Anusha M. Vable

Racial Disparities in Premature Mortality and Unrealized Medicare Benefits This cohort study examines racial disparities in premature mortality in the US and discusses the implications of these trends for unrealized Medicare benefits among populations with lower life expecta...

“Despite contributing to Medicare throughout their working lives, Black individuals in the US are less likely to live long enough to reach the qualifying age for coverage.”

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Someone asked me yesterday how I find time for grant writing.

I set aside 2, 3-hour windows a week for grant writing for 2-3 months before the deadline I’m targeting.

For me, it’s 9-noon Monday & Thursday because my best brain is in the morning (I’d prefer earlier, but I have little kids).

Do it for security:

“Wiatros-Motyka said China has been particularly clever in decreasing its reliance on fossil fuels. She noted that such a shift gives countries more autonomy since they can reduce their dependence on energy imports from other nations.”

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

“Populous developing countries like China and India led the charge in making the switch to renewable energies …Meanwhile, Western societies including the European Union and the United States increased their consumption of coal during this period.”

We can do better

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But what you’ve taught us here by coming forward is that even if you were a victim, you don’t always have to be.”

There are millions of survivors out there. Most of those people will never speak up about their abuse. The consequences are often tragic, as they were in this case. I know you still bear the trauma of what happened to you. You likely always will.

powerless and have had to suffer in silence. You gave them a voice.

You stood up to power.

It’s not easy.

You told those women and the world that violence behind closed doors doesn’t have to stay hidden forever.

The number of people who you reached is incalculable.

Judge Arun Subramanian to Cassie & Jane:

“I am proud of you for coming to the court to tell the world what really happened,” he said. “You weren’t just speaking to the 12 folks in the jury box. You were speaking to the millions of women out there who have been victims, but who feel invisible and

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👇

WashU School of Public Health With the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis, WashU is establishing its first new school in 100 years.

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

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Samples also show the microbial activity in the soil had nearly quadrupled, boosting nutrients for plants. All the planted species have grown at least twice as fast compared with stand alone plantings, while some, like the hackberry trees, have shot up seven times faster.”

“A yet-to-be-published study by Dr. Shebitz and a former student of hers, Andres Ospina Parra, found that Elizabeth’s microforests have soil that is up to 50 times more permeable than it was before, helping the ground absorb storm water and allowing the roots access to more water and oxygen…

In New Jersey, Benefits Bloom in Tiny Forests

“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...

More broadly, I think sequence analysis is a powerful, flexible method that you should consider adding to your methodologic toolbox

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Thirty-Year Glycemic Trajectories From Young Adulthood Through Middle Age This cohort study examines glycemic trajectories using sequence analysis in a population-based cohort of young adults with normoglycemia and prediabetes.

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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 👇🏽

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First Time in 100 Years: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages

“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...

Gretchen Goldman concluding her #SER2025 keynote address

"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.

Photo of slide for Roger Detels prize

Photo of Anne Rimoin delivering her prize talk

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

Screenshot of slide for student prize

Picture of Adoma Manful presenting the prize presentation

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

Slide for postdoctoral prize

Picture of Eleanor Hayes-Larson starting her prize presentation

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 👇🏽

Quantile regressions as a tool to evaluate how an exposure shifts and reshapes the outcome distribution: A primer for epidemiologists - PubMed Quantifying how an exposure affects the entire outcome distribution is often important, e.g., for outcomes such as blood pressure which have non-linear effects on long-term morbidity and mortality. Qu...

If you missed the quantile regression workshop Jilly co-led today at #SER2025 don’t worry! We also have a didactic paper for self-learners: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39098821/

More schooling is associated with lower Hemoglobin A1c at the high-risk tail of the distribution: An unconditional quantile regression analysis - PubMed Educational attainment is inversely associated with HbA1camong those with 12 or more years of schooling, with larger point estimates for those in the high-risk tail of the HbA1c distribution.

“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.

Code Review as a Simple Trick to Enhance Reproducibility, Accelerate Learning, and Improve the Quality of Your Team’s Research Abstract. Programming for data wrangling and statistical analysis is an essential technical tool of modern epidemiology, yet many epidemiologists receive l

Code Review, do it for:

1. Science and reproducibility

2. Your analysts

3. Yourself

Some suggestions on implementation here: doi.org/10.1093/aje/...