Are you a PCP pulling your hair out trying to maneuver through maddening insurance and pharma barriers to getting your patients the medications they need? A 2 word solution: pharmacy technicians. Check out our study @annalsofem.bsky.social on the benefit of adding pharm techs to primary care teams👇

A Saturday morning shout out to Washington University (St. Louis, not us :)) for establishing a *new* School of Public Health. We think that’s awesome 🤩 #IDSky schoolofpublichealth.washu.edu WashU School of Public Health

“analysts at Earth Economics, a nonprofit, studied three of Elizabeth’s microforests and found that for each dollar invested, the public will gain on average $10.90 in benefits like air quality and heat reduction.” In New Jersey, Benefits Bloom in Tiny Forests www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

We characterized patterns of diabetes risk progression using #SequenceAnalysis and found evidence of 9 patterns including stable normoglycemia, 5 patterns of impaired fasting glucose that did not progress to diabetes, and 3 patterns of diabetes with onset at younger, middle, and older ages. Paper 👇🏽

“the kayakers will pass the rehabilitated sites of the largest dam-removal project in U.S. history. They will pass salmon swimming upstream in places that the fish had not been able to reach since the early 1900s.” This made me feel hopeful. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

"Every day I think about my role as a scientist. "I am motivated to be brave and be bold. "The next generation is going to have higher expectations for the world. I owe it to them to unrelentingly continue the work to protect science" @gretchentg.bsky.social #SER2025

“The administration’s anti-science actions are further evidence of its corruption, incompetence and illegal behavior” #SER2025 Thank you to Dr. Gretchen Goldman for the inspiring keynote address.

Huge congratulations to @annerimoin.bsky.social for winning the Roger Detels Award for distinguished research in infectious disease epidemiology ! #SER2025

Huge congratulations to Adoma Manful for winning the Tyroler Student Prize! #SER2025

Huge congratulations to Eleanor Hayes-Larson for winning the Lilienfeld postdoctoral prize! #SER2025

I’m really enjoying the entry music for all the plenary speakers at #SER2025 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Glad to see so much interest in #SequenceAnalysis at #SER2025! Link to our didactic paper & some applied papers 👇🏽

“More schooling is associated with lower Hemoglobin A1c at the high-risk tail of the distribution: An unconditional quantile regression analysis” led by the excellent Jilly Hebert is now out! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40196001/

Watching Scott Zimmerman and Erin Ferguson lead a workshop on reproducible research and multiverse analysis. It's their practice for a workshop at #EpiResearch #SER 2025. epiresearch.org/annual-meeti... Drawing on Erin's paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... So cool.

NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants. grant-watch.us It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon. Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.

As I senior author more papers, and am ultimately responsible for the work and any errors, I am **SO GLAD** we practice code review for all papers. Short story & link to our #CodeReview paper below.

I’m happy to share that our sequence analysis “didactic” paper is now published! I think this method is powerful, flexible and solves the persistent challenge of characterizing variables that unfold over time (& produces great graphics). Applied examples below. academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

“[Universities] must abandon all the concerns — rankings, donors, campus amenities — that preoccupy and distract them, and focus on their core mission: the production and dissemination of knowledge.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

“20% ⬇️ in belief in conspiracy theories after participants interacted with a powerful, flexible, personalized GPT-4 Turbo conversation partner. …
 ⬇️ in belief held across a range of topics, including covid-19 and the outcome of the 2020 presidential election” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

You can find a great review for the study of structural racism and pophealth in an excellent #SERPlaylist by @anushamvable.bsky.social @zinzinator.bsky.social and @juliaraifman.bsky.social Find it here: epiresearch.org/2022/10/25/p...

Registration remains open until 2/10!

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

Jan 31-last day to enroll in the TRASE training on principles of reproducible research in aging & social science. IMO these skills and thinking are sorely lacking in most current training programs. Understanding of the importance has advanced rapidly in the past 25 years but training lags. #EpiSky

Aayush Khadka and I are teaching a training on reproducibility Feb 19,20,21; 1-3pm pacific over zoom. More info & sign up ends 1/31: epibiostat.ucsf.edu/training-rep... Goals are to intro and practice using analysis plans, which help address several issues. Feat: Jade Benjamin-Chung (Stanford)

“These data present an important resource for scientists conducting quantitative studies of the durable legacies of historical racism, enabling granular analyses of the long-term consequences of an understudied form of historical racial control.”

