Just found out my dog hates Yes

My master's thesis is now published in @REStatJournal 🥳 With Ity Shurtz and Dan Zeltzer , we show how challenging medical encounters trigger short-term changes in docs' decisions: For ~1 hour after seeing a newly diagnosed cancer patient, PCPs order more tests in unrelated cases

Now in print! Led by Yoav Goldstein, we found how a single challenging encounter can shift PCP testing decisions in subsequent, unrelated cases, an instance of intra-person variation in judgment. 1/

Every month I have a ChatGPT breakthrough that makes it 25% more useful. Most recently: if you want the model to do X, tell it to write a prompt to do X, and then modify/use the prompt. Instead of "error-check this PDF", start with "write me a prompt to error check this PDF."

The demographic effects are much more striking. Girls are much more likely to have accommodations, minorities less likely. First gen students are less likely also — one of many cases where they get penalized for not knowing how the system works. 6/

Five years ago today. A beautiful graph.

this was at a concert inside, I didn't even know it could get this high 😭

"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend." Miles W. Griffis in The Sick Times' obituary for the great Alice Wong 王美華: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/ali…

No-stars tables at AEA journals: - harder to read - contain less info (p-values depend on d.o.f. as well as coef and SE) - confuse referees - harm outsiders & junior ppl, who don’t know to ignore formatting rules at submission - achieve nothing Time to end this experiment.

Biden put a hedge fund manager in charge of Covid with a strategy of allowing Covid to spread out of control to please short term business interests. It was not a good long term plan as Long Covid is costing the global economy 1 trillion dollars a year. cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/long-…

Brief published in Nature finds longCOVID associated with higher unemployment, reduced hours, and financial distress up to 3 years post‑infection, and only partially mitigated by prior vaccination. It’s costing the global economy roughly $1 Trillion per year, $9K per US patient.

people doing academic honorifics discourse come back to me after you’ve been on a panel with three men & introduced to the audience as professor jones, professor smith, professor mccoy, & alexandra

Anyone putting together health/crime sessions for ASHEcon and need some papers? If so, please comment here!

"Only" is crazy. If we reduced air pollution across the world by 22% we would save hundreds of thousands of lives from lung and hear diseases.

A new RECOVER study of 6.4M health records shows Long COVID risk has not decreased from 2020–2024. Incidence stayed stable across variants, reinforcing Long COVID as an ongoing public health priority. Read the study: doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci…

COVID-19 is now the single most common viral trigger for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), an autonomic disorder. The pandemic caused a massive surge in diagnoses and awareness, making POTS a significant public health issue. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

"We did not find evidence of #LongCovid risk decreasing over time… Our findings indicate that preventing and mitigating LC remains a public health priority.”

The CDC data have been released, and nationally transmission is up 61% from Nov 29 to Dec 6. We are in a 12th wave.