A Jay Holmgren

Boy do I have a soon to be published research letter for @kdpsingh.bsky.social 👀

Exhibit #3425635 why "charts indexed to a specific year" are often frustrating to try to interpret!

Going on the CV.

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

Always hard to separate "good descriptive work" with "reg y x and say association but the discussion implicitly assumes causality" in these binary "identification vs not" studies.

this is why quantitative social scientists, the perfect balance of both worlds, should be in charge of everything.

An outrage machine seeking a cause of the day; a media happy to launder it; socials up in arms; administrators rolling over in an instant; all to destroy some random grad student and make them treat every piece-of-shit reaction memo put in front of them as if it were the Federalist Papers. Gross.

It’s tiresome and repetitive but I think it may be imperative every time fascism tells this fundamentally antisemitic lie that every Jew who knows even a bit of what’s what—I know a bit—says explicitly “this isn’t for me. It’s against me & everyone human.”

Payments to Physician Practices and Incentives to Serve Different Racial and Ethnic Groups This study measures disparities across patient racial and ethnic groups in per-visit payment to physician practices from health insurers and other sources, adjusted for visit content, geographic marke...

🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services.

How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?

In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If you would rather live in Boston than Chicago you are an idiot

Brown University’s Division of Biology and Medicine is seeking a teaching track faculty member to teach courses in statistics and AI for its graduate programs as well as contribute to a new Master’s in Health Informatics program. Application Deadline: January 15, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/176254

It's a bad time to be in the knowledge production business, Exhibit 9,341.

both sites are garbage now is the true answer i'm sorry.

I'm not particularly active on either site any more but to act like BlueSky is some paradise instead of a place where maniacs with oppositional defiant disorder who haven't left their house in 3 years will jump down your throat for the slightest degree of intra-left disagreement is crazy.

Insane for the pseudo-academic exposed for pretty severe plagiarism to lecture someone on ethics for the violation of… having a twitter account.

I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software.

My pre trends are incredible!

a woman with a leopard print on her face is smiling . ALT: a woman with a leopard print on her face is smiling .

Could be a big Star Trek DS9 fan.

Rethinking Prior Authorization in Medicare Advantage Prior authorization can help encourage the efficient use of health care resources in Medicare Advantage, but there should be limits on when it’s required.

Some thoughts on optimizing prior authorization in Medicare Advantage, co-authored with some of my favorite scholars @hneprash.bsky.social, @michaelannica.bsky.social, and @egolberstein.bsky.social, and supported by @commonwealthfund.org

www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2025/re...

THINGS HAPPEN?!

Oops it’s the guitar riff opening of I’m The Man Who Loves You

This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly.

NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a reporter state the Golden Rule of Journalism (“it’s not a scandal if it happens in public”) so openly.

Stewart has never been able to think of a joke besides "both sides bad." He should've stayed retired.

As the ~discourse~ seems to bend interminably towards Republicans trying to figure out how they can (further) HDHP-ify ACA coverage, it's worth revisiting what is probably our best (most rigorous) study on the effect of deductibles in health insurance.

academic.oup.com/qje/article-...

🚨 JOB MARKET PAPER ALERT! 🚨

Why do firms provide different workplace amenities? And how does amenity provision affect labor market inequality? 🧵

I guess a movement built on "one weird trick to ending capitalism!" not giving a shit about anything beyond vibes makes a lot of sense, but I genuinely wonder if this is how center-right folks felt during the rise of the alt-right / MAGA.

Can't believe I underestimated the degree to which many of our nations foremost losers with lefty podcasts judged political candidates solely on "stated leftists beliefs + gruff white man aesthetics" rather than actions.

I think a Nazi tattoo is a pretty fair thing to say "wait a minute!" about.

Remembering that “actuary” was on Graeber’s list of bullshit jobs really underscores what he meant was “I don’t understand what these jobs do so they must be fake.”

That’s a lot of hubris from a faux academic whose primary output was trite airport books!

The more evidence mounts that Platner is lying, the more convinced I become that he is lying not only about his past but also about his current views.

Obviously.