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danielawitten.bsky.social
dorothy gilford endowed chair and professor of statistics/biostatistics at university of washington, all views my own
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Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

Love the sentiment but wtf is this data graphic

submitted 36 days ago • 235 comments

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

submitted 36 days ago • 295 comments

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 36 days ago • 431 comments

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 36 days ago • 392 comments

I want my government to be boring and competent enough so that I don’t have to think about it every goddamn minute.

submitted 41 days ago • 312 comments

I wrote something... about writing. #ScientificWriting to be exact, but I think it applies to all kinds of #writing.

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

This is the best thing I have ever read in my life. I love it so much. Great advice for all of us, regardless of career stage and whether we self-identify as procrastinators!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

It is best to get into a field that is small enough that people are incentivized to support each other's work rather than tear it down.

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

This year’s prize Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics honors Yoav Benjamini, Daniel Yekutieli, and Ruth Heller of Tel Aviv University for their pioneering work on the false discovery rate. magazine.amstat.org/blog/2025/03...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Have truly lost patience with the New York Times’ editorial coverage of AI, which has basically degenerated into industry cheerleading. They are completely misrepresenting what most academics believe about AGI. I detail some blunders here: open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

submitted 62 days ago • 13 comments

A dear friend of mine just had all her funding pulled. All she has ever done is work exceptionally hard to do excellent science and help others do great science. This is heartbreaking

submitted 65 days ago • 36 comments

Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.

submitted 65 days ago • 21 comments

Scientists: which NSF programs had their POs laid off? which NIH study sections have been allowed to proceed? have NoAs for non competing renewals been issued? If it were March 2020 then academic twitter would know the answers. As it is, are we operating in the dark?

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

submitted 86 days ago • 72 comments

Today I presented on "what is AI?" for family medicine at our hospital. After a smidgen of history I said that the practical definition is this tweet by @danielawitten.bsky.social And it really resonates. such a good definition.

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

This is a serious issue, and I’m worried that in today’s highly polarized climate, it is not receiving the attention it deserves.

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

@nytimes.com fact checkers- what now??!! surely “keeping it real” means “on the real number line” (versus nominal, ie categorical) in this context? these are dark days, the least we can do is over-explain our statistics jokes correctly www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

does this place like svd jokes ?

submitted 172 days ago • 3 comments