Joel Eliason
@jeliason.bsky.social
Husband and dad of two. PhD student in computational biology, studying the spatial ecology of the tumor-immune microenvironment. Stats/math lover. Slava Ukraini!
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My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life.
In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded.
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My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life.
In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded.
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HEGSETH: We wore a patch on our shoulder that said ISAF -- International Security Assistance Force. And you know what the joke was? That is stood for 'I saw Americans fighting.'
COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died
COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died
June 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life.
In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded.
1/n
My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life.
In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded.
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Ru couldn’t make it clearer: it’s not serious about ending the war now. Any Trump/Rubio talk about a diplomatic solution is hollow and useless unless the US is willing to pressure or compel Ru to compromise and climb down from its demand for Ukr surrender.
May 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Ru couldn’t make it clearer: it’s not serious about ending the war now. Any Trump/Rubio talk about a diplomatic solution is hollow and useless unless the US is willing to pressure or compel Ru to compromise and climb down from its demand for Ukr surrender.
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Zelenskyy, Macron, Starmer, Merz, and Tusk were spotted walking through central Kyiv, engaging with locals and connecting with the community.
May 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Zelenskyy, Macron, Starmer, Merz, and Tusk were spotted walking through central Kyiv, engaging with locals and connecting with the community.
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On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
April 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is
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Economic policy right now is being driven by the online right-wing consensus that being a scientist working at a university is really gay, and being a poor person breaking your body every day for poverty wages is masculine, so society will get better if we replace the former with the latter
I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
April 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Economic policy right now is being driven by the online right-wing consensus that being a scientist working at a university is really gay, and being a poor person breaking your body every day for poverty wages is masculine, so society will get better if we replace the former with the latter
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“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
March 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
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Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article)
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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Recursion CEO Chris Gibson: Publicly funded research built the biopharma industry. Now it needs our help. Companies with resources must bridge the gap. 👏 $RXRX via @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/n...
Recursion CEO: Publicly funded research built the biopharma industry. Now it needs our help
If policymakers fail to act swiftly to restore medical research funding, then it’s up to those of us in the industry with the resources to bridge the gap, writes Recursion Pharmaceuticals CEO Chris Gi...
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February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Recursion CEO Chris Gibson: Publicly funded research built the biopharma industry. Now it needs our help. Companies with resources must bridge the gap. 👏 $RXRX via @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/n...
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Received 31 July, accepted 7 August. "All articles are peer reviewed" and in PubMed Central.
Key findings: "We practice Neurosurgery on Saturn in a country called Illusionland" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Key findings: "We practice Neurosurgery on Saturn in a country called Illusionland" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 23, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Received 31 July, accepted 7 August. "All articles are peer reviewed" and in PubMed Central.
Key findings: "We practice Neurosurgery on Saturn in a country called Illusionland" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Key findings: "We practice Neurosurgery on Saturn in a country called Illusionland" pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Day 1004 of the three day operation. Slava Ukrainii!
These are REAL men
These are REAL men
November 23, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Day 1004 of the three day operation. Slava Ukrainii!
These are REAL men
These are REAL men
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Sorry again! That also seems harsh. What I really mean is that it's great to see these would be masters of the universe finally accept that they should apply the same level of statistical thinking that I might expect to see in a 4th year medical student's research project
November 22, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Sorry again! That also seems harsh. What I really mean is that it's great to see these would be masters of the universe finally accept that they should apply the same level of statistical thinking that I might expect to see in a 4th year medical student's research project
Working in a computational biology department, I've been increasingly underwhelmed by the focus on the lists of genes, cell type atlases, etc., as if biology was just taxonomy. It was refreshing to find like- minded individuals in the #mathonco space who wanted to characterize mechanisms.
November 21, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Working in a computational biology department, I've been increasingly underwhelmed by the focus on the lists of genes, cell type atlases, etc., as if biology was just taxonomy. It was refreshing to find like- minded individuals in the #mathonco space who wanted to characterize mechanisms.
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I made one for stats papers
November 18, 2024 at 4:02 AM
I made one for stats papers
"A little humility is in order. In fact, a lot of humility is an excellent idea when it comes to assessing the importance of current events: The meaning and importance of events depends entirely on the events that follow":
Is this the End of an Era? Or even a Watershed of History?
Maybe. Maybe not. It is literally impossible to know -- and anyone who says otherwise is deluded or selling you something.
dgardner.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 3:37 PM
"A little humility is in order. In fact, a lot of humility is an excellent idea when it comes to assessing the importance of current events: The meaning and importance of events depends entirely on the events that follow":
Simulation-based inference is a very general and flexible way to perform statistical inference when you have a mechanistic model you can simulate from, but no likelihood. These sorts of models are very abundant in systems biology - so SBI should be part of the toolkit.
simulation-based-inference.org
simulation-based-inference.org
Simulation-based inference
Simulation-based Inference is the next evolution in statistics
simulation-based-inference.org
November 17, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Simulation-based inference is a very general and flexible way to perform statistical inference when you have a mechanistic model you can simulate from, but no likelihood. These sorts of models are very abundant in systems biology - so SBI should be part of the toolkit.
simulation-based-inference.org
simulation-based-inference.org
I've been thinking about this preprint from Somer et al. a lot recently - I really like the idea of using measurements of proliferation, activation, death, etc. to get at the dynamics of cell populations in tissues: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 16, 2024 at 3:06 PM
I've been thinking about this preprint from Somer et al. a lot recently - I really like the idea of using measurements of proliferation, activation, death, etc. to get at the dynamics of cell populations in tissues: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I saw this out walking the day after the election - it was a really nice pick-me-up after a day that had left me feeling so downtrodden and uncertain.
November 15, 2024 at 9:30 PM
I saw this out walking the day after the election - it was a really nice pick-me-up after a day that had left me feeling so downtrodden and uncertain.