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  1. Survey Statistics: poststratification without population level information (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  2. Was this USDA survey really “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous”? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  3. Immune Booster 32: Natural infection versus vaccine protection with Jenna Guthmiller (www.microbe.tv)
  4. Rebecca Makkai points out: Fancy three-dimensional sets are easier to construct in books than in movies, but harder to explain (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  5. Ted-talking University of California professor asks sex trafficker for $3,000,000 because he thinks there’s a “50% chance” he’ll make “important discoveries” in telepathy (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  6. TWiV 1341: Phage breaks and COVID origins (www.microbe.tv)
  7. It’s all about the Super Pacs: How the New York Times completely misreported campaign contributions in the Maine Senate race (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  8. More scientists in the Epstein files, including a roboticist and an ESP researcher (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  9. TWiV 1340: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  10. Just Ask the Dinosaurs How Bad Air Quality Can Get (www.theatlantic.com)
  11. Cyclosporiasis Is Solved! Right? (www.theatlantic.com)
  12. Herman Chernoff (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  13. The Lessons About Ebola the U.S. Wants to Forget (www.theatlantic.com)
  14. Reviews of our Bayesian Workflow book from Bin Yu, David Spiegelhalter, Brad Efron, Christian Robert, Rohan Alexander, and Mine Doğucu! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  15. Pete Hegseth Wants YOU to Test Your Testosterone (www.theatlantic.com)
  16. All the Cool Kids Are Birding (www.theatlantic.com)
  17. A ranked-choice election in Maine: Using voting data to understand preferences (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  18. Survey Statistics: quantifying uncertainty in ranked choice voting polls (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  19. “Making Statistics Work: Information Theory and Bayesian Inference” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  20. It’s all about the nonlinearity: An interesting statistical example of flaws in a voter impact index (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  21. “Archaeology can’t give social scientists population or GDP, but here are some things we can measure that might be useful for social science.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  22. TWiV 1339: Ebola up close with Tom Ksiazek (www.microbe.tv)
  23. “More bad science from JAMA” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  24. America’s Homegrown-Parasite Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
  25. TWiV 1338: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  26. 18 Associate Editors resign from Statistics and Computing editorial board: Problems with commercial scholarly publishing, and what does this all mean? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  27. The Newest Way to Go Analog (www.theatlantic.com)
  28. “A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  29. Is fabricating data worse than fabricating results? Is failing to correct a known false report more or less serious than making the false report in the first place? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  30. Crude oil stocks at Cushing, Oklahoma (freerangestats.info)
  31. Survey Statistics: toy example for energy balancing weights (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  32. Claude builds 3D Hamiltonian Monte Carlo animation in one shot with anaglyphs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  33. Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun (www.theatlantic.com)
  34. The Genes That Could Cancel Out a Fatal Diagnosis (www.theatlantic.com)
  35. A message for Carol Tavris (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  36. Turning chaotic sensitivity from a bug into a feature: Using physical modeling and deep learning to alter the paths of storms and mitigate extreme weather events (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  37. The NIH wants to “Measure and Reward Scientific Impact and Replicable Research Practices.” Here’s my recommendation to the NIH director: you can start by no longer suppressing government reports whose conclusions happen to not be in accord with your ideological preferences. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  38. TWiV 1337: The whitefly and the Red Queen (www.microbe.tv)
  39. 2015-vintage replication-crisis-era junk science floats into the news (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  40. TWiV 1336: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  41. A new episode in the Francesca Gino case (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  42. The high cost of split R-hat (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  43. At Least You’re Not Playing in the World Cup Right Now (www.theatlantic.com)
