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Trying to figure out this whole Epidemiology thing on the West Coast of the US (Olympia, WA). Father of a great kid and and two cats. Lucky to have a tolerant partner.
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Today at the blog. observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2025/06/prom...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Today at the blog. observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2025/06/why-...

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“After adjusting for inflation, many academic employees are still being paid less now than they were in 2019-2020 — before the pandemic. Faculty members have taken the biggest hit: Median salaries for staff are now 2.8% less; non-tenure-track faculty, 7.6% less; and tenure-track faculty, 10.2% less”

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

A thought provoking read

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Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺

submitted 66 days ago • 252 comments

The NIH Notice about the new indirect cost rate "plan"

submitted 134 days ago • 8 comments

What do the "piranha" theorems about multiple interventions say about public health settings? notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/01/08/t...

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A more reasonable conclusion would be that *within arm* changes in outcomes are often similar between treatment and "placebo" arms...which is of course true and why we use control groups in the first place. What a joke.

submitted 171 days ago • 7 comments

The child is super excited and up late. On any other night I would anticipate sleeping in tomorrow, with the child having exhausted themselves, but I have a sneaking suspicion of an early wake-up

submitted 180 days ago • 2 comments

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

submitted 201 days ago • 130 comments

A great picture of my wife and I except for my terrible timing with a blink

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It looks like my son needs glasses. I am so used to always having and using them that I underestimated the trauma of a seven year old being told he was going to be different than all of this friends.

submitted 206 days ago • 1 comment

My son suggested we all try screen time limits and I realized how much of my life is interacting with screens. Not sure I have a good alternative but I was sure surprised by how central they are to life

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