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- TWiV 1221: Nonsense mediated decay (www.microbe.tv)
- xkcd on radon (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- A Convenient Piece of Junk Science (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1220: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- “Exploratory data analysis” and “confirmatory data analysis” are the same thing. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- RFK Jr.’s Worst Nightmare (www.theatlantic.com)
- Eunji Kim’s book, “The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- COVID Shots for Kids Are Over (www.theatlantic.com)
- Prior as data, prior as belief, prior as soft constraint, prior as unconditional distribution in a generative model (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “What happened in 2024” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Trump Thinks He Knows What Started the Pandemic (www.theatlantic.com)
- “Can language models predict the next twist in a story?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Which AI coding assistant should I be using? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The MAHA Crowd Is Already Questioning Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis (www.theatlantic.com)
- Test Schedule (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- If only Arxiv required researchers to sign at the top rather than the bottom of the page, none of this would’ve happened. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Graduation Days: A tale of two campuses (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Why were schools so slow to return to in-person instruction? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1219: Koalas sweep horse shift (www.microbe.tv)
- An alternative Monty Hall problem. As with the usual Monty Hall problem, just set it up as a probability tree and it all works out (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Neo-Anti-Vaxxers Are in Power Now (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1218: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Struggles with surveying nonvoters and young voters (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Animated population pyramids for the Pacific (freerangestats.info)
- Too many polls: “As news consumers, we’re like gluttons stuffing our faces with 5 potato chips at a time, just grabbing them out of the bag.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There (www.theatlantic.com)
- Using Stan to do sequential Bayesian updating (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Lives They’re Living and this new biography of Elaine May (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Chaining Bayesian inference with priors constructed from posterior draws (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The fractal nature of scientific revolutions (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Immune Booster #12: Innate immunity to Archaea with Holger Heine (www.microbe.tv)
- Weight-Loss Drugs Aren’t Really About Weight (www.theatlantic.com)
- Bad advice all over the internet (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Plotting truth vs. predicted value (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1217: Alternative vax and pandemic origins (www.microbe.tv)
- A study is conducted on two groups. When does it make sense to report two separate estimates, and when does it make sense to just report the pooled estimate? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1216: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Back before he was a vaccine denier, law professor Richard Epstein was a cliche-spinning dispenser of misinformation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The MAHA Takeover Is Complete (www.theatlantic.com)
- Don’t Hold Out On Me: Some thoughts on out-of-sample prediction (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce (www.theatlantic.com)
- Misattribution (when someone claims you said something that you’ve never said)–it’s kind of like plagiarism in reverse. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- ‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’ (www.theatlantic.com)
- Evaluation blind spots and eliciting moving targets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “On Sociological Exploitation: Why the Guinea Pig Sometimes Bites” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Thomas Tu (www.microbe.tv)
- AISTATS ’25 Best Paper award—Margossian and Saul on exact recovery of means and correlation in VI (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- How the World Became Awash in Synthetics (www.theatlantic.com)
- Breakfast Is Breaking (www.theatlantic.com)
- I. J. Good corner: The flying Venus flytrap and other partly-baked ideas (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Books by Charles Rosen and Jeremy Denk on piano playing and the nature of music (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1215: What's the worst that could happen? (www.microbe.tv)
- (again) Yeah, yeah, I understand why you’re all talking about accusations of fraud. But for the rest of us, it’s about the non-replication and the bad science, not about possible fraud and blame (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1214: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Measurement error model Stan fitting struggle: The funnel again rears its ugly head (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Anticipated good news if the economy goes downhill (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Here’s what’s happening with time-shifting of births. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- What is judgment and decision making (JDM)? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Well, That’s One Way to Address America’s Vaping Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
- “They had it all but they wanted more”: Left-wing radicals in the 1960s and right-wingers now (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia (www.theatlantic.com)
- Of plagues and chickens: How can someone be so skeptical in one place and so credulous somewhere else? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Immune 91: People, parasites, plagues, and podcasts (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Chari Cohen (www.microbe.tv)
- Generalizing for Sampling and Causal Inference (my talk 3pm today at the University of Maryland) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The End of Chicken-Breast Dominance (www.theatlantic.com)
- I don’t buy that claim that “eating whole foods and avoiding toxins” is a “horseshoe” alliance of the far left and far right (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1213: Secrets of HepB cccDNA (www.microbe.tv)
- “Either a 2% or a 75% chance of rain” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1212: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- World Economic Outlook (freerangestats.info)
- The well-meaning but useless or counterproductive social science establishment (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Trump’s Tariffs Are Coming for Your Chili Crisp (www.theatlantic.com)
- Let’s take apart this claim by Christopher Lasch from 1977 that hasn’t aged well: “Such changes have made both racist ideology and the ideology of martial conquest, appropriate to an earlier age of empire-building, increasingly anachronistic.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- ‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’ (www.theatlantic.com)
- “The difference between ‘significant’ and ‘not significant’ is not itself statistically significant” . . . in the wild! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment? (www.theatlantic.com)
- Friday 10am: Online conversation on “Experiments, Causal Inference, and Limits of Evidence” with Nancy Cartwright and Berna Devezer (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Good Job, MAHA (www.theatlantic.com)
- The Error-Reversal Heuristic: How would you have reacted had the mistake gone in the opposite direction? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Stephan Urban (www.microbe.tv)
- New course this fall at Columbia: Laboratory in Justice Data Science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- What day of the year will have the fewest noninduced births? (Difference between mathematical and statistical reasoning) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Intergenerational socioeconomic mobility over time for different ethnic groups (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1211: Moo flu and dengue two (www.microbe.tv)
- Buy your Tesla at closing time: For 15 years, these stocks have been mildly fluctuating during the day and shooting up overnight. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1210: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Doxastic Logic: a model of beliefs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen (www.theatlantic.com)
- How Organ Meat Got Into Smoothies (www.theatlantic.com)
- ‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’ (www.theatlantic.com)
- Do You Have Your Cootie Shot? (www.theatlantic.com)
- Republicans Are Right About Soda (www.theatlantic.com)
- TWiV 1209: Just say no to norovirus (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1208: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Immune Booster #11 Immunity to Fungi with Amy Hise (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1207: Taking a shot at dementia (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1206: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1205: Pluviosity didn't kill the bat (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1204: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)