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  1. People keep sending me AI slop that they want me to post on the blog. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  2. “Sane-washing” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  3. TWiV 1347: No Short Answers for Long COVID (www.microbe.tv)
  4. “Denial, when you are not part of it, is actually a terrifying thing. One watches one’s fellow humans doing things that will damage themselves, while being wholly unable to help.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  5. TWiV 1346: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  6. How to avoid the “clean data, clean model” trap when teaching statistics and data science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  7. The Most Basic Step of the Ebola Response Is Falling Short (www.theatlantic.com)
  8. NZ and US petrol ('gasoline') and diesel prices (freerangestats.info)
  9. Running From a Fire Should Not Be This Routine (www.theatlantic.com)
  10. The blessing of dimensionality (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  11. Manned Mars Mission Miscellanea (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  12. Survey Statistics: structured MRP to smooth survey weights (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  13. Walnutpie version 0.0.1 Released (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  14. “In that era, undergrad males at Madison and elsewhere, had to take ROTC classes, and he kept intentionally failing them because he was very leftwing politically.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  15. Stand-up comedy—like teaching, and book writing—requires “a collaboration with the audience.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  16. Immune Booster 33: Immunity to pesky parasites and peanuts with Scott Smith (www.microbe.tv)
  17. Kill the Ticks (www.theatlantic.com)
  18. “Placebo tests deserve a model, not just a glance.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  19. What gets you is not what you don’t know but what you don’t know you don’t know. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  20. TWiV 1345: Rocky Mountain Virology High (www.microbe.tv)
  21. Why quantitative understanding of effect sizes matters, even if all you care about is the presence of the effect (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  22. TWiV 1344: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  23. What do we learn from bestseller regressions? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  24. US oil stocks (freerangestats.info)
  25. The Real Antidepressant Crisis (www.theatlantic.com)
  26. Posterior predictive checking is for non-Bayesians too! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  27. The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs (www.theatlantic.com)
  28. “Over-coverage caught by pre-registration: 47 of 56 inside a stated 50% interval” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  29. What Anthony Fauci Didn’t Say (www.theatlantic.com)
  30. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness: Richard Yates and the tragedy of agency (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  31. Survey Statistics: equivalent models, equivalent weights (locally) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  32. Selection effects can go both ways (for taxi drivers as well as the rest of us) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  33. The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci (www.theatlantic.com)
  34. Immune 106: Science and podcasting with Kathryn Knoop and Marion Brunck (www.microbe.tv)
  35. He fit the same statistical models with three different software and got much different estimates. It’s another dimension of the multiverse. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  36. People sometimes talk about “the Jewish vote,” but what’s relevant is not really the Jewish vote or Jewish public opinion; it’s really about campaign contributions and the news media. Also similar with Mormons. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  37. TWiV 1343: Batting averages and stolen bases (www.microbe.tv)
  38. I don’t see journal review as a gatekeeping process that will keep erroneous articles from being published (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  39. TWiV 1342: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  40. America Is About to Go Over a Peptide Cliff (www.theatlantic.com)
  41. How generic language shapes the development of social thought (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  42. Pretty maps of the NY mayoral election vote. (The meta-point here is that people have a (false) intuition that any complicated piece of information can be conveyed in a single plot.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  43. The Worst Part of the Cyclosporiasis Response (www.theatlantic.com)
  44. He “washed his hands in a can of tetraethyl lead at a press conference, claiming he was ‘not taking any chance whatever’. He knew this to be a lie, having already succumbed to a bout of lead poisoning.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  45. Survey Statistics: poststratification without population level information (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  46. Was this USDA survey really “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous”? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  47. Immune Booster 32: Natural infection versus vaccine protection with Jenna Guthmiller (www.microbe.tv)
