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1. Why isn’t the Cramer-Rao lower bound invoked more in applied research? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2. The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About (www.theatlantic.com)
3. Immune Booster #10 HIV in the brain with Amanda Brown (www.microbe.tv)
4. How is the integrity crisis in business reporting like the integrity crisis in science? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5. 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)
6. TWiV 1201: Booster shots with Adam Ratner (www.microbe.tv)
7. Elections for the Stan Governing Body 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8. The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse (www.theatlantic.com)
9. Double Feature: Revolutionary Road and That Darned Chatbot (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. TWiV 1200: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
11. RFK Jr. Has Already Broken His Vaccine Promise (www.theatlantic.com)
12. The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’ (www.theatlantic.com)
13. Debate about “quantum supremacy” . . . whatever that is! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. Is conceptual purity the defining aesthetic in academic computer science? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. Intelligence as a personal attribute or as a way of being (a reflection on when intelligent people say stupid things) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. Those youth sports travel teams (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. StanBio Connect 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
18. A Great Way to Get Americans to Eat Worse (www.theatlantic.com)
19. America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease (www.theatlantic.com)
20. What does Jesus have to do with linear regression? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade (www.theatlantic.com)
22. Contestants and AI competitor predict cherry blossoms this month! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. The value of remembering past failures: the example of Mars One (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. TWiV 1199: Loosely contained (www.microbe.tv)
25. 70,000 Assyrians (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
26. TWiV 1198: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
27. “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)
28. America Is Botching Measles (www.theatlantic.com)
29. 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)
30. At the NIH, Intolerance Will No Longer Be Tolerated (www.theatlantic.com)
31. The Health Official Who Just Might Stand Up to RFK Jr. (www.theatlantic.com)
32. Playing music, listening to music, background music, talking about music (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
33. What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain (www.theatlantic.com)
34. 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)
35. One Potential Benefit of RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against Outside Influence (www.theatlantic.com)
36. My desert island discs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for the bus (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. “On or about December 2010 the behavioral sciences changed” and Eggers on The case against Hypothesis 1 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
39. TWiV 1197: The long and short of influenza (www.microbe.tv)
40. Positive but not perfect correlations in novel-writing and psychometrics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. TWiV 1196: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
42. The R-squared on this is kinda low, no? (Nobel prize edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
43. RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles (www.theatlantic.com)
44. Trump’s Cheat Code for Thinning Out the Health Agencies (www.theatlantic.com)
45. Inside the Collapse at the NIH (www.theatlantic.com)
46. The Problem With Optimism in a Crisis (www.theatlantic.com)
47. 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)
48. Grad School Is in Trouble (www.theatlantic.com)
49. Immune 89: Misplaced antibodies and foreign food foes (www.microbe.tv)
50. 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)
51. You can nominate someone for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. What is interesting writing and can LLMs create it? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
53. Beware scientists who don’t dogfood it. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
54. Entries due this Friday! Predict cherry blossom dates in five cities (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
55. Fiction and standup comedy (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
56. COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution (www.theatlantic.com)
57. Commissars screwing with the U.S. government don’t want us to see the data (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
58. TWiV 1195: Dickson Despommier, parasitologist without borders (www.microbe.tv)
59. Government Advances in Statistical Programming conference, 25-26 June 2025 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
60. “Why don’t machine learning and large language model evaluations report uncertainty?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. TWiV 1194: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
62. Approaching the singularity (not in a good way) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
63. Spared by DOGE—For Now (www.theatlantic.com)
64. Perfectly stable climates and other statistical myths (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. What are the modern myths? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials (www.theatlantic.com)
67. What are the grand challenges in Bayesian computation? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. Clive James on Charade: What to think when someone you admire has different tastes than you? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. I love reading old book reviews (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. The Coming Democratic Baby Bust (www.theatlantic.com)
71. When do stories seem real? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
72. TWiV 1193: HPV or not to B (www.microbe.tv)
73. A github utility to discover retracted articles in your .bib (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
74. 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)
75. TWiV 1192: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
76. The Erasing of American Science (www.theatlantic.com)
77. Maybe they should just write some papers about their priors and not mess around with actual data! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. Better priors for AR, ARX, LTX, DR, MA, ARMA, and VAR models (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
79. Flatiron-wide Autumn Meeting: talks are now online (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. The House Where 28,000 Records Burned (www.theatlantic.com)
81. The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now (www.theatlantic.com)
82. RFK Jr. Won. Now What? (www.theatlantic.com)
83. And if he does research on potassium, you can bet he’ll strike out in the lab’s softball game (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
84. 9 AI/ML/comp.stat./CS professor positions at Aalto University, Finland (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
85. “Research With the Reluctant: Challenges and Strategies” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
86. Posterior SBC: Simulation-Based Calibration Checking Conditional on Data (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
87. When is 60 the new 40? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
88. TWiV 1191: The pandemic duo (www.microbe.tv)
89. TWiV 1190: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
90. TWiV 1189: Viruses making waves (www.microbe.tv)
91. TWiV 1188: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
92. Immune 88: Bespoke antibodies and stinging erythropoiesis (www.microbe.tv)
93. TWiV 1187: The tau of herpesvirus (www.microbe.tv)
94. TWiV 1186: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
95. TWiV 1185: The birds and the Bs (www.microbe.tv)
96. TWiV 1184: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)