Jamie Collins
colljamie.bsky.social
Jamie Collins
@colljamie.bsky.social
Biostatistician, SAS-lover, R-learner, outcomes researcher, she/her.
Biostatistician at Brigham and Women's/OrACORe
https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/125364
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The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.

One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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New piece by @hsph.harvard.edu colleague Nancy Krieger on Trump's weaponization of science & hypocrisy in dismantling of research infrastructure: "Challenging The Administration’s Weaponized And Lethal 'Gold Standard Science'" www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... @popassocamerica.bsky.social
Challenging The Administration’s Weaponized And Lethal “Gold Standard Science” | Health Affairs Forefront
The real gold standard for science, and academic freedom, requires upholding scientific work that investigates who and what is responsible for creating conditions in which only a select few, rather th...
www.healthaffairs.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Our opponents are disgusting, cruel, and craven. They have real power to do real harm, but they are not inevitable or unstoppable. They are not the majority. We are. And we will defeat them with acts of solidarity small and large in defense of justice and truth. That’s how we win.
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I don’t understand why Dems have to choose? “Trump is a corrupt billionaire pedo whose self-serving policies have made your life more expensive” is not that hard of a message imo
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I know that we’re seeing unprecedented corruption from this administration, but I just saw a video of a priest get pepper sprayed while protesting ICE. Republicans are implicated in two *different* pedophilia accusations. I have more to worry about than the cost of streaming @warren.senate.gov
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Holy crap. They're triaging 2 out of 3 applications that are submitted. 2 out of every 3 applications will not even have a chance for discussion.
Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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No words. 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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multiple states are declaring food emergencies as the president holds decadent parties with showgirls and builds a golden ballroom
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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this is why I think Matt Yglesias’ stance that we shouldn’t talk about anything other than healthcare is insane

the average American doesn’t yet realize that Trump has created a Gestapo. Democrats need to talk about it and raise awareness of videos like this rather than just ignore it.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Excited to share the results of the TeMPO (Treatment of Meniscal Problems in Osteoarthritis) trial, published today in NEJM: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

A labor of love from the #BWH #oracore team, with partners in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. 879 randomized with the COVID in the middle!
A Randomized Trial of Physical Therapy for Meniscal Tear and Knee Pain | NEJM
Physical therapy is routinely recommended for knee pain attributed to a degenerative meniscal tear, but its efficacy has not been established. We randomly assigned participants 45 to 85 years of ag...
www.nejm.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
very proud of our 2nd year #OrACORe research assistants at #ACR25! Sasha Aronson spoke yesterday about cost-effectiveness of PT for people with OA and meniscal tear, and Ethan Eickmann presented a poster today on expanding indications for GLP1s in OA. 👏👏
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I found the puppies! #ACR25
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Getting ready for a full day at #ACR25. Looking forward to hearing from MGB Rheumatology Fellow Dr. Ana Valle at her poster "The Performance of Rule-Based Algorithms to Identify Patients With Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies in Electronic Health Records"
www.acrconvergencetoday.org/the-performa...
The Performance of Rule-Based Algorithms to Identify Patients With Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies in Electronic Health Records - ACR Convergence Today
Ana Valle, MD, MHS
www.acrconvergencetoday.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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The dismissal of AOC makes me think that they care less about working-class politicians and more about a kind of workerist male aesthetic.
October 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I’m delighted to be in beautiful Chicago for #ACR25! Looking forward to seeing friends and hearing about exciting science, and getting to spend a few days in this amazing city! I’ve already ✅Chicago hot dog off the list! 🌭😂
October 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM