Doug Livingston
@douglivingston.bsky.social
Professor (Emory University), Epidemiologist cosplaying as an econ. High Church Anglocatholic with irenic sympathies. He/Him.
Black bear
White tailed deer
Dolphin
Bull Shark
Water moccasin
White tailed deer
Dolphin
Bull Shark
Water moccasin
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
American Alligator
Coral snake
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Bighorn sheep
Elk
American Alligator
Coral snake
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Bighorn sheep
Elk
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Coyote
Raccoon
Moose
Bobcat
Pika
Coyote
Raccoon
Moose
Bobcat
Pika
November 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Black bear
White tailed deer
Dolphin
Bull Shark
Water moccasin
White tailed deer
Dolphin
Bull Shark
Water moccasin
I tend to think in a threats to validity framework (ala Shadish, Cook, and Campbell) instead of TTE. More and more, I think that's best for me. Even if just as a psychological framing of "here's what is wrong" vs what I see in TTE applications of "here's how it's basically an RCT"
Well put. I wish that were the way it’s playing out, but judging from the cardiovascular literature TTE is going the opposite way, i.e., is adding a blessing to deficient research that satisfies the low-hurdle TTE requirements without doing anything serious about confounding.
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I tend to think in a threats to validity framework (ala Shadish, Cook, and Campbell) instead of TTE. More and more, I think that's best for me. Even if just as a psychological framing of "here's what is wrong" vs what I see in TTE applications of "here's how it's basically an RCT"
The English dub VA for Light Yagami and Quatre Raberba Winner are apparently the same guy. I can't decide how I feel about this information.
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The English dub VA for Light Yagami and Quatre Raberba Winner are apparently the same guy. I can't decide how I feel about this information.
What is with these people and hating OTC pain meds?
I'm genuinely asking. What is the angle here beyond simply virtue signaling "strength" in the dumbest toxic masculinity way possible?
I'm genuinely asking. What is the angle here beyond simply virtue signaling "strength" in the dumbest toxic masculinity way possible?
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
What is with these people and hating OTC pain meds?
I'm genuinely asking. What is the angle here beyond simply virtue signaling "strength" in the dumbest toxic masculinity way possible?
I'm genuinely asking. What is the angle here beyond simply virtue signaling "strength" in the dumbest toxic masculinity way possible?
I have to find a way to build this into my lecture on the social construction of measurement
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I have to find a way to build this into my lecture on the social construction of measurement
Chuck "Lucy with the football" Schumer. Every freaking time...
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Chuck "Lucy with the football" Schumer. Every freaking time...
Scream
Scream IV
The Cabin in the Woods
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Scream IV
The Cabin in the Woods
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you.
-The Witch
-The Innocents
-Videodrome
-Mandy
-The Witch
-The Innocents
-Videodrome
-Mandy
Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you.
- You're Next
- A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
- Tigers Are Not Afraid
- La Llorona
- You're Next
- A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
- Tigers Are Not Afraid
- La Llorona
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Scream
Scream IV
The Cabin in the Woods
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Scream IV
The Cabin in the Woods
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Marian reforms, Sullan policy. Cool cool cool...
Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.
POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous
POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous
October 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Marian reforms, Sullan policy. Cool cool cool...
This me, but with robust standard errors
"You need to use a Mann-Whitney U Test here because the data is non-normal!"
My brother in Christ, I have no idea what that is but I most definitely do not need to use it to answer this question
My brother in Christ, I have no idea what that is but I most definitely do not need to use it to answer this question
October 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This me, but with robust standard errors
The sort of shit you see in authoritarian/dystopian cyberpunk movies
Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?
A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.
October 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The sort of shit you see in authoritarian/dystopian cyberpunk movies
"I'm in this picture and I don't like it" - me from ages 15-25
the irony is that what the right offers is a kind of kabuki masculinity that signals gender anxiety and immaturity more than anything.
October 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"I'm in this picture and I don't like it" - me from ages 15-25
God, I'm so cool.
The epi in me will always be Fisherian. Trialist I often am, will settle for Neyman.
October 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
God, I'm so cool.
We have a release date for Scream 7. It's like Christmas for weird little dudes!
October 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
We have a release date for Scream 7. It's like Christmas for weird little dudes!
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry,
Poor banished children of Eve;
To thee do we send up our sighs,
Mourning and weeping in this vale of tears
Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry,
Poor banished children of Eve;
To thee do we send up our sighs,
Mourning and weeping in this vale of tears
Traditional gender roles.