  44. Guess who’s getting the big-money donations in the Maine U.S. Senate race? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  45. The optimizer’s curse (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  46. Survey Statistics: Big Changes in the Times/Siena Poll (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  47. OK, I guess Lawrence “Epstein” Krauss didn’t follow his brother’s advice. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  48. Immune 105: Tumor bacteria undermine immunotherapy (www.microbe.tv)
  49. TWiV Special: Albert Sabin with Karen Torghele (www.microbe.tv)
  50. Cheapskate evolutionary biologist underpays his statistical help (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  51. The Anthropic Principle in Statistics and Science (my talk this Mon 29 June, 4:20pm London time) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  52. TWiV 1335: TldR, bacterial hot rods and nullifying norovirus (www.microbe.tv)
  53. Bayesian Workflow exists as a physical book! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  54. The Beef Administration’s Blind Spot (www.theatlantic.com)
  55. Out of the frying pan and into the fire: Scientific American returned to form, and then this happened: (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  56. Long term economic growth rates (freerangestats.info)
  57. TWiV 1334: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  58. TWiV 1334: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  59. “Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  60. Europe’s Come-to-AC Moment (www.theatlantic.com)
  61. Supplement that alphabetized display with another graph showing the states in a more informative order. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  62. Structural equation modeling (SEM) and positive definiteness (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  63. Getting justice can require a lot of effort, and usually at some point we’ll just give up, which is what the cheaters rely on. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  64. Treating AI review like the contentious policy design problem it is (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  65. “Howard Lutnick gives top Cantor Fitzgerald jobs to his sons Brandon and Kyle” is a very clean example of meritocracy. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  66. To select or not to select? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  67. Survey Statistics: perfect collinearity in the sample but not in the population (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  68. Mind-body healing: An exchange. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  69. A Fancy Name for Junk Food (www.theatlantic.com)
  70. Immune Booster 31: NOD-like receptor discovery with Gabriel Nunez (www.microbe.tv)
  71. Golems, auditors, and AI (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  72. Workshop on Rethinking the Role of Bayesianism in the Age of Modern AI (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  73. The new rule in economics: One star is p < 0.20, two stars is a set of steak knives, three stars is you're fired. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  74. United Kingdom prime ministers (freerangestats.info)
  75. Online haters in the low-budget literary biz (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  76. TWiV 1333: STING like a nanoparticle, float like HIV (www.microbe.tv)
  77. TWiV Special: Ebola virus and Andes virus with John Dye (www.microbe.tv)
  78. A tool for learning about Fourier transforms (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  79. Are GLP-1s Performance-Enhancing Drugs? (www.theatlantic.com)
  80. TWiV 1332: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  81. Gray Davis, Grover Norquist, and a rabbi walk into Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference . . . and get no press coverage! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  82. LLM-generated Stan case study on Galileo’s inclined plane experiment (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  83. Gambling provides a gentle rocking of the emotions to put you in a pleasant baby-like state (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  84. AI Is Taking Over Hospitals (www.theatlantic.com)
  85. TWiV 1331: A drug for cervical cancer (www.microbe.tv)
  86. Seasonal adjustment (freerangestats.info)
  87. TWiV 1330: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  88. The New Science of Psychedelic Drugs (www.theatlantic.com)
  89. Immune Booster 30: Infant Immunology with Martha Alexander-Miller (www.microbe.tv)
  90. Flu Vaccines Should Not Be This Hard (www.theatlantic.com)
  91. TWiV 1329: How HIV-1 goes nuclear (www.microbe.tv)
  92. TWiV 1328: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  93. Canned Cocktails Will Smash You to the Ground (www.theatlantic.com)
  94. TWiV 1327: Influenza viruses in the MIST (www.microbe.tv)
  95. TWiV 1326: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  96. The U.S. Is Winging This Ebola Outbreak (www.theatlantic.com)
  97. The Largest Undocumented Disparity in Maternal Health (www.theatlantic.com)
  98. Americans Have Entered the Age of the Needle (www.theatlantic.com)
  99. Immune 104: All about allergies (www.microbe.tv)
  100. The Man Behind the Trump Administration’s Favorite Psychedelic (www.theatlantic.com)
  101. TWiV 1325: Sticky flu with Hannah Rowe (www.microbe.tv)