Grifters going to grift, no prescription needed. It never stops. 💰💵 #medsky 🛟

"The Five Stages of Grief (Death)" are empirically unsupported horseshit. Humans don't follow some ersatz roadmap to suffering.

This is the result of my trying to figure out a Rao Blackwellized Particle Filter. Complete disaster (filters diverged, approximations were bs, degenerate filter, etc.) and I had enough so my glasses paid the price. #stats #complicated #glasses 📈🤷‍♂️

Susan Collins < Nazi Go Senator "they've learned their lesson"! Dems never, ever learn.

🚨 Trump Firing Makary! Don't tease me with a good time. Makary spent years auditioning as the guy who’d finally “restore trust in science,” then turned the FDA into a carnival of vibes, culture war signaling, and panicked reversals every time Trump got annoyed. Chaos personified! #medsky #episky

Ivermectin redux, folks. Mary Talley Bowden doesn't disappoint. "It’s an RNA virus, so ivermectin should work" is the medical version of "my TV remote should open my garage because they both use batteries." #medsky #nonsense

NO. I am sick of all this AI slop! Stop the ride. I want to get off! #ai

Conservative Party MP Kemi Badenoch's response here is brilliant. Only if the US could find politicians as articulate and unambiguous as this (NB: I don't agree with all her positions for sure, but this is a masterclass of command and conviction). Bravo! #antisemitism #rhetoric

Interesting piece from Dr. Cooper at Yale,but it risks replacing one villain with another. Hospital market power matters, but insurer bureaucracy, drug pricing, admin waste, and POLITICAL CAPTURE all intersect.The system is expensive because EVERY actor has learned to monetize fragmentation. #medsky

I've seen a lot of hate against Giuliani. I get it; he morphed into an unrecognizable groveling sycophant. HOWEVER, he got us through 9/11 when Bush was MIA, on TV 24/7 being the calm in the storm during unimaginable horror. So I do wish him well. Sometimes it's okay to just be quiet on here

ER doc never heard of Legionnaires Disease. Went with a friend to ER a few weeks and not only explained it but said something like "remember that conference on the news in the 70s in Philadelphia?" Blank stare. C'mon now. Aren't urine antigen tests first line? 🤦‍♂️

🤦‍♂️Rant: Horrible week. Spent 90 minutes on flight editing paper as a favor only to be chastised for my tone in an text inquiry and told it had already been submitted (was interesting read so there's that). So turned to stats conundrum as colleague was struggling w/small sample size

Hundreds of Pakistani children received contaminated shots at a state hospital — and officials keep looking the other way. #medsky

👑🎼 HBD! Christopher Cross is a legend.

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Tina releases “What’s Love Got to Do With It” 42 years ago today — a song she hated, but she deferred to her manager, Roger Davies, who was sure it would be a hit. When it won Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Vocal, she gave one of the awards to him. 🔥

The vacuous and odious Dems on full display. The Dem party has an antisemitism problem that's getting worse.If it's trajectory doesn't change quickly, I'm out. These people are abhorrent. I'm well aware btw of the loathsomeness of some on the other side. #antisemitism @rmcarpiano.medsky.social

Ewwww! Schumer and Gillibrand: “We will work with the presumptive Democratic nominee Graham Platner” to defeat Collins. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie and all the Dems have lost their moral compass and fucking minds. I hope Susan Collins wins as this is beyond gross. @rmcarpiano.medsky.social

If I were in Maine, I would have to vote for Susan Collins over the guy with a Nazi tattoo. He's reprehensible. I'm no fan of the "they learned their lesson" senator, but this isn't close. FFS. Can't we get reasonable, mature candidates in the arena? @rmcarpiano.medsky.social

Problem with Jimmy Fallon is he's just not funny. Miss Johnny Carson. At 11:35, I want to just chill and escape politics, not be bombarded with snark and crass political sniping. To correct the record, he ribbed politicians, but didn't get on a soapbox. #latenight #notfunny

🎯 That Matt Damon commercial was especially gross, a famous actor shilling for cryptocurrency, not giving a rat's ass at how many ignorant viewers believed the hype with money they couldn't afford to lose.

