Jon Huang

50+ years on and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is more relevant than ever

Can confirm the southern suburbs are still SWARMING with ICE and they are still doing door knocking and abducting people from cars this morning. At least one abandoned car on the 101 bridge and a raid on an apartment complex in downtown Shakopee. It’s not even noon. Drawdown my fat ass.

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“Cut ICE’s budget to restore federal health care funding” is an extremely popular message www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Freedom House Ambulance Service - 99% Invisible Back in the 1960s and 70s, in the city of Pittsburgh, there was a nickname for guys like John Moon – The Unemployables. This nickname meant that you simply could not get hired, no matter where you wen...

As a former medic, this Month I tip my cap to the OG paramedics from Freedom House in Pittsburgh. Young Black men & women who were the first to practice advanced EMS in the streets, being the solution for their neighborhood when (as so often) no one else would.
99percentinvisible.org/episode/405-...

Flyer about meeting on team based approaches to hypertension in pregnancy event 2/24/26 at noon

Join us for meeting speaking about team based approaches to hypertensive d/o of pregnancy. Registration is open now for this event linktr.ee/AHECeducate_NY #obgynsky #obskyn #medsky#mededsky

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AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.

"One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

Reading @rfkuang.bsky.social's Babel and in wonder at how timely it is, personally & more broadly.

She captures so well the conflicted migrant who imagined technical mastery a route to acceptance. Inadequacy then becomes motivation to be a tool of colonialism, leveraged against one's own community.

Here Are the Local Businesses & Restaurants Participating in Today’s National Strike O‘ahu businesses and restaurants are closing or doing something special for the community to support the call for an end to ICE violence.

'A'ole ICE

www.honolulumagazine.com/local-busine...

Well in America, probusiness is providing huge incentives and tax advantages and demanding nothing. Everything else is antibusiness. So.. 🤷🏽‍♂️

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

This is bullshit. We're stuck paying dues to them even for kid's leagues.

And to think they could've just done nothing. 🤬

Are you family with RCMI (research centers for minority serving institutions) network led by Morehouse? It includes a number of HBCUs and would be an ideal place for your area of clinical research. DM me and I can help connect. I also have colleagues at a HBCUs outside RCMI as well.

📢now forthcoming in ECMA!

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

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Not be lost amongst more pressing issues, but PRAMS is up for renewal and the Federal comment period ends Jan 20.

Have something nice to say about how important it is (especially for small/rural States) here:

www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...

Funny, I made this case Day 1 of my Epi methods class this term and it seems (unfortunately) students' minds were blown.

We care about doing it right; the number or plot at the end can't actually tell you whether you've done it right. (Though it might be able to tell you if you did it wrong.)

FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.

We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.

What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

Among perpetrators of violence, there is a very small share who are independently motivated to violence. But the vast majority of perpetrators commit violence to seek approval and status from others.

This is particularly true among men who use violence to affirm their masculinity.

Integrating perturbational screens, eQTL, and GWAS data identifies mediating genes for complex traits Most current GWAS-eQTL approaches prioritize genes whose mediating effects on complex traits act through cis-regulation, while trans-acting genes remain largely underexplored. Recent perturbational sc...

Happy to share our new preprint from @sashagusevposts.bsky.social and @nmancuso.bsky.social labs! We introduce Mr. PEG, a framework integrating perturbational screens, eQTL, and GWAS data to identify mediating genes for complex traits. (1/n) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Recent work shows systematic differences between cis-eQTL and GWAS signals, supporting models where upstream genes regulate downstream genes, ultimately affecting disease through complex regulatory cascades. (3/n)

New method from our group for identifying disease-mediating genes using perturb-seq, eQTL, and GWAS data. Check out the thread:

Follow Sarah. She's the best and the brightest, a meticulous, dogged scholar and great stout heart. And she's always five steps ahead of autocracy's game, has seen every move coming from the start.

Sarah Kendzior connects the dots so well so that all of us can access the whole picture. We just have to choose to. Resisting resignation is a big part of the fight. The more we truly understand what's going on behind the scenes, the better we can navigate it together.

And maybe even stop it.

the hand for scale 😭

Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry

My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society

Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable

Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. HHS cuts key AAP grants, citing concerns about “identity-based language” and insufficient focus on agency priorities. The organization said the cuts could harm child health.

American Academy of Pediatrics has grants cut by HHS

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Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away.

Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?”

Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"