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Vince Buffalo

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Vince Buffalo

@vsbuffalo

Scientist at IDM ♥s epidemiology, running, prob+stats, 🦀/🐫, fly fishing, greyhounds, backpacking. Author of book Bioinformatics Data Skills. All views my own.

Seattle, WA

Joined August 2009

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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
May 15
Happy to share the alpha release of camdl, a new compartmental modeling framework I've been cooking up. With coding agents writing more of our scientific code, I think it's more important than ever to shift to architectures that engineer in robustness...
Introducing camdl: engineering rigor for stochastic compartmental modeling
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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Feb 11, 2025
Replying to @jessesingal
I think he's legitimately cooked — this little sleep compounded over years, let alone weeks, severely impacts cognition and decision making.
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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Oct 19, 2024
You know what would be far more impactful and inclusive @Nature? Not charging people around the world to read scientific articles on your site.
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@Nature
Oct 18, 2024
Stop using ‘summer’, ‘winter’ and the rest when inviting researchers to events — it’s a small step, but it’s necessary and inclusive go.nature.com/4dUMxT0
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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Mar 5, 2020
Friends tell me I take #COVID19 too seriously, it doesn't kill people our age, ask why I'm social distancing, etc. I do this all to flatten the curve. I do this as a service to older folks and those with compromised immune systems. I do it because I think it's our moral duty.
Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
May 18, 2021
This is perfect. (from instagram.com/thedissertatio…)
Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Sep 30, 2024
Step aside Monty Hall, Blackwell’s N=2 case for the secretary problem is way weirder.
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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Jun 4, 2024
Replying to @LTF_01
Sorry to hear. I’ve had very similar experiences with neurologists. One neurologist was so keen to reach a particular diagnosis he just kept asking me the same question again and again.
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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Jun 15, 2022
The postdoc labor shortage isn't a labor shortage, it's industry out-competing academia for good talent by offering higher wages.
As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for structural change in academia intensify
From science.org
Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Dec 7, 2023
I am not a fan of this meme format mocking people for having read popsci books. It’s elitist in-group signaling. It’s quite commendable when someone’s curiosity leads them to explore a topic in their free time. Many scientists, including me, were inspired by popsci books.
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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Jun 14, 2021
“The most important thing for young people to do is…”
Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Feb 11, 2025
Replying to @harryh and @jessesingal
Yea, and use published estimates of the relationship of cognitive performance and sleep to predict how much worse his reasoning is — add that in.
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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
May 12, 2021
The longer I'm in academia, the more I see a resemblance between our field and professional sports. But I think folks in pro sports understand and embrace the competitive aspect and difficult parts of training in a more honest and healthier way. This advice resonated:
Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Aug 3, 2019
It's pretty awesome to think in the future, there will be coevolution between weeds evading detection by mimicking crops, and machine learning algorithms improving to detect them.
Erik Solheim
@ErikSolheim
Aug 2, 2019
Wow. This solar powered robot will weed your field for you. So innovative, let’s get moving!
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Vince Buffalo
@vsbuffalo
Jan 12, 2022
I've been thinking about Andrew Wyeth's 1948 painting "Christina's World" and how art can enrich how we teach genetics. At first glance, it features a woman sitting in a pleasant field. Yet look closer, and you notice tension in her arms and hands.