Are #paidleave policies worth the investment? The latest cost-benefit analysis @nberpubs.bsky.social suggests huge returns on investment, including benefits to family and society. www.nber.org/system/files... @lizananat.bsky.social @mslopen.bsky.social @paidleaveforall.bsky.social

“distributing pads, combined with menstrual health education, has increased school attendance…in Uganda, girls’ school attendance increased 17%…studies in Kenya, Uganda and India suggest that these interventions reduced girls’ dropout rates or improved learning.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/o...

My daughter playing family and pretending to be me: I’m going to work at home on my computer forEVER.

Shouldn’t there be a fungus that breaks down plastic? Isn’t that what mushrooms excel at, breaking down carbon-based things? Idea 2: can’t we just throw plastics into a volcano and let the magma deal with breaking them down?

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Reminder! 💡 Articles for this special collection at Health Affairs Scholar are due by December 31. Submit your work on social policies and health. Details below. @kathrynp-phd.bsky.social @leifscience.bsky.social @anushamvable.bsky.social @mkushel.bsky.social

I was proud to be part of this paper which is both substantively important and a novel application of sequence analysis to characterize state-level policy trajectories. academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

In work led by Dr. Aayush Khadka, we tested Rose's hypothesis that a #StructuralChange could shift the distribution of disease and found Vietnam War GI Bill eligibility shifted and reshaped the blood pressure distribution to one of lower risk. doi.org/10.1093/aje/...

Love me some quantile regression. academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

[email protected]'s tweet re terrific new paper from fantastic postdoc, Dr Aayush Khadka, “didactic” paper on #QuantileRegression, now available @amjepi.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1093/aje/...)! QR is important for #EquityResearch because the most structurally minoritized individuals…

“”its” is treated as plagiarism. The use of the *actual names* of datasets is treated as plagiarism. If one scholar says “data from the PSID” & another says “data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics” thats plagiarism? How can anyone take this seriously?” donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...

Fyi: “California leaders with the Council on American-Islamic Relations are calling for Democratic voters to leave the presidential race blank” How can CA Democrats call for Gaza ceasefire in primary?- CalMatters calmatters.org/politics/ele...

My new viewpoint in Health Affairs Scholar, "Immigrants to US Contribute to Society. Here are Three Ways to Support Their Transition," discusses strategies relevant for ongoing migrant influx, e.g. social inclusion, meeting basic needs, & supportive neighborhoods. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

I disagree with the pension system. Why is it your employer’s responsibility to pay you in retirement? That’s the government’s responsibility. The pension system drains money from schools, universities, etc.. By transferring that responsibility from the government to the employer, we’ve set up an

“Kumaon Tea shifts the ownership of tea factories from large entities into the hands of rural, smallholder farmers. This transformative approach is a groundbreaking departure from the industry’s colonial legacy …

I heard this heart-wrenching quote twice this morning:  “We are human. We are part of this world. Don't forget us. Why you allow the Israelis to kill us every day without any reason? We are innocent people. So why Israel destroying our homes?

“But the recent controversies have helped fuel the skepticism that some scholarship is not as rigorous as it purports to be” (1) Let’s normalize #CodeReview (2) 1. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/u... 2. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33834188/

Ohio has basically defacto banned trans healthcare for adults using a similar strategy to why there was only a handful of abortion clinics in the entire Midwest before the Dobbs decision (TRAP laws) cis people please repost this so this info doesn't get stuck in the queer social bubble

Surprised no one has mentioned yet wrt NYT coverage of Claudine Gay, but how many articles do you think the NYT ran on Marc Tessier-Lavigne between the time an investigation for scientific misconduct was launched in Nov 2022 and the day he resigned as Stanford president in July 2023? That's right.

NIH working group “called for raising minimum postdoc salaries to $70,000 beginning next year — an increase of > 20%.” Yes! Postdocs are highly skilled & conduct the work that makes us / our institutions famous. Let’s pay them & adjust for cost of living, >70k here. apple.news/ACbeX1O7ZTOy...

"more federal $ go to homeownership subsidies like the mortgage interest deduction, which mainly benefit higher-income households ... 23.4M low-income American renters pay >50% income for housing. Most don’t receive rental assistance due to funding limitations" www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

A recording of my talk "It's more than the science! Under-appreciated aspects of grant writing include strategy, salespersonship and formatting" is available here: ucsf.app.box.com/s/eq5sp5brom...

FINALLY! Just in time for the winter COVID surge, the CDC now has a useful wastewater dashboard. It indicates that nationally COVID wastewater levels are HIGH and rising further. You can access the dashboard here: cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...