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1. “I guess my question is how bad must it be before retraction becomes appropriate?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2. Survey Statistics: answers from the BLS (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3. The Two-Word Phrase Unleashing Chaos at the NIH (www.theatlantic.com)
4. The Edlin factor strikes again: “The crown jewel of the Nudge literature finds its effect cut by 76%” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5. Steering a middle ground between two extreme takes on the role of statistics in the development of language models (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
6. Two cool math lectures by Yuval Peres (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
7. TWiV 1245: Grabbing herpesvirus with both arms (www.microbe.tv)
8. Pivoting to new funding sources in light of new government regulations (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. TWiV 1244: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
10. When does it make sense to talk about LLMs having beliefs? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
11. What’s on your university’s home page? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
12. Feynman corner: We have access to a lot more examples than we used to. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
13. Men's domestic chores and fertility rates - Part I (freerangestats.info)
14. Why RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Campaign Is Working (www.theatlantic.com)
15. Autism junk science: The only part of this story that surprises me is that the outside critic “found it hard to believe just how flawed it turned out to be” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. Survey Statistics: 2nd helpings of the 2nd flavor of calibration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. Hey! Here’s what to do when you have two or more surveys on the same population! (Combining survey data obtained using different modes of sampling) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
18. Immune Booster #15 Vaccine ground rules with Shane Crotty (www.microbe.tv)
19. Americans Are All In on Cow-Based Wellness (www.theatlantic.com)
20. The oldest famous person (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. Canada Is Killing Itself (www.theatlantic.com)
22. The rise and fall of Bayesian statistics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. TWiV 1243: Capitalism, COVID, and cancer (www.microbe.tv)
24. ‘I’m Actually Surprised It Didn’t Happen Sooner’ (www.theatlantic.com)
25. Art Buchwald would be spinning in his grave (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
26. TWiV 1242: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
27. The Giant Asterisk to MAHA’s Food-Dye Crackdown (www.theatlantic.com)
28. White House / NYC Mayoral Race strategy: Life imitates blog (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
29. They’re looking for businesses that want to use their Bayesian inference software, I think? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
30. Real examples are good (mile run example) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. “Beyond Averages: Measuring Consistency and Volatility in NBA Player and Team Offense” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled? (www.theatlantic.com)
33. Two philosophers A political science professor and a priest lie about a position taken by a philosopher. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. Survey Statistics: BLS Jobs Report (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. A paper by Dorothy Bishop on the replication crisis . . . from 1990! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. Should you place more trust in scientists if they are “intellectually humble”? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. Uber could use your statistical analysis. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. “You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
39. TWiV 1241: The most beautiful experiment (www.microbe.tv)
40. Measurement error in the strike zone (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. TWiV 1240: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
42. Is atheism like a point null hypothesis? and other thoughts on religion (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
43. What’s So Bad About Nicotine? (www.theatlantic.com)
44. Controversy over different estimates of covid origins probabilities (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
45. The Man Who Was Too MAHA for the Trump Administration (www.theatlantic.com)
46. (1) Fitting hierarchical models in genetics, (2) A Stan model that runs faster with 400,000 latent parameters, (3) Super-scalable penalized maximum likelihood inference for biome problems, (4) “In the end, I basically gave up working on biology because of the politics.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. Resolving Simpson’s paradox using poststratification (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. Using hierarchical modeling to get more stable rankings of gene expression (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
49. The Dangerous Logic of CTE Self-Diagnosis (www.theatlantic.com)
50. Survey Statistics: adjusting for interest in politics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. Bordwell’s Perplexing Plots (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. Immune 94: The nose knows (www.microbe.tv)
53. Israel/Palestine and political opinion-field inversion (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
54. TWiV 1239: Aluminum and antibodies (www.microbe.tv)
55. Trump and Epstein; Biden and Afghanistan; and the permission structure of public opinion (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
56. What’s the purpose of a theorem? (Hint: It’s not what you think.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. American Summers Are Starting to Feel Like Winter (www.theatlantic.com)
58. TWiV 1238: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
59. The two faces of academic social science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
60. An evaluation scheme for sampling (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. “Maybe They’re Born With It, or Maybe It’s Experience: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Learning Style Myth” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
62. Tomato Season Is Different This Year (www.theatlantic.com)
63. The Obvious Reason the U.S. Should Not Vaccinate Like Denmark (www.theatlantic.com)
64. Validity and deduction in causal inference (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. ‘You Could Throw Out the Results of All These Papers’ (www.theatlantic.com)
66. Survey Statistics: a new paradigm (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
67. Stan for multimodal mixtures—from exponential CPS to linear DP (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. Statistical Graphics and Comics: Parallel Histories of Visual Storytelling (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. Should You Sunscreen Your Cat? (www.theatlantic.com)
70. What’s the range of uncertainty regarding the population of the Americas in 1492? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. “A small group of mathematicians . . .” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
72. TWiV 1237: Hepatitis C and persistence with Charlie Rice (www.microbe.tv)
73. The New Sun Worship (www.theatlantic.com)
74. Game theory as applied to the NYC mayoral election (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. TWiV 1236: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
76. I am no longer chairing defenses or joining committees where students use generative AI for their writing (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
77. Problems with the conventions of journalism (everything has to be presented as new) and academic writing (everything has to be presented as important) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. Make Coca-Cola Great Again (www.theatlantic.com)
79. “Flipping the Narrative in ‘Slouching Towards Utopia'”: Counter-narratives going beyond the default economics model of exponential growth (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. The States Are Going Full RFK Jr. (www.theatlantic.com)
81. “Song for Aki”: Prof reportedly clears a half million bucks by requiring online students to pay $89.99 each for his self-published course notes (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. The Conversations Doctors Are Having About Vaccination Now (www.theatlantic.com)
83. The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food (www.theatlantic.com)
84. TWiV 1235: Two sexy to eradicate (www.microbe.tv)
85. TWiV 1234: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
86. Men Might Be the Key to an American Baby Boom (www.theatlantic.com)
87. Which Kind of Science Reform (elevanth.org)
88. Immune Booster #14: In the eye of immune responses with Darren Lee (www.microbe.tv)
89. I Fought Plastic. Plastic Won. (www.theatlantic.com)
90. RFK Jr. Is Noticeably Quiet About a MAHA Obsession (www.theatlantic.com)
91. RFK Jr.’s Autism Time Machine (www.theatlantic.com)
92. TWiV 1233: Long COVID and big bats (www.microbe.tv)
93. The Reality My Medicaid Patients Face (www.theatlantic.com)
94. TWiV 1232: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
95. TWiV 1231: What is a virus? (www.microbe.tv)
96. TWiV 1230: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
97. Sankey plots can work, but need polishing like any other graphic (freerangestats.info)
98. Immune 93: Macrophages managing memory B cells (www.microbe.tv)
99. TWiV 1229: Virology throughout Europe (www.microbe.tv)