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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

NEW: Researchers & data advocates @apduorg.bsky.social, @copafs.bsky.social, @icpsr.bsky.social, @popassocamerica.bsky.social call for the Trump admin to rescind a ban on “noise infusion” as a way to protect people’s privacy in Census Bureau statistics or allow for public input before data changes

"This order subverts processes developed over decades to foster transparency and public trust and creates a scenario in which there will either be less privacy for our personal information, or less usable data, or both." Read the full joint statement: apdu.org/joint-statem...

I think many of us thought this was likely to happen, but it’s still awful to hear. Hard to think of many faster ways to torch institutional credibility. I really feel for the UCSF students, faculty, and staff whose good work may be undermined by this.

I’m not sure people realize how huge this problem is. During Trump 1.0, ~5,000 kids were separated from parents at the border. During Trump 2.0, the Brookings Institution estimates *145,000* US citizen kids have been separated, mostly in the country's interior www.brookings.edu/articles/how... 5/x

For all the talk of genocide elsewhere, this is going to end up as the largest scale mass killing event in modern history. A crime against humanity & the rule of law of almost unimaginable proportions for which Musk must be marched in chains to the courthouse & then to jail for the rest of his life.

This is just unreal. Read the summary if you get a chance…and do everything in your power to prevent this from becoming reality. 🙄😑

The Trump admin is bragging about starving children. Don't take my word from it, hear it from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/05/food...

So happy to see @bradytwest.bsky.social get this recognition. I am incredibly fortunate to count him as a mentor and a colleague.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

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@publichealthguy1.bsky.social what is the name of that subscription search engine you've mentioned really liking?

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

Really nice talk from @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social today on problems with "associational" language. Such a nice job highlighting some logical inconsistencies that are inherent to using associational language and a great discussion of what researchers can/should do instead.

Is this anything?

Over the weekend the university president published a statement apologizing for the faculty commencement speaker's remarks. Every line of Derek Peterson's reply is worth a read:

Doctors & researchers close to UCSF are circulating a petition to block Vinay Prasad's return to the university. They cite: -suppression of scientific findings -allegations of abuse -harmful rhetoric attacking public health -conflicts of interest form.jotform.com/260836126659...

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

What a disgrace.

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

Truly embarrassing. What are we doing here?

Tell me, when you drop bombs on giant crowds of peaceful protestors, are you the good guys?

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

ISR is launching a new phase of statistical consulting modeled on CSCAR @ the University of Michigan, expanding access to data analysis and research support across campus. Led by ISR researchers @bradytwest.bsky.social and @sungheelee.bsky.social, the program supports innovation across disciplines

Tremendous commentary here as well. This is what I assume Russian dashcam videos are saying in Russian.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

"I think responses [that ask only for the Administration to 'explain itself'] are pathetic. This isn’t a mystery that needs to be solved. This is not the case of the missing casus belli."

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange

Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

There is no reforming this. There is only abolition, and then trials.

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines. apnews.com/article/mode...

Sigh There are so many gullible reporters (aka stenographers) who have no expertise in the longstanding antics of the anti-vaccine lobby Such reporters haven’t learned about Wakefield & the kooky unsubstantiated trope that vaccine *combinations* cause autism Such reporters need a different beat

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again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But: Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

This woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

Jesus. No matter bad I think ICE and CBP are, reality keeps showing me they‘re worse. Truly evil stuff.

Some troubling signs regarding plans for the 2026 census test from the fantastic @datageekb.bsky.social #episky #statssky #databs

We extremely know how to do this. Governor Walz instituted an eviction moratorium in 2020 which withstood repeated legal challenges in state and federal court. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, write some new predicate findings, and we're good to go.

SHUT IT THE FUCK DOWN THEN!!!!

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support

I guess we're just arresting journalists now.