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Anusha M. Vable

@anushamvable.bsky.social
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Social Epidemiologist & Associate Professor @WashU. Details on my work here: schoolofpublichealth.washu.edu/peop…

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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
“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.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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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...
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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).
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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.”
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“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 www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...
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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.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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.”
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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
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Kevin Grumbach @kgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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👇
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UW Infectious Disease Fellowship Program @uwidfellowship.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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 schoolofpublichealth.washu.edu WashU School of Public Health
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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.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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.”
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“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…
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“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...
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In New Jersey, Benefits Bloom in Tiny Forests
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
More broadly, I think sequence analysis is a powerful, flexible method that you should consider adding to your methodologic toolbox bsky.app/profile/anus...
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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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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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“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...
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First Time in 100 Years: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages
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Society for Epidemiologic Research @societyforepi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
"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
Gretchen Goldman concluding her #SER2025 keynote address
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“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.
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Society for Epidemiologic Research @societyforepi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Huge congratulations to @annerimoin.bsky.social for winning the Roger Detels Award for distinguished research in infectious disease epidemiology ! #SER2025
Photo of slide for Roger Detels prizePhoto of Anne Rimoin delivering her prize talk
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Society for Epidemiologic Research @societyforepi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Huge congratulations to Adoma Manful for winning the Tyroler Student Prize! #SER2025
Screenshot of slide for student prizePicture of Adoma Manful presenting the prize presentation
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Society for Epidemiologic Research @societyforepi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Huge congratulations to Eleanor Hayes-Larson for winning the Lilienfeld postdoctoral prize! #SER2025
Slide for postdoctoral prizePicture of Eleanor Hayes-Larson starting her prize presentation
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I’m really enjoying the entry music for all the plenary speakers at #SER2025 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Glad to see so much interest in #SequenceAnalysis at #SER2025! Link to our didactic paper & some applied papers 👇🏽
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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/
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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...
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“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/
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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.
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Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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.
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Grant Watch
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Code Review, do it for: 1. Science and reproducibility 2. Your analysts 3. Yourself Some suggestions on implementation here: doi.org/10.1093/aje/...
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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
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I want to clarify that this is MY responsibility, not the analyst's; there is no expectation that people should know things they haven't learned yet. I have previously argued code review is important for the analyst's mental health and anxiety, but now I also realize it's important for my career.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
During the code review, this issue was identified; now, rather than the standard errors erroneously being based on a sample size of ~30K, the SEs were correctly based on a sample size of ~6K. The results changed dramatically.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
In a current example from my team, we do complex analyses, many led by junior researchers or trainees. In one instance we had to multiply impute missing data, and did 5 imputations. The analyst leading the analysis didn't know that it was necessary to cluster the standard errors.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Explosive examples of scientific errors: 1. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o... (likely misconduct) 2. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... (likely misconduct) 3. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (likely error)
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Opinion | The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science
Fraud in research needs to end.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Many of the explosive examples of scientific errors are about the data manipulation (that is, the coding). Errors in the code can either be 1. Intentional misconduct 2. Unintentional mistakes Code review can catch both forms of errors.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
As I senior author more papers, and am ultimately responsible for the work and any errors, I am **SO GLAD** we practice code review for all papers. Short story & link to our #CodeReview paper below.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I should note that this method is descriptive, not causal, but for variables that unfold over time, we are in the descriptive phase. I think the limits of this method are data availability and imagination. Please consider reading our descriptive paper and applying SA to your own projects.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We are on the front end of an explosion of sequence analysis papers, partially because this method helps solve the recurring challenging of describing variables that unfold over time.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
And here to understand county-level policy responses to COVID: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
But, the approach can be applied to other levels besides the individual. A powerful application of sequence analysis is to understand policy databases as we did here to understand state-level cisheterosexism trajectories: doi.org/10.1093/aje/...
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Characterizing state-level structural cisheterosexism trajectories using sequence and cluster analysis, 1996-2016, 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., and associations with health status and healthca...
Abstract. Structural cisheterosexism is a root cause of LGBTQ health inequities. Amidst ongoing legal attacks on LGBTQ populations’ rights, research is nee
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We’ve also used sequence analysis to characterize outcome data, such as glycemic trajectories and progression to diabetes (or lack thereof) in population-based cohorts (under review).
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Here, we use sequence analysis to understand lifecourse employment trajectories and evaluate associations with cognitive outcomes in HRS: doi.org/10.1016/j.so... Out team has several other publications using sequence analysis to characterize lifecourse SES, especially education.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I’m happy to share that our sequence analysis “didactic” paper is now published! I think this method is powerful, flexible and solves the persistent challenge of characterizing variables that unfold over time (& produces great graphics). Applied examples below. academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...
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Using sequence and cluster analysis to characterize variables that unfold over time: implementation and practical considerations for epidemiologists
Abstract. Characterizing longitudinal trajectories of variables that unfold over time (e.g. social, health or environmental variables) is a persistent chal
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“[Universities] must abandon all the concerns — rankings, donors, campus amenities — that preoccupy and distract them, and focus on their core mission: the production and dissemination of knowledge.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“20% ⬇️ in belief in conspiracy theories after participants interacted with a powerful, flexible, personalized GPT-4 Turbo conversation partner. …
 ⬇️ in belief held across a range of topics, including covid-19 and the outcome of the 2020 presidential election” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Finally, something is puncturing conspiracy theories
Researchers have long struggled to combat conspiracy theories. Artificial Intelligence offers hope.
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Society for Epidemiologic Research @societyforepi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
You can find a great review for the study of structural racism and pophealth in an excellent #SERPlaylist by @anushamvable.bsky.social @zinzinator.bsky.social and @juliaraifman.bsky.social Find it here: epiresearch.org/2022/10/25/p...
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Plausible counterfactuals in the study of structural racism and population health – Society for Epidemiologic Research
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Anusha M. Vable @anushamvable.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Registration remains open until 2/10!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13
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Maria Glymour @mariaglymour.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Jan 31-last day to enroll in the TRASE training on principles of reproducible research in aging & social science. IMO these skills and thinking are sorely lacking in most current training programs. Understanding of the importance has advanced rapidly in the past 25 years but training lags. #EpiSky
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