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1. Bring on the Stupid: When does it make sense to judge a person, a group, or an organization by its worst? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2. loo R package 10 years! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3. Brace Yourself for Watery Mayo and Spiky Ice Cream (www.theatlantic.com)
4. Belief elicitation in theory versus practice (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5. Why are primary elections hard to predict? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
6. The U.S. Is Going Backwards on Vaccines, Very Fast (www.theatlantic.com)
7. Survey Statistics: Poststratification ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8. Sankey plots can work, but need polishing like any other graphic (freerangestats.info)
9. Reckless disregard for the truth coming from cops, doctors, and scientists: A rant. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. Immune 93: Macrophages managing memory B cells (www.microbe.tv)
11. The Adriana Smith Case Was an Ethical Disaster (www.theatlantic.com)
12. RFK Jr. Is Taking an Axe to America’s Dietary Guidelines (www.theatlantic.com)
13. The 2024 baby name statistics are available, and Laura Wattenberg and Philip Cohen have some thoughts (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. Update on effects of economy on political attitudes and behavior? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. TWiV 1229: Virology throughout Europe (www.microbe.tv)
16. “Deciphering the Neighborhood Atlas Area Deprivation Index: The Consequences of Not Standardizing” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. TWiV 1228: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
18. The Protein Madness Is Just Getting Started (www.theatlantic.com)
19. NIH plan to remove ideological influence from science. How does this fit in the junk science being promoted by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
20. The Groovy Grandma Problem in survey research (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. Why was “happiness” such a hot social science topic 20 years ago but not so much now? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
22. The ‘Fantasy We Have of Vaccines’ Is in Trouble (www.theatlantic.com)
23. Junk science used to promote arguments against free will (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. Survey Statistics: 3 flavors of survey weights (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. “Political Prediction and the Wisdom of Crowds”: Evaluating an election forecast over time by comparing to betting odds over time (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
26. How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin (www.theatlantic.com)
27. PhD position at UBC in Temporal Ecology Lab (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
28. TWiV Special: Long COVID and ME/CFS with David Tuller (www.microbe.tv)
29. Approximate posterior recalibration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
30. Dan Luu and I consider possible reasons for bridge collapse (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. TWiV 1227: How can antibody forget a pandemic? (www.microbe.tv)
32. Bill Cassidy’s Failure on Vaccines (www.theatlantic.com)
33. All the little decisions we have to make when developing public-facing software (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. TWiV 1226: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
35. The Most Extreme Voice on RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Committee (www.theatlantic.com)
36. More on power and 'fragile' p-values (freerangestats.info)
37. Unfair to Galton (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. Baby Boomers’ Luck Is Running Out (www.theatlantic.com)
39. RFK Jr. Is Barely Even Pretending Anymore (www.theatlantic.com)
40. What does “Neuromancer” have to teach us about the role of AI in society? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. Better and worse ways to mix human and LLM responses in behavioral research (but you still have to figure what you’re measuring) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. The replication crisis and the failure of theory within social psychology (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
43. “Scientific poetic license?” What do you call it when someone is lying but they’re doing it in such a socially-acceptable way that nobody ever calls them on it? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. Survey Statistics: Kish’s (and Meng’s) design effect ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
45. Big Fiction, Dan Sinykin, and George V. Higgins (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
46. Get Ready to Hear a Lot More About Your Mitochondria (www.theatlantic.com)
47. Immune Booster #13 Microbiome and regulation of gut inflammation with Justin Wilson (www.microbe.tv)
48. The Wyoming Hospital Upending the Logic of Private Equity (www.theatlantic.com)
49. Dan Sinykin on close reading in literature, and me on close reading in statistics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. An Uproar at the NIH (www.theatlantic.com)
51. Nuking New York, never easy (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. TWiV 1225: Poultry flu and SARS-CoV-2 (www.microbe.tv)
53. Power and 'fragile' p-values (freerangestats.info)
54. On the statement, “American academia is entering a period of even more uncertainty” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
55. TWiV 1224: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
56. “Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab Hiring for a Full-time Postdoctoral Scholar (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
58. When are AI/ML models unlikely to help with decision-making? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
59. ‘I’m Treating Guys Who Would Never Be Caught Dead in a Casino’ (www.theatlantic.com)
60. MAHA Has a Pizza Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
61. Anything you can do with Bayesian inference you can do in other ways. Bayesian inference is a bit like calculus: You can do derivatives and integrals without calculus (indeed, mathematicians in pre-Newtonian times were able to compute limits, with care), but calculus makes it a lot easier. Similarly, I find that Bayesian inference makes it a lot easier to combine information. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
62. Different sequences in narrative: why suspense can go flat (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
63. More on the emptiness of the government’s “gold standard science” slogan (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
64. Mount Everest’s Xenon-Gas Controversy Will Last Forever (www.theatlantic.com)
65. Survey Statistics: 2 flavors of calibration (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. “Gold standard science” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
67. Pascal’s triangle, the Ramanujan principle, and what makes something look like a part of an ellipse or a part a parabola? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. A PTSD Therapy ‘Seemed Too Good to Be True’ (www.theatlantic.com)
69. Survey Statistics: it is the people (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. Names in fiction (Perkus Tooth, Morrison Roog, Ragle Gumm, Addison Doug, Bodie Kane, and Thalia Keith) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. TWiV 1223: Someone is guano be sick (www.microbe.tv)
72. The ladder of abstraction in statistical graphics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. HIV’s Most Promising Breakthrough Has Taken a Hit (www.theatlantic.com)
74. TWiV 1222: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
75. Statistical graphics: When does it make sense to introduce deliberate distortion to counteract an expected perceptual illusion? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
76. LLMs as behavioral study participants (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
77. Russian roulette: You can have a deterministic potential-outcome framework, or an asymmetric utility function, but not both (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. The Conversations Trump’s Doctors Should Be Having With Him (www.theatlantic.com)
79. Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. Jerzy Neyman, Sigmund Freud, and Milton Friedman walk into a bar . . . (the mistaken association of null hypothesis testing with rigor) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
81. Election analytics positions available at the New York Times (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. Immune 92: Gut symbiont breaks antibody (www.microbe.tv)
83. Taking our Models Seriously (my talk at StanBio Connect, this Friday 9am) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
84. The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming (www.theatlantic.com)
85. Market and antimarket: The story of the Berkeley Electronic Press (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
86. “Perplexing Plots”: Crime fiction, modernism, and the air of rigor (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
87. TWiV 1221: Nonsense mediated decay (www.microbe.tv)
88. A Convenient Piece of Junk Science (www.theatlantic.com)
89. TWiV 1220: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
90. RFK Jr.’s Worst Nightmare (www.theatlantic.com)
91. COVID Shots for Kids Are Over (www.theatlantic.com)
92. Trump Thinks He Knows What Started the Pandemic (www.theatlantic.com)
93. TWiV 1219: Koalas sweep horse shift (www.microbe.tv)
94. TWiV 1218: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
95. Animated population pyramids for the Pacific (freerangestats.info)
96. Immune Booster #12: Innate immunity to Archaea with Holger Heine (www.microbe.tv)
97. TWiV 1217: Alternative vax and pandemic origins (www.microbe.tv)
98. TWiV 1216: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
99. TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Thomas Tu (www.microbe.tv)
100. TWiV 1215: What's the worst that could happen? (www.microbe.tv)
101. TWiV 1214: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
102. Immune 91: People, parasites, plagues, and podcasts (www.microbe.tv)
103. TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Chari Cohen (www.microbe.tv)