Jared Huling

I absolutely think that for the majority of users it definitely is a crutch to replace critical thinking. It *can* be used without that being the case, but it most often seems not to be

Key takeaways: $48.7 billion for $NIH, an increase of $400 million, not 15% F&A, prevents MYF.

Faceted plot of maps displaying losses from terminated grants under the static model (top) and commuter model (bottom), where counties are colored by economic losses (in USD). Under the static model, much of the map is white (indicating no economic losses). With the commuter model, every county is shaded (indicating losses), and most are orange or red (indicating losses of greater than $100K.

We see similar effects of grant terminations (as of June 30th). Over $8B in economic losses are spread across the country.

Although affected institutions are only located in 191 counties, economic losses from terminated grants exceed $100K in 1,185 counties.

Bike infrastructure like this is worse than no infrastructure at all

Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.

Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.

Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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Agreed. It shouldn't be used as a car commuting shortcut, it was never designed for such and seeing multiple mile long lines of cars shows how useless it is when flooded with cars

Would be nearly impossible with the level of car traffic on the WRR during rush hour. There are now regularly 2 mile lines of cars waiting to go through various stop signs

very cool work!

well hey, I can't think of a safer spot to be during a tornado than in the gopher tunnel system!

We are pleased to announce an experiment intended to stimulate academic discussion and exchange, centered on papers published in Econometrica 1/5

until it snows again!

graph showing publication of NIH funded publications, relative to other funders. China is catching up.

NIH spending more than pays for itself. It generates about $2.5 for every $1 spent. In terms of research productivity, NIH funding dwarfs the rest of the world. The only long-term potential rival is China. Politicizing the NIH's scientific processes will hand China a huge strategic advantage.

Please apply, this project involves quite a bit of fun work on combining data from observational studies with randomized trials to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects!

What's worse is when the edits come without track changes

This view never gets old -- sad that Bridge 9 will be closed all summer and fall

A headshot of Sandra Safo with the tagline "Celebrating Black History Month"

Celebrating Black History Month: Initially drawn to combining math and finance, Sandra Safo's path shifted after she discovered data analysis during her studies. Sandra now develops innovative statistical and machine learning methods to advance health care research. magazine.amstat.org/...

Nothing like a commute home on fresh snow

Some of the most aggressive driving in the twin cities happens here inexplicably as well. People use it as a cut-through during rush hour and there usually are lines at stop signs over a half mile long, which defeats the purpose of allowing cars there in the first place

MINNESOTA

NIH Awards Funding: $718 M
Jobs Supported : 7,992
Economic activity supported: $ 1.74 B

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

practice is absolutely not aligned with current methods understanding of things. I would slightly disagree that it requires you to model the outcome correctly. Perhaps a very subtle point that you don't explicitly model the outcome per se but assume it lives in a particular function space

It's certainly true that balance on the regression function is key, but that fact is *very* well-recognized in the balancing literature, hence the move towards more encompassing balance targets that aim to balance enough functions of covariates such that the regr func is balanced too

Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research

Academia vs industry?

I think this piece correctly describes most of the (dis)advantages of both in an almost fair way.

Still, I opt for the intellectual freedom, although that's being constantly attacked by cuts to fundamental research. 🧪

www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

I guess it depends on who you're talking with -- several prominent books in the field begin with randomized experiments almost by principal

I *think* you can link it to your phone, but I link mine to my bike computer -- a dot flashes on the screen for each car as they approach and beeps at you (see, e.g www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhRV...). It also blinks your light at the car when detected to also make drivers more aware of you

Sandwich var estimators for the ATT are not guaranteed to be conservative (doi.org/10.1093/aje/...) and are thus not valid; this is what avg_comparisons uses by default. Differences in the sandwich variance estimators are expected under different working models even if they produce the same estimate

𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out!

It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG.

And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials:

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

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Careers Required qualifications:Applicants must have a PhD in biostatistics, statistics, or a closely related field, by the start of appointment and a strong interest in collaborative research with biomedical investigators across the health sciences.

Trying again with a working link:

We’ve just posted a new Contract Assistant Professor position at UMN Biostat & Health Data Science! Happy to discuss with anyone interested.

#biostatistics #healthdatascience #academicjobs

hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...

Sure seems like it. Would be really nice to have a common community space again!

The MSM dates back to a paper by Tan in 2006 and has been used in a series of recent works starting with arxiv.org/abs/1711.11286 with sharp bounds provided in Dorn and Guo arxiv.org/abs/2102.04543 with more recent follow-up work by them and also Tan again. Lots of new stuff that uses the MSM