pratas@gregggonsalves
Not an epidemiologista, but a very helpful nurse who worked on COVID frontline and helped A LOT Portuguese people understand and cope with WHO instructions.
He's @MA_macedo
MA_macedo@BrunoPratas1 @gregggonsalves many thanks 🙏🙏🙏
@gregggonsalves
Use hash tag and any topics you are interested in. People can find you and you can find them.
Use hash tag and any topics you are interested in. People can find you and you can find them.
@gregggonsalves @irenetosetti is here too
Tino Eberl@gregggonsalves Just search the matching hashtags and you will find all of them ;-)
For example switch your web UI to extended mode, then you get something like Tweetdeck. There you can add colums and follow sevral hashtags.
MitominderCheck out #epidemiologist (singular)
Quite a few migratory bluebirds are introducing themselves there.
Keren Landsman@gregggonsalves right here!
Charlotte Wilson@gregggonsalves I recommend these people for you from the UK. They are all fantastic communicators about Covid 19 and their dissemination of information has undoubtedly saved many lives over the past few years. @chrischirp @kityates @nisreen
Doxy_cycling, MPH MLS
Laborarzt@gregggonsalves Here in Germany we have a lack of great epidemiologists in general. Not only on Mastodon.
Roman Pokora@Veiel @gregggonsalves To be honest, those are the Twitter comments I haven't missed on Mastodon so far. I come from a radiation and cancer research background and don't really see the problem there. But since I know your specialist includes an infectious disease epidemiologist, why do you see a problem there? I do have a specific opinion on that, but I would be interested in your opinion. #Epidemiology #Epidemiologie
@ecological_fallacy @gregggonsalves I had prepared an answer to your first question, but you deleted it. I don't want to bother you with comments you haven't missed on Twitter.
@ecological_fallacy @gregggonsalves And probably I should have specified that I was talking about ID epidemiology.
@Veiel @gregggonsalves I had noticed that my question was also written in Twitter style. I like this here so much better than Twitter. I have to admit that I enjoyed the garbage there, but it just doesn't do any good to talk to you followers and not talking with each other.
@Veiel @gregggonsalves Yes, I understand with infectious disease epidemiologists in Germany your opinion. We have the RKI and the HZI in Braunschweig and after that I can't think of any infection epidemiologist outside of tropical medicine at any university.
@Veiel @gregggonsalves I remember May 2020 when Drosten called for an investigation into working conditions in the meat processing industry on the NDR podcast. We were actually looking for help from outside, but didn't find any, although everyone thought it was good.
@ecological_fallacy @gregggonsalves There are good scientists in ID epidemiology both at RKI and HZI, but there is no leader who navigates us through the pandemic. Maybe Gérard Krause has the potential, but either he hasn't been heard by the public or he didn't speak loud enough.
@ecological_fallacy @gregggonsalves By the way, I think cancer epidemiology is good in Germany.
@ecological_fallacy @gregggonsalves I was thinking about someone like Michael Baker in New Zealand:
https://twitter.com/NewshubNationNZ/status/1545531795155951617
https://twitter.com/NewshubNationNZ/status/1545531795155951617
Newshub Nation on Twitter
“'If you go out when you have this infection and infect your friends and family...you are going to kill some people - just like drinking and driving. We need a massive shift in thinking,' Prof. Michael Baker says we need to start taking this COVID wave more seriously #NationNZ”
@Veiel @gregggonsalves At least I finally know why interdisciplinary exchange on different radiation topics, as for instance operational readiness and responsibilities in the event of radiological incidents, radiation protection and research is not the worst idea.
@Veiel @gregggonsalves I agree with you that structures should slowly be built up in Germany to navigate at least during the next pandemic.
@ecological_fallacy @gregggonsalves Lothar Wieler is a good scientist and institute director, too. But I think he is not a genuine epidemiologist, and he is not that good at convincing the masses.