Dave Larsen
@larsen_da
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Epidemiologist at Syracuse University. Global health. Scaling wastewater surveillance to improve health security. No longer here. Went to find blue skies.
Syracuse, NY
Joined March 2019
Postdoc opening! Looking for someone to model transitions to agroforestry in the Northeast with our lab group. Apps due Nov 22!
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Hot off the presses. Estimating the reproductive number form wastewater. We compared all the methods we could find and brainstormed our own. It's much simpler than many of the methods out there... https://t.co/yu4pulcX26
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Background The effective reproduction number (Rt) is a dynamic indicator of current disease spread risk. Wastewater measurements of viral concentrations are known to correlate with clinical measures...
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Biden's four point victory in the popular vote in 2020 was the sign of a closely divided nation. Trumps' one point victory in 2024 is a clear mandate for Christian nationalism.
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Thanks Jeff Lawson for buying the Onion so we could get this great zoom in on electoral coverage. No other news source has gone to this level of detail. https://t.co/dxU3kSb0ph
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Sadly, that "happy ending" is only available due to the huge amount of privilege my family enjoys. For so many others the worst case scenario means family separation and incredible hardship.
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Woke up anxious about the election and went through worst case scenarios. For my family that would be my wife Natalia getting denaturalized and deported. I suppose not all bad, as the kids and I would follow and I would try to get a job in Austria or elsewhere in Europe.
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I was working at an inner-city school & post-election 2016 was the eeriest day I’ve ever known. It was as if every student’s grandmother had died. And when a 7th grader whispered “I’m scared he’ll deport my uncle,” I realized my students were carrying burdens I couldn’t imagine.
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Hoping for another four seasons total landscaping moment following the election.
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The congressman from Syracuse, NY is right there alongside Johnson. That act is bringing tens of thousands of jobs with the new micron plant to his district. Sad.
Q: Will you and Trump try to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act, which brings thousands of manufacturing jobs back to America? Mike Johnson: I suspect that we probably will
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Any body have any models equivalent to a PI just doing science - everything else handled by someone else?
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Postdoc (Syracuse, USA) Wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance with @larsen_da at @Syracuse More details:
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Open postdoc position here at the Center of Excellence in wastewater surveillance. Looking for quantitative folks, particularly modelers. Potential projects include forecasting flu/RSV hospitalizations, doing more with SARS-CoV-2 sequencing, and others. https://t.co/dRXxTSOOYN
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I greatly enjoy watching these Frontline biopics on the presidential candidates. This time I’m learning quite a lot about Kama Harris. She is a great role model for my girls. https://t.co/hj8XPWxtkY
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Watch FRONTLINE's documentary investigating the lives and characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency.
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Looking for diverse expertise - could be epidemiology, economics, sociology, geography, biology, bioinformatics, etc. But this is not a wet laboratory position nor do I run a wet lab.
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Hoping to start quite soon in the next few weeks or by the end of the year. I will have another postdoc available in the summer of 2025 so reach out if timeline isn't quite right.
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Come work with me! Postdoc position at our Center of Excellence in wastewater surveillance. Potential projects include forecasting RSV/Influenza hospitalizations, incorporating network science into interpretations of wastewater surveillance, and more. https://t.co/dRXxTSOOYN
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Sometimes life goes ahead at full speed held together with duct tape and baling wire.
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