COVID vaccine now universally available in California www.berkeleyside.org/2025/09/18/c...

newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/tere... #universities #research #funding

Breaking with the CDC, @acog.org reaffirms support for #COVID19 vaccination in pregnant people. Here’s what to know.

I am here to say vaccines are awesome because guess what Denmark is close to completely eliminating the two most dangerous HPV strains (serotype 16 and 18) and with the cervical cancer.I think that is bloody AMAZING!!!! bit.ly/4pbHxjT

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #covid19 #vaccine #vaccination #publichealth

#causalsky #episky #StatsSky

💡A new paper by Elias Bareinboim and Drago Plecko underscores the intractability of ignorability assumptions commonly invoked in the potential outcomes framework, explains why structural causal models—explicitly grounded in well-defined causal mechanisms—are far easier to interpret. 1/2

What a mess

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

Not for nothing, whenever someone conflates search algorithms, LLMs, and whatever the fuck AI is, I send them this article.

link 📈🤖 Challenges in Statistics: A Dozen Challenges in Causality and Causal Inference (Cinelli, Feller, Imbens et al) Causality and causal inference have emerged as core research areas at the interface of modern statistics and domains including biomedical sciences, social sciences, computer scie

Every week is worse than the previous one

"Guns killed more children than any other cause- more than cancer, more than car crashes- for 3 years in a row."- Washington Post 434 school shootings since the Columbine massacre, and our country still refuses to do what's needed to keep our children safe. Yet we keep sending our kids to school

This is bad

The #AI hype is incredible

On the Structural Basis of Conditional Ignorability By Elias Bareinboim and Drago Plecko #causalsky #statssky #stats #EpiSky causalai.net/r120.pdf

Thank you. To be clear, I did not merely “dismiss” AI as mid. My argument is that LLMs 1) are not intelligent 2) average textual responses in a way that is mid 3) most generous use cases are a revolution of middle skills that don’t produce anything ergo LLMs are in every demonstrable way mid.

Causal Pivot is an idea that comes from differential diagnosis in medical practice www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Chad Shaw and I drew DAGs for molecular diagnosis and gene discovery. He saw an opportunity to exploit collider bias in an interesting way.

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academic.oup.com/biometrics/a... #EpiSky #CausalSky #causalinference #StatsSky

So tired… Can’t put up with this anymore…

As a mortality researcher, I haven’t generally paid a lot of attention to people my own age (elder Millennial here). That’s, unfortunately, changing. (With @astokespop.bsky.social and Jacob Bor)

We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩‍🏫

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

#UCLA #UC

#PublicHealth #misinformation can have severe consequences 💔

#UCLA #UC

A new special issue of Science explores the immune system at the molecular and cellular level and how it has evolved to govern multiple facets of human health. Learn more: scim.ag/3IYhnk7

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #papermills #openaccessdata #AI #publichealth

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

💔 RIP MJW

Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on the intersections of #climate, #health, and #equity. Read more and submit your abstract here by August 11: www.healthaffairs.org/request-for-... @apha.org @iaphs.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/ije/article-... #EpiSky #Vaccination #Immunization #publichealth

Great resource for #EpiSky, #causalinference, and #biasanalysis: publications.iarc.who.int/Book-And-Rep... #CausalSky

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF

Here's a paper with a skeleton of the idea, but there is really lots of research to do on the structure of workflow networks, now to make them robust, how to development diagnostics and calculi for steps within them. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

New draft from me, “Privacy and Disinformation,” on why privacy law, not speech or economic regulation, is the best path forward for fighting social media disinformation. Read the draft here (and later finalized in UC Law Journal): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

@nejm.org, can you open this perspective article for the general public to read during this precarious period for #vaccinations in the US? Thank you. #vaccine #publichealth #EpiSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

So tired of same old stuff in this climate…

academic.oup.com/ije/article/... #EpiSky #causalinference #CausalSky

What time is it❓ ✅ Time for a new generation of leaders 🌅

academic.oup.com/ije/article/... #episky

Juneteenth is a powerful reminder of how far we’ve come—and how much further we still have to go. It marks the moment freedom finally reached our people right here in Texas. Our people took what was withheld and built something powerful: resilience, pride, and a legacy we carry to this day. (1/2)

Make clean air a human right, both indoor and outdoor. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

academic.oup.com/ije/article/... #episky #statssky

“Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?” - asked a judge with more humanity than many

“I have never seen racial discrimination by the government like this” in 40 years on the bench, says Reagan-appointed judge (to gasps in the courtroom) as he calls NIH grant terminations "void and illegal." Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...

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Happy Father’s Day #fathersday