Rebeca Cardim Falcao

The new cohort of the Health System Impact Fellowship is here! 🎉 45 talented researchers will work with 35 health organizations nationwide to drive innovation and tackle Canada's most pressing health issues. canada.ca/en/institutes-… #CIHR_ImpactFellows

I'm working on a ML forecast system for flooding in South of Brazil, the blue mask shows the simulated flooding, which is matching surprisingly well the regions that actually flooded (the satellite image), next step is to train the stream gauge prediction model with precipitation data to feed the model with level information.

Em meio à situação de calamidade no Rio Grande do Sul, atletas da Seleção Brasileira de Remo abriram mão de disputar o Pré-Olímpico para ajudar no socorro às vítimas das enchentes. Alef Fontoura, Evaldo Becker e Daniel Lima estão trabalhando no resgate de famílias e animais ao lado dos voluntários na sede do GNU Esportes, no bairro Moinhos de Vento, em Porto Alegre. Os atletas fazem um apelo à quem possa disponibilizar barcos para ajudar nos resgates na região. 📍 Moinhos de Vento - Rua Quintino Bocaiúva, 500 (Sede Grêmio Náutico União)

🔬Check out @OMNI_REUNIS member Dr. Amy Hurford's interview with @BerniceCBC on @CBCNL as she delves into disease tracking through #Mathematics at 2023 @AARMS_math Summer School! 🔗Listen here: bit.ly/3EJyxMJ Funded by @NSERC_CRSNG & @PHAC_GC #InfectiousDiseases

It was an amazing two weeks in Norris Points, learning and discussing infectious disease modeling, forecasting, and decision support. It was great to meet so many excellent researchers. 💚💚

📚Exciting news! The 2023 AARMS-EIDM Summer School starts Aug 19 at Bonne Bay Marine Station, NL. Six of our members, @amy_hurford, @julien_arino, @AmyGreerKalisz, @BouchraNasri, Jane Heffernan & James Watmough, will teach & share expertise! 🔗Learn more: bit.ly/45w6XOs

Perfect views from the 2023 AARMS summer school in Infectious Disease Modelling in Norris Point Newfoundland

Em nosso artigo na The Lancet GH, apontamos a necessidade de fortalecimento da vigilância genômica global de arboviroses e apresentamos a plataforma Epiarbo para viabilizar a epidemiologia genômica e monitorar em tempo real a evolução de diferentes arbovírus. @GabrielWallau

Gambá brasileiro não cheira mal e come carrapatos como o estrela, que transmite febre maculosa e pode matar pessoas. É imune à picada de escorpião e de cobra. É nosso aliado! Não é da família dos ratos, e sim dos cangurus. Muito bonzinho e útil, vamos defender o gambá!

We celebrated the retirement of my UBC Mathematics colleague and good friend Professor Leah Keshet today. Leah's research and leadership contributions to mathematical biology are well known. There is a Leah Edelstein-Keshet Prize given by the Society of Mathematical Biology.

Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding! We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES! Hear me out & see preprint: bit.ly/3MVqXU9 🧵1/

How to quantify the uncertainty stemming from a limited number of samples being available in classification high dimensions? Wonder no more! Our work on the subject is now out in @MLSTjournal iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

🔊We are seeking postdocs with numerical experience in their PhDs. 🔊 Your background, CS-Physics-Chem-Applied Math etc, is unimportant so long as you are interested in ML/AI in biophysics. Shoot me an email w your CV (w pubs including arXiv). (Seriously) Please RT!! 🙃

Almost no one will get this, but I think that trolley picture is legit one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

NEW TOOL! This resource summarizes how best to design and manage outdoor environments to reduce #tick habitat, and outlines steps one should take to reduce the risk of getting bitten by a tick when recreating or working outdoors. LEARN MORE ▶ ncceh.ca/videos/ticks-c…

Fifteen years after the last DENV3 outbreak in Brazil, the virus is back to the country and big outbreaks can be expected in the coming years. We report this in our new preprint on arbovirus genomic surveillance, as part of the efforts of FIOCRUZ Genomics Surveillance Network.

New paper: People with COVID-19 infection were at 17-22% higher risk of developing #diabetes compared to #COVID-19-negative participants jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork @CDCofBC @bc_a4ph @ubcnews

Major announcement (so much to say about this): After 6 (!) yrs we have a framework for *Superresolved crowded tracking*. Same res as static targets. Paper 1: Proof of concept Paper 2: Benchmarks biorxiv.org/content/10.110… biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Code on website. Mini 🧵 1/

A celebration of the shiny new ✨aperiodic mono-tile✨ Maths is definitely not done yet!