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  1. Immune Booster 38: Fascination with Flavivirus B cell responses with Tulika Singh (www.microbe.tv)
  2. “In the belly of the whale: Portraits from a fractured Israel” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  3. “If you decide to write about this paper in your blog, please don’t mention my name. It is important to me to remain anonymous. . . . exposure might harm me or my students.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  4. “Death and Taxes: Taking Causal Inference into the Real World” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  5. “I write to seek your help and advice regarding a published article that my group and I believe is invalid and should be corrected or retracted.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  6. The Evolution of the Human Brain Set It Up for Failure (www.theatlantic.com)
  7. TWiV 1367: Turning Off Hepatitis B Virus Without Cutting its DNA (www.microbe.tv)
  8. Why do we like wind chimes? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  9. TWiV 1366: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  10. Seeking to interview social scientists experimenting with LLM simulations of opinions or behavior (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  11. How surprising is it that LeBron averaged 27 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists in his career but never had one game where he had 27 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  12. What Three Gene-Therapy Deaths Have in Common (www.theatlantic.com)
  13. A Lab-Leak Story You Haven’t Heard (www.theatlantic.com)
  14. Frustration when authors dodge criticism (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  15. Why do is it so hard to get a cell phone number with no 0’s or 1’s? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  16. OK, here’s a new scam. But I can’t figure out how it’s supposed to work. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  17. Survey Statistics: favorite textbooks ? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  18. The head and the heart (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  19. The Rise of the IRL Influencer (www.theatlantic.com)
  20. JAMA rules of engagement on causal and predictive language (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  21. Columbia University says, “We believe in difficult conversations at Columbia—in a broad embrace of freedom of expression. It’s in our DNA.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  22. TWiV 1365: Andes Virus Up Close (www.microbe.tv)
  23. The problem is noise, not N: why increasing the sample size isn’t all that. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  24. The Best Protein Source Is Hiding in Plain Sight (www.theatlantic.com)
  25. TWiV 1364: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  26. Digital twins version 2.0: The skeptics speak up (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  27. Thinking more seriously about the design of exploratory studies: A manifesto (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  28. Getting better causal inferences by using more information (my talk at Stanford this coming Wed) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  29. What’s the deal with the RMET (“the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test”)? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  30. Our continuing struggles with the Monster model (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  31. Survey Statistics: 2 different uses of simulated data (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  32. What We Really Know About the Russian ‘Plague’ Case (www.theatlantic.com)
  33. Hey—we’re hiring two postdocs! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  34. Immune Booster 36: Innate immune brakes with Carla Rothlin (www.microbe.tv)
  35. World crude oil stocks (freerangestats.info)
  36. Bayesian Workflow code is at the Bayesian Workflow website! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  37. OK, this is just weird (from Alaska Airlines) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  38. When Anesthesia Goes Wrong (www.theatlantic.com)
  39. A plan to replicate the Loftus and Palmer (1974) experiment on false memories (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  40. Are Mormons Losing Their Distinctiveness? (www.theatlantic.com)
  41. TWiV 1363: A Cauldron of Bats (www.microbe.tv)
  42. Using the computer to p-hack . . . I’d rather use it to fit multilevel models. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  43. TWiV 1362: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  44. If you were planning to send me a chatbot-written email or post a chatbot-written comment, just send or post your prompt. That’s enough. You can keep the slop to yourself. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  45. Nicholas Goddamn Roerich (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  46. When are Causal Inference Methods Needed to Answer Causal Questions? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  47. Bell-bottom jeans, disco, gas shortages, and ESP (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  48. MAHA Gone Mild (www.theatlantic.com)
