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ermayeda.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, UCLA
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This is so senseless

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 5 days ago • 258 comments

$1 billion… Just refusing to fund federal health research and pocketing away the designated money for their own slush funds Sucking $1 billion out of the economy, diverting it from health research… For what?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

Practical self-defense tip: when folks say "do your own research" about vaccines (for example), what they often mean is "go google studies, conducted using methods you are not trained to rigorously evaluate, that you can then use to reinforce your existing beliefs via a lot of confirmation bias."

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny. It is not the constitution that is failing us. It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.

submitted 27 days ago • 130 comments

Twitter was a social media website employing 7500 people. The federal government employees ~3 million people and touches every part of your day—roads, planes, schools, healthcare, food safety, Social Security and on and on. We’re going to learn the hard way that we’ve been taking it for granted

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

Puzzled by the intrusion of competing events in #dementia research? Star scholar and explainer Dr. @palolili23.bsky.social comes to the rescue on Dec 10.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that we post videos and slide sets of #MELODEM talks on our always-evolving site. {🔥 MELODEM hosts conversations on #methods for addressing vexing challenges in research on #dementia #cognition 🔥}

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Yingyan Wu’s presentation starts in just a few min!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Join us tomorrow morning! Sometimes cognitive testing changes across study waves within a given study, which presents a challenge for longitudinal research — Yingyan will demonstrate an approach to address this issue!

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

I use Epi By Design in my course! I love the book and Daniel’s materials were super helpful. If you want to teach intro epi methods through a causal inference lens but feel daunted by the task of a course re-design, Westreich’s book and materials make it as painless as possible — highly recommend!

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Ultimately the Democratic Party gets to decide who its nominee is, for better or worse. But it certainly seems like parts of the media believe they it is their job to choose the Democratic candidate, rather than covering the strengths and weaknesses of *both* candidates running for President.

submitted 234 days ago • 7 comments

epi folks! it’s on! I’m hosting the 4th annual dance party in austin!dancing, outdoor space, drink specials, staying up past 9:45! the event is free and open to everyone! please help me spread the word. #episky

submitted 270 days ago • 1 comment