Rebecca Lee Smith
Epidemiologist at the University of Illinois, trying to improve the way we control and fight disease - mycobacteria, vectors, water-borne, and others. She/her
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Illinois Health Official Breaks Down Crying While Giving Update on State's Rising COVID-19 Deaths
As of Saturday, there have been 9,704 reported COVID-19 deaths in Illinois
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Rebecca Lee Smith
I'll be talking about data monitoring for campus COVID control on Thursday with @theNASEM - last of a 4-part series
SEAN and Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases College COVID-19 Testing Strategies: Webinar #4
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Disease Ecology Postdoctoral Research Scientist - EcoHealth Alliance
This position is ideal for a postdoctoral research scientist who will work closely with our science team on a zoonotic virus biosurveillance and ecology research project in South Africa.
Illinois Mosquito & Vector Control Association
Dedicated to the study of mosquitoes and other arthropod vectors of disease since 1955!
Illinois Mosquito & Vector Control Association 2020 Conference
Registration is FREE. All are welcome to attend talks.
What constitutes a syndemic? Methods, contexts, and framing from 2019 - PubMed
Most recommendations suggested that people living with HIV need interventions that address other factors situated within their life, such as their mental health, social stigma, experiences of trauma and intimate partner violence, and social stigma...
Rebecca Lee Smith
Reading about syndemics and quantitative bias analysis and wishing my brain was working to synthesize these into a reasonable 🧵
What constitutes a syndemic? Methods, contexts, and framing from 2019
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Are You There, God? It’s Me, Menopause
Jennifer Gunter, M.D., explains what to expect when you’re no longer expecting a period.
Quantification and Comparison of Risks Associated with Wastewater Use in Spray Irrigation
In the U.S., spray irrigation is the most common method used in agriculture and supplementing with animal wastewater has the potential to reduce water demands. However, this could expose individuals ...
Rebecca Lee Smith
New article from Jameson Mori, PhD student in my lab, with @sitaluprety and @GlobalWaterFood
Quantification and Comparison of Risks Associated with Wastewater Use in Spray Irrigation
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Ten simple rules to colorize biological data visualization
Rebecca Lee Smith
Useful guide, including important accessibility concepts
#PLOSCompBio: Ten simple rules to colorize biological data visualization
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The Tricky Business Of Coronavirus Testing On College Campuses : Short Wave
We hit the road with NPR Education Reporter Elissa Nadworny. She's been on a weekslong road trip to get an up-close view of how colleges across the U.S. are handling the pandemic. On today's show, she tells us how one university has been using mass...
University leaders should take a more humane approach to students during COVID-19 (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
Julia Marcus, Stefan Baral and more than 100 other scholars call on college leaders to take a more humane approach to students during COVID-19.
AndiKur4/MaizePal
A Maize Color Palette Generator. Contribute to AndiKur4/MaizePal development by creating an account on GitHub.
Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
Systematic reviews are a powerful tool to synthesize large volumes of the published literature, but are susceptible to a number of methodological biases. Here, the authors outline mitigation strategies for improving the quality of evidence syntheses.
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Rebecca Lee Smith
Sometimes I wonder why I scheduled 2 different lab "journal clubs" this semester, but today's discussion of dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol… with @LeeAnnLyons19 is giving me energy! MAUP and biological reasons for grain size decisions . . .
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Bridging Western and Indigenous knowledge through intercultural dialogue: lessons from participatory research in Mexico
Indigenous communities in Latin America and elsewhere have complex bodies of knowledge, but Western health services generally approach them as vulnerable people in need of external solutions. Intercultural dialogue recognises the validity and value...
Lessons from Plants — Beronda L. Montgomery
What would a plant do? It is an unusual question. But, as Beronda L. Montgomery shows, humans can learn a great deal from these organisms. Lessons from Plants unpacks the 'senses' and skills of highly adaptive organisms that overcome immense...
Illini Insider | An eye on AI
With technology going places only previously seen in the movies, we asked three professors: What’s the one AI-related innovation that might seem far-fetched now but could become reality by the