Tim Feeney
@tfeend.bsky.social
Scientist, Physician, Husband, Dad, Editor @bmj.com, Nerd/Geek since before it was trendy. Epi/Biostat, Causal Inference, Epistemology. #episky thefeeney.netlify.app http://fediscience.org/@tfeend
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Maybe just me but I don’t find LinkedIn very fun.
December 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Maybe just me but I don’t find LinkedIn very fun.
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As an editor I often see authors fall into a trap of stressing some fancy statistical technique for estimating causal effects. Often neglected are the necessary assumptions to map the data to the estimand. @pausalz.bsky.social and I wrote about it here www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Causal inference is hard, and advanced statistical analysis is not enough
Health researchers need to fully understand the underlying assumptions to uncover cause and effect. Timothy Feeney and Paul Zivich explain
Physicians ask, answer, and interpret myriad causal question...
www.bmj.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As an editor I often see authors fall into a trap of stressing some fancy statistical technique for estimating causal effects. Often neglected are the necessary assumptions to map the data to the estimand. @pausalz.bsky.social and I wrote about it here www.bmj.com/content/391/...
#EpiSky
#EpiSky
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Stuck at jfk after @americanair.bsky.social messed up my connection. No customer service. Fully trash service.
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Stuck at jfk after @americanair.bsky.social messed up my connection. No customer service. Fully trash service.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
is the pvalue significant? if so i would say frost causes shadow.
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
is the pvalue significant? if so i would say frost causes shadow.
I LOLed
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I LOLed
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This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
beginning to think trump was right and the media are the enemy of the people, just not in the way he thinks.
Exchanges about Trump between a reporter and Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.
Epstein Gave NY Times Journalist Tips About Trump. Why Did They Never Get Reported?
Exchanges about Trump between reporter Landon Thomas Jr. and Jeffrey Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.
interc.pt
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
beginning to think trump was right and the media are the enemy of the people, just not in the way he thinks.
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Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.
As someone currently on the slide I can confirm this is true.
Videos of what it feels like the last week of wrapping up your PhD
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
As someone currently on the slide I can confirm this is true.
i would not want to be a member of a party that had any room for nazi/hitler sympathy.
This seems like a bad thing to have. I feel like the entirety of both parties should be anti-Hitler.
But a senior Republican just publicly admitted that’s not true.
That’s … really really bad.
But a senior Republican just publicly admitted that’s not true.
That’s … really really bad.
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
i would not want to be a member of a party that had any room for nazi/hitler sympathy.
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IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.
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This is so fucked up.
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is so fucked up.
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
October 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
no one deserves to go hungry
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
no one deserves to go hungry
i know @pausalz.bsky.social will appreciate this
Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme.
#rstats #python #ripdavidlynch
#rstats #python #ripdavidlynch
October 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
i know @pausalz.bsky.social will appreciate this
gotta wonder if we will see Iterated conditional expectation g-formula fall out of fashion due to ::waves hands:: all of this.
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
gotta wonder if we will see Iterated conditional expectation g-formula fall out of fashion due to ::waves hands:: all of this.
same method also works for mike johnson apparently.
TIL the technique for placating fish is the same as for placating pigeons / doves / many other birds
They can sometimes be calmed down a bit by inversion, but we find a towel over the eyes works best (technique works on many smaller fishes too!)
October 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
same method also works for mike johnson apparently.
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The idea that a grown man never thought to Google what his prominent chest tattoo that he probably looked at every day in the mirror actually meant is also not winning my confidence
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The idea that a grown man never thought to Google what his prominent chest tattoo that he probably looked at every day in the mirror actually meant is also not winning my confidence