News

1. TWiV 901: COVID-19 clinical update #115 with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
2. “Film Dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3. Abortion attitudes in Oklahoma (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
4. The problem with (some) science: How much is it a problem with process and how much is it a problem with substance? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5. How the End of Roe Would Change Prenatal Care (www.theatlantic.com)
6. So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox? (www.theatlantic.com)
7. A Very Expensive, Technically Illegal Workaround to the Formula Shortage (www.theatlantic.com)
8. Am I the Cookie? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
9. Doing Mister P with multiple outcomes (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
10. What COVID Hospitalization Numbers Are Missing (www.theatlantic.com)
11. I had big plans for that four-fifths of a penny: False precision and fraud (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
12. How a SIDS Study Became a Media Train Wreck (www.theatlantic.com)
13. Do celebrated scientists have the free will to admit they are wrong? Not always! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
14. More discussion of differential privacy at the Census (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
15. Buying things vs. buying experiences (vs. buying nothing at all): Again, we see a stock-versus-flow confusion (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
16. “A much bigger problem is the tension between the difficulty of statistics and the demand for it to be simple and readily available.” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
17. TWiV 900: Burning down the mouse (www.microbe.tv)
18. We’ve Never Been Good at Feeding Babies (www.theatlantic.com)
19. “Causal” is like “error term”: it’s what we say when we’re not trying to model the process. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
20. TWiV 899: COVID-19 clinical update #114 with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
21. Is a Common Virus Suddenly Causing Liver Failure in Kids? (www.theatlantic.com)
22. We have really everything in common with machine learning nowadays, except, of course, language. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
23. The U.S. Is About to Make a Big Gamble on Our Next COVID Winter (www.theatlantic.com)
24. New twitter feed: StatPapers (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
25. Provisional draft of the Neurips code of ethics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
26. Can Anyone Out-Plan a Pandemic? (www.theatlantic.com)
27. Jamaican me crazy one more time (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
28. The Promising Treatment for Long COVID We’re Not Even Trying (www.theatlantic.com)
29. New twitter feed: StatRetro (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
30. Public opinion on abortion (David Weakliem’s summary of the polls) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
31. Ben Lerner is a reboot of Jonathan Franzen (and that’s a good thing) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32. How should journals handle submissions of non-reproducible research? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
33. TWiV 898: Immunity is skin deep (www.microbe.tv)
34. “How fake science is infiltrating scientific journals” (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
35. TWiV 897: COVID-19 clinical update #113 with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
36. What Did Medieval Peasants Know? (www.theatlantic.com)
37. My (remote) talks at UNC biostat, 12-13 May (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
38. Ask the polling expert (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
39. Opportunity for political scientists and economists to participate in the Multi100 replication project! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
40. Paxlovid Mouth Is Real—And Gross (www.theatlantic.com)
41. Giving an honest talk (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
42. Controversy over California Math Framework report (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
43. ‘Better Than Omicron’ Is Still Pretty Bad (www.theatlantic.com)
44. America Is Starting to See What COVID Immunity Really Looks Like (www.theatlantic.com)
45. A journal is like a crew (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
46. Google’s problems with reproducibility (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
47. Humans interacting with the human-computer interaction literature (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
48. Immune 55: Cells that suck at their job (www.microbe.tv)
49. Probabilistic feature analysis of facial perception of emotions (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
50. They start out so friendly and they end up so bossy. What’s with that? (This is a job for Wolfram Research.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
51. TWiV 896: Memory B cells, the way we were (www.microbe.tv)
52. Polls. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
53. TWiV 895: COVID-19 clinical update #112 with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
54. How many clusters? And a Declaration of Selection Bias. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
55. TWiV 894: Dinner with the TMPRSS family (www.microbe.tv)
56. Are We in the Middle of an Invisible COVID Wave? (www.theatlantic.com)
57. Why I’m skeptical of “steelmanning”: By bending over backward to see things from the other person’s point of view, you’re implicitly dismissing other perspectives. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
58. What the Fitness Industry Doesn’t Understand (www.theatlantic.com)
59. Hey, check this out, it’s really cool: A Bayesian framework for interpreting findings from impact evaluations. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
60. Elites giving advice to elites giving advice to elites (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
61. Webinar: Making synthetic data look real using conditional GANs (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
62. Dan Luu on internet writing (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
63. More news on Columbia University’s apparent manipulation of numbers that go into its U.S. News ranking. (Spoiler: it’s not good news.) (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
64. The perils of (apparently) logical thinking (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
65. TWiV 893: Yellow fever virus escapes antibodies (www.microbe.tv)
66. Bo’s Bagels is good. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
67. Warner Music Group wants to hire Bayesians! (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
68. TWiV 892: COVID-19 clinical update #111 with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
69. How junk science persists in academia, news media, and social media: Resistance to the resistance (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
70. Jamaican me crazy: the return of the overestimated effect of early childhood intervention (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
71. TWiV 891: LLOV in the time of Ebola (www.microbe.tv)
72. Despite its title, tomorrow’s post is not about beef patties. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
73. What Masks Off on Public Transit Means for the Pandemic (www.theatlantic.com)
74. Politics and covid: Interesting example of aggregation and correlation (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
75. When are cognitive forcing functions interesting? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
76. ‘It’s Just Scaring People, and It’s Not Saving Lives’ (www.theatlantic.com)
77. Code. Never. Lies. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
78. Again on the problems with technology that makes it more convenient to gamble away your money (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
79. Asymmetries in research misconduct in collaborations (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
80. TWiV 890: Looking into a booster crystal ball (www.microbe.tv)
81. Spam is so much fun! But sometimes it’s baffling. (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
82. TWiV 889: COVID-19 clinical update #110 with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
83. Have We Already Ruined Our Next COVID Summer? (www.theatlantic.com)
84. Two Long Years (www.theatlantic.com)
85. Why Can’t We Just Call BA.2 Omicron? (www.theatlantic.com)
86. TWiV 888: Molnupiravir with Richard Plemper (www.microbe.tv)
87. The Final Pandemic Betrayal (www.theatlantic.com)
88. America Created Its Own Booster Problems (www.theatlantic.com)
89. TWiV 887: Bonfire of the monocytes (www.microbe.tv)
90. TWiV 886: COVID-19 clinical update #109 with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
91. Is It Time to Start Masking Again? (www.theatlantic.com)
92. TWiV 885: Russian bats and Ankara vectors (www.microbe.tv)
93. America’s Pandemic Orphans Are Slipping Through the Cracks (www.theatlantic.com)
94. Immune 54: Asthma and aging (www.microbe.tv)
95. TWiV 884: Cytokines and viral mimicry (www.microbe.tv)
96. TWiV 883: COVID-19 clinical update #108 with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
97. TWiV 882: Elispot on about T cells and lipids (www.microbe.tv)
98. TWiV 881: 50 ways to zap your virus (www.microbe.tv)
99. TWiV 880: COVID-19 clinical update #107 with Dr. Daniel Griffin (www.microbe.tv)
100. Smoothing charts of Supreme Court Justice nomination results (freerangestats.info)
101. TWiV 879: Indolent, resistant, and losing our TMPRSS (www.microbe.tv)