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1. What Having a Fake Disease Taught Me About Health Care (www.theatlantic.com)
2. What is “workflow” and why is it important? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3. An Underappreciated Variable in Sports Success (www.theatlantic.com)
4. The Two Sides of America’s Health Secretary (www.theatlantic.com)
5. It’s open season on the unabashedly earnest (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
6. Uh oh prediction markets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
7. RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For (www.theatlantic.com)
8. Survey Statistics: 4th helpings of the logit shift (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. The stories behind our published research from last year (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. Rotavirus Could Come Roaring Back—Very Soon (www.theatlantic.com)
11. Last post on the estimated effects of Mississippi school reforms (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
12. When in doubt (in teaching and in research) do a simulation on the computer. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
13. TWiV 1285: Encapsidating viruses 2025 (www.microbe.tv)
14. The combination of originality, ambition, and lack of scruple can take you far in social science. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. TWiV 1284: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
16. Barnard College president promotes free expression, does not comment on recent anti-free-expression policies at the college (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. Just Break Your New Year’s Resolution Now (www.theatlantic.com)
18. Pinning the group-level variance parameters to speed computation for hierarchical models (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
19. New Caledonia's nickel exports (freerangestats.info)
20. What we can remember (the vagaries of literary fame) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing, schoolyard evolutionary psychology, extra-sensory perception, magic golf balls, air rage, himmicanes, subliminal smiley faces, etc etc etc, has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
22. Survey Statistics: more adventures in mismeasured X (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. A funny mismatch between the level of the course and what the instructor is doing on the blackboard (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. The Trump Administration’s Most Paralyzing Blow to Science (www.theatlantic.com)
25. Immune 99: A Nobel for immune tolerance (www.microbe.tv)
26. How the covid vaccine almost killed me (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
27. Looking at the Port Huron Statement, 63 years later (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
28. TWiV 1273: Myocarditis and mimicry (www.microbe.tv)
29. “No one could suspect that times were coming . . . when the man who did not gamble would lose all the time, even more surely than he who gambled.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
30. TWiV 1282: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
31. How much of an NBA team’s won-loss record is from skill and how much is luck? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. If only Lee Bollinger (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
33. Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. Holiday open thread: Correct me! Point out all my mistakes. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. Survey Statistics: is a mismeasured X better than none at all ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. The problems with popular internet heuristics such as “Hanlon’s razor,” “steelmanning,” and “Godwin’s law,” all of which kind of fall apart in the presence of actual malice, actual bad ideas, and actual Nazis. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. I Bought ‘GLP-3’ (www.theatlantic.com)
38. Postdoc opportunity at Stanford and Chicago on Bayesian hierarchical modeling and partial pooling for improving the accuracy and equity of property tax assessments (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
39. Who else is in the goddam dictionary? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
40. “I think there’s an argument to be made that much meta-scientific work is a kind of mirror image of the empirical work it critiques” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. TWiV 1281: Sex, herpes, and plankton (www.microbe.tv)
42. The Island Without Time (www.theatlantic.com)
43. Hey, I’m in the dictionary (too!) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. Hey, I’m in the dictionary! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
45. TWiV 1280: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
46. Validating language models as study participants: How it’s being done, why it fails, and what works instead (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. What’s your Jordan3 number? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. The Trump Administration’s Unintended Autism Experiment (www.theatlantic.com)
49. The Risk of Trump’s Marijuana Order (www.theatlantic.com)
50. Everything I need to know I learned in Little League (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. “Re-examination of the 3/4-law of metabolism” and “Toward a metabolic theory of ecology” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. Measles’ Most Deceptive Trait (www.theatlantic.com)
53. We may live in a state of prosecutorial overcorrection, but I think it’s a dialectical response to the fact that the default position for a certain kind of celebrity scientist has usually been ferocious, uncritical defense. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
54. The Most Feared Person at the NIH Is a Vaccine Researcher Plucked From Obscurity (www.theatlantic.com)
55. Survey Statistics: 3rd helpings of the logit shift (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
56. Annals of idiot spam (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. The Big Tobacco Playbook Comes for Your Oreos (www.theatlantic.com)
58. Immune Booster 20: Lipid GPS for T cells with Susan Schwab (www.microbe.tv)
59. Simulating from and checking a model in Stan: It’s so easy in Stan Playground–it just runs on your browser! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
60. Who is the most famous living person who was born on each continent? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. Combining a high-quality probability sample with data from larger online panels (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
62. TWiV 1279: Let hepatitis b (www.microbe.tv)
63. The cathedral, the bazaar, and statistical workflow (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
64. TWiV 1278: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
65. If you’re interested in the Box-Cox power transformation . . . (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. Seven-parameter drift-diffusion pdfs and cdfs now in Stan (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
67. A slew of improvements to NUTS (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. “We conclude that apparent effects of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement are likely attributable to inadequate study design, reporting flaws, and bias.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. StanCon 2026 registration and abstract submission are now open (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. 25,000 lives saved per ship sunk, $100,000 per citation, a probability of 10^-90 of a decisive vote . . . Is there a through line from B.S. numbers in junk science to B.S. numbers coming from the government? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. Survey Statistics: divine probabilities (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
72. “it has been argued that current chatbots may pose a risk of amplifying delusional thinking in vulnerable users, due to their tendency to sycophantic and overly validating behaviour” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. More on school reform, this time New Orleans (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
74. My new class this spring: POLS 4280, Rationalizing the World: The Hopes and Disappointments of American Social Science from 1900 to the Present (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable (www.theatlantic.com)
76. Yes, Some Children May Have Died From COVID Shots (www.theatlantic.com)
77. The life of the artist “is a constant–and constantly losing–battle to keep at bay, on one side, the permanent shortfall of physical and mental abilities in the context of the perfection that art strives to be, and, on the other side, the inevitable arrival of silence and death.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. TWiV 1277: Vaccine talk with Jake Scott (www.microbe.tv)
79. TWiV 1276: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
80. The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone (www.theatlantic.com)
81. Net migration in Pacific island countries (freerangestats.info)
82. America Refuses to Go Bald (www.theatlantic.com)
83. TWiV 1275: An amazing sequence and a gutsy therapy (www.microbe.tv)
84. Visual summaries of population in Pacific islands (freerangestats.info)
85. TWiV 1274: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
86. You’re on Ozempic? How Quaint. (www.theatlantic.com)
87. A War on Facts About Thanksgiving Dinner (www.theatlantic.com)
88. Immune 98: T cells on the brain (www.microbe.tv)
89. Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right? (www.theatlantic.com)
90. TWiV 1273: EBV and lupus have not escaped our notice (www.microbe.tv)
91. TWiV 1272: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
92. Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes? (www.theatlantic.com)
93. Pour One Out for Weed Seltzer (www.theatlantic.com)
94. The CDC’s Website Is Anti-Vaccine Now (www.theatlantic.com)
95. RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading (www.theatlantic.com)
96. TWiV 1271: Hokies go viral II (www.microbe.tv)
97. TWiV 1270: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
98. Immune Booster 19: Virus-immune Tug-of-war with Kristian Andersen (www.microbe.tv)