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Doctor LLMs don't want you to know this one weird trick
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Doctor LLMs don't want you to know this one weird trick
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Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
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Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.
A beautiful tribute to Sue Goldie, capturing her brilliance, determination, & humility:
"Sue is not a swimmer, cyclist or runner. She will become the rare triathlete, she says, 'who sucks at all three.'"
Her work has been an inspiration. Her athletic accomplishments amidst Parkinson's, next level.
"Sue is not a swimmer, cyclist or runner. She will become the rare triathlete, she says, 'who sucks at all three.'"
Her work has been an inspiration. Her athletic accomplishments amidst Parkinson's, next level.
It’s hard to put into words how inspiring Dr. Sue Goldie is.
An extraordinary teacher, researcher, leader, and mentor to so many of us @hsph.harvard.edu who now shares her deeply personal story fighting against Parkinson’s disease.
Her story in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An extraordinary teacher, researcher, leader, and mentor to so many of us @hsph.harvard.edu who now shares her deeply personal story fighting against Parkinson’s disease.
Her story in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Sue Goldie Has Parkinson’s Disease
An acclaimed researcher is an expert at explaining complicated problems. Now she has to confront the most vexing question: What is happening to her?
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A beautiful tribute to Sue Goldie, capturing her brilliance, determination, & humility:
"Sue is not a swimmer, cyclist or runner. She will become the rare triathlete, she says, 'who sucks at all three.'"
Her work has been an inspiration. Her athletic accomplishments amidst Parkinson's, next level.
"Sue is not a swimmer, cyclist or runner. She will become the rare triathlete, she says, 'who sucks at all three.'"
Her work has been an inspiration. Her athletic accomplishments amidst Parkinson's, next level.
If you're in health policy or medicine and confused about what to do with all the recent DiD innovations -- or curious about their adoption in the medical literature -- @brownbiostatistics.bsky.social PhD student Shuo Feng has you covered!
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October 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If you're in health policy or medicine and confused about what to do with all the recent DiD innovations -- or curious about their adoption in the medical literature -- @brownbiostatistics.bsky.social PhD student Shuo Feng has you covered!
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Want advice from a physician who cares for pregnant women and a researcher who studies medication risks for pregnant women (instead of from politicians)? Here's the latest from Professor Alyssa Bilinski and Dr. Katherine McDaniel in @statnews.com. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Our best evidence says acetaminophen is safe during pregnancy. Better evidence could lay the issue to rest
“Discerning the safety of medications during pregnancy shouldn't require patients to have a Ph.D.,” a physician and a professor write.
www.statnews.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Want advice from a physician who cares for pregnant women and a researcher who studies medication risks for pregnant women (instead of from politicians)? Here's the latest from Professor Alyssa Bilinski and Dr. Katherine McDaniel in @statnews.com. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Amazed that this is still written in NYT in 2025.
With RCTs, we would have better evidence on acetaminophen in pregnancy with fewer individuals exposed. Why are we forcing everyone to experiment and not learning from it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...
With RCTs, we would have better evidence on acetaminophen in pregnancy with fewer individuals exposed. Why are we forcing everyone to experiment and not learning from it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...
September 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Amazed that this is still written in NYT in 2025.
With RCTs, we would have better evidence on acetaminophen in pregnancy with fewer individuals exposed. Why are we forcing everyone to experiment and not learning from it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...
With RCTs, we would have better evidence on acetaminophen in pregnancy with fewer individuals exposed. Why are we forcing everyone to experiment and not learning from it?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/h...
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Back from travels to share some Highland cows and our write-up about pregnancy research in Stat!
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August 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Back from travels to share some Highland cows and our write-up about pregnancy research in Stat!
www.statnews.com/2025/08/12/p...
www.statnews.com/2025/08/12/p...
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Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
June 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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In a new memo, @pennldi.bsky.social and @yalesph.bsky.social researchers project that, based on available evidence, the rollback of coverage in the House-passed reconciliation bill will lead to 42,500 additional deaths per year.
