Nick Seewald
@nickseewald.com
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Penn. Views are my own.
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her: are you stupid?
me:
me:
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
her: are you stupid?
me:
me:
I have reached the age where I do NOT want to use your cute calendar interface or drop-down menus to enter my date of birth. Let me type it in. Making me scroll that far back to pick the year is an act of violence and I will not stand for it.
August 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I have reached the age where I do NOT want to use your cute calendar interface or drop-down menus to enter my date of birth. Let me type it in. Making me scroll that far back to pick the year is an act of violence and I will not stand for it.
If anybody ever said that I have "marooned (my)self on an island of vacuity" I think I would immediately walk into the ocean, The Awakening-style.
July 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If anybody ever said that I have "marooned (my)self on an island of vacuity" I think I would immediately walk into the ocean, The Awakening-style.
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Hell yeah @rapup-uaw.bsky.social!!! Congrats on an incredible win and solidarity forever! ✊❤️
July 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Hell yeah @rapup-uaw.bsky.social!!! Congrats on an incredible win and solidarity forever! ✊❤️
Hanging out at the gay bar* this morning!
*Airport lounge
*Airport lounge
July 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hanging out at the gay bar* this morning!
*Airport lounge
*Airport lounge
Now tell me why Wells Fargo Arena wasn't lit up like this for the Sweat Tour
June 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Now tell me why Wells Fargo Arena wasn't lit up like this for the Sweat Tour
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Join @nickseewald.com on July 8-11 for "SMART Designs for Adaptive Interventions". Gain insights into the design, implementation, and analysis of sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMARTs). Acquire the skills needed to propose and implement a SMART in your own research.
SMART Designs | Online Workshop | Statistical Horizons
This online seminar taught by Nicholas Seewald, Ph.D., explores the design, implementation, & analysis of SMARTs.
statisticalhorizons.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Join @nickseewald.com on July 8-11 for "SMART Designs for Adaptive Interventions". Gain insights into the design, implementation, and analysis of sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMARTs). Acquire the skills needed to propose and implement a SMART in your own research.
Oopsies!
The Florida Board of Governors has voted against the confirmation of Dr. Santa Ono as the University of Florida's next president
Florida Board of Governors rejects Santa Ono as University of Florida president
The selection of the former UM president faced backlash from GOP leaders over his handling of pro-Palestine encampments and his past support of DEI.
www.gainesville.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Oopsies!
Oh no I'm reading my dissertation and finding typos why am I doing this to myself
May 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Oh no I'm reading my dissertation and finding typos why am I doing this to myself
Not trying to brag but this is a new PR for me and I'm proud of it. Where else am I going to put this, LinkedIn? Come on now.
May 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Not trying to brag but this is a new PR for me and I'm proud of it. Where else am I going to put this, LinkedIn? Come on now.
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Now on YouTube: Watch the 1st hour of "SMART Designs for Developing Adaptive Interventions" w/ @nickseewald.com. The July 8–11 seminar covers how to build, analyze, & apply sequential, multiple-assignment, randomized trials (SMARTs) to create dynamic interventions.
Adaptive Interventions and SMART Designs: An Introduction with Nicholas Seewald
YouTube video by Statistical Horizons
youtu.be
May 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Now on YouTube: Watch the 1st hour of "SMART Designs for Developing Adaptive Interventions" w/ @nickseewald.com. The July 8–11 seminar covers how to build, analyze, & apply sequential, multiple-assignment, randomized trials (SMARTs) to create dynamic interventions.
I tried doing this and was nearly hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, do not recommend
science actually has enough bodies, i'm donating my body to math
April 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I tried doing this and was nearly hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, do not recommend
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How many hospitalized patients need care in the ICU? How many of them survive? What interventions do they receive there?
These are some of the questions I had two years ago while trying to write the "background" section for my masters thesis. But I couldn't find the answers... they did not exist.
These are some of the questions I had two years ago while trying to write the "background" section for my masters thesis. But I couldn't find the answers... they did not exist.
Following pandemic-era changes, many ICU outcome measures returned to prior levels.
The rates of mechanical ventilation have declined even further, while vasopressor use remained elevated above 2010s rates.
#MedSky https://ja.ma/42Jl3NO
The rates of mechanical ventilation have declined even further, while vasopressor use remained elevated above 2010s rates.
#MedSky https://ja.ma/42Jl3NO
Life Support and Outcomes Among ICU Patients
This cohort study uses data from US health systems continuously contributing to the Epic Cosmos database from 2014-2023 to characterize changes in intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes (ICU length of stay; use of mechanical ventilation or vasopressors; in-hospital mortality) and use of life support...
ja.ma
April 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
How many hospitalized patients need care in the ICU? How many of them survive? What interventions do they receive there?
