Emily Moin
@emilymoin.com
Intensivist, ethicist, epidemiologist, math enthusiast. Es könnte auch anders sein. (I call them tweets and they're my own)
"Then you lie to the computer about what's in the data to make it learn better because if it can see the actual data it doesn't learn as well"
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"Then you lie to the computer about what's in the data to make it learn better because if it can see the actual data it doesn't learn as well"
There's a lot going on in the YouTube comments section
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
There's a lot going on in the YouTube comments section
As an elder millennial, if there's two things I'm going to do on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, they're vote and pop my collar.
November 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
As an elder millennial, if there's two things I'm going to do on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, they're vote and pop my collar.
Does this feel like Jonny Lee Miller behavior to you?
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Does this feel like Jonny Lee Miller behavior to you?
I took a break because season 5 was so, so bad but season 6 is giving, uh, current events vibes.
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I took a break because season 5 was so, so bad but season 6 is giving, uh, current events vibes.
you couldn't waterboard this out of me
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
you couldn't waterboard this out of me
This might be the best RCR training I've ever taken.
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This might be the best RCR training I've ever taken.
Why in the world is Matthew Yglesias in this WaPo "man on the street" video about the new US citizenship exam?? youtube.com/shorts/tUt6W...
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Why in the world is Matthew Yglesias in this WaPo "man on the street" video about the new US citizenship exam?? youtube.com/shorts/tUt6W...
Yeah Outlook I totally wanted to randomly capitalize the word "don't" in the middle of this sentence. Thanks for providing Copilot, a tool whose performance fails to exceed a rules-based algorithm? Apparently?
October 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yeah Outlook I totally wanted to randomly capitalize the word "don't" in the middle of this sentence. Thanks for providing Copilot, a tool whose performance fails to exceed a rules-based algorithm? Apparently?
This instrument makes me want to cry
October 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This instrument makes me want to cry
Literally so hype to hear Amy Finkelstein speak about one of my biggest pet peeves, the decedent analysis.
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Literally so hype to hear Amy Finkelstein speak about one of my biggest pet peeves, the decedent analysis.
In critical care in the US especially, there's unresolved tension between movements to simultaneously minimize arterial access and increase arterial assessment of hypoxemia due to pulse oximetry failures for dark-skinned patients. Like all French studies, this RCT can't report race or ethnicity.
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In critical care in the US especially, there's unresolved tension between movements to simultaneously minimize arterial access and increase arterial assessment of hypoxemia due to pulse oximetry failures for dark-skinned patients. Like all French studies, this RCT can't report race or ethnicity.
In addition to the few hundred patients excluded from randomization at clinician discretion, we also see that almost 15% of patients in the non-invasive arm ultimately did receive a-lines, mostly because of meeting these pre-defined safety criteria.
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In addition to the few hundred patients excluded from randomization at clinician discretion, we also see that almost 15% of patients in the non-invasive arm ultimately did receive a-lines, mostly because of meeting these pre-defined safety criteria.
One of the hardest things about studying clinical practice in the ICU is akin to model drift. In this trial, roughly 6% of potentially eligible patients were excluded because their physician didn't want them to participate, potentially because of pre-existing beliefs about the study intervention.
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One of the hardest things about studying clinical practice in the ICU is akin to model drift. In this trial, roughly 6% of potentially eligible patients were excluded because their physician didn't want them to participate, potentially because of pre-existing beliefs about the study intervention.
I am really sick of reading noninferiority trials with a noninferiority margin set at 5% of *mortality*. Another way of thinking about this design:
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I am really sick of reading noninferiority trials with a noninferiority margin set at 5% of *mortality*. Another way of thinking about this design:
Maybe I've been driven mad by exposure to too much Alan Ball content but this is literally the explanation for Michelle Forbes's immortal maenad character in season 2 of True Blood.
October 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Maybe I've been driven mad by exposure to too much Alan Ball content but this is literally the explanation for Michelle Forbes's immortal maenad character in season 2 of True Blood.
ngl this gave me RDWRER vibes
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
ngl this gave me RDWRER vibes
I can't look at today's Spelling Bee without thinking "You fool of a Took!"
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I can't look at today's Spelling Bee without thinking "You fool of a Took!"