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  1. Postdoctoral research position at Princeton on psychological processes related to time (such as impatience and present bias) and their causes and political consequences. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  2. More UFO bullshit in our science-media-industrial complex. (Yeah, there’s a reason this blog has a Zombies category.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  3. Survey Statistics: Blue Rose Research is hiring again ! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  4. New course on generative AI for behavioral science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  5. Salinger. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  6. The Fight Over Tylenol and Autism Just Got Messier (www.theatlantic.com)
  7. “The idea of Israel” . . . more generally, The idea of X, for different values of X (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  8. Authors of the class “Lorrie Moore” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  9. TWiV 1303: Overachieving vaccines (www.microbe.tv)
  10. Bayesian inferences and frequentist evaluations (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  11. Pacific island remittances (freerangestats.info)
  12. TWiV 1302: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  13. More on making a killing from prediction markets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  14. Jay Bhattacharya Might Get His COVID Capstone (www.theatlantic.com)
  15. The Trump Administration Is Trying to Have Its Vaccine Policy Both Ways (www.theatlantic.com)
  16. Making a killing from prediction markets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  17. Missing forecasts (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  18. Ethics corner: “As a statistical consultant, if you’re a co-author on a substantive paper, is it your duty to ensure that all the possible statistical concerns you could imagine are addressed?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  19. Survey Statistics: sampling-weighted loss (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  20. American Snacking Habits Are Transforming the Restaurant Industry (www.theatlantic.com)
  21. “The inner workings of a scam” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  22. Immune Booster 24: Tolerating pregnancy with Gabrielle Rizzuto (www.microbe.tv)
  23. Olympic memories (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  24. The Impossible Predicament of the Uninsured (www.theatlantic.com)
  25. Remembering David MacKay (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  26. TWiV 1301: Lost in giant virus translation (www.microbe.tv)
  27. Herrenvolk democracy and objections to ethnic political representation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  28. Four Conditions Make Cash Transfers Save Lives (www.theatlantic.com)
  29. Pacific island population pyramids (again) (freerangestats.info)
  30. TWiV 1300: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  31. Hey! What the Froot was up with this Harvard website? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  32. Journalists and the people they interview: The individual contract and the social contract (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  33. Well, That Didn’t Sound Like Casey Means (www.theatlantic.com)
  34. Is It Aging, or Is It ADHD? (www.theatlantic.com)
  35. The Skin-Care Industry Is Coming for Toddlers (www.theatlantic.com)
  36. Axel F meets Samuel Beckett in The Lifestyles of the Rich and Tenured (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  37. Survey Statistics: sampling to assess data quality (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  38. ‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  39. Edward Tufte on graphs as comparisons (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  40. The Deaths Doctors Never Thought They’d See in the U.S. (www.theatlantic.com)
  41. Immune 101: Ink and immunity (www.microbe.tv)
  42. Living the metascience dream (or nightmare) with AI for science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  43. Hey, self-publishers! It seems that you are getting scammed. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  44. The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives (www.theatlantic.com)
  45. “Giving less power to statistical power” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  46. The Protein-Bar Delusion (www.theatlantic.com)
  47. TWiV 1299: Moth balls and blood clots (www.microbe.tv)
  48. Computing pi by flipping a coin (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  49. Hey! I almost got scammed by Google. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  50. TWiV 1298: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  51. From junk science (largely non-political) to junk medical treatments (mostly associated with the far-right): A financial connection (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  52. Let’s Talk About RFK Jr.’s Workout Pants (www.theatlantic.com)
  53. What do Socrates, Herb Simon, and Andrew Gelman have in common? A love of the oral tradition (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  54. The Longevity Scam (www.theatlantic.com)
  55. The 80% power lie (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  56. Fitting a model to estimate the seats-votes curve, back in the bad old days before we had Stan (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  57. Survey Statistics: Gallup’s Presidential Approval Ratings (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  58. An Olympic Trend That Defies Tradition (www.theatlantic.com)
  59. The Atlantic Monthly, March, 1947 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  60. Pacific diaspora (freerangestats.info)
  61. Immune Booster 23: Critical windows during immune system development with Anna Beaudin (www.microbe.tv)
  62. My online talk Tues 24 Feb, 9am NY time at the Behind-the-Scenes seminar series: Russian Roulette and stochastic potential outcomes (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  63. Hanging out: An observational study (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  64. Funniest predatory-journal pitch ever (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  65. The world's biggest 'Pacific' cities (freerangestats.info)
  66. Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless (www.theatlantic.com)
  67. TWiV 1297: Spillover squirrel (www.microbe.tv)
  68. The stupidity, the criminal vandalism, the wanton destruction of information involved in dichotomisation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  69. What to do in 2026: Your statistics diary (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  70. TWiV 1296: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  71. Our sanctimonious Epstein-associated overlords (Kenneth Starr edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  72. What a multiverse good for anyway? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  73. The New York Young Republican Club, but this time with no butt plugs or dildos (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  74. Scientists Figured Out the Problem With Johnson & Johnson’s COVID Vaccine (www.theatlantic.com)
  75. The fifth annual Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition is open! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  76. Sethi on “Betting on Geopolitical Violence” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  77. Survey Statistics: more on recalled vote (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  78. Some Open Problems in Probability that are Relevant to Applied Statistics (my talk this Wed noon at the Columbia statistics department student seminar) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  79. Immune Booster #22 T cell signaling and selection with Leslie Berg (www.microbe.tv)
  80. A consensus–but it’s a consensus of uncertainty. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  81. How America Got So Sick (www.theatlantic.com)
  82. Everything I ever needed to know in life I learned from the men in the Epstein files (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  83. GLP-1 Envy Was Just the Beginning (www.theatlantic.com)
  84. Review of string theory book from 2004 brings up interesting questions regarding age-period-cohort effects in the sociology of science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  85. TWiV 1295: Are YOU willing to take one for the team? (www.microbe.tv)
  86. Hey, here’s $100,000 down the drain! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  87. Visualising income inequality social tables (freerangestats.info)
  88. TWiV 1294: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  89. The Real Winner of TrumpRx (www.theatlantic.com)
  90. The anti-Bayesian is standing at the back window with a shotgun, scanning for priors coming over the hill, while a million assumptions just walk right into his house through the front door. (also, an interesting point by Yann LeCun in 2012 about human language) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  91. The Only Thing That Will Turn Measles Back (www.theatlantic.com)
  92. The Logical End Point of ‘America First’ Foreign Aid (www.theatlantic.com)
  93. The Longevity Influencer Who Went Into ‘Withdrawal’ Without Jeffrey Epstein (www.theatlantic.com)
  94. TWiV 1293: The enemy of your parasite is your friend (www.microbe.tv)
  95. TWiV 1292: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  96. T-Maxxing Has Gone Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)
  97. Immune 100: Immune turns 100! (www.microbe.tv)
  98. TWiV 1291: A foot in the door for cytomegalovirus (www.microbe.tv)
  99. TWiV 1290: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  100. TWiV 1289: Building a better hepatitis B trap (www.microbe.tv)
  101. TWiV 1288: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  102. Immune Booster 21: Origins of antigen receptors with David Schatz (www.microbe.tv)
  103. TWiV 1287: Ancient herpesviruses and modern dementia (www.microbe.tv)