  48. Rebecca Makkai points out: Fancy three-dimensional sets are easier to construct in books than in movies, but harder to explain (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  49. Ted-talking University of California professor asks sex trafficker for $3,000,000 because he thinks there’s a “50% chance” he’ll make “important discoveries” in telepathy (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  50. TWiV 1341: Phage breaks and COVID origins (www.microbe.tv)
  51. It’s all about the Super Pacs: How the New York Times completely misreported campaign contributions in the Maine Senate race (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  52. More scientists in the Epstein files, including a roboticist and an ESP researcher (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  53. TWiV 1340: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  54. Just Ask the Dinosaurs How Bad Air Quality Can Get (www.theatlantic.com)
  55. Cyclosporiasis Is Solved! Right? (www.theatlantic.com)
  56. Herman Chernoff (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  57. The Lessons About Ebola the U.S. Wants to Forget (www.theatlantic.com)
  58. Reviews of our Bayesian Workflow book from Bin Yu, David Spiegelhalter, Brad Efron, Christian Robert, Rohan Alexander, and Mine Doğucu! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  59. Pete Hegseth Wants YOU to Test Your Testosterone (www.theatlantic.com)
  60. All the Cool Kids Are Birding (www.theatlantic.com)
  61. A ranked-choice election in Maine: Using voting data to understand preferences (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  62. Survey Statistics: quantifying uncertainty in ranked choice voting polls (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  63. “Making Statistics Work: Information Theory and Bayesian Inference” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  64. It’s all about the nonlinearity: An interesting statistical example of flaws in a voter impact index (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  65. “Archaeology can’t give social scientists population or GDP, but here are some things we can measure that might be useful for social science.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  66. TWiV 1339: Ebola up close with Tom Ksiazek (www.microbe.tv)
  67. “More bad science from JAMA” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  68. America’s Homegrown-Parasite Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
  69. TWiV 1338: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  70. 18 Associate Editors resign from Statistics and Computing editorial board: Problems with commercial scholarly publishing, and what does this all mean? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  71. The Newest Way to Go Analog (www.theatlantic.com)
  72. “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  73. Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  74. Crude oil stocks at Cushing, Oklahoma (freerangestats.info)
  75. Survey Statistics: toy example for energy balancing weights (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  76. Claude builds 3D Hamiltonian Monte Carlo animation in one shot with anaglyphs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  77. Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun (www.theatlantic.com)
  78. The Genes That Could Cancel Out a Fatal Diagnosis (www.theatlantic.com)
  79. A message for Carol Tavris (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  80. Turning chaotic sensitivity from a bug into a feature: Using physical modeling and deep learning to alter the paths of storms and mitigate extreme weather events (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  81. The NIH wants to “Measure and Reward Scientific Impact and Replicable Research Practices.” Here’s my recommendation to the NIH director: you can start by no longer suppressing government reports whose conclusions happen to not be in accord with your ideological preferences. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  82. TWiV 1337: The whitefly and the Red Queen (www.microbe.tv)
  83. 2015-vintage replication-crisis-era junk science floats into the news (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  84. TWiV 1336: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  85. A new episode in the Francesca Gino case (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  86. The high cost of split R-hat (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  87. At Least You’re Not Playing in the World Cup Right Now (www.theatlantic.com)
  88. Immune 105: Tumor bacteria undermine immunotherapy (www.microbe.tv)
  89. TWiV Special: Albert Sabin with Karen Torghele (www.microbe.tv)
  90. TWiV 1335: TldR, bacterial hot rods and nullifying norovirus (www.microbe.tv)
  91. The Beef Administration’s Blind Spot (www.theatlantic.com)
  92. Long term economic growth rates (freerangestats.info)
  93. TWiV 1334: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  94. TWiV 1334: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  95. Europe’s Come-to-AC Moment (www.theatlantic.com)
  96. A Fancy Name for Junk Food (www.theatlantic.com)
  97. Immune Booster 31: NOD-like receptor discovery with Gabriel Nunez (www.microbe.tv)
  98. United Kingdom prime ministers (freerangestats.info)
  99. TWiV 1333: STING like a nanoparticle, float like HIV (www.microbe.tv)
  100. TWiV Special: Ebola virus and Andes virus with John Dye (www.microbe.tv)
  101. Are GLP-1s Performance-Enhancing Drugs? (www.theatlantic.com)
  102. TWiV 1332: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  103. AI Is Taking Over Hospitals (www.theatlantic.com)
  104. TWiV 1331: A drug for cervical cancer (www.microbe.tv)
  105. Seasonal adjustment (freerangestats.info)
  106. TWiV 1330: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  107. The New Science of Psychedelic Drugs (www.theatlantic.com)