Brendan J. Kelly
infectious diseases / epidemiology / microbial ecology
https://motionlab.site
Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyFintan O’Toole @fotoole.bsky.social on the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti go.nybooks.com/4bmNB4F
- Watched #Saboteur last night -- #Hitchcock captured the internal battle between democracy and fascism in 1942. A reminder that American fascists were fighting against democracy even during WW2: youtu.be/-rtlkILRmEQ
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyStanCon 2026 tutorial and workshop deadlines in one week: discourse.mc-stan.org/t/stancon-20... @mc-stan.org
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyAnd we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...
- I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyWe're doing the final sprint, and I think we're able to send the PDF of the forthcoming Bayesian Workflow book to the publisher in the next two weeks (500+ pages), which would mean it would be published some time next year
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyGrading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyI'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyTwelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability. Read the full Perspective: nej.md/48Ova76
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyI am fascinated by how viruses evolve - and not just since #SARSCoV2 has shown us at the global stage how consequential virus evolution can be for us. In my new story in @science.org I got to explore how researchers are probing deeper into the past with old RNA virus genome. So a 🧪 thread…
- Reposted by Brendan J. Kelly💻Join online! 🎧 Süßmilch Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) Putting Science Before #Statistics 🗣️Richard McElreath 🐈⬛ MPI-EVA Leipzig 📅Oct 21, 2025 🕒3 pm CEST ✏️Sign up now: ow.ly/uxfc50Xb5Yx
- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyIs a healthy microbiome one that is rich in phages? 🦠 Excited to share our paper out in Lancet Microbe with @bkoskella.bsky.social & @dholtappels.bsky.social where we test whether virome diversity can be used a broad signature of microbiome health 📈
- What could possibly go wrong? #IDSky
- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyI'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University. Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
- Fantastic discussion of the BALANCE trial -- and randomized trial preparation / design in general. Also, great to hear Communicable and Breakpoints teaming up! #IDSky
- "It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings."
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyHappy International Microorganism Day! 🎉 Today, we are celebrating the tiny powerhouses that have a massive impact on our world. From the bacteria in our gut to the fungi that give us antibiotics, these incredible organisms are essential to life. Let's make some noise for the microscopic!
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- Reposted by Brendan J. Kelly#Newresearch This Bayesian statistical method uses timeseries microbiome data to infer interaction modules and is tested using a faecal transplant experiment in mice. #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Remembering David Rose today. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellySimon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyAs national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Our statement: bit.ly/45LeJHi
- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyThe Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD) at Penn State is hiring for a senior-level position in Infectious Disease Modeling. Come join our dynamic group of disease researchers! Feel free to message me for details psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyA major KI initiative to recruit new assistant professors with outstanding proposals in all areas of medicine, biomedicine and public health. We offer an amazing research environment, great colleagues and generous startup packages. Check it out and get working on your applications! (repost please!)
- Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyNew online! Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes
- @rmcelreath.bsky.social with a radical proposal for science: "Research should be intelligible. Access is not sufficient."
- How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyBEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Fun with version control...
- ICYMI githistory.xyz is a great way to navigate #git commits and visualise how a file has been changing across commits Just replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz in the URL and enjoy! #rstats
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyGood Science xkcd.com/3101/
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- Reposted by Brendan J. KellyTo be clear, these kinds of breakthroughs are going to come to a screeching halt with the current NIH funding cuts. This new treatment is only possible because of decades of basic research. What might be possible 20 years from now if we don't destroy basic research? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Everything right now
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