Toad does synthetic diff-in-diffs with staggered adoption.

Unsurprisingly Mark Pauly knew all along.

More bowing to inevitability, please, and the sooner the better. www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump...

Evolution www.ahrq.gov/cpi/about/br...

AP style change: "healthcare" is now one word! IT'S NOW ONE WORD! DO YOU PEOPLE REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS?!?!?!?! #APStyle #ACES2026

Hawthorne Effects www.thefarside.com/2026/04/24/3

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Supplier-induced demand www.thefarside.com/2026/04/23/0

choppelganger | noun | a less attractive version of someone or something

2026 evergreen headline: "FAA Investigates Near Miss between ______ at ______" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

All the publicity that has attended this cancellation over the past few weeks has likely brought more attention to and interest in the study's findings than had the study been quietly published in MMWR as originally planned.

It is not from the benevolence of Amazon, Novo Nordisk, or Lilly that we obtain reduced GLP-1 prices, but from their regard to their own interest. www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Happy 🌏 Day 2026. (Leonardo da Vinci's octant world map)

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Badger Nation weeps. www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...

Percentage of adults with a Ph.D.

#OTD 1942 Sir Maurice Kendall ASA Fellow 1950, reads his paper ‘On the Future of Statistics’ before the Royal Statistical Society. Eighty-four years later, how many of his predictions pan out? 1/4🧵

50 years ago Singh & Maddala published this influential paper on statistical models for long-tailed distributions (income, healthcare costs, …), known often as Burr-Singh-Maddala distributions (SM acknowledge Burr (1942) in their paper). www.jstor.org/stable/1911538 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_di...

The @universityofkansas.bsky.social made a really nice video about me.

🧠 Think you know U.S. health care history? Today’s system grew from programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA—fueling a massive private industry. Test your knowledge with this 10 question quiz ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4uBOKMP #HealthPolicy #HealthcareHistory #PublicHealth

Supposing the claim is true (one is skeptical) is "failed to earn the public’s trust" the cause or the consequence of Trump administration actions?

At E.B. White's memorial service Roger Angell (his stepson) nodded to White's social anxiety, saying "If Andy White could be with us today he would not be with us today.”

Springtime is so colorful in the upper midwest.

Marlene cooked with this one.

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Shouldn't this be The national embarrassment? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

"The trial…met the primary objective of non-inferiority versus insulin glargine" www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Trump administration 2026 batting average on legal disputes and policy decisions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3C...

#OTD 1707 Leonhard Euler b (d 18 Sep 1783) Laplace called him the “Master of us all”. Polymath & prolific in every sense of the word (>860 publications, 13 children) he created modern mathematical thinking 1/4 🧵

The Trump Administration must have made a mistake: Dr. Schwartz actually appears well qualified for this position. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Happy birthday Leonhard Euler (319)

Hungarian voters Sunday

Once upon a time there was enlightened American political leadership on science, evidence, and health. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

2028 Democratic Party presidential nominee, one hopes. www.nytimes.com/athletic/718...

When asked, Toad is unable to defend why he used log(y+1) instead of Poisson regression.

Not in the legions Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd (Macbeth [IV, 3]) www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

"determine never to be idle. no person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. it is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing." Happy 283rd Birthday, Mr. Jefferson.

You can do better, Wall Street Journal. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/stud...

I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?

Rory McIlroy celebrates Orbán's defeat.

Find Hungary

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies, For the pattern is new in every moment… —T.S. Eliot, East Coker (Four Quartets)