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  1. TWiV 1373: Challenging Dengue and RIGging Flu (www.microbe.tv)
  2. 2026 compared to other dramatic midterm election reversals of the past half-century (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  3. TWiV 1372: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  4. Constructing a latent-variable model to fit measurement data: A Stan story, part 1 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  5. Bird Flu Could Become a Terrible Feature of Fall (www.theatlantic.com)
  6. Could the 2026 election results lead to a decrease in political polarization? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  7. “So in that sense the silly statistics in the paper is no big deal, it serves as a sort of rhetorical flourish?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  8. Analysis of tonight’s election results (and why I don’t need to do it anymore) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  9. Survey Statistics: Times/Siena Polls and Times Voter Trends (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  10. Election Day special: Why it can be rational to vote (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  11. Alan Zaslavsky (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  12. Science is not naturally aligned (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  13. Most legislative races are so far from being close that there’s essentially no practical electoral benefit from moderation. But there is the argument that if you run a lot of extremists all over the country, that this will make things harder for your party’s moderates in the few swing states and swing districts out there. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  14. “Evolutionary psychology hypotheses are testable and falsifiable.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  15. TWiV 1371: How to Bat Away Marburg Virus (www.microbe.tv)
  16. The ‘Cuteservative’ in Chief (www.theatlantic.com)
  17. Foie Gras Is Tearing D.C. Apart (www.theatlantic.com)
  18. Problems with the “Do no harm” principle in the presence of uncertainty (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  19. TWiV 1370: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  20. This guy has a transformer-based election forecasting model (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  21. Stochastic potential outcomes: A discussion with Ang Yu and Jonas Mikhaeil (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  22. Doctors Say a Rare Kind of Measles Is on the Rise (www.theatlantic.com)
  23. R-hat, August 1990 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  24. “In the run-up to the trial, the brothers conducted an elaborate public relations campaign . . . also arranged for payments to influencers and podcasters who made sympathetic social media posts about the case.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  25. Bou-Rabee’s breakthrough paper, “Persistence Pays: Square-root condition-number dependence for Metropolis-adjusted kinetic Langevin Monte Carlo …” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  26. Tension vs. excitement during NBA games (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  27. We interrupt our usual programming to inform you that I was never hired by Facebook to do a hit job on Jonathan Haidt. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  28. Survey Statistics: how to measure hospital quality ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  29. Six questions about political polarization and my responses (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  30. Is There Anything BPC-157 Can’t Cure? (www.theatlantic.com)
  31. Immune 109: Allergic to red meat? Scientists discover a potential new treatment (www.microbe.tv)
  32. MRP at NYT (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  33. One-year election analytics fellowship at the New York Times (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  34. Skepticism about the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  35. World’s dumbest AI spam just dropped (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  36. TWiV 1369: Florida Model Makes Measles Great Again (www.microbe.tv)
  37. Ideological bias in “Ideological bias in the production of research findings” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  38. Price elasticity of demand for crude oil (freerangestats.info)
  39. TWiV 1368: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  40. A big problem with conventional experimentation or A/B testing is that the treatment effect can vary over time and it can depend on the entire history of the treatment. Usual comparisons miss this point. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  41. How to get the most out of Bayesian Data Analysis (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  42. My exchange with Yann LeCun about killer robots (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  43. Real political reporters use data journalism techniques to catch fakers at “Wedgewood Polls” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  44. Survey Statistics: textbooks adding non-probability sampling chapters (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  45. CmdStanR 1.0 release candidate is now available! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  46. Immune Booster 38: Fascination with Flavivirus B cell responses with Tulika Singh (www.microbe.tv)
  47. “In the belly of the whale: Portraits from a fractured Israel” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  48. “If you decide to write about this paper in your blog, please don’t mention my name. It is important to me to remain anonymous. . . . exposure might harm me or my students.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  49. “Death and Taxes: Taking Causal Inference into the Real World” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  50. “I write to seek your help and advice regarding a published article that my group and I believe is invalid and should be corrected or retracted.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  51. The Evolution of the Human Brain Set It Up for Failure (www.theatlantic.com)
  52. TWiV 1367: Turning Off Hepatitis B Virus Without Cutting its DNA (www.microbe.tv)
  53. Why do we like wind chimes? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  54. TWiV 1366: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  55. Seeking to interview social scientists experimenting with LLM simulations of opinions or behavior (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  56. How surprising is it that LeBron averaged 27 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists in his career but never had one game where he had 27 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  57. What Three Gene-Therapy Deaths Have in Common (www.theatlantic.com)
  58. A Lab-Leak Story You Haven’t Heard (www.theatlantic.com)
  59. Frustration when authors dodge criticism (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  60. Why is it so hard to get a cell phone number with no 0’s or 1’s? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  61. OK, here’s a new scam. But I can’t figure out how it’s supposed to work. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  62. Survey Statistics: favorite textbooks ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  63. The head and the heart (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  64. The Rise of the IRL Influencer (www.theatlantic.com)
  65. JAMA rules of engagement on causal and predictive language (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  66. Columbia University says, “We believe in difficult conversations at Columbia—in a broad embrace of freedom of expression. It’s in our DNA.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  67. TWiV 1365: Andes Virus Up Close (www.microbe.tv)
  68. The problem is noise, not N: why increasing the sample size isn’t all that. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  69. The Best Protein Source Is Hiding in Plain Sight (www.theatlantic.com)
  70. TWiV 1364: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  71. Digital twins version 2.0: The skeptics speak up (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  72. Thinking more seriously about the design of exploratory studies: A manifesto (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  73. Getting better causal inferences by using more information (my talk at Stanford this coming Wed) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  74. What We Really Know About the Russian ‘Plague’ Case (www.theatlantic.com)
  75. Immune Booster 36: Innate immune brakes with Carla Rothlin (www.microbe.tv)
  76. World crude oil stocks (freerangestats.info)
  77. When Anesthesia Goes Wrong (www.theatlantic.com)
  78. Are Mormons Losing Their Distinctiveness? (www.theatlantic.com)
  79. TWiV 1363: A Cauldron of Bats (www.microbe.tv)
  80. TWiV 1362: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  81. MAHA Gone Mild (www.theatlantic.com)
  82. Immune 108: B cells go broad and live long (www.microbe.tv)
  83. GLP-1s Are Rewriting the Story of Weight Loss and Mental Health (www.theatlantic.com)
  84. TWiV 1361: Ancient Viral Sword and Shield (www.microbe.tv)
  85. TWiV 1360: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  86. Immune Booster 37: Secret lives of neutrophils with Tanya Mayadas (www.microbe.tv)
  87. TWiV 1359: SSPE, the Long Shadow of Measles (www.microbe.tv)
  88. Bootstrap v traditional asymptotic normal assumptions (freerangestats.info)
  89. TWiV 1358: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  90. Why a Sea-Lion Epidemic Is a Bad Sign for Humans (www.theatlantic.com)
  91. RFK Jr.’s Brazen Reassurance to Anti-Vaxxers (www.theatlantic.com)
  92. This Is Your Brain on Short-Form Video (www.theatlantic.com)
  93. Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous (www.theatlantic.com)
  94. Sample size needed for central limit theorem to kick in (freerangestats.info)
  95. TWiV 1357: Furin, Naturally with Paul Bieniasz (www.microbe.tv)
  96. TWiV 1356: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  97. The AI Pandemic Isn’t On Its Way (www.theatlantic.com)
  98. The Los Angeles Rams Are Trying to Defeat Time (www.theatlantic.com)