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Alexandre Adler @bachpropagate.bsky.social · 10h

Look, we’re both very sorry about the widening gyre.

The US president on the phone in Dr Strangelove.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 5d

Just. Reduce. Child. Poverty.

Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 5d

We want to transform early intervention for youth mental health.

Our new funding award will help achieve this.

We're supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of effective social and psychological interventions.

Applications close 11 Nov ⤵️
wellcome.org/research-fun...

Benny Prawira, Lived Experience Advisor at Wellcome says, "My wish is that new psychosocial interventions can do more than just make youth 'feel better' – but actually help them stay in school, find jobs and rebuild relationships."

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 4d

I only ever heard second-hand from my German relatives what the 1930s were like but it sounded like this. You see the story, it feels wrong, but everyone else around you is just carrying on, shopping, working, going to the cinema. So you do the same. Keep your head down, maybe this is fine? Normal?

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 5d

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

people.com

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 4d

Asking “is the postal service profitable?” is a new thing

If you visit a 1950s post office it looks like a Greek temple. They have statues of eagles. There’s a big mural of a flying woman holding a cornucopia. They didn’t whine “is the bronze bas-relief of Prosperity profitable?”

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 4d

This op-ed is excellent and I encourage everyone to read it.

Universities must reject the Trump compact.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 4d

I guess my point is it’s unphysical concepts all the way down. But for some reason people really don’t like this one in particular.

Sure, it’s not the only way to frame causal inference, but I’m not sure it’s inherently worse. Different frameworks mostly emphasize different sets of priorities.

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 3d

I don't believe the number 2 is "real" but I use it all the time.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 3d

Literally bragging about sending gestapo into American cities with weapons of war to bust down doors & drag residents out of their beds because they’re Latino.

F*cking psychopaths

Trump Watch @trumpwat.ch · 4d

Kristi Noem has posted a Michael Bayesque video of that crazy Border Patrol raid of an apartment building in Chicago. Her caption was "Chicago, we’re here for you."

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 5d

The regime’s new proposed “compact” with universities — conditioning federal funds on giving up academic freedom & free speech & throwing trans & non-US students under the bus — is unconstitutional.

Every university must reject it. It’s classic hang together or hang separately.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 14d

@jeffhamilton.bsky.social how did you know this is the content I crave

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 14d

Not that I remember! :)

Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 14d

Omg

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · Jul 28

Using external data in trials can up power, but also bias. Some of my previous papers have tackled this, zeroing bias at the cost of power. In new work, we take the opposite fork: gaining max power and taking the bias hit, but with a rigorous way to protect from that bias.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.18876

A Non-Parametric Sensitivity Analysis for Bounding Bias in Hybrid Control Trials

In the digital era, it is easier than ever to collect and exploit rich covariate information in trials. Recent work explores how to use this information to integrate external controls, including the u...

arxiv.org

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CTML - Center for Targeted Machine Learning and Causal Inference @berkeleyctml.bsky.social · Jul 28

CTML GSRs Wenxin Zhang, Kaiwen Hou, and Alissa Gordon will be presenting their work next week at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). Innovations in causal inference, adaptive study design, and statistical methodology will be highlighted.
If you’re attending JSM—come show your support!

Mark your calendars: CTML graduate student researchers Wenxin Zhang, Kaiwen Hou, and Alissa Gordon will be presenting their work next week at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), held August 2–7 in Nashville, Tennessee. Innovations in causal inference, adaptive study design, and statistical methodology will be highlighted.
If you’re attending JSM, don’t miss their sessions—come show your support!

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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · Jul 9

A nice recent article on why you should abandon hazard ratios.

#statssky #episky

How hazard ratios can mislead and why it matters in practice - European Journal of Epidemiology

Hazard ratios are routinely reported as effect measures in clinical trials and observational studies. However, many methodological works have raised concerns about the interpretation of hazard ratios ...

doi.org

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Cameron @cameron.pfiffer.org · May 5

I complain about the weather a lot, and honestly it's super important to me. I come alive when it's hot and sunny out.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · May 1

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."

Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.

Ethical violation as POLICY.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

www.reuters.com

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · May 1

what the fuck are you talking about how dare you talk shit about A Moon Shaped Pool

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · May 1

As always, reality is complex. In the distant past you will find as much and brutality as there is today, but also evidence for the same kinds of selflessness, beauty, and tolerance. See eg work of David Graeber. We have always been exactly who we are: ruthless, kind, intentional, thoughtless...

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Apr 29

The problem with this study is not confounding. The problem is that it is a meaningless 'risk factor association study'.

The results cannot be interpreted. The study has zero scientific or practical value. Such studies need to be outlawed for undermining faith in science.

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Apr 29

No. This study does not show that drinking champagne could reduce your risk of cardiac arrest.

It shows that many things can predict your chances of cardiac arrest. Unsurprisingly, this includes the amount of champagne you drink, which is doubtless a marker of wealth.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Apr 29

Drinking champagne could reduce risk of sudden cardiac arrest, study suggests

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 29

The Trump administration continues to ignore the courts.

278 men are still in CECOT prison without a trial, sentence, or any form of due process.

Here's one of their stories. Dad is in CECOT. Mom, deported to Venezuela. Their beautiful toddler, in foster care in the US, whereabouts unknown.

A Mother and Father Were Deported Under Trump. But What Happened to Their Daughter? (Gift Article)

The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.

www.nytimes.com

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grand theft eigenvalue 🔆 @akhilrao.bsky.social · Apr 28

"if I was a billionaire I would not be cooking my brain in social media" if you were a billionaire you too would be desperate for what feels like earned regard of other apes

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