Jasper has many many many opinions.

He is very cute, if slightly loud.

You get those delivered by the meat vape man?

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

"Many said they mourned an America that valued knowledge for its own sake."

yep, my kid's life saving cystic fibrosis medications that literally correct the specific protein defects that cause CF at the cellular level are due to small molecule drugs, developed by big pharmaceutical companies, addressing targets identified by NIH research

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

Every Justice Department or FBI employee who worked on the criminal investigations into President Donald Trump has been fired, resigned, or took early retirement, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. https://cnn.it/4ddkUrI

I need to like this one at least four times

My 11 year-old lives like a normal 11-year-old instead of a chronically ill child who was likely halfway through his life already because of the triumphs of science that are still occurring

"There's no we we could do that in the US." 20 years ago there was no way they could do it in France, but here we are.

Remember that time trump was being successfully being prosecuted for serious crimes and everyone in charge dragged their feet because they didn't want white supremacists to be mad at them?

If these were scientists on a NIH grant; or “bureaucrats” at the DoL (read female & black) there would be a 15m Fox segment about waste, fraud and abuse.

Also be sure to include any key moderator variables in the model. Like all methods, don’t take it too seriously—it’s suggestive at best and can be misleading both in terms of false positives and negatives 2/2

If you have enough data to estimate the 3 parameter model, it’s a decent approach, but it’s difficult to have enough studies and enough variability in their features to estimate. Be sure that the sampling variance formula doesn’t include the same effect size estimate 1/

I went through two, maybe three a year as a kid

Royal icing you slut!

A picture of an apple pie with a lattice crust, with a scatterplot and fit line drawn in icing on top using the lattice as a grid

+ geom_pie()

Paging the Spring Garden Road Merchants Association

8 in-custody deaths in 50 days—one every 6 days. This needs to be a much larger story.

Here Andrew and team explicitly talk about using this sort of prior in meta-analysis with a single study sites.stat.columbia.edu/gelman/resea...

The Disastrous First Year of RFK Jr. The damage the HHS secretary has done to science and public health is appalling—and it could have been avoided.

"It is beyond comprehension that the Senate confirmed this man to oversee America’s health. The risks are so immediate and constant that it can be difficult to keep track of them all."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Former Michigan Medicine dean omitted multimillion-dollar pharma ties in multiple publications, Daily investigation finds Over a decade marked by a pandemic and nationwide cuts to health care funding, Marschall S. Runge led Michigan Medicine in a historic triple-leadership position. He served as executive vice president ...

and once again: student-run papers are the free press now

www.michigandaily.com/news/former-...

Chart showing YouTube stands out for being used by nearly all teens. Roughly nine-in-ten report ever using it. About six-in-ten or more say they use TikTok and Instagram. A somewhat smaller share say they go on Snapchat (55%). Fewer use Facebook (31%) and WhatsApp (24%). And no more than about one-in-five say the same of Reddit or X (formerly Twitter). WhatsApp is one platform that stands out for its growth in recent years. Today, roughly a quarter of teens say they use WhatsApp, up from 17% in 2022. X and Facebook have declined in use over the past decade. Today, 16% of teens use X, down from 23% in 2022 and 33% in 2014-15. And Facebook, once the go-to platform for teens, is used today by about three-in-ten teens. This is far lower than the 71% in 2014-15, though on par with 2022. The shares of teens who use other sites or apps, like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, have stayed relatively stable in recent years.

Where the teens are
YouTube 92%
TikTok 68%
Instagram 63%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 31% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 24%
Reddit 17%
X 16% (down from 33%)
www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

In the original draft Elio was disabled and clearly a young gay kid, themes were about belonging when you’re an outsider in multiple ways. What eventually got produced had all of the specificity filed away into a generic kids adventure story.

Case in point what they did to Elio

The Experiences of LGBTQ Americans Today How lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer adults view the impact of Obergefell and social acceptance for LGBTQ people more broadly 10 years after the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex...

Belated congrats to my Pew Research colleagues on publishing this groundbreaking study - one of the first surveys to have a probability-based sample of transgender adults large enough to reliably report their views and experiences. www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

The insistence that a slider is a bad study design is so laughable there—the obvious reason to not use a text entry is to avoid anomalous data due to typos (eg, 30000 instead of 300000)

P values reference a specific point value (0) whereas the with of the CI does not. Saying “this CI is too wide for unambiguous results” isn’t inherently tied to whether it spans 0 or not.

This is actually an ESSENTIAL articulation of this admin’s immigration policy.

Policymaking is about weighing equities. In normal policymaking, the rights of the people you’re going after count as an equity. It appears for all the world that this administration’s decisionmaking simply ignores them.