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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Look, I have already named my alternate-career bakery (the Pastriarchy) but someone really needs to open one called Intention To Treat.

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

That feeling of excitedly finding a paper that solves your current methods headache, only to realize you found the paper last year and fully memory-holed it.

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I can't help but think that the "Think of AI as an eager grad student" people just... don't like working with grad students very much.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The quotes on this one are a gift.

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Peter over here posting about his favorite pizza, which is definitely a sandwich

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Teaching sibling comparison designs on Friday, which means I get to bust out this slide:

From left to right: a picture of the creepy twins from The Shining movie, a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito from the movie Twins, and a picture of two siblings

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David Juurlink @davidjuurlink.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated. Incredible reporting from @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

But I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. Only a hippopotamus will do.

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Felix Thoemmes @felixthoemmes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Rearranging variables can make this clearer. In plot below, it's relatively easy to see that total effect needs no adjustment, and that direct effect from A to Y needs to block the indirect path that traverses D and C. D is a collider, and C the child of the collider, hence adjustment on B is needed

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

This is a hell of a year to be staring down the tenure clock, having yet to secure 'R01 or equivalent' funding. I've submitted 10 proposals this year: 6 as PI, 2 foundations. It's weird to feel both anxious about this, and also guilty for feeling anxious about this amid all the *gestures wildly*

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I went to undergrad with a guy who thought eating was a waste of time, so he blended and drank all his meals. I can’t remember his name, but the tuna fish sandwich shakes will be branded into my brain until the day I die.

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Potential outcomes tabs in Outlook! DAGs in your Google query! Marginal structural models to help you plan your next vacation!

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I have a weekly meeting with a USian who works in Norway and this is the first time our 10-minute politics-related therapy session at the top of the hour has been hopeful, so.

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Ah yes, let's try the "have you tried turning it off and on again" approach to fixing US healthcare.

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Weekly Ruport: bad news cycle means more emotional support pillows

A picture of a chocolate labrador curled up on a pile of throw pillows and looking sleepily at the camera

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It’s hard to know whether talking about these things is helpful or just gives them more oxygen, but the current acetaminophen fire is already roaring so here we go. Most importantly: ACOG affirms their position that acetaminophen is safe in pregnancy bsky.app/profile/acog...

"In more than 2 decades of research on the use of acetaminophen in pregnancy, not a single reputable study has successfully concluded that the use of acetaminophen in any trimester of pregnancy causes neurodevelopmental disorders in children." -ACOG President Steven J. Fleischman, MD, MBA, FACOG

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I'm hoping for advice from NIH funded researchers re the updated OA policy (grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...). Specifically: I have students funded on an F31 or T32 whose papers were submitted this spring and accepted after 7/1. Per policy, those papers must be OA from pub date... (1/3)

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NOT-OD-25-101: Revision: Notice of Updated Effective Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Revision: Notice of Updated Effective Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy NOT-OD-25-101. NIH

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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Props to the CDC staff who presented the science at yesterday’s #ACIP meeting. Key points relating to #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy… 1. No increased risk of any problems in pregnancy, at birth, or for infants 1/ www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

A slide presented at the 18 September ACIP meeting (linked in the post). Links to CDC run studies on COVID vaccine safety in pregnancy. A list of outcomes not associated with COVID vaccination in pregnancy in these studies, including miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth, major birth defects, maternal or infant ICU admission.

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I don't know how many of my ISPE friends (and enemies...?) are on here, but (a) the ISPE Peer Mentoring program is currently taking applications and (b) it's GREAT, you should probably sign up. Link: www.pharmacoepi.org/get-involved...

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The thing about middle age is that one of your hips always lies and the other always tells the truth.

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I went to a talk last year and remember thinking: did he just say we should use AI to create study samples? Not for simulation studies, but to answer an applied question? I must have misheard, that’s clearly bonkers. Anyway, here we are.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/08/2025

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Interested in selection of an index date for studies using external comparators? Free upcoming seminar on July 25 hosted by UNC Pharmacoepi, FDA Oncology CoE, and the Triangle CERSI (link to register: lu.ma/yilev7pp).

You are invited to attend our upcoming Collaborative Summit “Index Date Selection for External Comparators”. Hosted by UNC Pharmacoepidemiology and Triangle CERSI in partnership with the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), this virtual meeting will convene regulators, thought leaders and industry experts to discuss one of the major challenges in designing externally controlled studies: the selection of time zero for comparators. We will hear from FDA OCE and invited speakers from academia, industry and research organizations who will share insights regarding the successes and challenges around this critical decision for externally controlled studies. We welcome you to join the discussion. Registration is free; please register by July 24.

