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Stacie Dusetzina
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Health services researcher at Vanderbilt Health Policy. Avid coffee drinker, investigator of drug policies & prices. RT not an endorsement. Opinions are mine.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 22h
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Draw a horse, watch it run!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 1d
Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found.
www.nber.org/papers/w34791

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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 2d
Exciting to see all the #AI in #science #chatter. But can we take a pause?

Incentives in science are towards marginal publications and grants. #AI will just lead us to create even more crap.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d
less discourse more S’mores
S’mores, a cat. Her expression says: “This phone at which I a being bidden to look neither smells like nor contains Churru, nature’s most delicious snack. It is of no value; I shall take my leave.”

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New Year Better Walt @waltometry.bsky.social · 3d
I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 4d
With TrumpRx, you can now pay $200/month for medicine instead of $140/year.

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR MAKING LIFE MORE AFFORDABLE!!!

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Richard M. Carpiano

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 7d
74,000 patients enrolled in clinical trials were affected.

You don’t terminate funding for clinical trials midway & “order” patient care to continue.

That’s not how it works.

I can’t tell whether Jay Bhattacharya is lying or just showing off his sparkling incompetence.

🧪 archive.today/ooHj6

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 7d
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 8d
Come join my team! I'm hiring a Housing Director to support implementation of pro-housing policies by state & local govts (zoning reform, streamlined development process). Looking for someone with substantial local/state govt experience in housing & land use. www.arnoldventures.org/careers/dire...
Arnold Ventures | Maximize Opportunity. Minimize Injustice.
Viewing philanthropy as an engine of innovation, we rigorously research problems and answers in criminal justice, health, education and public finance.
www.arnoldventures.org

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 8d
"We had to eliminate merit increases, but our president’s life coach swears that extrinsic motivation doesn’t work anyway, and my masseur agrees. Also, our Morale Boosting Consultant has T-shirts."
News, Bad and Good, from the Dean of Arts and Sciences
We have no money for copies. But our Live, Love, Learn program now includes two Undergraduate Scribe Fellows. We have no money for raises, but we’v...
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 9d
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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 9d
Ugh. Seriously?
katjathieme.bsky.social Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 9d
Nicholas Christakis, sociologist. 9/

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kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 10d
I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”

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Johnathan Lemay @fankuan.bsky.social · 9d
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 9d
Nicholas Christakis, sociologist. 9/

