News

1. The Meme-Washing of RFK Jr. (www.theatlantic.com)
2. How earthquake safe are Vancouver condos? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3. Space mirrors: Awesome solution to our energy problems, or ridiculous public relations stunt? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. TWiV 1307: My heart breaks for flu (www.microbe.tv)
5. Claimed “100% sensitivity and specificity in differentiating autistic individuals from typically developing controls using retinal photographs” . . . yeah, right. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
6. Pacific island demograpy, the narrative (freerangestats.info)
7. TWiV 1306: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
8. Nutpie: state-of-the-art mass matrix adaptation for HMC (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. A data model is not just a “likelihood” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. There’s Only One Reason to Cold Plunge (www.theatlantic.com)
11. I don’t like the Wikipedia definition of Bayesian statistics. The Merriam-Webster definition is much better! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
12. A New Level of Vaccine Purgatory (www.theatlantic.com)
13. New features in Stan Playground! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. Survey Statistics: individualism doesn’t work (even when weighted) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. Girls’ Sports Are Getting More Physical (www.theatlantic.com)
16. Fascist academics today and communist academics in the 1930s-1950s (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. Immune Booster 25: Out of the anti-vax woods with Ellen Woods (www.microbe.tv)
18. Another reason to hate on prediction markets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
19. “Which means that I’m qualified to write books on the topic and go on NPR regularly and give Ted talks and advise the government, but that’s about it.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
20. The Peptide Boom Is Getting Out of Hand (www.theatlantic.com)
21. What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind (www.theatlantic.com)
22. It’s . . . speciation time! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. TWiV 1305: Lab leak idea called on the carpet (www.microbe.tv)
24. The paradox of derivatives and integrals (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. TWiV 1304: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
26. The Effect of High-Tech Statistical Analysis on the P-values of Top Researchers (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
27. The Dieting Myth That Just Won’t Die (www.theatlantic.com)
28. Being picky and careful pays off! (Utah redistricting story) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
29. Florida Is Trying to Ignore Measles Until It Can’t (www.theatlantic.com)
30. SparseNUTS: Preconditioning hierarchical models in HMC with a sparse “Laplace approximation” at the marginal mode (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. Ted Williams and Me (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. One Food All Americans Can Agree On (www.theatlantic.com)
33. CMU finally shows up in Epstein files (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. Postdoctoral research position at Princeton on psychological processes related to time (such as impatience and present bias) and their causes and political consequences. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. More UFO bullshit in our science-media-industrial complex. (Yeah, there’s a reason this blog has a Zombies category.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
36. Survey Statistics: Blue Rose Research is hiring again ! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. New course on generative AI for behavioral science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. Salinger. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
39. The Fight Over Tylenol and Autism Just Got Messier (www.theatlantic.com)
40. “The idea of Israel” . . . more generally, The idea of X, for different values of X (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. Authors of the class “Lorrie Moore” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. TWiV 1303: Overachieving vaccines (www.microbe.tv)
43. Bayesian inferences and frequentist evaluations (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. TWiV 1302: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
45. Pacific island remittances (freerangestats.info)
46. More on making a killing from prediction markets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. Jay Bhattacharya Might Get His COVID Capstone (www.theatlantic.com)
48. The Trump Administration Is Trying to Have Its Vaccine Policy Both Ways (www.theatlantic.com)
49. Making a killing from prediction markets (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. Missing forecasts (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. Ethics corner: “As a statistical consultant, if you’re a co-author on a substantive paper, is it your duty to ensure that all the possible statistical concerns you could imagine are addressed?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. Survey Statistics: sampling-weighted loss (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
53. American Snacking Habits Are Transforming the Restaurant Industry (www.theatlantic.com)
54. “The inner workings of a scam” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
55. Immune Booster 24: Tolerating pregnancy with Gabrielle Rizzuto (www.microbe.tv)
56. Olympic memories (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. The Impossible Predicament of the Uninsured (www.theatlantic.com)
58. Remembering David MacKay (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
59. TWiV 1301: Lost in giant virus translation (www.microbe.tv)
60. Herrenvolk democracy and objections to ethnic political representation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. Four Conditions Make Cash Transfers Save Lives (www.theatlantic.com)
62. Pacific island population pyramids (again) (freerangestats.info)
63. TWiV 1300: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
64. Hey! What the Froot was up with this Harvard website? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. Journalists and the people they interview: The individual contract and the social contract (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. Well, That Didn’t Sound Like Casey Means (www.theatlantic.com)
67. Is It Aging, or Is It ADHD? (www.theatlantic.com)
68. The Skin-Care Industry Is Coming for Toddlers (www.theatlantic.com)
69. Axel F meets Samuel Beckett in The Lifestyles of the Rich and Tenured (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. Survey Statistics: sampling to assess data quality (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. ‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’ (www.theatlantic.com)
72. Edward Tufte on graphs as comparisons (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. The Deaths Doctors Never Thought They’d See in the U.S. (www.theatlantic.com)
74. Immune 101: Ink and immunity (www.microbe.tv)
75. Living the metascience dream (or nightmare) with AI for science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
76. Hey, self-publishers! It seems that you are getting scammed. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
77. The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives (www.theatlantic.com)
78. “Giving less power to statistical power” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
79. The Protein-Bar Delusion (www.theatlantic.com)
80. TWiV 1299: Moth balls and blood clots (www.microbe.tv)
81. Computing pi by flipping a coin (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. Hey! I almost got scammed by Google. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
83. TWiV 1298: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
84. From junk science (largely non-political) to junk medical treatments (mostly associated with the far-right): A financial connection (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
85. Let’s Talk About RFK Jr.’s Workout Pants (www.theatlantic.com)
86. What do Socrates, Herb Simon, and Andrew Gelman have in common? A love of the oral tradition (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
87. The Longevity Scam (www.theatlantic.com)
88. The 80% power lie (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
89. Fitting a model to estimate the seats-votes curve, back in the bad old days before we had Stan (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
90. Survey Statistics: Gallup’s Presidential Approval Ratings (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
91. An Olympic Trend That Defies Tradition (www.theatlantic.com)
92. Pacific diaspora (freerangestats.info)
93. Immune Booster 23: Critical windows during immune system development with Anna Beaudin (www.microbe.tv)
94. The world's biggest 'Pacific' cities (freerangestats.info)
95. TWiV 1297: Spillover squirrel (www.microbe.tv)
96. TWiV 1296: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
97. Immune Booster #22 T cell signaling and selection with Leslie Berg (www.microbe.tv)
98. TWiV 1295: Are YOU willing to take one for the team? (www.microbe.tv)
99. Visualising income inequality social tables (freerangestats.info)
100. TWiV 1294: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
101. TWiV 1293: The enemy of your parasite is your friend (www.microbe.tv)
102. TWiV 1292: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
103. Immune 100: Immune turns 100! (www.microbe.tv)
104. TWiV 1291: A foot in the door for cytomegalovirus (www.microbe.tv)
105. TWiV 1290: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)