"Effective US biomedical research is rooted in reliable federal investment" Abrupt NIH cuts in 2025 canceled ~2,300 grants disrupting thousands of projects and disproportionately affecting training and early-career research. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

"Emerging work has identified how AI writing assistants can be biased and how they can influence users’ communication behavior and perceptions [...] AI suggestions can influence people’s attitudes across a range of politically charged societal issues" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗜 𝗺𝗮𝘆 ‘𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲’ 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 - "The issue is not whether my students are valuable. In the long run, they are invaluable. The issue is that their value emerges slowly, whereas AI delivers immediate returns." www.science.org/content/arti...

Recording from my talk “𝙳𝚢𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚌 𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜: 𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝙾𝚙𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚜” at the ICERM Workshop: 𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 -𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 Video: icerm.brown.edu/video_archiv... #BayesianNonparametrics

The Blackmailer-in-chief is maddening himself up again. There’s nothing wrong with Anthropic, except they have a backbone. That backbone which was used to be a symbol of American exceptionalism. wapo.st/4aLHqF6

Some Universities apparently are not real Universities If you are on the job market this year, take notice. If you are a faculty at those Universities, also take notice.

I’m pleased to share a recent paper published in Statistics and Data Science in Imaging (2025): “𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞” by Lindquist et al. A thoughtful overview of statistical methods in connectomics, the study of brain connectivity derived from neuroimaging data.

Happy to announce a new special issue of 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 (a journal of the 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯) on 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠. 📅 Submission deadline: 𝟑𝟏 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 💡 𝐍𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬 More details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Interesting report from The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchn asking a simple question after the 𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 editorial board split and launched 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦: does a journal’s “essence” travel with the editors.

I feel like this should be the headline of the day

“Anyone” can but not anyone “can”

15 invited referees, 14 declined, 1 accepted (so far). Could be 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 paper.

"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury." In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay

An in-depth article about the Open Visualization Academy in the University of Miami's News news.miami.edu/stories/2026... #dataviz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

Interesting article by @lydiadepillis.bsky.social Prediction markets can be a useful input because betting agents often quickly pull together dispersed information. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...

At this point we have to assume this administration is unlikely to approve any new mRNA interventions and will be extremely resistant to approving any new vaccines. Sabotaging our national health and medical science.

W. E. B. Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard and one of the founders of the NAACP. He pioneered the development of sociology as a scientific discipline, using sophisticated statistical methods and infographics. #BlackHistoryMonth magazine.amstat.org/...#BlackHistoryMonth

I have plenty of reservations about the reliability of funnel-plots and z-curves and such, as well as their interpretation..... But holy shit look at that.

New: "Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Learning: A Meta-Meta-Analysis" by Wagenmakers and colleagues revealing evidence for "severe publication bias and extreme between-study heterogeneity" in existing meta-analyses of the effects of AI on learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...

“While (Trump) has tried to cut our spending on important government functions like basic research, China has made them national priorities.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...

I’m normally unmoved by the passing of celebrities but the death of Catherine O’Hara has hit me hard. I bloody loved her. I was emotional when I read the news on the BBC last night. I’ll raise a glass of fruit wine to the memory of the extraordinary Moira Rose later. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bhattacharya, a moment ago: "What you've been seeing in the press is that there have been funding cuts. There haven't been funding cuts. What there has been is a change in agency priorities." Our year in numbers begs to differ www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

No work, No school, No shopping today www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

Citizen science data are increasingly used in biodiversity monitoring. This study applies a digital twin approach to biodiversity monitoring using a large citizen science dataset on birds from Finland, demonstrating its potential for ecological forecasting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The effects of protectionism, or how the US are damaging themselves by stiffling competition. www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

First evidence that healthy donor fecal microbiota transplant, added to immunotherapy, can enhance efficacy vs cancer 3 clinical trial reports (renal, small cell lung, melanoma) nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41... Holy 💩!

www.nature.com/articles/s41... This study shows that excessive atmospheric #nitrogen deposition can enhance #methane production and #emissions by impacting #microbial phosphorus acquisition due to the change of N/P ratios in oxygenated surface #oceans.

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

China, for the past couple of years, has deployed as many wind farms and solar panels as the rest of the world combined. It's also exporting its solar tech on a massive scale, bringing down the price of electricity across the globe. 🔋

Nature research paper: A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities go.nature.com/45zkozH

A roadmap for conducting more inclusive research on brain resilience in ageing and dementia — a Roadmap article by M. Natasha Rajah, Roger A. Dixon, Gillian Einstein, Yaakov Stern & The Brain Resilience and Diversity in Aging and Dementia Collaboratory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're looking for a new editor with experience in Next Generation Medicine. Are you ready to leave the bench (or bedside) and help us identify the best science for publication in @science.org Send your CV and cover letter explaining why you're a good fit for the role. bit.ly/4bWOJfn

A new longitudinal genome-wide association study in #ScienceAdvances supports the correlation between a higher childhood BMI and lower breast cancer risk. https://scim.ag/4r3H1nY

Trump is now advocating for gun control: "You can't walk in with guns. You just can't." youtu.be/YIM7ap12vPo?...

While China is investing in research at unprecedented levels and Chinese Universities are surpassing US universities in world rankings, the US is undermining the foundations of its own successes over the past century.

Dr. Jonathan (Jon) Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social, climate scientist, public scholar, and executive director of @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, is the 2026 AAG Atlas Award honoree. Dr. Foley is recognized for his groundbreaking research and advisory support across sectors worldwide. 🌟 buff.ly/wvtPUi3

According to the governor of the Italian region where Milan is, JD Vance and Marco Rubio will go to the Winter Olympics escorted by members of ICE. The transformation of ICE and DHS from homeland security and immigration to private squads of government officials?

Italian journalists of RAI (the Italian major TV and public station) stopped and threatened by ICE. This should not be the narrative the US government wants to send abroad.

Sorry, this is no longer true. Why is Trump still in power? Why is ICE able to murder people with no repercussions? Why is the liberal world order being destroyed with no effective resistance from Americans? Trump is the symptom. American society is diseased.

Murder. No more excuses. Enough.

There were no murders by the government under Joe Biden. I'd rather pay 50 cents more for gas than be six feet under.

One of my best uses of Gemini: from email to calendar directly via copy/paste

Interesting paper in Nature Methods. Rather than having a series of time-lapse images or repeated biopsies, the authors work with one fixed section of a tissue and use the spatial organization within the tissue cell populations dynamics over time (spatial snapshot). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're launching a new video series: Real World Data Science Big Questions! In each video, members of our data science community answer one key question. Watch the first video and read our analysis here: bit.ly/data-science... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgC...

Martin Luther King day in Crystal Cove. Free entry thanks to @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social

University of California, Berkeley (UCB) is hiring: Assistant/Associate/Full Adjunct Professor - Epidemiology and Biostatistics

I love Andrew Gelman because he never holds back. Tbh, sometimes I “hate him” for the same reason, but today is definitely one of those days where I love his bluntness:

Can't argue with that