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- Why isn’t the Cramer-Rao lower bound invoked more in applied research? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About (www.theatlantic.com)
- Immune Booster #10 HIV in the brain with Amanda Brown (www.microbe.tv)
- How is the integrity crisis in business reporting like the integrity crisis in science? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- What’s the best artistic/literary format for conveying the feel of the slacker lifestyle? Two slacker stories by Lucy Sante and Matt Madden. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1201: Booster shots with Adam Ratner (www.microbe.tv)
- Elections for the Stan Governing Body 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse (www.theatlantic.com)
- Double Feature: Revolutionary Road and That Darned Chatbot (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1200: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- RFK Jr. Has Already Broken His Vaccine Promise (www.theatlantic.com)
- The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’ (www.theatlantic.com)
- Debate about “quantum supremacy” . . . whatever that is! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Is conceptual purity the defining aesthetic in academic computer science? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Intelligence as a personal attribute or as a way of being (a reflection on when intelligent people say stupid things) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Those youth sports travel teams (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- StanBio Connect 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- A Great Way to Get Americans to Eat Worse (www.theatlantic.com)
- America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease (www.theatlantic.com)
- What does Jesus have to do with linear regression? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade (www.theatlantic.com)
- Contestants and AI competitor predict cherry blossoms this month! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The value of remembering past failures: the example of Mars One (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1199: Loosely contained (www.microbe.tv)
- 70,000 Assyrians (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1198: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- “A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”: “Committing fraud is, right now, a viable career strategy that can propel you at the top of the academic world.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- America Is Botching Measles (www.theatlantic.com)
- The answer to the how-many-significant-digits problem is the same as the answer to the what-to-graph problem: The click-through solution (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- At the NIH, Intolerance Will No Longer Be Tolerated (www.theatlantic.com)
- The Health Official Who Just Might Stand Up to RFK Jr. (www.theatlantic.com)
- Playing music, listening to music, background music, talking about music (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain (www.theatlantic.com)
- No, an election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up.” No, the election forecasters in 2024 did not say, “Whatever happened, it was supposed to be razor thin.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- One Potential Benefit of RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against Outside Influence (www.theatlantic.com)
- My desert island discs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for the bus (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “On or about December 2010 the behavioral sciences changed” and Eggers on The case against Hypothesis 1 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1197: The long and short of influenza (www.microbe.tv)
- Positive but not perfect correlations in novel-writing and psychometrics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1196: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- The R-squared on this is kinda low, no? (Nobel prize edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles (www.theatlantic.com)
- Trump’s Cheat Code for Thinning Out the Health Agencies (www.theatlantic.com)
- Inside the Collapse at the NIH (www.theatlantic.com)
- The Problem With Optimism in a Crisis (www.theatlantic.com)
- Experts can see for miles; non-experts are walking around in the tall grass and can’t see past their next step. When it comes to geometry, I’m no expert. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Grad School Is in Trouble (www.theatlantic.com)
- Immune 89: Misplaced antibodies and foreign food foes (www.microbe.tv)
- Our proposal for scheduled post-publication review: “Even if each review took twice the effort of the average pre-publication review, our system would add only 1 percent to the total reviewing effort, while providing important perspectives on papers representing more than one-quarter of the citations received by these influential journals.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- You can nominate someone for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- What is interesting writing and can LLMs create it? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Beware scientists who don’t dogfood it. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Entries due this Friday! Predict cherry blossom dates in five cities (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Fiction and standup comedy (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution (www.theatlantic.com)
- Commissars screwing with the U.S. government don’t want us to see the data (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1195: Dickson Despommier, parasitologist without borders (www.microbe.tv)
- Government Advances in Statistical Programming conference, 25-26 June 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “Why don’t machine learning and large language model evaluations report uncertainty?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1194: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Approaching the singularity (not in a good way) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Spared by DOGE—For Now (www.theatlantic.com)
- Perfectly stable climates and other statistical myths (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- What are the modern myths? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials (www.theatlantic.com)
- What are the grand challenges in Bayesian computation? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Clive James on Charade: What to think when someone you admire has different tastes than you? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- I love reading old book reviews (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The Coming Democratic Baby Bust (www.theatlantic.com)
- When do stories seem real? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1193: HPV or not to B (www.microbe.tv)
- A github utility to discover retracted articles in your .bib (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Conflicts of interest in vaping studies. (Yes, researchers will risk their professional reputations out of some combination of political motivations, irritation, and money.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1192: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- The Erasing of American Science (www.theatlantic.com)
- Maybe they should just write some papers about their priors and not mess around with actual data! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Better priors for AR, ARX, LTX, DR, MA, ARMA, and VAR models (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Flatiron-wide Autumn Meeting: talks are now online (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- The House Where 28,000 Records Burned (www.theatlantic.com)
- The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now (www.theatlantic.com)
- RFK Jr. Won. Now What? (www.theatlantic.com)
- And if he does research on potassium, you can bet he’ll strike out in the lab’s softball game (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- 9 AI/ML/comp.stat./CS professor positions at Aalto University, Finland (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- “Research With the Reluctant: Challenges and Strategies” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- Posterior SBC: Simulation-Based Calibration Checking Conditional on Data (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- When is 60 the new 40? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
- TWiV 1191: The pandemic duo (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1190: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1189: Viruses making waves (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1188: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- Immune 88: Bespoke antibodies and stinging erythropoiesis (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1187: The tau of herpesvirus (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1186: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1185: The birds and the Bs (www.microbe.tv)
- TWiV 1184: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)