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  1. “The difference between ‘significant’ and ‘not significant’ is not itself statistically significant” . . . in the wild! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  2. Why Has America Ignored Its Best Addiction Treatment? (www.theatlantic.com)
  3. Friday 10am: Online conversation on “Experiments, Causal Inference, and Limits of Evidence” with Nancy Cartwright and Berna Devezer (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  4. Good Job, MAHA (www.theatlantic.com)
  5. The Error-Reversal Heuristic: How would you have reacted had the mistake gone in the opposite direction? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  6. TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Stephan Urban (www.microbe.tv)
  7. New course this fall at Columbia: Laboratory in Justice Data Science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  8. What day of the year will have the fewest noninduced births? (Difference between mathematical and statistical reasoning) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  9. Intergenerational socioeconomic mobility over time for different ethnic groups (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  10. TWiV 1211: Moo flu and dengue two (www.microbe.tv)
  11. 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)
  12. TWiV 1210: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  13. Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  14. Doxastic Logic: a model of beliefs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  15. What happened to genetic algorithms? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  16. Drowning in junk science: Is there any hope at all? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  17. The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen (www.theatlantic.com)
  18. How Organ Meat Got Into Smoothies (www.theatlantic.com)
  19. ‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  20. A new journal just for publishing reanalyses of published empirical research findings (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  21. Did Non-Voters Really Flip Republican in 2024? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  22. Do You Have Your Cootie Shot? (www.theatlantic.com)
  23. Republicans Are Right About Soda (www.theatlantic.com)
  24. The hinge function provided “a tractable solution to an important and long standing problem in the field of fluvial geomorphology–the prediction of bedload sediment transport in rivers.” How cool is that? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  25. “No Vehicles in the Park”: A multilevel-model computing saga (including some Bayesian workflow) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  26. “Republicans Want to Change the Culture. Can They?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  27. TWiV 1209: Just say no to norovirus (www.microbe.tv)
  28. Funniest spam of the week (an offer of $200,000) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  29. TWiV 1208: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  30. Trump’s Revenge on Public Health (www.theatlantic.com)
  31. Skepticism about the science establishment, then and now (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  32. Guess What Kind of Cooking Oil Is Tariff-Proof? (www.theatlantic.com)
  33. Blue Rose Research is hiring ! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  34. What RFK Jr. Told Grieving Texas Families About the Measles Vaccine (www.theatlantic.com)
  35. “It was, in retrospect, a festival of side-taking.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  36. There is no empirical optimal (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  37. Immune Booster #11 Immunity to Fungi with Amy Hise (www.microbe.tv)
  38. Proving a null hypothesis? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  39. America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era (www.theatlantic.com)
  40. Why is modern poetry so hard to read? Adam Kirsch offers a clue. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  41. Baseball Obscura 2025 update (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  42. What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different (www.theatlantic.com)
  43. Causality and Crime: In science as in genre storytelling, the thrill of the unexpected can only come with reference to (and in confounding) some preexisting norm. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  44. Too much unrelenting positivity (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  45. TWiV 1207: Taking a shot at dementia (www.microbe.tv)
  46. My Snail Mucin Is Caught in a Trade War (www.theatlantic.com)
  47. He can’t pay his bills but he has a second home . . . Whassup with that? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  48. TWiV 1206: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  49. RFK Jr.’s 18th-Century Idea About Mental Health (www.theatlantic.com)
  50. Why I no longer use the term “cargo-cult science” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  51. Analytics positions for the Miami Marlins (baseball) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  52. “Exposing omitted moderators: Explaining why effect sizes differ in the social sciences” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  53. RFK Jr. Is Out for Revenge (www.theatlantic.com)
  54. “AI Needs Specialization to Generalize” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  55. Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care (www.theatlantic.com)
  56. The Evermaskers (www.theatlantic.com)
  57. There’s no accounting for taste, whodunnit edition. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  58. Plagiarist USC celebrity doctor: What’s he been up to lately? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  59. It’s About Time: my (remote) talk this Thursday in Sweden (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  60. Who could have imagined it? The IPCC working group 1 folks. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  61. Where sports, statistics, and literature meet: Comparing David Fleming to Bill James (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  62. The reciprocal betrayals of Saul Bellow and Paul Meehl (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  63. TWiV 1205: Pluviosity didn't kill the bat (www.microbe.tv)
  64. “The Unbuilt Bench: Experimental Psychology on the Verge of Science” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  65. The Most Important Ingredient in Chewing Gum (www.theatlantic.com)
  66. TWiV 1204: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  67. New Yorker magazine demonstrates a naive faith in social science (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  68. Texas Never Wanted RFK Jr.’s Unproven Measles Treatment (www.theatlantic.com)
  69. The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet (www.theatlantic.com)
  70. Solve a simpler version of the problem. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  71. Individual probability, model multiplicity, and multicalibration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  72. On that claim about “How does energy impact economic growth” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  73. Let’s analyze how we analyze! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  74. RFK Jr. and the Pepperoni-Pizza Paradox (www.theatlantic.com)
  75. Routine, bread-and-butter, run-of-the-mill junk science from 2015 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  76. The Paradox of Hard Work (www.theatlantic.com)
  77. Immune 90: Immunology of Injury (www.microbe.tv)
  78. We have here two papers that are critical of the culture of academic economics. Where can they be published? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  79. America Is Done Pretending About Meat (www.theatlantic.com)
  80. “Can I teach integral calculus before differential calculus?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  81. TWiV 1203: What's old is flu again (www.microbe.tv)
  82. An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps (www.theatlantic.com)
  83. The piranha principle: What does it mean, exactly? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  84. TWiV 1202: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  85. What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’ (www.theatlantic.com)
  86. You can learn a lot from a simple simulation (example of experimental design with unequal variances for treatment and control data) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  87. Ph.D. student position on extreme precipitation in a changing cold climate! Using Bayesian modeling and computation! At the University of Iceland! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  88. Starting a new position at the University of British Columbia (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  89. Immune Booster #10 HIV in the brain with Amanda Brown (www.microbe.tv)
  90. TWiV 1201: Booster shots with Adam Ratner (www.microbe.tv)
  91. TWiV 1200: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  92. TWiV 1199: Loosely contained (www.microbe.tv)
  93. TWiV 1198: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  94. TWiV 1197: The long and short of influenza (www.microbe.tv)
  95. TWiV 1196: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  96. Immune 89: Misplaced antibodies and foreign food foes (www.microbe.tv)
  97. TWiV 1195: Dickson Despommier, parasitologist without borders (www.microbe.tv)