Emily Moin
@emilymoin.com
Intensivist, ethicist, epidemiologist, math enthusiast. Es könnte auch anders sein. (I call them tweets and they're my own)
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Emily Moin
@emilymoin.com
· Apr 20
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
– George Eliot
– George Eliot
As a physician and ethicist (and person rewatching season 1) it still really pisses me off that the climax of TLOU Part 1 makes no sense.
December 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
As a physician and ethicist (and person rewatching season 1) it still really pisses me off that the climax of TLOU Part 1 makes no sense.
I was in the mood to knit so I picked up a second sock I've had in progress for, apparently, almost ten years.
December 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I was in the mood to knit so I picked up a second sock I've had in progress for, apparently, almost ten years.
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Great video by @anamariecox.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?si=gYx...
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Great video by @anamariecox.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?si=gYx...
If you're not on ballet YouTube you're missing out on some of the most hilariously hypercritical observations on the planet
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If you're not on ballet YouTube you're missing out on some of the most hilariously hypercritical observations on the planet
If you can avoid starting a new job on 1/1 I strongly advise against it
December 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you can avoid starting a new job on 1/1 I strongly advise against it
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
It said sweet on the package... it was the only sweet thing in my life.
December 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It said sweet on the package... it was the only sweet thing in my life.
The best time to watch HBO's Watchmen was when it premiered in 2019, the second best time is now.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The best time to watch HBO's Watchmen was when it premiered in 2019, the second best time is now.
Man, I just find it so incredibly morally corrosive that both parties are centering affordability above all else.
It has often been the case that American values led to economic prosperity, but we're seeing the effects right now of a prioritization that permits abandoning those values.
It has often been the case that American values led to economic prosperity, but we're seeing the effects right now of a prioritization that permits abandoning those values.
December 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Man, I just find it so incredibly morally corrosive that both parties are centering affordability above all else.
It has often been the case that American values led to economic prosperity, but we're seeing the effects right now of a prioritization that permits abandoning those values.
It has often been the case that American values led to economic prosperity, but we're seeing the effects right now of a prioritization that permits abandoning those values.
The least surprised I've ever been was finding out that Kwame Anthony Appiah rendered a verdict that no one should feel bad about concierge medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/m...
Should I Feel Bad About Joining a Concierge Medical Practice?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The least surprised I've ever been was finding out that Kwame Anthony Appiah rendered a verdict that no one should feel bad about concierge medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/m...
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Commercial LLMs integrated into health care applications remain highly vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, with a 94% success rate for generating unsafe or contraindicated medical recommendations in simulated dialogues. ja.ma/4amWHhj
December 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Commercial LLMs integrated into health care applications remain highly vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, with a 94% success rate for generating unsafe or contraindicated medical recommendations in simulated dialogues. ja.ma/4amWHhj
Achievement unlocked: invited to review a paper I already reviewed for a different journal ✅
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Achievement unlocked: invited to review a paper I already reviewed for a different journal ✅
A poorly designed analysis can travel halfway around the world while people who understand competing risks are still putting on their shoes, or however that saying goes
"Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia."
Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants.
The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants.
The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
December 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
A poorly designed analysis can travel halfway around the world while people who understand competing risks are still putting on their shoes, or however that saying goes
I don't want to put them on blast in an identifiable way but there is a lab that is trying to get physicians to do several HOURS of expert labeling in exchange for a *checks notes* $25 gift card?
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I don't want to put them on blast in an identifiable way but there is a lab that is trying to get physicians to do several HOURS of expert labeling in exchange for a *checks notes* $25 gift card?
Ever since reading that article that made the rounds a few weeks ago about bad reading pedagogy I can't help but view everything happening in consumer tech through the lens of "for most people, reading is very effortful now."
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ever since reading that article that made the rounds a few weeks ago about bad reading pedagogy I can't help but view everything happening in consumer tech through the lens of "for most people, reading is very effortful now."
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everyone who uses an llm to code more than me is voluntarily deskilling themselves, everyone who uses it less than me might as well be hand-wiring together vacuum tubes
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
everyone who uses an llm to code more than me is voluntarily deskilling themselves, everyone who uses it less than me might as well be hand-wiring together vacuum tubes
Observational research, broadly speaking, seeks to expand our knowledge of the the data-generating processes underlying reality.
Research using synthetic data expands our knowledge of the process that generated the synthetic dataset.
They are explicitly, trivially, and facially not the same thing.
Research using synthetic data expands our knowledge of the process that generated the synthetic dataset.
They are explicitly, trivially, and facially not the same thing.
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Observational research, broadly speaking, seeks to expand our knowledge of the the data-generating processes underlying reality.
Research using synthetic data expands our knowledge of the process that generated the synthetic dataset.
They are explicitly, trivially, and facially not the same thing.
Research using synthetic data expands our knowledge of the process that generated the synthetic dataset.
They are explicitly, trivially, and facially not the same thing.
Was reminded again of how good Anora is so mentally I am here www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU9N...
Take That - Greatest Day Remix with Calum Scott & Robin Schulz (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Take That
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Was reminded again of how good Anora is so mentally I am here www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU9N...
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Tread softly, if you say it you agree with it
December 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Tread softly, if you say it you agree with it
There's a researcher I'm on the verge of naming and shaming who is scraping medRxiv to generate the mailing list for their unsolicited human subjects research and I feel pretty strongly that we need as a community to agree that this is Not OK
December 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
There's a researcher I'm on the verge of naming and shaming who is scraping medRxiv to generate the mailing list for their unsolicited human subjects research and I feel pretty strongly that we need as a community to agree that this is Not OK
Yeah I have a question can I have 20% of my screen back so I can RTFA
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Yeah I have a question can I have 20% of my screen back so I can RTFA
I'm not the arbiter of how people should live their lives but I do think that more people should consider keeping performance metrics on the training set in their desk drawer and not, say, in a manuscript or podium talk.
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I'm not the arbiter of how people should live their lives but I do think that more people should consider keeping performance metrics on the training set in their desk drawer and not, say, in a manuscript or podium talk.
I don't think about CYA in practice that much but I do think a helpful heuristic is to imagine how your actions would look in a ProPublica investigation.
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I don't think about CYA in practice that much but I do think a helpful heuristic is to imagine how your actions would look in a ProPublica investigation.
I see that all the R girlies (laudatory) are excited about %notin% so I have to ask, is there already a better/more idiomatic way to say !is.na()? Because that is by far my most used awkward criterion...
December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I see that all the R girlies (laudatory) are excited about %notin% so I have to ask, is there already a better/more idiomatic way to say !is.na()? Because that is by far my most used awkward criterion...