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kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 10d
I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”
To: Jeffrey Epsteinljeevacation@gmail.com] From: Christakis, Nicholas Sent: Thur 9/26/2013 1:56:03 AM Subject: Re: Thanks You are hilarious. My sense of humor. Yiddishe kop N Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD http://www.HumanNatureLab.net On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:40 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: great first date On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Christakis, Nicholas < wrote: Dear Jeff I've been on the road and in meetings literally since leaving your house [sic] yesterday light and just got to DC. I greatly enjoyed the company and the setting (amazing of course) and the many good questions, especially yours. Josh was terrific; bu you already know that. Best regards, Nicholas Please excuse brevity and orthography and this fine print -- since this has been sent from my iPhone. Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD http://www.HumanNatureLab.net From: Sent: Christakis, Nicholas Jeffrey Epstein Sun 9/8/2013 6:22:14 PM Subject: Re: meeting again no back until the 21, but lets definitely schedule after On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Christakis, Nicholas wrote: dear jeff: thanks for the kind words. i enjoyed meeting you; i had not known you were connected to john brockman, but i should have guessed! as luck would have it, i am slated to be in NYC this coming thursday for a dinner and could meet before that, any time between 2 and 5, if that happened to work for you. otherwise, i could surely come back again within the coming weeks. my lab has a number of foci at present: 1) the evolutionary biology and genetics of social networks and social interaction; 2) the experimental exploration, using online tools, of network structure and function in humans (how does network structure affect phenomena like cooperation, innovation, health, etc.); and 3) randomized controlled trials in the developing world of network 'targeting algorithms' aimed at enhancing spillover effects, so as to facilitate population-level behavior change by identifying and targeting influential people. let me share three papers with you (one unpublished) that flesh out some of our work (specifically [1] and [2] above): best, nicholas On Sep 8, 2013, at 3:41 AM 9/8/13, Jeffrey From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: "Christakis, Nicholas" = Subject: Re: introduction -- follow-up Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:26:20 +0000 great I will be back in sept. lets try then On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Christakis, Nicholas < nicholas.christakis@yale.edu> wrote: Dear Jeff: The editor wrote the provocative title, but this NYT Op-Ed from last week captures some of my thoughts about how the social sciences are evolving, and must evolve, given developments in the natural sciences. I thought I would share it: I don't want to swamp you with links because I know you are terribly busy, but if you want more nuance than 800 words allows, 1 make the argument at greater length here (in the first 8 minutes): http://www.edge.org/conversation/a-21st-century-change-to-social-science Also, as I mentioned in the piece, various labs, including my own, have continued to spearhead the move to use Amazon Mechanical Turk workers as a pool of research subjects in diverse projects; for example, here is a recent PNAS paper that shows how the topology of interactions between members of a group can be affirmatively manipulated to elicit desirable properties (such as cooperation): http://humannaturelab.net/wp= content/themes/human-nature-lab/media/pdf/publications/articles/126.pdf We have also been developing ways that AMT workers can be used as a ready pool of subjects for real-time pedagogic purposes, with novel software (as alluded to in the piece). I'd still welcome the chance to meet with you (and Linda?) to discuss some of our ideas, if you have the time and interest, and I can easily come into NYC since I have now moved to New Haven.

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 10d
100% - this should be a no brainer for them. Between concerns about falsified data and now this. Horrible.

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 10d
Thanks! It was a long week and so many of the people here still do not have power. The cold and no power was very tough.

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 10d
Stay safe NC and other folks in this coming storm. Just spent 5 days in my 40 degree house after the Nashville ice storm. Only the cat was happy (and only while in our temporary sleep setup).
Cat in a pile of blankets.

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 10d
Seriously. Unreal.
kjhealy.co Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 10d
Doo do doo

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 10d
Doo do doo

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 10d
What a shit week.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10d
“When in doubt,” Catherine O’Hara learned, the secret was to “play insane.”

O’Hara, the actress and comedian who delivered deliciously silly performances, died Friday after a brief illness. She was 71. https://wapo.st/3NUTQCT

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10d
“When in doubt,” Catherine O’Hara learned, the secret was to “play insane.”

O’Hara, the actress and comedian who delivered deliciously silly performances, died Friday after a brief illness. She was 71. https://wapo.st/3NUTQCT

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10d
The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11d
"It’s easy to throw stones if you think about the job displacement and ecological destruction caused by this pointless technology. But such black-and-white, not-wanting-billionaires-to-get-richer thinking is, quite frankly, cruel."
Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In
“[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo - - — Guys, enough is enough. Bullying is a s...
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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 12d
You inspired me to join a gym for functional weight training and I am so much stronger 1 year in!

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 12d
The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”
A little armored one / turtle rabbit in the wild

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Stacie Dusetzina @dusetzinas.bsky.social · 15d
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 15d
The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
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Holly Fernandez Lynch @hollylynchez.bsky.social · 15d
Thanks to @jasonmast.bsky.social for highlighting our analysis of FDA's new plausible mechanism pathway in @statnews.com.

Key pts:
- Plausible mech is a great idea for n of 1/few
- FDA needs to stop advancing policy via journal article
- Impt open Qs on scope

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FDA’s new ‘plausible mechanism pathway’ for personalized gene editing raises concerns
A new FDA pathway meant to enable one-time gene-editing cures could, ethicists warn, become a Pandora's box.
www.statnews.com

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 16d
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.