  49. Immune 108: B cells go broad and live long (www.microbe.tv)
  50. Prior distributions, partial pooling, and reference sets (Bayesians are frequentists) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  51. Survey Statistics: ANOVA follow-up (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  52. GLP-1s Are Rewriting the Story of Weight Loss and Mental Health (www.theatlantic.com)
  53. Is it true that “AI Chooses Nuclear Option in 95% of War Simulations”? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  54. A nonlinear effect plus measurement error in x becomes close to linear: A simulation study (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  55. No scheduled blog post today (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  56. Survey of academic bureaucracy (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  57. I guess this is what they mean when they talk about “reactionary centrism”: Corruption of government facilitated by enablers in intellectual society (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  58. TWiV 1361: Ancient Viral Sword and Shield (www.microbe.tv)
  59. As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to political pundits, but we’re not very good at nurturing the human capital they would need to correct their own mistakes. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  60. TWiV 1360: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  61. Postdoc hiring season at Flatiron (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  62. They were trying to convince everybody to have 3 kids (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  63. It’s fine to use computer-generated survey responses—if you don’t care about the data anyway! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  64. Here’s a causal inference problem: where did the estimate of $64 million come from in “Blake Lively Says She Suffered $64 Million Financial Fallout From Justin Baldoni Conflict . . .”? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  65. Survey Statistics: Fat Bear Week 2026 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  66. “Phonics is a fad, but it’s also good, so we should do it anyway, even though it will probably disappoint people” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  67. Immune Booster 37: Secret lives of neutrophils with Tanya Mayadas (www.microbe.tv)
  68. Do high school students have to work harder nowadays? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  69. How did it go, this prediction from ten years ago about Japanese fertility in 2026? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  70. TWiV 1359: SSPE, the Long Shadow of Measles (www.microbe.tv)
  71. Bootstrap v traditional asymptotic normal assumptions (freerangestats.info)
  72. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  73. TWiV 1358: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  74. Why a Sea-Lion Epidemic Is a Bad Sign for Humans (www.theatlantic.com)
  75. Meritocracy to-morrow and meritocracy yesterday – but never meritocracy to-day (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  76. RFK Jr.’s Brazen Reassurance to Anti-Vaxxers (www.theatlantic.com)
  77. Scientific citations as an overwhelmed communication channel (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  78. This Is Your Brain on Short-Form Video (www.theatlantic.com)
  79. Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous (www.theatlantic.com)
  80. It’s satisfying to see the economics profession come around on some things (regression discontinuity analysis and so-called risk aversion) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
  81. Sample size needed for central limit theorem to kick in (freerangestats.info)
  82. TWiV 1357: Furin, Naturally with Paul Bieniasz (www.microbe.tv)
  83. TWiV 1356: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  84. The AI Pandemic Isn’t On Its Way (www.theatlantic.com)
  85. The Los Angeles Rams Are Trying to Defeat Time (www.theatlantic.com)
  86. Medicine Needs to Get Serious About AI (www.theatlantic.com)
  87. Cereal Has Strayed Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)
  88. Immune Booster 35: Human immunology and Dengue virus infection with Adam Waickman (www.microbe.tv)
  89. TWiV 1355: Four billion years of AI training data (www.microbe.tv)
  90. TWiV 1354: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  91. The Dark Side of Mindfulness (www.theatlantic.com)
  92. How ‘Somatics’ Became the Solution to Modern Life (www.theatlantic.com)
  93. The Truth About American Food Safety (www.theatlantic.com)
  94. The Backlash Against Polyester Has Gone Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)
  95. What Happened to Yoga? (www.theatlantic.com)
  96. The Measles-Stricken Mother Who Lost Her Newborn Son (www.theatlantic.com)
  97. TWiV 1353: Phage bet-hedging and EBV antibodies (www.microbe.tv)
  98. The Golden Girls, but in a Camp Cabin (www.theatlantic.com)
  99. TWiV 1352: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
  100. Immune 107: Breakfast of champions (www.microbe.tv)
  101. TWiV 1351: Ebola Virus Brains and Contagious Catfish Cancers (www.microbe.tv)
  102. TWiV 1350: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)