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry,
Poor banished children of Eve;
To thee do we send up our sighs,
Mourning and weeping in this vale of tears
Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry,
Poor banished children of Eve;
To thee do we send up our sighs,
Mourning and weeping in this vale of tears
1. Experimental and quasi experimental design
2. Compilation of Final Fantasy 7
3. Whatever my kids have most recently info dumped
2. Compilation of Final Fantasy 7
3. Whatever my kids have most recently info dumped
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep.
- Martin Heidegger
- Michel Foucault
- Thomas Aquinas
- Martin Heidegger
- Michel Foucault
- Thomas Aquinas
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep.
1. The entire history of fire emblem. The good The bad and the ugly
2. My hometown that I lowkey dislike but will never leave
3. How to buff certain Pokémon but not as to make them broken
1. The entire history of fire emblem. The good The bad and the ugly
2. My hometown that I lowkey dislike but will never leave
3. How to buff certain Pokémon but not as to make them broken
September 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. Experimental and quasi experimental design
2. Compilation of Final Fantasy 7
3. Whatever my kids have most recently info dumped
2. Compilation of Final Fantasy 7
3. Whatever my kids have most recently info dumped
Yeah. My grandfather who used to show me his collection of every National Geographic ever printed, and would get so overwhelmed in family social situations he would go sit on the porch in utter silence for an hour at a time... Definitely neurotypical.
RFK Jr: I've never seen a case of full-blown autism in a 70-year-old man. You're only seeing it in the kids. It's an epidemic.
September 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Yeah. My grandfather who used to show me his collection of every National Geographic ever printed, and would get so overwhelmed in family social situations he would go sit on the porch in utter silence for an hour at a time... Definitely neurotypical.
With all that's going on in the world, it's still nice to be able to ruin someone's night with a mean spirited blue/black MTG deck
September 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
With all that's going on in the world, it's still nice to be able to ruin someone's night with a mean spirited blue/black MTG deck
Reposted by Doug Livingston
It is literally unironically just like how we cannot successfully teach our dog to stop eating things that make him throw up because too much time passes between the choice and the consequence
BARTLETT: Negative consequences from tariffs didn’t happen right away — “and WH lies convinced many .. that the economists were wrong. Now the chickens are coming home to roost ..”
September 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It is literally unironically just like how we cannot successfully teach our dog to stop eating things that make him throw up because too much time passes between the choice and the consequence
Turning into one of those weeks where you just want to keep posting imprecatory psalm quotes
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Turning into one of those weeks where you just want to keep posting imprecatory psalm quotes
Observational epi folks out here like "whatever happens, we have got DAGs and target trials, and they do not."
We didn't randomize, and there was no allocation concealment or blinding, and we can't really be sure what intervention they got or how the outcomes were measured, but we emulated a trial by drawing a DAG.
August 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Observational epi folks out here like "whatever happens, we have got DAGs and target trials, and they do not."
Everyone get in here, we are doing crowd sourced Pelagianism!!
Trump Fundraising Email: “I Want to Try to Get to Heaven”
Trump invokes eternal life in plea for campaign cash
meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...
Trump invokes eternal life in plea for campaign cash
meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...
Trump Fundraising Email: “I Want to Try to Get to Heaven”
Trump invokes eternal life in plea for campaign cash
meidasnews.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Everyone get in here, we are doing crowd sourced Pelagianism!!
"Many will say to me Lord Lord, did I not lead many parents across the globe to beat the shit out of their children in your name?"
James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.
August 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"Many will say to me Lord Lord, did I not lead many parents across the globe to beat the shit out of their children in your name?"
Look, I know statistical significance is not magic, but we got a stop pretending that p-values north of 0.3 represent anything but noise or insufficient sample size.
August 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Look, I know statistical significance is not magic, but we got a stop pretending that p-values north of 0.3 represent anything but noise or insufficient sample size.
Seven years of my life and I couldn't be more proud of this. So many people worked for many years to make this happen. A real testament to academic and community partnerships.
Rollins researchers partnered with Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health to create and apply two new evidence-based interventions aimed at preventing youth substance use. After program implementation in high schools, the results showed reductions in alcohol, cannabis, and prescription opioid misuse.
Affordable Programs Prevent Youth Substance Misuse
Researchers at Rollins School of Public Health partnered with Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health to design and implement programs to help prevent youth substance use in their community.
sph.emory.edu
August 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Seven years of my life and I couldn't be more proud of this. So many people worked for many years to make this happen. A real testament to academic and community partnerships.