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Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) @ctrdecisionscience.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations to CHDS's @jacobjameson.com and all the finalists!

Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · 22d

Excited to be named a finalist for the INFORMS Health Applications Society student paper competition for my paper on discretionary image batching in the emergency department!

Paper here 👇
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · 22d

Excited to be named a finalist for the INFORMS Health Applications Society student paper competition for my paper on discretionary image batching in the emergency department!

Paper here 👇
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Harold Pollack @haroldpollack.bsky.social · Aug 13

Losing a friend. Older men have the highest suicide rate of any demographic group. This challenge doesn't get nearly the attention it should. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/o...

Harold Pollack: I studied the high male suicide rate. Then I lost my friend to it.

We middle-aged and older men face higher suicide rates than are found among our teenage sons and grandsons, or among women at any age.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Jul 26

New life update! Married my best friend @madisoncoots.com

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Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) @ctrdecisionscience.bsky.social · Jun 30

Check out this new article by CHDS doctoral student @jacobjameson.com and colleagues

Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Jun 28

🚨 NEW in American Journal of Preventive Medicine with Nate Glasser, Nabil Baker, Harold Pollack, & Elizabeth Tung

We show that permissive state firearm policies amplify sex differences in suicide—especially among young and older men

🔗 t.co/1kZ24LPkmW

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Jun 28

Findings suggest that older males may be particularly immune to the benefits of existing regulations such as policies targeting age minimums

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Jun 28

What’s new?
📍 We combine CDC mortality data with state gun policy scores (2018–2022)
📍 We reveal where and when suicide risks diverge most by sex & policy
🔵 In permissive states, male suicide risk is:
• Higher in YA (15–34)
• Steepest in late life (65+)
• Driven by firearms

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Jun 28

🚨 NEW in American Journal of Preventive Medicine with Nate Glasser, Nabil Baker, Harold Pollack, & Elizabeth Tung

We show that permissive state firearm policies amplify sex differences in suicide—especially among young and older men

🔗 t.co/1kZ24LPkmW

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · May 28

Unfortunately, one of the many the grants canceled at @Harvard.edu was my T32 in Comparative Effectiveness Research for Suicide Prevention

If you’re coming to #SMDM47 @smdm.bsky.social come see the previously funded great work we are doing related to suicide prevention

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · May 15

If you’re looking to improve your collaborative workflow, computational reproducibility, or just how to make the most out of version control — this is for you 👇👇

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Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) @ctrdecisionscience.bsky.social · May 14

If you are going to @smdm.bsky.social consider this short course with @madisoncoots.com and CHDS's @jacobjameson.com

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Mar 5

Woo 🥳 3rd consecutive year I will be teaching my reproducibility and project management short course at #SMDM annual meeting

ALSO if anyone knows any health/med journals looking to up their code sharing and reproducibility requirements please let me know 🙏

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Mar 4

🚨New in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

We find underrepresented groups have significantly lower exposure to medications with actionable PGx guidance—highlighting a critical obstacle to equitable genomically-guided personalized medicine 💊

ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Feb 19

Reminded of a special memory: in 4th grade my best friend Zach came to school kinda down. I asked what’s wrong and he said he just listened to the saddest song and it’s got him feeling kinda down. He pulls out his iPod to have me listen to the theme song from the tv show Scrubs

Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Feb 9

New blog post: A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Linear Regression in R 📊

jacobjameson.com/posts/2025-0...

Jacob Jameson - A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Linear Regression in R

This guide walks you through Bayesian linear regression in R and Stan, explaining how priors, likelihoods, and posteriors work in an intuitive and hands-on way.

jacobjameson.com

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Feb 5

Full paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Health Services Research</em> | AcademyHealth & HRET Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objectives To examine heterogeneity in physician batch ordering practices and measure the associations between a physician's tendency to batch order imaging tests on patient outcomes and resource ut...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Feb 5

We find that quasi random assignment to a “batcher” relative to a “sequencer” physician has implications for:

LOS 📈
Imaging volume 📈
72hr return with admission 📉

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Feb 5

We examine ED physician variation in tendency to batch order diagnostic imaging (the practice of placing multiple imaging test orders at the same time).

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Feb 5

Would you rather be seen by an ED physician who orders their tests in a batch or in sequence?

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New in Feb 2025 issue of HSR by Soroush Saghafian, Nicole Hodgson, Rob Huckman, and I

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Jan 29

"HKS researchers create an analytical framework that informs the ongoing medical debate over whether to use race-unaware or race-aware risk assessments."

@madisoncoots.com 👏👏👏

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https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/should-race-be-used-determining-risk-disease-yes-and-no/

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Jan 17

Join our lab!

PIAS-Lab at Harvard Kennedy School is accepting new applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position. More information can be found 👇👇👇

scholar.harvard.edu/sites/schola...

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Madison Coots @madisoncoots.com · Jan 9

So excited this finally out!! 🥳 Thread on our new paper 👇

Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · Jan 8

NEW in Management Science!

My coauthors and I came up with a new consequentialist approach to designing equitable algorithms.

Instead of imposing fairness criteria on an algorithm (like equal false negative rates), we aim for good outcomes.

More in the 🧵 below! (1/)

A screenshot of the first page of our paper, Learning to Be Fair, showing the title and abstract.

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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · Jan 8

NEW in Management Science!

My coauthors and I came up with a new consequentialist approach to designing equitable algorithms.

Instead of imposing fairness criteria on an algorithm (like equal false negative rates), we aim for good outcomes.

More in the 🧵 below! (1/)

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Jacob Jameson 📊 @jacobjameson.com · Dec 22

Happy birthday to my beautiful fiancée @madisoncoots.com ❤️

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