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Rick Hass

@rwhass.bsky.social

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Day Job: Associate Professor in the College of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University in Philly, Yo! Interests: applied statistics and theory, cognitive science and computation. Health is also good. My employer approves of my dog posts

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 6h

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 17h

This will be my inspiration

two women are sitting on a couch and one of them is saying " there i 've run rings around you logically "

ALT: two women are sitting on a couch and one of them is saying " there i 've run rings around you logically "

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 17h

Totally going to my local rally dressed as “Auntie Fah”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 17h

A large swath of scientists barely understand p-values. Throw information theory in there along with base-2 logarithms and it seems like it’s going to take a lot. (FWIW, I like the S-value)

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 17h

Agreed. Plus it seems that RFKjr grasps none of this, nor does he want to. As an aside, it is interesting and also terrifying watching a lawyer who “interpreted” scientific evidence for $$ now have to actually do it

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 18h

Agreed. It sounds as if they’re going to drum up some evidence via pseudoscience. He also thinks like a lawyer, and such a statement seems pretty ordinary for legal means, but is tricky in this case because you cannot do the tortoise thing here (because it’s not ethical to conduct an RCT)

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 19h

No way she reads all of those memos. I can’t think of a less enjoyable activity

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 22h

The way it came out it’s sounds as if he’s making the point in case you were confused that something ELSE could have been in her placenta. Like, maybe that’s where she stashes her keys too

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

lol ok

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

#phillies

a group of baseball players are standing in a dugout and one of them is asking another player if they are crying .

ALT: a group of baseball players are standing in a dugout and one of them is asking another player if they are crying .

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal. Especially since the Dodgers can’t even fill that stadium. Time for bed!

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

He was too amped up. Brutal

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh, I’m writing up an NHIS-based study right now. What is the deal? They’re cracking down on AI generated papers, yes?

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

This log is your log...

Great shot from the "Li'l Lisa Slurry" Simpsons Episode:
"This log, it used to be a tree, Now it spreads love to you and me"

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

This is like a bad satire skit come to life

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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Yale School of Public Health alum Dr. Nabarun L. Dasgupta, PhD, MPH ’03, for being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, aka a “genius grant” winner: m.yale.edu/dbrp

Dasgupta combines science with community engagement in a way that lowers deaths and other afflictions from drug use.

Dr. Nabarun L. Dasgupta, PhD, MPH ’03, wins ‘genius grant’ for creative and effective harm reduction work. Photo of Dasgupta in a lab.

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

Ok now we know why they supported these idiots as nominees. They don’t care about hazards, they want to score pro-life points. Easy to drum up whatever dog whistle RFK and Marty want to hear

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

Great point! Because I started in experimental psych, I forget that other folks don't get that content in undergrad

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

DAGS, ya like DAGS?

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

We make our Health Data Science students take at least one Epidemiology course. Haven’t been able to squeeze a proper causal inference course in there but it’s on the list of future additions

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Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait to use that reasoning in my next manuscript submission

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

AAAAAGGHG MAKE IT STOP

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

The pups are not amused today

A "cafe"-colored labradoodle named Dolly Parton, and her sister, Stevie Nicks, are frowning at the camera while being very good girls

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

So the takeaway is that we are seeing an AI bubble because a few investors believe that LLMs will lead directly to GenAI, without specifying the details that matter A LOT

Rick Hass @rwhass.bsky.social · 1d

2. The system needs control processes. Imagine if we, as humans, just spit out everything we thought of when someone asked us a question. Cognitive research has always suggested that modeling cognition requires some level of control, and rule-based systems provide one way to do that