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  1. Fitting a model to estimate the seats-votes curve, back in the bad old days before we had Stan (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  2. Survey Statistics: Gallup’s Presidential Approval Ratings (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  3. An Olympic Trend That Defies Tradition (www.theatlantic.com)
  4. The Atlantic Monthly, March, 1947 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  5. Pacific diaspora (freerangestats.info)
  6. Immune Booster 23: Critical windows during immune system development with Anna Beaudin (www.microbe.tv)
  7. 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)
  8. Hanging out: An observational study (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  9. Funniest predatory-journal pitch ever (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  10. Their Mutated Genes Were Supposed to Be Harmless (www.theatlantic.com)
  11. The world's biggest 'Pacific' cities (freerangestats.info)
  12. TWiV 1297: Spillover squirrel (www.microbe.tv)
  13. The stupidity, the criminal vandalism, the wanton destruction of information involved in dichotomisation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  14. What to do in 2026: Your statistics diary (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  15. TWiV 1296: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  16. Our sanctimonious Epstein-associated overlords (Kenneth Starr edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  17. What a multiverse good for anyway? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  18. The New York Young Republican Club, but this time with no butt plugs or dildos (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  19. Scientists Figured Out the Problem With Johnson & Johnson’s COVID Vaccine (www.theatlantic.com)
  20. The fifth annual Cherry Blossom Prediction Competition is open! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  21. Sethi on “Betting on Geopolitical Violence” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  22. Survey Statistics: more on recalled vote (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  23. 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)
  24. Immune Booster #22 T cell signaling and selection with Leslie Berg (www.microbe.tv)
  25. A consensus–but it’s a consensus of uncertainty. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  26. How America Got So Sick (www.theatlantic.com)
  27. Everything I ever needed to know in life I learned from the men in the Epstein files (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  28. GLP-1 Envy Was Just the Beginning (www.theatlantic.com)
  29. 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)
  30. TWiV 1295: Are YOU willing to take one for the team? (www.microbe.tv)
  31. Hey, here’s $100,000 down the drain! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  32. Visualising income inequality social tables (freerangestats.info)
  33. TWiV 1294: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  34. The Real Winner of TrumpRx (www.theatlantic.com)
  35. 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)
  36. Sunstein on Kissinger: No opinion on the whole war criminal thing, but the generosity that he showed when talking about Star Wars [the movie, not the weapons program] was “incomparable” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  37. The Only Thing That Will Turn Measles Back (www.theatlantic.com)
  38. Softly, effectively, in the age of genAI (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  39. “Statistics is widely understood to provide a body of techniques for ‘modeling data.'” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  40. Survey Statistics: 5 flavors of calibration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  41. The Logical End Point of ‘America First’ Foreign Aid (www.theatlantic.com)
  42. “Parallelizing MCMC Across the Sequence Length”: This one is really cool. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  43. The Longevity Influencer Who Went Into ‘Withdrawal’ Without Jeffrey Epstein (www.theatlantic.com)
  44. Postdoc in Milan on scalability for high-dimensional Bayesian learning (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  45. A counterintuitive example where a strong prior pulls an estimate in the wrong direction–and how to see the problem (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  46. For God’s sake, don’t donate to the “International Peace Institute”! (unless you want to pay for corrupt assholes to fly first class around the world to give speeches about how everyone needs to tighten their belts) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  47. TWiV 1293: The enemy of your parasite is your friend (www.microbe.tv)
  48. From the Mixed-Up Files of Jeffrey E. Epstein (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  49. The pantheon of celebrity billionaires (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  50. TWiV 1292: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  51. A Stan transpiler in Julia! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  52. T-Maxxing Has Gone Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)
  53. We’re looking for nominations for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  54. Not quite adversarial collaboration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  55. Polio Was That Bad (www.theatlantic.com)
  56. America’s Convenience-Store Conundrum (www.theatlantic.com)
  57. OK, I reread that classic paper by Paul Meehl, and . . . (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  58. Postdoctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania on the study of political information (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  59. Survey Statistics: Total Margin of Error II (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  60. Immune 100: Immune turns 100! (www.microbe.tv)
  61. How the new era of CEO supervillains are trapped in their own ideology (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  62. South Carolina Is America’s New Measles Norm (www.theatlantic.com)
  63. Machine learning research is not serious research and therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees a prestigious group of machine learning researchers (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  64. Science vs. superstition and the pluralist’s dilemma (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  65. Post-doc positions in Finland (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  66. The myth of wage compensation for hazardous work rears its ugly head: This NYT article has been engineered to annoy economist Peter Dorman. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  67. TWiV 1291: A foot in the door for cytomegalovirus (www.microbe.tv)
  68. “Harvard dean made $150,000 as witness in Tylenol suits” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  69. TWiV 1290: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  70. What’s the gender gap? Concerns about analyses using the Cooperative Election Study (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  71. America’s Real ‘Secretary of War’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  72. A decision theorist walks into a seminar (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  73. This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  74. What, a coincidence? What a coincidence! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  75. 200,000 comments (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  76. Survey Statistics: Total Margin of Error (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  77. Once more about the z-curve method (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  78. America’s Would-Be Surgeon General Says to Trust Your ‘Heart Intelligence’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  79. Two workflow challenges from 2012 that were solved as a byproduct of something else (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  80. Why the Trump Administration Is Obsessed With Whole Milk (www.theatlantic.com)
  81. TWiV 1289: Building a better hepatitis B trap (www.microbe.tv)
  82. TWiV 1288: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  83. High January Was Bound to Happen (www.theatlantic.com)
  84. The New Food-Stamp Rules Will Make Your Head Spin (www.theatlantic.com)
  85. A Different Type of ‘Muscle Memory’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  86. Immune Booster 21: Origins of antigen receptors with David Schatz (www.microbe.tv)
  87. The Best Flu Drug Americans Aren’t Taking (www.theatlantic.com)
  88. TWiV 1287: Ancient herpesviruses and modern dementia (www.microbe.tv)
  89. The Flu Really Is That Bad (www.theatlantic.com)
  90. America Has Entered Late-Stage Protein (www.theatlantic.com)
  91. TWiV 1286: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  92. The Bones of Children’s Mouths Are Being Wrenched Apart (www.theatlantic.com)
  93. Eat More Deer (www.theatlantic.com)
  94. What Having a Fake Disease Taught Me About Health Care (www.theatlantic.com)
  95. TWiV 1285: Encapsidating viruses 2025 (www.microbe.tv)
  96. TWiV 1284: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  97. New Caledonia's nickel exports (freerangestats.info)
  98. Immune 99: A Nobel for immune tolerance (www.microbe.tv)
  99. TWiV 1273: Myocarditis and mimicry (www.microbe.tv)
  100. TWiV 1282: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  101. TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton (www.microbe.tv)