“You were respectfully informed that distribution of materials [critical of the Trump administration] was not permitted and given the opportunity to remain in the meeting if you stopped handing out the materials. When you continued the behavior, we had no choice but to remove you from the meeting.”

This new API update is draconian. It kills my own app completely with no option at all for figuring out a way to deal with the term updates

This is huge. You could have perfectly good cholesterol, do all the right things in terms of diet, exercise and sleep and yet still be at major risk of CVD due to high LP(a). Lots of promising therapies and we'll get to hear whether one of them works this year

Always found this type of trick very cute (I guess an instance of 'lifting?):

I've made some big changes to the fastglm package with version 0.1.0 on cran: cran.r-project.org/package=fast... - updates that further improve speed - three new models for more complex outcome (neg binom, hurdle, zero infl) - First bias correction - big data support ** Details outlined below:

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

The Canvas hack is "the biggest student data privacy disaster in history." For years critics have been warning about the centralization of EdTech. Well, millions of students being locked out is what happens when you do exactly that www.404media.co/the-biggest-...

I've made some big changes to the fastglm package with version 0.1.0 on cran: cran.r-project.org/package=fast... - updates that further improve speed - three new models for more complex outcome (neg binom, hurdle, zero infl) - First bias correction - big data support ** Details outlined below:

Paris reduced the number of on-street parking spaces from 140,000 to 70,000 - that is how to enable people-centric neighbourhoods 👍

I've now in the past two weeks received multiple paper reviews for papers I've submitted that were very obviously written by AI. As a field I think we need to re-assess the role of editors and associate editors in the review process

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

#OTD 1878 Kirstine Smith b (d 11 Nov 1939) inventor of optimal designs; her 1918 PhD thesis at UCL described G-optimal designs for polynomial regression. Her work was virtually unnoticed for almost a half-century until its rediscovery by Jack Kiefer in 1959. 1/4 🧵

Although AI improves performance during assisted sessions, performance drops sharply once it's removed. And relative to controls, AI-assisted participants also gave up more frequently on test problems.

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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I almost had a heart attack reading this

The most relieving 6 words that you can ever read in an email:

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Stories of Grace and what she accomplished have always been deeply inspiring to me!

Interesting paper, especially interesting it's coming from researchers at Anthropic arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Ok, how about this happens at the Minneapolis Orchestra Hall, instead?

I've never been more proud to call Minneapolis my home

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Excited for the polar vortex!

I've never been more proud to call Minneapolis my home

Paul was such an incredible person. He made time for everyone. He was patient, humble, and so so supportive. I'm so sad to hear he's gone

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

from my own ride today. endless beautiful scenery to get out and enjoy in the Twin Cities!

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

unabashedly a fan of deli notation

Now that's what I call probability!

Would like to see the details of this study, but this does track with my experience -- AI is likely not helping you as much as you think it is even for basic things like coding garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

NIH spending more than pays for itself. It generates about $2.5 for every $1 spent. In terms of research productivity, NIH funding dwarfs the rest of the world. The only long-term potential rival is China. Politicizing the NIH's scientific processes will hand China a huge strategic advantage.

Please apply, this project involves quite a bit of fun work on combining data from observational studies with randomized trials to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects!

This view never gets old -- sad that Bridge 9 will be closed all summer and fall

Celebrating Black History Month: Initially drawn to combining math and finance, Sandra Safo's path shifted after she discovered data analysis during her studies. Sandra now develops innovative statistical and machine learning methods to advance health care research. magazine.amstat.org/...

Nothing like a commute home on fresh snow

MINNESOTA NIH Awards Funding: $718 M Jobs Supported : 7,992 Economic activity supported: $ 1.74 B www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Academia vs industry? I think this piece correctly describes most of the (dis)advantages of both in an almost fair way. Still, I opt for the intellectual freedom, although that's being constantly attacked by cuts to fundamental research. 🧪 www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out! It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG. And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Trying again with a working link: We’ve just posted a new Contract Assistant Professor position at UMN Biostat & Health Data Science! Happy to discuss with anyone interested. #biostatistics #healthdatascience #academicjobs hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...

Reposting since people are actually on bsky:

I made a starter pack for health policy statistics! 📈🔢

When generalizing effects from RCTs to new populations, nonadherence can complicate interpretation. UMN Biostat PhD student Justin Clark's dissertation develops a principal stratification approach to deal with nonadherence when generalizing effects: arxiv.org/abs/2405.04419

For sensitivity analysis with PSM->matched pairs, there are rosenbaum bounds. For IPW there are a few options, all relatively new. Does anyone working in this area have a sense of which is the most commonly applied?

Thankful for the central limit theorem