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This blog post is almost 3 years old but I still use these #rstats tips in my work to this day. :) cghlewis.com/blog/dict_cl...

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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

submitted 7 days ago • 142 comments

What is this—Make Asbestos Great Again? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 1151 comments

Happy Juneteenth! A day to remember freedom won and freedom still being fought for. These Black public health heroes deserve to be known and celebrated. Their legacies shape our work today — and our future. #Juneteenth #PublicHealthSavesLives publichealth.nyu.edu/events-news/...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

If you’re documenting the ICE atrocities, make sure to back up your data. Don’t assume it’s safe in the cloud or on social media. Keep a copy (or multiple copies). I also strongly recommend journaling what you witnessed by hand if possible. Tell your story. The world is watching.

submitted 18 days ago • 39 comments

Oh man, what a self-own. A govt lawyer brought up DEI in passing, Judge Young was Not Happy: "If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion? Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

Low-income workers don't control their hours, which means Medicaid work requirements will hurt them even though they're doing everything they can to work. See this important Brookings analysis. www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Scientific societies should be leading the charge when it comes to advocating for science funding, federal scientific employees, and academic freedom in this moment. I am paying close attention who is and who isn’t, and making decisions about membership and future conference attendance accordingly.

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 26 days ago • 77 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 26 days ago • 463 comments

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

submitted 26 days ago • 66 comments

The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

submitted 26 days ago • 46 comments

Papers are one-way conversations. Getting additional info from authors can be hard, so clear reporting from the outset is critical. In our new preprint, we (@annalschubert.bsky.social, Meike Steinhilber & @heeminkang.bsky.social) propose a set of psych reporting guidelines osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.

submitted 36 days ago • 232 comments

I just left a comment. If you are concerned that RFK Jr.'s FDA chief Marty Makary is limiting the Novavax COVID booster to those over 65 or with underlying conditions, and may do the same for Pfizer/Moderna as well, consider leaving a comment as well.

submitted 36 days ago • 30 comments

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

submitted 36 days ago • 689 comments

44% of all American children benefit from Medicaid or SNAP. Republicans' budget guts both programs. Yes: the so-called "party of family values" is putting 34 MILLION kids' health care access and food security at risk.

submitted 36 days ago • 122 comments

People should be calling their Senators and Members of Congress to push back on this (particularly if those folks are Republicans), and/but I wish this article had noted that the relevant provision is overwhelmingly likely to be removed from the bill in the Senate as a violation of the Byrd Rule.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

DOGE: prosecute, jail time This is horrific. the DOGE boys are not just doing destruction of biomedical research, they're doing fundamental attacks against humanity.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Morning! An inspo video to start your day. Activists interrupted last week’s Senate hearing, shouting “RFK kills people with AIDS.” 🔥 They’re right, and the rage sustains us. We cannot stay polite as RFK Jr. slashes CDC HIV programs, undermines PEPFAR, and endangers lives in the US and abroad.

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research. In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in total. Federal research here costs $200M per every year. This is an extinction-level event.

submitted 39 days ago • 36 comments

The SAVE Act would make it nearly impossible for many Native Americans to register to vote using their Tribal ID. It’s a direct attack on Native voting rights and Tribal sovereignty. The Senate must vote NO on the SAVE Act. #FreedomToVote

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Really effective graphic in this Reuters (@reuters.com) story about what declining measles vaccination rates mean for the spread of the disease. This example uses Lubbock TX to model spread at different vaccination rates. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

submitted 44 days ago • 762 comments

NEW: For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight. With @idahostatesman.com

submitted 44 days ago • 16 comments

📢 Have you registered yet at bit.ly/ISESfuture for our inaugural symposium on "The Future of Social Epidemiology: Where Next?" Join us in TWO WEEKS with four amazing keynote speakers! 🔹 Anne Kavanagh 🔹 Ichiro Kawachi 🔹 Archana Singh-Manoux 🔹 K. Srinath Reddy Don't miss this must-see event!

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Now they are gutting NSF. This is radical destruction. The Trump goal is to end scientific research in America. Our sense is that few people, even inside the government, have actually grappled with this reality.

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NEW: A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that the gutting of the Institute of Museum & Library Services is likely unlawful. This is the SECOND federal court to rule against the slashing of the only federal agency dedicated to library funding. Learn about ALA's own legal case: ala.org/IMLS-lawsuit

submitted 50 days ago • 20 comments

@propublica.org wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its amazing coverage of the consequences of abortion bans, showcasing the women who died. It’s the second year in a row in which ProPublica has won the Pulitzer Gold Medal! 🎉

submitted 51 days ago • 32 comments

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

submitted 51 days ago • 205 comments

Just deranged. This was a solved problem.

submitted 54 days ago • 421 comments

Budget released today: 40% cut to NIH 50% cut to NSF If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem

submitted 54 days ago • 19 comments

Looking for ideas of how to structure a repository when publicly sharing data files from research projects? I've created a sample project on @cos.io to help you think through this. 👇 #databs #edresearch osf.io/59gte/

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

submitted 58 days ago • 60 comments

TOMORROW: A panel on disappearing federal data, featuring our member @joshpasek.com and others. RSVP to watch online or in person: www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

"Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies" What's Title VI? "prohibits discrimination against or otherwise excluding individuals on the basis of race, color, or national origin"

submitted 63 days ago • 119 comments

Hearing Brown hasn’t received a cent of NIH funding since April 3. Again, this is what happens b/c we let a bunch of teenage losers illegally take over the government payment systems. This is what Orban did too— today’s neofascist takeovers involve taking control of money. Quotes in thread 1/

submitted 63 days ago • 7 comments

Really nice visualisation of a lagged health outcome over decades (in contrast to the delays over days/weeks we typically see for acute infectious diseases like COVID)

submitted 65 days ago • 7 comments

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

submitted 65 days ago • 1418 comments

A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 65 days ago • 33 comments

Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

submitted 65 days ago • 37 comments