Just learned that they’re building Europe’s longest escalator in Leipzig and needless to say, I’m very excited on behalf of my little boy.

Does anyone have an article/summary/overview over these new weight loss drugs that‘s neither hype nor doomerism?

The first patient I ever cared for when I was on my peds rotation in nursing school was a tiny dude ≈2 years old who had RSV. He had a history of lung problems from being 4 months premature and spending time on a vent in the NICU. When he would start coughing, his oxygen level would plummet…

I'm quite enjoying "The Update", a newsletter about all things progress, but am a bit disappointed they didn't call it "The Schubert" @stefanschubert.bsky.social www.update.news/p/the-quixot...

Full recovery from the mid-week dip in tomato sauce variety. The pizza is also thriving with intriguing variations such as "pizza beef bolognese."

You may consider me a true polymath.

I just read all 90 pages of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines, and I will apologize for the length and wonkiness of my take on it. This is pretty detailed, and you may not have the stomach or patience for it, but here goes. A very long 🧵 cdn.realfood.gov/Scientific%2...

Here we go again with using observational data when it suits them. This is particularly important here, because there’s a huge difference between observational data & trials on artificial sweeteners.

Which is why assumptions you can check aren't very helpful: if an assumption doesn't cost anything it won't buy much

My device password is so complicated that it has the added benefit of working as an alcolock

Behold. The Peppermint Butler clock After many weeks of prototyping, printing, designing, and reprinting. It is complete. (Though there are some teeny weeny tweaks to make).

NEW article by me! We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before. We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.

Readers of this thread may be interested in the Journal of Robustness Reports (scipost.org/JRobustRep), "which is dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings". My postdoc @joshuamartin2902.bsky.social and I have an accepted submission: scipost.org/submissions/...

Nope, they have recovered. We're back to three tomato sauces, plus another round of sausage goulash (vegan this time, I suspect this may be tomato-based as well)

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Some people bring up (1) the cost of criticism and (2) that a lot of criticism has already been voiced but ignored. Both points are valid, so here are some suggestion for (1) reducing backlash and (2) increasing impact (from this talk of mine: juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

The 3yo really enjoys providing precise quantifications, such as "I peed a lot more than I'd expected! More than 100 cm." He will make for an excellent scientist.

Every time I talked to other people with my complaints about behavioral task measures of impulsivity, I heard "Oh yeah, we tried those in our last data collection and we couldn't find anything." I heard it so many times. And the bullshitters convince the rest of us we're doing it wrong somehow.

Here's a suggestion for a New Year's resolution: If you see influential bad research, say something. One part of the whole replication crisis story is that a lot of psychological researchers privately knew that a lot of stuff was bad, but it wasn't discussed publicly.

Yes, and also just look at how good people have got at sport, music and all sorts of things due to a combination of specialism and digital curation - it's very hard to calibrate realistic expectations of one's own performance in such an environment.

Recently finished Nicklas Brendborg's "Super Stimulated." The biggest chunk of the book is about how the food industry has created foods so good we just can't stop eating them. It then also covers sex/porn, drugs, screens (traditional and social media), cosmetics and steroids.>

I underwent NIPT & the results were all fine except they forgot to determine the sex. Now my obgyn's assistant called me to inform me that the company agreed to reanalyse, as long as the obgyn first faxes (!) back (!!) the initial report provided by the company. What a time to be alive!

Just finished Annika Norlin’s “Colony.” It’s a captivating story about a journalist with burn-out who goes into the woods and encounters a strange commune of outsiders. Very fun to learn about all of their backstories and figure out what happened 🧩

Looks like they’re finally running out of tomatoes 🍅

The trend is for countries to eventually adopt universal recommendations for vaccines over time, though some countries do this much faster than others.

Following @nsaphra.bsky.social - will try to do more science posting here as well. Here is a little project I worked on during the Christmas break. Using semantic entropy as a regularizer to calibrate LLM uncertainty: federicov.github.io/uncertainty-...

Denmark's vaccinations vs the United States's: Most of their vaccines eventually became universal recommendations, though much more slowly than in the US.

I'd say at this point they're trolling, although tbf the selection is already better than yesterday.

I saw this chart in the wild a few days ago and it's been on my mind because the longer I look at it, the more confused I become by it. 📊 I'm fairly sure it's AI generated for a few reasons... A #DataViz thread 🧵

My husband discovered my post about drone motors in hair dryes and created this meme.

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

Here's a question for the causal inference people: What is your take on causality without counterfactuals and/or causal inference without counterfactuals?

Mensa Leipzig 2026 off to a good start, successfully identifying all variations of tomato sauce that I wouldn't want to eat, despite actually liking tomato sauce.

Okay but are you allowed to lift them up. Just to check…!

There are actually many more things you can point to as examples of recent scientific breakthroughs www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br... than 'curing Alzheimer's in mice', which people have been claiming to have done for decades and has a tenuous connection to what happens in humans.

Nothing comes out of these water jets but lies and insinuations. Why did I buy a j'accuzzi?

TIL the Nazis tried to establish their own version of Silent Night (see alt text for translation). de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stille_...

Screw this I’m caving in I’m making the Parmesan shortbread

For under 10s, every piece is a statement piece

In related news, I just received an e-mail that said “Julia, you’re going to love these looks” and then it was all pants with elastic waists.

My daughter’s friend wore an excellent sweater to the zoo and I thought “that one would look great on me.” Then I found out they’re selling it for adults as well!!! Can’t wait to turn daycare pick up into “Who wore it better?”

What a time to be alive! "22 women became the first to receive mitochondrial donation to replace the mitochondrial DNA in their eggs, and have had 8 live births so far. They carried mutations that could have otherwise caused potentially fatal inherited metabolic diseases in their children"

Mogelpackung: Die meisten dieser „Natur-Experimente“ sind reine Beobachtungsstudien 😤

The soft serve is perfect, 10/10, without any questions.

‪It has a name now 😜 Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed. ✅ zenodo.org/records/1808... ✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/

My ob-gyn has a display case with various types of medication and I just realized that one fairly generic looking box just says PLACEBO 🤨

My dad gifted me a new hair dryer for Christmas and all I can say is that those drone engineers mean business 🌬️