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June 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
In a new memo, @pennldi.bsky.social and @yalesph.bsky.social researchers project that, based on available evidence, the rollback of coverage in the House-passed reconciliation bill will lead to 42,500 additional deaths per year.
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*Every time* we present on pregnant inclusion in clinical trials, one or two women come up afterward and say, "This happened to me too" -- with depression, anxiety, asthma, epilepsy, hypertension, nausea, glaucoma.
Natalia Emanuel, Andrea Ciaranello, and I took at stab at counting these harms.
Natalia Emanuel, Andrea Ciaranello, and I took at stab at counting these harms.
“A common concern is that we shouldn’t ‘experiment’ on pregnant people—but the reality is that we already are,” Professor Alyssa Bilinski says. “Every time a pregnant person takes an untested medication it’s an uncontrolled experiment.” sph.brown.edu/news/2025-05...
Excluding pregnant and nursing people from clinical trials causes more harm than it prevents, study finds
Professor Alyssa Bilinski has found that systematically including pregnant participants in trials would speed up the detection of adverse effects and increase uptake of beneficial medications.
sph.brown.edu
June 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
*Every time* we present on pregnant inclusion in clinical trials, one or two women come up afterward and say, "This happened to me too" -- with depression, anxiety, asthma, epilepsy, hypertension, nausea, glaucoma.
Natalia Emanuel, Andrea Ciaranello, and I took at stab at counting these harms.
Natalia Emanuel, Andrea Ciaranello, and I took at stab at counting these harms.
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“A common concern is that we shouldn’t ‘experiment’ on pregnant people—but the reality is that we already are,” Professor Alyssa Bilinski says. “Every time a pregnant person takes an untested medication it’s an uncontrolled experiment.” sph.brown.edu/news/2025-05...
Excluding pregnant and nursing people from clinical trials causes more harm than it prevents, study finds
Professor Alyssa Bilinski has found that systematically including pregnant participants in trials would speed up the detection of adverse effects and increase uptake of beneficial medications.
sph.brown.edu
June 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“A common concern is that we shouldn’t ‘experiment’ on pregnant people—but the reality is that we already are,” Professor Alyssa Bilinski says. “Every time a pregnant person takes an untested medication it’s an uncontrolled experiment.” sph.brown.edu/news/2025-05...
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How do you devastate an already-fragile system? Target its workers AND its funding.
In our @statnews.com op-ed, @rachelwerner.bsky.social and I explore how immigration enforcement & Medicaid cuts will impact millions who depend on long-term care—and what we can do.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/l...
In our @statnews.com op-ed, @rachelwerner.bsky.social and I explore how immigration enforcement & Medicaid cuts will impact millions who depend on long-term care—and what we can do.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/l...
Long-term care in the U.S. faces two existential threats: an immigration crackdown and Medicaid cuts
The combined impacts of an immigration crackdown and slashing Medicaid budgets could create an exodus of long-term care workers.
www.statnews.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
How do you devastate an already-fragile system? Target its workers AND its funding.
In our @statnews.com op-ed, @rachelwerner.bsky.social and I explore how immigration enforcement & Medicaid cuts will impact millions who depend on long-term care—and what we can do.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/l...
In our @statnews.com op-ed, @rachelwerner.bsky.social and I explore how immigration enforcement & Medicaid cuts will impact millions who depend on long-term care—and what we can do.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/l...
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For anyone else who needs grant deadline music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7C8...
Eugen Cicero - Solfeggio in C minor (1965)
YouTube video by 222zink
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May 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For anyone else who needs grant deadline music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7C8...
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"[T]he impact is larger than any single lab or the University itself — it is a dismantling of the national research enterprise and the loss of a generation of scientists."
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After a Semester of Catastrophic Federal Cuts, Researchers at Harvard Are in a ‘Survival State’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
Across Harvard’s schools, researchers described a wave of destruction following sweeping terminations of federally funded grants. More than $2.7 billion in cuts have come as part of the Trump administ...
