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Epidemiological semantics

The tweet embedded above is the first in a fairly lengthy thread about the use of the words “endemic” and “epidemic” (“pandemic” gets a bit…

3 min readOct 27, 2022

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Epidemiological semantics

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Neil McRoberts

Probability, polarization and professions of nihilism

There’s a frustrating tendency among decision makers and commentators these days to adopt a position of hopelessness in the face of…

12 min readMar 25, 2022

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Hypothetical decline of healthy individuals in masking and non-masking groups when infection obeys Leonhardt’s dice rolling rules

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Neil McRoberts

War and food

Food production needs infrastructure and people. In times of war infrastructure tends to get damaged or dismantled — ploughshares…

4 min readMar 4, 2022

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War and food

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Neil McRoberts

No place for cynical or frivolous diversions

In the before times, I used to go occasionally to Washington DC with a small group of colleagues from around the country to meet…

4 min readMar 2, 2022

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No place for cynical or frivolous diversions

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Neil McRoberts

Never leave sleep

The dark monotony Of night rain And 99's valley towns. The asphalt snake uncoils For hours as tires hiss Along its broken, dazzling back…

1 min readFeb 17, 2022

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Never leave sleep

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Neil McRoberts

No left turns?

Peter Daou posts versions of this tweet on a fairly regular basis. I’m grateful to him for doing it because it reminds me that this (i.e…

3 min readJan 20, 2022

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No left turns?

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Neil McRoberts

Teaching epidemiology in a time of COVID

4 min readMay 22, 2021

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Teaching epidemiology in a time of COVID

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Neil McRoberts

Rock and Sand

By the time you stopped running You were out in the heat, Where the miles Of rock and sand calmed First your eyes Then your heart…

1 min readMar 12, 2021

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Rock and Sand

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Neil McRoberts

They can’t get no satisfaction; trying to understand life in the US

Ex president Trump has been impeached for a second time; an historic “achievement”. The failure of his attempts to subvert the democratic…

10 min readFeb 25, 2021

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They can’t get no satisfaction; trying to understand life in the US

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Neil McRoberts

Maiden Voyage

The musical inspiration can be played from this playlist on Spotify, or here on YouTube.

3 min readJan 5, 2021

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Maiden Voyage

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Neil McRoberts

Neil McRoberts

Epidemiologist and interdisciplinary scientist at the University of California, Davis. I grew up in Scotland and have lived in the USA since 2010.

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