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Some exciting professional news - I've left @BiobotAnalytics and will be joining Science for America in May! Very excited to take the skills I've grown at Biobot and apply them to find & implement game-changing solutions in equity in STEM & public health. 1/4
Claire Duvallet retweeted
The MIT Department of Biological Engineering in Cambridge, MA, invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant professor level, to begin July 1, 2024, or on a mutually agreeable date thereafter. ow.ly/Sgcy50PSpyU
Claire Duvallet retweeted
1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ @laberge_nick @hneutr @_szhang @alliecmorgan M Galesic @baileyfosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵
Claire Duvallet retweeted
Interesting work by @QinQinYu, @ScottWOlesen, @cduvallet and @yhgrad measuring access to sewers and showing which demographic groups are more likely to have lower sewer connectivity. This can help us promote equity in wastewater monitoring.
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
I also love this story of industry & academia cross-pollination. This started as "fun" Biobot hackathon projects & turned into the white paper. Bc we posted the paper publicly, it could spark further academic investigation & lead to cool collabs like this one - everybody wins! 🤓
Very hopeful that folks in #WBE will expand on this modeling approach to develop a more comprehensive understanding of who is and is not represented in WBE data, beyond simple analyses of demographics & sewer connectivities.
The part that @QinQinYu added & which I'm *super* stoked about is the modeling at the end: can we use epi models to estimate whether households who aren't connected to sewers are represented in the nearby community's #WBE data? Yes, we can!
ALT SIR model describing two populations: one is 100% connected to sewer and the other is partially connected to the sewer.
ALT Heatmap showing the fraction of cross-population contacts on the x-axis (ranging from 10^-2 to 10^-1) and fraction of the not-fully-sewered population sampled on the y-axis (ranging from 0 to 1). Heatmap is colored by the time between population B's infection peak & the wastewater peak. With more of population B sampled or more cross-population contacts, the time decreases.
(For my favorite description of how challenging working with WWTP-related data is, check out this paper from @larsen_da : journals.plos.org/globalpubl… -- just read the methods and pray to the data gods that you won't have to do this yourself one day 🙏🏻 )
But our white paper was just a brief look into convenience datasets. Enter @QinQinYu & this paper, bringing together more datasets and demographic variables. The big picture still holds, but with more nuance. And, as expected, conclusions are severely limited by available data.
@BiobotAnalytics looked into it last year -- Actually: households on septic have higher income than those on sewers, nationally as well as within rural areas. So in rural areas #WBE may be over-representing disadvantaged populations?? teapawt.net/cduvallet/status/15823…
A frequent limitation cited for #WBE is that households on septic won't be represented in the data. Given that rural areas are more likely to have septic & be more disadvantaged, then it follows that maybe #WBE is missing critical populations. But is the story really that simple?
Wastewater holds great promise as an emerging public health tool, but ~20% of households in the US are not connected to public sewers. Who is not connected to sewers, and what does this mean for equity?
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Claire Duvallet retweeted
📢📢 We are developing a framework for evaluating wastewater surveillance. We are looking for a member of the public to join our team to ensure that the public interest is represented.
DM me if you or someone you know is interested. You don't need research experience.
And if you want to hear more about what I'll be doing at Science for America, check out the blog post announcing their launch: scienceforamerica.org/blog/ - and stay tuned for more! 4/4
I grew so much at Biobot & realized that (1) the early employee experience at a startup is v unique and (2) I had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into. Follow along as I process and learn from this experience on my brand-new substack: claireduvallet.substack.com/ 3/4