I can laugh now but I was doing the opposite when this happened…TV was at risk 😂🙄

This will be the first time that I’m talking about this brand new work with @randridge.bsky.social; please join!

Greg Crippen is moving people. Props to the 5th year who stayed. 💪

Man Justice Haynes can finish runs. Speed and power. 💪

What the hell defensive call was that? Stop getting cute and play to win. Come. On.

What is going on with the Michigan tackling? Yeesh

Food insecurity rates are a critical poverty indicator. For the first time in 30 years, we will not have national and state-level data on how many households had difficulty acquiring enough food to meet their household needs.

Make plays. It’s Game 4. LFG.

I wake up every day hoping that the situation on this timeline improves. No such luck this day. Just no words for this.

Random Bluesky poll. If you are teaching any kind of stats/methods course right now, with some element of Zoom participation, do you save the video recordings of the lectures and make them available to students? I’m disappointed by the expectation among students that this be done.

Much better. Let the kid cook!!!

Uhhh the failure of that drive was 100% on the players. Unnecessary hold from a freshman WR who doesn’t look comfortable on the field, a dropped pass, and a missed FG. Get it together.

Well, that's terrible news. If the Bureau can only contact households twice (translates, in most cases, to 1 mailer + 1 knock at the door), the undercount will be horrendous. There's a reason there is broad, bipartisan opposition to this language in the $ bill--including from the business community.

LFG JJ!!!

Thank you to these five faculty members for speaking up. That this is short-sighted is an understatement. I’m hoping that more Michigan faculty members will do the same. www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

I'm proud to report that the panel project of the Health and Retirement Study has produced an *increase* in the response rate (RR) from 2022 to 2024 (67.9 to ~69.2). Say what you will about RRs, but this is a testament to an excellent team open to new methods! hrs.isr.umich.edu/documentatio...

Isaac TeSlaa already has a Catch of the Year submission in Week 1 😱

A very nice document prepared by Friends of BLS with important information about the agency. A solid effort to prevent the spread of misinformation. Please share, especially with friends and colleagues who do not understand what’s happening. www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

The Lions watched the Michigan game last night and were like “that looks like a good game plan. Let’s do that.” 🙄

The Michigan offensive game plan is utterly ridiculous right now. Come on.

Chip Lindsey needs to up his game right now. LFG.

The Michigan defense has been… /ducks disappointing?

Dear American National Election Studies (ANES) user community, We're pleased to announce that our three data exploration and visualization tools have been updated with data from the Full Release of the ANES 2024 Time Series Study.

🧪Jessica Faul, David Weir, Ken Langa & coauthors find promising links between blood-based neurodegenerative biomarkers & cognitive decline in nationally representative samples in India & the United States myumi.ch/4m4Gn

An excellent resource for newbies and vets alike.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Let’s say you just starting to use #rstats #SEM #package #lavaan and gotten a nice results. Next is to do a nice SEM figure, here is a #shinyapps option solo-fsw.shinyapps.io/lavaangui/ and the article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yessir!

Check out this interface-very useful!

From the @theconversation.com today by @maggielevenstein.bsky.social & @johnkubale.bsky.social “Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it.”‬ #academicsky #data #umich @icpsr.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social

EJ Antoni, Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, has suggested that the BLS suspend its monthly job reports, citing flawed data. Joanne Hsu & @bradytwest.bsky.social argue that while data collection is more difficult, the answer is more resources, not less data myumi.ch/g3zdd

Teens & young adults who got prescription opioids by buying them had the most frequent misuse & mental health issues. Those prescribed opioids by a doctor had the lowest rates of misuse & related concerns myumi.ch/z9pJy @tschepis.bsky.social‬ @bradytwest.bsky.social‬ @umisr.bsky.social‬

I started my career at CSCAR, and I really have it to thank for the statistician and methodologist that I am today. This is a brutal decision, and I have yet to hear a reasonable justification for it. Given the number of people that CSCAR serves (for free), I hope that U-M is prepared for pushback.

This was my first time using the {{marginaleffects}} package by @vincentab.bsky.social , @noahgreifer.bsky.social and @andrew.heiss.phd . It worked a treat in visualising results, even with a reasonably complex generalized additive (quasipoisson) mixed effects model with interactions.

And people should read said thing!

The Monitoring the Future survey, a national poll of substance use, has shown a significant decline in young people’s drinking over the last decade, said Megan Patrick (@meganepatrick.bsky.social), research professor and the MTF panel survey’s principal investigator. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/w...

Dr. Sunghee Lee (@sungheelee.bsky.social‬) featured in this NYT article examining the consequences of deep NIH cuts on health disparities research. Her work on dementia in underrepresented populations was defunded despite its critical value. Read more: myumi.ch/W6dZb #HealthEquity #SocialResearch

Hey! Here’s what to do when you have two or more surveys on the same population! (Combining survey data obtained using different modes of sampling) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/12/h...

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝙎𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙮 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙙𝙨 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄! The latest issue (Vol. 19, No. 2) of 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘴 is here – featuring new research on survey design, data quality, sampling, nonresponse, & more. See the issue: 🔗 ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/issue/vi... #SurveyResearch #SurveyMethods #ESRA

New working paper with Tom Robinson, Laura Fung and Caroline Roberts. We use an LLM to classify occupations in surveys in real time, probing 'intelligently' when more info is needed. Results show big reductions in cost, time and respondent burden. osf.io/preprints/so...

I'm having a really hard time with the decline in proofreading. Every article I've read today has had missing punctuation, doubled words, dropped words, half phrases, or bad spacing. And my brain cannot stop pointing them out and it just all feels like I'm in a remedial English class from hell

For folks at #JSM and beyond isi-web.org/statement/st... #JSM2025 #JSM25

Official statistics As you may have heard, President Trump has dismissed the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming that payroll employment figures presented by the BLS were faked to make him look bad. Politicians meddling with official statistics is a bad idea.  This isn't because…

@olsonkm.bsky.social kicks off our session celebrating Don Dillman at #JSM2025 with a discussion of Don’s contributions to survey methodology. Thanks to @statstas.datascience.blue for setting this up! 💯

🎓 Join us for the latest free, half-day PDHP workshop in pop science, "Age-Period-Cohort Analysis In Population & Health Research," presented by Yang Claire Yang (UNC-Chapel Hill). Find and share details and RSVP for this event live or on Zoom 8/20 from 9 to 1! ⬇️ psc.isr.umich.edu/events/pdhp-...

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer aapor.org/statements/a...

It's difficult to understate the extent to which various aspects of society require the provision of accurate, trustworthy social data. Even private data collections rely heavily on government statistical agencies for calibration. The dangers of politicization here are far-reaching.

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire. It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

Statement from Friends of BLS on Commissioner McEntarfer’s Removal. “This escalates the President’s unprecedented attacks on the independence and integrity of the federal statistical system.” www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...