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1. “All Our Default Models Are Wrong: Causal inference for varying treatment effects”: my talk this Saturday morning in Ottawa (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2. Questions about statistical claims in paper from recent Nobel prize winners; some general challenges in trying understand nonlinear patterns using quadratic regression (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3. Survey Statistics: MRPW (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. Stockholm Syndrome (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5. Immune Booster 18: From Stars to cells with Bali Pulendran (www.microbe.tv)
6. You’re Fired. Just Kidding! (www.theatlantic.com)
7. StanCon 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
8. “The Impossible Man”: Patchen Barss’s biography of Roger Penrose (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. This is what a degree in cannabis studies will get ya (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. TWiV 1261: Must-see TVs (www.microbe.tv)
11. 7 reasons to use Bayesian inference! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
12. TWiV 1260: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
13. Columbia fake U.S. News statistics update: They paid $9 million and are still, bizarrely, refusing to admit misreporting of data, even though everybody knows they misreported data. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. The worst research papers I’ve ever published (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. Prior distributions for regression coefficients (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. Selection bias in junk science: Which junk science gets a hearing? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. Aki looking for a doctoral student to develop Bayesian workflow (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
18. Survey Statistics: struggles with equivalent weights (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
19. Something Weird Is Happening With Halloween Chocolate (www.theatlantic.com)
20. Historical American Political Finance Data at the National Archives (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
21. Immune Booster #17: From unvaccinated to vaccine advocacy with Liz Marnik (www.microbe.tv)
22. “300 Paintings” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. When rich people believe, or pretend to believe, stupid things (tennis edition) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
24. Uncanny academic valley: Brian Wansink as proto-chatbot (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. TWiV 1259: Capricious flu and a tickborne clue (www.microbe.tv)
26. Unusual consulting request (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
27. Mapping locations related to the Amelia Earhart disappearance (freerangestats.info)
28. TWiV 1258: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
29. It’s a JAX, JAX, JAX, JAX World (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
30. Pediatricians Can’t Bear These Costs (www.theatlantic.com)
31. Adding noise to the data to reduce overfitting . . . How does that work? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. Pfizer Finally Gave Trump What He Wanted (www.theatlantic.com)
33. “It’s horrible that they’re sucking young researchers into this vortex. It’s Gigo and Gresham all the way down.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
34. Yes, your single vote really can make a difference! (in Canada) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. TWiV Special: Searching plane poop for viruses (www.microbe.tv)
36. Survey Statistics: beyond balancing (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
37. “Dangerous Fictions” and the norm of entertainment (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. Immune 96: How to floss a mouse (www.microbe.tv)
39. Behind-the-Scenes Seminar on social science this Fri 3 Oct (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
40. Game theory corner: did Eric Adams play his hand well? (It’s a little like Murder on the Orient Express, it’s a little like The Sting.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
41. “Veridical (truthful) Data Science”: Another way of looking at statistical workflow (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. TWiV 1257: Better cocktails and CRISPR chicken (www.microbe.tv)
43. In music, literature, and technical writing, the relation of large-scale structure to the local action (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
44. TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
45. TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
46. A Selective History of Political Polling and Election Forecasting (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. The Dodgers are hiring (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. “On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
49. More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. Survey Statistics: Fat Bear Week (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. Bridging prediction and intervention in social systems (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
52. World’s greatest 404 page (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
53. Ten year anniversary of Free Range Statistics (freerangestats.info)
54. Trump Tells Pregnant Women to ‘Fight Like Hell’ Not to Take Tylenol (www.theatlantic.com)
55. Protecting data from the public and ourselves (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
56. It’s JAMA time, baby! Junk science presented as public health research (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
57. People Are Getting Tattoos Under Anesthesia (www.theatlantic.com)
58. Who gets listed first on a collaborative article or book? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
59. TWiV 1255: Virologists in Greece (www.microbe.tv)
60. Monty Hall and generative modeling: Drawing the tree is the most important step (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. TWiV 1254: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
62. America Is on the Cusp of a Two-Tier Vaccine System (www.theatlantic.com)
63. When thinking about causal inference, mechanistic or process models are important. I think that the association of “causal” with black-box models leads to lots of problems. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
64. Kennedy’s Handpicked Vaccine Committee Is a Mess (www.theatlantic.com)
65. Condition numbers for HMC and the funnel (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
66. More Howl, after Allen Ginsberg for the AI-headed hipsters (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
67. How RFK Jr. Could Eliminate Vaccines Without Banning Them (www.theatlantic.com)
68. “Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
69. The Miami Marlins are hiring (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. Who to Trust If You Can’t Trust the CDC (www.theatlantic.com)
71. The Outbreaks That Could Rise on College Campuses (www.theatlantic.com)
72. Hey, Nature magazine! Reputation is a two-way street. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. What It’s Like to Work Inside a Broken CDC (www.theatlantic.com)
74. Survey Statistics: random sampling is not leaving (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. RFK Jr. Is Neglecting a Legitimate Autism Concern (www.theatlantic.com)
76. The New War on Weed (www.theatlantic.com)
77. Stats and ML postdoc and permanent hiring season officially open at Flatiron (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. Moms Are Losing Options to Protect Newborns From COVID (www.theatlantic.com)
79. Softverse: Auto-compute Citations to Software From Replication Files (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. Immune Booster #16: Teaching and communicating immunology with Aimee Pugh Bernard (www.microbe.tv)
81. The Desperation of Causal Inference in Ecology (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. The HHS Officials Being Paid Six Figures to Do Nothing (www.theatlantic.com)
83. MAHA Is Complicating One of the Hardest Parts of Parenting (www.theatlantic.com)
84. TWiV 1253: Harvard virology is not retreating (www.microbe.tv)
85. TWiV 1252: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
86. Now Comes the Hard Part for MAHA (www.theatlantic.com)
87. RFK Jr.’s Calls With a Scientist Who Says Kids Get Autism From Tylenol (www.theatlantic.com)
88. TWiV Special: David Baltimore, remembered (www.microbe.tv)
89. TWiV 1251: Swedish models and agent 007 (www.microbe.tv)
90. Some Papua New Guinea data doodles (freerangestats.info)
91. TWiV 1250: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
92. A Massive Vaccine Experiment (www.theatlantic.com)
93. A Different RFK Jr. Just Appeared Before Congress (www.theatlantic.com)
94. RFK Jr.’s Victory Lap (www.theatlantic.com)
95. Goodbye, FEMA. Hello, Disaster Consultants. (www.theatlantic.com)
96. RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes (www.theatlantic.com)
97. TWiV 1249: Demented and crAss (www.microbe.tv)
98. TWiV 1248: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
99. The Trump Administration Will Automate Health Inequities (www.theatlantic.com)
100. Immune 95: Mitochondria for everyone (www.microbe.tv)
101. TWiV 1247: In the company of vaccines with Stanley Plotkin (www.microbe.tv)
102. TWiV 1246: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
103. Men's domestic chores and fertility rates - Part II, technical notes (freerangestats.info)