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Driving to Boston for SER and was just passed by an SUV with the vanity plate “ECON AF” Feels like a personal attack

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Ridley @rid-ley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

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UNC-CH AAUP @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The UNC-CH chapter of the AAUP strongly and unequivocally condemns the targeting of international students and scholars. In light of the April 8 revocation of six UNC student visas, we call on UNC-CH to take concrete steps to support students and scholars at risk: unc-ch-aaup.org/news#2025-04...

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/03/2025

Want to stream our DC event & hear from amazing speakers like Bill Nye, Francis Collins, Atul Gawande, and SO MANY MORE? Join our livestream at www.twitch.tv/standupforsc..., starting at 12 pm! #standupforscience2025

image of the stand up for science logos with "live stream" on it

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

All I can say is, I (sort of) miss driving in Boston because it made me feel alive, while driving in the Triangle makes me feel like I might die at any moment.

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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

🚨 I have gotten word that PRAMS will restart (possibly April) Nonetheless, this reinforces several main points: 1. Reliance on Fed efforts (/$) is risky 2. Good partnerships between academic, gov, and community is essential 3. Efforts to build robust epi data systems locally remain critical ✊🏽

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Honestly: bought it for the content, keeping it on my desk because it is the cutest little bitty textbook I own. Fun-sized social epi!

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The problem is that some data always lie while some always tell the truth

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Every day brings a new thing to be furious and heartbroken about, but this one really got me.

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Whitney Robinson @whitneyepi.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

$1 billion… Just refusing to fund federal health research and pocketing away the designated money for their own slush funds Sucking $1 billion out of the economy, diverting it from health research… For what?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025

Incredible news! The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order. The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care. ACLU statement here:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 13, 2025

CONTACT

Gillian Branstetter, gbranstetter@aclu.org

Tom Warnke, twarnke@lambdalegal.org

BALTIMORE – In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 19. The decision by Judge Brendan Hurson was issued from the bench with a written order to come soon.

The nationwide restraining order prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or health professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen.

“Good and decent parents of transgender kids should never be in the frightening position of having their child’s prescribed, medically necessary care canceled at the whim and threat of a politician. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s executive order did to PFLAG families with trans youth and young adults nationwide,” said Brian K. Bond (he/him), Chief Executive Officer of PFLAG National. “Today’s decision rights a grievous wrong to our nation's families and children, and PFLAG families will be vigilant to ensure our transgender loved ones receive the healthcare they need—as this legal ruling demands.”

“Forcing providers to withhold medically-necessary, evidence-based care not only threatens patient health and well-being, but also undermines the integrity of our healthcare system in its entirety,” said Alex Sheldon (they/them), GLMA executive director. “Today's intervention by the court underscores the cruelty and recklessness that is embedded in this order and affirms our commitment to resist the administration’s extremist agenda that targets trans and non-binary young people and privileges political ideology over medical expertise. We are hopeful that…

In the first week after the order was signed, some hospitals across the country — in Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington, Colorado, and Virginia at least — abruptly halted medical care for transgender people under age 19, canceling appointments and turning away patients, including some who had been receiving this care for most of their life. This prompted protests of support for transgender youth and in opposition to the order nationwide.

On Feb. 4, a lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Maryland, and law firms Jenner & Block and Hogan Lovells on behalf of transgender young adults and adolescents and their families whose health care has been disrupted by President Trump’s order. Also joining the case as plaintiffs are PFLAG National, the nation’s largest organization supporting LGBTQ+ people and their families, with over 550,000 members and supporters and nearly 350 chapters across the country; and GLMA, the country’s largest organization of LGBTQ and allied health professionals.

"Across the country, this unlawful order from the president has sown fear among transgender youth and confusion among their providers,” said Joshua Block, senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But today’s decision should restore both their access to healthcare and protections under the Constitution. Providers who’ve suspended healthcare for their transgender patients should be left with no doubt that they can lift those suspensions and continue to provide healthcare and act in their best medical judgment without risking their funding or worse.

“The president’s orders sought to take away from transgender young people the very care that they, their families, and their medical providers all agree is best for them – medical care that is evidence-based and well-established. But these decisions are for patients, their families, and their doctors to make, not for politicians or Washington bureaucrats,” said Omar Gonzale…

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Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Made some slides for scientists to talk about what's been happening & what we should do next. There are probably many people better qualified than me to talk about these issues. If that's you, please, please, please consider holding some virtual advocacy training sessions for researchers this week.

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The War on Science (Feb 2025 teach-in draft)

The War on Science What’s happening? What can we do about it? An interactive teach-in for biomedical researchers Please share, modify, and repurpose this template presentation (with credit). Good luck...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/02/2025

If all you see is posting, it’s because all you’re doing is scrolling.

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