These are some of the questions I had two years ago while trying to write the "background" section for my masters thesis. But I couldn't find the answers... they did not exist.
These are some of the questions I had two years ago while trying to write the "background" section for my masters thesis. But I couldn't find the answers... they did not exist.
Thrilled to have been part of this work with @emilymoin.com!
Following pandemic-era changes, many ICU outcome measures returned to prior levels.
The rates of mechanical ventilation have declined even further, while vasopressor use remained elevated above 2010s rates.
#MedSky https://ja.ma/42Jl3NO
The rates of mechanical ventilation have declined even further, while vasopressor use remained elevated above 2010s rates.
#MedSky https://ja.ma/42Jl3NO
Life Support and Outcomes Among ICU Patients
This cohort study uses data from US health systems continuously contributing to the Epic Cosmos database from 2014-2023 to characterize changes in intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes (ICU length of stay; use of mechanical ventilation or vasopressors; in-hospital mortality) and use of life support...
ja.ma
April 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thrilled to have been part of this work with @emilymoin.com!
Any time I hear anyone talk about wanting to identify "risk factors", I will now be directing them to this. youtu.be/cQ3jwffRn10?...
Medication Ad - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtu.be
April 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Any time I hear anyone talk about wanting to identify "risk factors", I will now be directing them to this. youtu.be/cQ3jwffRn10?...
I see the people who didn't major in math have discovered LibGen 🤐
March 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I see the people who didn't major in math have discovered LibGen 🤐
Cowardice laid bare.
Two Black Pa. lawmakers walked out of a meeting with Penn's top administrators over its knee-bend-to-Trump DEI pullbacks, when one of the Penn reps called diversity issues "a lightning rod." The situation at Trump and Musk's alma mater keeps getting worse whyy.org/articles/pen...
Philly-area lawmakers walk out of meeting with Penn president over DEI cuts
A Pennsylvania state senator and state representative left the meeting after they say a university administrator referred to diversity as a “lightning rod.”
whyy.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Cowardice laid bare.
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being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)
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Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do…
We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com
Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com
Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
Gulf Map Generator - MapQuest
Explore and customize your own Gulf region map with our interactive map tool.
gulfof.mapquest.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do…
We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com
Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com
Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘
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A modern miracle made possible through NIH funding of research both intramurally and through the national network of academic research centers
⚕️ MedSky ⚕️
“[A] girl was four years old when she arrived at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to receive a highly experimental [CAR-T] therapy for nerve-cell cancer. […]. Nineteen years later, she is cancer-free and the mother of two children.” #Cancer #CAR-T
“[A] girl was four years old when she arrived at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to receive a highly experimental [CAR-T] therapy for nerve-cell cancer. […]. Nineteen years later, she is cancer-free and the mother of two children.” #Cancer #CAR-T
Woman in cancer remission for record 19 years after CAR-T immune treatment
CAR-T-cell therapy treated a girl with a rare childhood cancer, raising hopes for future recipients of the approach.
www.nature.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
A modern miracle made possible through NIH funding of research both intramurally and through the national network of academic research centers
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(1) this is not how university finances work
(2) without humanities, you don’t have a university, you have a glorified trade school.
(2) without humanities, you don’t have a university, you have a glorified trade school.
it seems one of the stated purposes of capping overhead on NIH grants at 15% by those who champion the cap is to starve PhD programs in the humanities
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
(1) this is not how university finances work
(2) without humanities, you don’t have a university, you have a glorified trade school.
(2) without humanities, you don’t have a university, you have a glorified trade school.
Great to see this paper out in the world despite the horrible implications. Congrats to @lizstuart.bsky.social and the rest of the team on this important work.
🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023.
ja.ma/4aVchPn
#MedSky
ja.ma/4aVchPn
#MedSky
February 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Great to see this paper out in the world despite the horrible implications. Congrats to @lizstuart.bsky.social and the rest of the team on this important work.
Well, time to break out the masks again, I guess
February 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Well, time to break out the masks again, I guess
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Philadelphia Enjoys Quiet Week Of Super Bowl Victory Reflection
Philadelphia Enjoys Quiet Week Of Super Bowl Victory Reflection
PHILADELPHIA—With a hush falling over the city as millions choose to stay indoors and focus on taking deep, slow breaths, Philadelphia residents have been enjoying a quiet week of Super Bowl victory r...
theonion.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Philadelphia Enjoys Quiet Week Of Super Bowl Victory Reflection