Saw this somewhere - made me laugh

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991. From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.” The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Lying about vaccine safety is a sin.

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Time for the annual “am I old or are the celebrities at the Macy’s parade fairly obscure”

More adventures with hamclock - now have it running on an old late 2012 Mac Mini. Not a bad look for a system put together from unused stuff.

This is exactly right

My weekend tinkerings with hamclock on an old 720p television

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

Have you heard about this? "As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash." h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com

omg

Oh, yes they did!

Sending this to my PhD epidemiologist kiddo.

Here is my #birdoftheday photo #birds #osprey. Taken in Boston this summer. This osprey had a nice dinner that day.

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

Today’s fresh hell.

I am ready for the trick or treaters. I gave out half dollars and candy. Most of the kids don’t know about half dollars and the little ones treat it like a great treasure. I love to see their faces light up when I give them a bright shiny half dollar.

Soooo...he lied. The White House is demolishing the entirety of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s $200 million ballroom, a construction project that is far more extensive than he initially let on, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

I buy more American soybeans than China.

Current benchmarks for medical LLMs create an "evaluation illusion." They use simplified data and tasks that don't reflect complex clinical reality. Automated metrics also fail to assess safety and utility, meaning high scores don't translate to real-world value. #MedSky #MedAI #MLSky

Tulane "terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she'd helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected by a newly hired instructor because it included an academic article about a polio outbreak in Gaza." #Louisiana #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE

These buttons are giving me some old school mainframe control panel vibes.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Google fiber is here ! Symmetric speedy goodness. I also have the GFiber phone - I occasionally use my old Polycom phone and my ‘home’ phone number rings it, my lovely old 1940 Western Electric 302 rotary phone, and my cell phone. #fiberinternet #rotaryphone

The Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is under threat of closure, with tenured faculty facing dismissal. This is a small but globally impactful department. Please consider writing a letter of support. Your voice could make a real difference.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Register today www.bakerinstitute.org/event/scienc...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Dances With Gary

I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.

New ACC guidance urges uptake of 5 vaccines for heart patients www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-fl...

So it looks like programming with AI slows you down, AI doesn't actually discover as much science as people have claimed, and also there are material risks to using AI to create assets for games and other media. Got it.

This dude got his PhD 5 years ago and works at Heritage - here's his unpublished diss with 1 citation www.proquest.com/docview/2452... Here's the fired Comm. of Labor Statistics with 20+ years of government economics experience and an extensive publishing record scholar.google.com/citations?us...

GPT-5 FTW!!!

control panel of the day #HCI

and remember, the US hoarded vaccines during the pandemic. most of the globe never got access to them because of us. the back of the line is probably our future next time, especially since we are no longer at the table with WHO, etc.

To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable. For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Good morning, my new katydid friend.

I was the AEA's President Elect as the first Trump term began. We worried about government statistics then, and appointed a committee that included members (such as Google's Chief Economist) who might be in a position to help make reliable statistics available if the government went dark. #econsky

From a director at the … American Enterprise Institute

"I asked the AI" is not research. clauswilke.substack.com/p/i-asked-th...

Just checked #useR2025 registrations and we're just 44 people shy of hitting 1000 signups for the virtual conference! If you're in the mood for some #RStats from the comfort of your home, register at user2025.r-project.org/register and join the fun!

I read Jef Raskin's book years ago and realised how much of what worked well at apple came from that person and his team. The best things about OSX were what was brought over from NextStep That is a long time ago and they've really lost their way.