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May 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"[T]he impact is larger than any single lab or the University itself — it is a dismantling of the national research enterprise and the loss of a generation of scientists."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
www.statnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
I recently experimented to see whether ChatGPT could be used to generate misleading anti-vaccine information, particularly about autism.
I was not heartened by the results...
I was not heartened by the results...
May 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I recently experimented to see whether ChatGPT could be used to generate misleading anti-vaccine information, particularly about autism.
I was not heartened by the results...
I was not heartened by the results...
Worth noting: we previously projected that if pregnant individuals been vaccinated at the same rate as age- and state-matched women, we would have averted 20% of maternal COVID-19 deaths (i.e., 8% of ALL maternal deaths) from March-November 2021.
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May 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Worth noting: we previously projected that if pregnant individuals been vaccinated at the same rate as age- and state-matched women, we would have averted 20% of maternal COVID-19 deaths (i.e., 8% of ALL maternal deaths) from March-November 2021.
doi.org/10.7326/ANNA...
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“We wanted to understand the trends in maternal, fetal and infant deaths in the U.S., but that turned out to be tricky," Professor Alyssa Bilinski says. Learn how she and colleagues disentangled 20 years of health data to arrive at their concerning findings. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/29/m...
Maternal deaths doubled in the US during the height of COVID, new Brown University study finds - The Boston Globe
Increases were reported “across nearly every age and racial group” during the health crisis in 2021, according to researchers.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“We wanted to understand the trends in maternal, fetal and infant deaths in the U.S., but that turned out to be tricky," Professor Alyssa Bilinski says. Learn how she and colleagues disentangled 20 years of health data to arrive at their concerning findings. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/29/m...
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A new study finds that at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, US maternal deaths nearly doubled, reaching 18.9 deaths for every 100,000 live births. The findings highlight the importance of accurately tracking maternal health data, Professor Alyssa Bilinski says. www.brown.edu/news/2025-04...
U.S. maternal deaths doubled during COVID-19 pandemic, among other findings in new study
Public health researchers untangle two decades of maternal mortality data and find that while early increases were driven by reporting changes, real increases followed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A new study finds that at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, US maternal deaths nearly doubled, reaching 18.9 deaths for every 100,000 live births. The findings highlight the importance of accurately tracking maternal health data, Professor Alyssa Bilinski says. www.brown.edu/news/2025-04...
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🧵New survey paper: "Inference with Few Treated Units"
Luis Alvarez, Bruno Ferman and Kaspar Wüthrich
Tired of referees saying your standard errors are wrong?
This survey will help you understand if you really have a problem — and, if so, how to fix it!
Luis Alvarez, Bruno Ferman and Kaspar Wüthrich
Tired of referees saying your standard errors are wrong?
This survey will help you understand if you really have a problem — and, if so, how to fix it!
April 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🧵New survey paper: "Inference with Few Treated Units"
Luis Alvarez, Bruno Ferman and Kaspar Wüthrich
Tired of referees saying your standard errors are wrong?
This survey will help you understand if you really have a problem — and, if so, how to fix it!
Luis Alvarez, Bruno Ferman and Kaspar Wüthrich
Tired of referees saying your standard errors are wrong?
This survey will help you understand if you really have a problem — and, if so, how to fix it!
Has maternal mortality been increasing in the US?
Previous reports have noted a drastic increase in US maternal mortality. This was largely among "cause unspecified" deaths, leading to suggestions that some or all of these trends may be driven by changes in reporting.
We took a closer look. 1/n
Previous reports have noted a drastic increase in US maternal mortality. This was largely among "cause unspecified" deaths, leading to suggestions that some or all of these trends may be driven by changes in reporting.
We took a closer look. 1/n
April 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Has maternal mortality been increasing in the US?
Previous reports have noted a drastic increase in US maternal mortality. This was largely among "cause unspecified" deaths, leading to suggestions that some or all of these trends may be driven by changes in reporting.
We took a closer look. 1/n
Previous reports have noted a drastic increase in US maternal mortality. This was largely among "cause unspecified" deaths, leading to suggestions that some or all of these trends may be driven by changes in reporting.
We took a closer look. 1/n