Thanks for the support Michael!

My T32 postdoc applications are in limbo due to funding delays.
I don’t know if I’m defending in 3-4 months (to start a postdoc) or staying in grad school another year. I have to sign a lease soon.

It's a mess, but I'm grateful to have one more year of funding in such a turbulent time.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

I've spent the past two hours digging around in online newspaper and governmental archives to try to clear something up for my dissertation and it has paid off beautifully. A very big small win 🥲

it's almost too clean. thinking I'll put the unhinged uncommented version on GitHub when it's published so people know human me can actually code

I’ve been dreading opening analysis files for part of my thesis that does geocoding in Docker and fits a model in Stan. I hand-coded (funny to have to say that now) it years ago, but before I was trained in reproducible coding. Claude helped me get it tight and reproducible in a few hours 🥲

I saw five 22 Clark buses in a convoy last night. My friend had a theory this route is cursed. She said it always comes in twos. I don’t know what five means but it cannot be a good sign.

Despite my brain being absolutely fried by the existential task switching of years long insurance battles and a collapsing academic job market, I've somehow managed to put do dissertation research that I'm proud of. Not as quickly or as linearly as I'd wished, but still.

I (myself, without legal counsel) wrote and won an external appeal that overturned the denials of coverage; but they are still effectively denying coverage despite lawsuits ruling that the exact pattern of denials for her condition aren't legal.

I'm so tired. Every week is a new can of worms.

I've been helping my wife fight her insurance company for 2 years and it's been the most demoralizing but also radicalizing thing that could have happened while training as an anthropologist & epidemiologist.

Congratulations!!

Thank you! I’m really looking forward to it. See you in St. Louis.

PAA loves first timer attendees! Yay @elijahjwatson.bsky.social - we are having a special mixer for early career PAA folk from 4:30-6pm on Weds May 6 before the traditional Welcome Mixer at 6pm and we'd love to have you join us @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Excited for my first PAA! I'm looking forward to sharing my dissertation work on how the timing of prenatal exposure to the 1983 political–economic crisis in the Philippines—following the assassination of opposition leader Ninoy Aquino—shaped outcomes from birth to epigenetic aging in midlife.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Related: sometimes I take voice notes while walking when I have a research insight, and my iPhone can’t figure out that I mean “estimands,” not “S-demands"

This is an Average Treatment Effect on the Treated appreciation post. I love ATTs. Go ATTs.

Thinking now how it would be a funny bit to include a robustness check adjusting for multilingualism in a dissertation footnote

Use of Correct and Incorrect Methods of Accounting for Age in Studies of Epigenetic Accelerated Aging: Implications and Recommendations for Best Practices Motivated by our conduct of a literature review on social exposures and accelerated aging as measured by a growing number of epigenetic “clocks” (which estimate age via DNA methylation (DNAm) patterns), we report on 3 different approaches in the ...

Fave part was that Nature Aging paper catching strays :)

(cries while finishing a dissertation on biological aging — the entire field is kind of an APC minefield... e.g, see the great critical review below 🫠)

One approach to the age-period-cohort problem: Just don’t. Just to cause yourself more problems, you seek for something. But there is no need for you to seek anything. You have plenty, and you have just enough problems. Shunryū Suzuki in a 1971 talk A ...

New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem!

In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.

www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...

Tomorrow: leaving for a birthday weekend trip with friends at a Michigan lake house 🙏🏼

Sunday: luging!

A week in the life:

Monday: postdoc interview, rejected same day (at least they were fast 🙂)

Tuesday: food poisoning, no sleep

Wednesday: slept all day

Thursday: reviewed a manuscript draft for co-author submission, wrote a dissertation paragraph, ate a lot of soup and applesauce

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. War, Medicine, and the Military
2. Field Geology of Eastern California (included a week of field research!)
3. Medicine, Literature, and Culture
4. History of South Africa
5. Global Health Policy

Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org

Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now watch the video!👇🏼

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.