Sadly there is a brutal truth here. #academicsky

The Chief of Chicago’s Science Museum Is Doing Some Experiments #scisky

🎁 "Moreover, direct-to-consumer ads represent only part of the industry’s promotional efforts. Pharmaceutical firms actually spend more money advertising to doctors than to consumers." #medsky #episky 🛟

🎁 When a coalition is held together by vibes and suspicion, governing was always going to be the stress test. This piece shows the cracks. #medsky #MAHA

🤦‍♂️They invented a new field: ALTERNATIVE ARITHMETIC. A 600% drop from $600 would be… negative $3,000. CONGRATS! The pharmacy pays you. A 600% increase from $100 is $700. And dropping from $600 to $100 is an ~83% decrease, not 600%. They’re treating “change” like it’s symmetric. 🤦‍♂️ #math #medsky

🚨What a Kafkaesque nightmare! Patients dying on stretchers in ER hallways not because medicine failed, but because the system is built this way. “Boarding” is now routine, driven by hospital ECONOMICS, not patient need. This is a "purgatory known as emergency-department boarding." #medsky #health 🛟

Mets won. Lindor gets hurt after Soto finally returns 🤨 #Mets

Am I the only one who remembers cutting up paper grocery bags to cover my school books? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? #books #school #paperbags 📚

Christ on a bike! Cancer patients aren't a monolith of 'clean eating'. Acute care isn't Jenny Craig. The goal is often calories in any form. These options are often exactly what people can keep down. Fuck right off with this gross paternalism. #medtwitter

#Mets fans right now. I perhaps found the reason for the #Mets abysmal performance 0-11: they took the 'jab, didn't they? I knew the vax must have had some lingering deleterious side effects. I mean, what else could possibly explain this miserable performance? 🤔

Here's the line extending all the way into the highway snaking back as far as the eye can see at Costco gas. ⛽️. Gave me flashbacks to Carter's gas lines.

Timely as it's 4/15: Charles Laughton doing a dramatic reading of a tax form and making it entertaining. #taxday 😂

Hasan Piker is a terrorist supporter, a proud antisemite who said "America deserved 9/11". And “the fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century". Pod Save America bros platform and yuck it up w/him. My alma mater cheers him. Filthy dirtbag scum. #antisemitism

Geronimo! #mets

NO THANK YOU. Can't we have any good news? @clayjones.bsky.social

The most cogent write up of energy drinks I've read. It's from 2014 and definitely worth your time. #healthsky #nutritionsky.

The Mets can’t win but at least the Hungarian opposition can.

TIL: L. Brent Bozell III is the Ambassador to South Africa.

#Mets lose to fucking Athletics. Pitching horrible. They are zero fun to watch now.

'Decimate' means exactly how most people use it. No 10% bs.

The first line of George Orwell’s 1984 is: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen". #Orwell

Research papers would be much more interesting if authors had the temerity to write like this. #academicsky

I try to steer clear of politics on here (there are enough accounts posting incessantly on every horror). However, Prasad marinates in his contrarianism. His persistent combative tone plus public messaging that confuses and mocks undermines trust in medicine. UCSF should expect better. 🛟

Despair has its own calms.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

One idea for propensity models is plotting the posterior overlap between treated & control propensities. I see histograms of estimated propensities & maybe a Love plot. But I like seeing the overlap uncertainty DIRECTLY rather than only point estimates. #stats #rstats 🧐

Woman at Costco scolded me for touching the receipt with my bare hands! Tempted to reply "Dosis sola facit venenum" (the dose alone makes the poison) in Latin to be uber obnoxious. I'm not bathing in BPA/BPS after all. I smiled and quipped that I'm a rebel who walks on the wild side. 🤷

Mixed Effects Logistic Regression 📈 #stats

So entitled, so contemptuous of the people they represent. "In her Thursday filing, Sinema said she had 'no recollection' of several of the messages mentioned in the lawsuit, including the one in which she supposedly suggested he bring drugs on a work trip."