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1. How did it go, this prediction from ten years ago about Chinese fertility in 2026? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2. TWiV 1359: SSPE, the Long Shadow of Measles (www.microbe.tv)
3. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. Bootstrap v traditional asymptotic normal assumptions (freerangestats.info)
5. TWiV 1358: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
6. Why a Sea-Lion Epidemic Is a Bad Sign for Humans (www.theatlantic.com)
7. Meritocracy to-morrow and meritocracy yesterday – but never meritocracy to-day (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8. RFK Jr.’s Brazen Reassurance to Anti-Vaxxers (www.theatlantic.com)
9. Scientific citations as an overwhelmed communication channel (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. This Is Your Brain on Short-Form Video (www.theatlantic.com)
11. Pennsylvania’s Measles Outbreak Is Enormous (www.theatlantic.com)
12. 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)
13. Charting the Agentic Garden of Forking Paths (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. Survey Statistics: ANOVA (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. “Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity” . . . not any more! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. Sample size needed for central limit theorem to kick in (freerangestats.info)
17. The Washington Nationals are hiring! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
18. New York City Psychometrics Group (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
19. This is how we do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation to understand what can happen in a study (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
20. What’s happening with the models of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. TWiV 1357: Furin, Naturally with Paul Bieinasz (www.microbe.tv)
22. Annals of hype: Did this discovery in 2012 mark “the discovery of the final laws of nature . . . a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the 17th century?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. TWiV 1356: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
24. Why I don’t like highest posterior density (HPD) intervals (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. The AI Pandemic Isn’t On Its Way (www.theatlantic.com)
26. “Belief” is not something you have; rather, it’s a relationship between thought and action. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
27. The Los Angeles Rams Are Trying to Defeat Time (www.theatlantic.com)
28. When journals are slow to implement or enforce policies to manage sloppy, majority AI-authored papers, reviewers can and should push back (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
29. Why I still like Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” essay (even though he gets some of the linguistics wrong) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
30. Living on the Edge: Aggressive mediocrity at the summit of America’s intellectual culture (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. Survey Statistics: Pew Research finds “No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. Medicine Needs to Get Serious About AI (www.theatlantic.com)
33. Cereal Has Strayed Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)
34. Hey–here’s an R package for imputing Census data using iterative proportional fitting on available margins. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. Immune Booster 35: Human immunology and Dengue virus infection with Adam Waickman (www.microbe.tv)
36. “In the Weights”—an exclusive invitation just for you! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. TWiV 1355: Four billion years of AI training data (www.microbe.tv)
38. Does anyone have a lower Jordan3 number than Evans Boney? (And what about the Ariely-Armstrong-Enron number?) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
39. TWiV 1354: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
40. OK, here’s a statistics problem for you, ripped directly from the headlines! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. Update on U.S. government’s Soviet-style push for “gold standard science” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. The Dark Side of Mindfulness (www.theatlantic.com)
43. Update on “I don’t understand this paper claiming election fraud in 2024 in Pennsylvania” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. Updike and statistical writing; more on honesty and precision (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
45. How ‘Somatics’ Became the Solution to Modern Life (www.theatlantic.com)
46. Confirmation bias in software testing, Walnutpie edition (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. Metascience corner: What can we learn from 12 million empirical research results? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. The Truth About American Food Safety (www.theatlantic.com)
49. Yale med school prof tells his postdocs: Work extra hours at my command or you’re no better than “the guy who charges me by the hour to cut my lawn.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. The Backlash Against Polyester Has Gone Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)
51. Survey Statistics: logit shift and raking (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. Updike’s kaleidoscope: Telling a life through a set of unconnected stories (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
53. I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is based on dubious data and doesn’t replicate. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
54. Do children grow continuously or do they grow in fits and starts? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
55. What Happened to Yoga? (www.theatlantic.com)
56. The Measles-Stricken Mother Who Lost Her Newborn Son (www.theatlantic.com)
57. Coyote vs. Acme (also, for free, my take on The Odyssey) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
58. TWiV 1353: Phage bet-hedging and EBV antibodies (www.microbe.tv)
59. The Golden Girls, but in a Camp Cabin (www.theatlantic.com)
60. “Why did ANOVA fall out of fashion?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. TWiV 1352: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
62. What stories should we tell about science now? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
63. Where’s the Evel Knievel blockbuster biopic? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
64. Pennsylvania’s Public-Health Officials May Be Wrong About a Measles Death (www.theatlantic.com)
65. The incredible shrinking SSRN page (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. This University of Chicago business school professor has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far). (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
67. Postdoc and doctoral student positions in Bayesian workflow at Aalto, Finland (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. The Lights Are Back On in Gary, Indiana (www.theatlantic.com)
69. (1) “Do you think the culture of research has genuinely changed since the replication crisis became widely discussed, or has it mostly generated new compliance rituals around pre-registration and open data while leaving the underlying incentive structure intact?, (2) Regarding Columbia University, “is there a statistical or social scientific way of understanding how institutions lose the ability to accurately perceive their own situation?” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. Survey Statistics: more on SynthMargins and Bayes-Raking (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. More American Families Are Refusing Vaccines (www.theatlantic.com)
72. Bayesian Workflow free pdf! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. Immune 107: Breakfast of champions (www.microbe.tv)
74. What contributions can academic statisticians make to sports analytics? (a discussion related to the launch of the new open-access Journal of Statistics and Data Science in Sports) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. Head to head on 125 St: The Jamaican beef patty battle! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
76. To the three different people who sent me chatbot emails today (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
77. Failing upward, Norwegian style (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. TWiV 1351: Ebola Virus Brains and Contagious Catfish Cancers (www.microbe.tv)
79. This is one of the worst scientific papers I’ve ever seen. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. TWiV 1350: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
81. It’s Low-Calorie and Packed With Protein. Is It Healthy? (www.theatlantic.com)
82. America’s Gerontocracy Needs a Public Physician (www.theatlantic.com)
83. Here are the talks from StanCon 2026! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
84. My answer is No. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
85. Immune Booster 34: Decoding antiviral signaling networks with Stacy Horner (www.microbe.tv)
86. TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies (www.microbe.tv)
87. Anthony Fauci’s Group Chat Is Making People Lose Their Minds (www.theatlantic.com)
88. TWiV 1348: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
89. Our Last Wi-Fi-Less Refuge Is Gone (www.theatlantic.com)
90. Nobody Knows What Ultra-Processed Food Is (www.theatlantic.com)
91. The 108-Degree Eviction (www.theatlantic.com)
92. TWiV 1347: No Short Answers for Long COVID (www.microbe.tv)
93. TWiV 1346: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
94. The Most Basic Step of the Ebola Response Is Falling Short (www.theatlantic.com)
95. NZ and US petrol ('gasoline') and diesel prices (freerangestats.info)
96. Immune Booster 33: Immunity to pesky parasites and peanuts with Scott Smith (www.microbe.tv)
97. TWiV 1345: Rocky Mountain Virology High (www.microbe.tv)
98. TWiV 1344: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
99. US oil stocks (freerangestats.info)
100. Immune 106: Science and podcasting with Kathryn Knoop and Marion Brunck (www.microbe.tv)
101. TWiV 1343: Batting averages and stolen bases (www.microbe.tv)
102. TWiV 1342: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)