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Dan Malinsky

@danielmalinsky.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia. I study causal inference, graphical models, machine learning, algorithmic (un)fairness, social + environmental determinants of health, etc. Opinions my own. www.dmalinsky.com

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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A paper @lastpositivist.bsky.social and I wrote is finally getting published... if you like it, it was all my idea. If you hate it, it was all Liam's idea.
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Today is the last day to submit public comment!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/07/2026
Russell Vought is working to advance a key part of his Project 2025 agenda by giving political appointees unprecedented authority over federal science funding decisions. Fight back by leaving your public comment by visiting this link: zurl.co/hdmlB Article: zurl.co/ijSUz
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Trump administration proposal would all but end scientific merit in grant funding, critics say
Proposed in late May, the rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over federal grants for research, education and infrastructure.
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Newly proposed rules from the federal government will irreparably damage US science: please express your dissent and post a comment before the OMB public comment period closes this Monday, July 13. Read about the endgame here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel Malinsky
New Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cuts
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uai2026 @auai.org · 27/04/2026
🚨 The deadline for our Call for Tutorials is approaching. Don't miss the chance to introduce the #UAI2026 community to your work and research field! 🧑‍🏫 ⏳ Submit your proposal by the end of April 30th (AoE) 👉 auai.org/uai2026/call...
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New paper on algs for clinical decisions and disparities: www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.... led by my wonderful student Safiya Sirota (soon on the market) TLDR: making decisions based purely on risk scores is not just suboptimal but may have consequences for racial disparities in treatment rates
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Health Equity Perspective on Data‐Driven Treatment Decisions in Cardiovascular Care: Risk Assessments Versus Individualized Treatment Rules | Journal of the American Heart Association
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uai2026 @auai.org · 11/02/2026
🎉 We’re excited to announce the Keynote Speakers for #UAI2026 — three researchers shaping the future of causal learning, large-scale ML, and responsible AI. 👇
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New Yorkers really believed, until now, that Penn Station could not possibly get any worse gothamist.com/news/is-nyc-...
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White House pitches renaming Penn Station as Trump Station to unlock Gateway tunnel funding
Riders at the dreary rail hub said they just wanted to see transit improvements continue.
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Highly recommend reading the entire excerpt, linked below, from Peter Drucker's autobiography -- on some different rationalizations for collaborating with an evil regime
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Thanks for the re-post @gregggonsalves.bsky.social -- this is from a while ago but things are much much worse now, so still relevant, I think. This whole thread is recommended reading!
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune is on the scene: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Proposed* official UAI2026 conference taglines: "UAI2026: gotta be crazy to be certain about AI these days" "UAI: 2 uncertain 2 AI" "I went to UAI2026 and all I got was this lousy uncertainty" Vote for your fav or propose your own! www.auai.org/uai2026/ (*by me, under consideration by no one)
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Excited to be serving as Program co-Chair of UAI 2026 with Ema Perkovic! We are busy working on facilitating an excellent program. In my unbiased opinion UAI is an ideal venue at the intersection of stats & CS: good size, good science, good vibes. Please submit your work!
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Inspiring to see communities doing both the science and advocacy needed to protect their neighborhoods, as the federal government rolls back environmental regulations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... by @thaliajuarez.bsky.social
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US Latinos mobilize to monitor – and improve – local air quality: ‘We have to fix it’
As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...
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A Letter From Detained Journalist Mario Guevara | ACLU
After 100 days in immigration detention, journalist Mario Guevara shares a handwritten letter describing the toll of separation from his family, his love for the U.S., and his determination to keep re...
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky
From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In case you want to take a break from ~everything else going on~ to read a lil bit about causal mediation analysis, sample selection bias, and disparities in liver transplantation decisions... here's a new paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01969
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Mediation Analysis in the Presence of Sample Selection Bias with an Application to Disparities in Liver Transplantation Listing
The study of disparities in the liver transplantation process may focus on quantifying causal effects, particularly the average, direct, or indirect effects of various social determinants of health on...
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I wrote something about statistics under authoritarianism
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This paper I contributed to may be of interest to both public health folks and philosophers of science — we outline a view of how to understand and operationalize “intrinsic health” as distinct from “no disease” (ffo of words like “emergence” and “operationalize”)
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Zohran's victory is a glimmer of light in a very dark time <3
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Support the brave staffers at @NIH! #BethesdaDeclaration actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Join the AAUP and your dues go to support lawsuits like these against the Trump admin!
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2025
A powerful piece by Daniel Malinsky on why scientists must resist Trump’s authoritarian agenda: “In these times … scientists have a duty to dissent.” We completely agree. Ready to act? Join the #SummerFightForScience now (1/2)➡️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky
The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I wrote something to say that scientists cannot afford to be 'apolitical' Scientists actually have the skills and the duty to join in the fight against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky
The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My NIH-funded friends: please take 1min to post a public comment opposing this awful policy change that would expedite political interference in federal science funding www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Tag yourself! I'm the "NA" in the NIEHS budget line
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
OpenAI's "most powerful system" makes shit up more than half of the time. For its "o4-mini" model, the rate is ***79 percent***
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Decades of research that American taxpayers have invested in is being imperiled at universities like mine. Our paper wrote about some of the projects affected www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...
Ezra Susser, CC ’74, Public Health ’82, Public Health ’92, professor of epidemiology and psychiatry at the Mailman School of Public Health, said that hearing that two of his grants were cancelled was “soul-crushing.” He said the cuts are affecting a “whole legacy of work.”

Susser’s grants were for his research on the genomics of schizophrenia in South Africa and for a psychiatric epidemiology training program.

“We had two more years, really, to finish it,” Susser said about his study on schizophrenia. “And we’ve been working on it for 10 years or 12 years, officially, but for at least 15 years, and all that could be lost.”
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Columbia faculty (700+ signatures!) urges our Trustees to do 6 things: 1. Stand up for higher ed 2. Fight back against federal attacks (sue!) 3. Protect our students 4. Preserve academic freedom & fac governance 5. Affirm tenants of DEI 6. Protect research & provide backup funding shorturl.at/6OLTJ
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To Columbia’s trustees: Protect the future of higher education
Even before coming to power this year, President Donald Trump’s administration made its plans for targeting American higher education abundantly clear. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Ci...
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Columbia faculty (700+ signatures!) urges our Trustees to do 6 things: 1. Stand up for higher ed 2. Fight back against federal attacks (sue!) 3. Protect our students 4. Preserve academic freedom & fac governance 5. Affirm tenants of DEI 6. Protect research & provide backup funding shorturl.at/6OLTJ
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To Columbia’s trustees: Protect the future of higher education
Even before coming to power this year, President Donald Trump’s administration made its plans for targeting American higher education abundantly clear. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Ci...
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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Join us TODAY at 12:30pm Haven Ave Plaza (at the medical center)! CUIMC Stands Up and Speaks OUT! We rally to say HANDS OFF our students, science, patients, classrooms, and community!
Flyer that reads:
CUIMC Stands Up and Speaks OUT!
Come join the CUIMC Community of Scholars, Students, Healers, the Care-Givers and the Cared-For to Say HANDS OFF! Our students, our science, our patients, our classrooms, OUR COMMUNITY!
April 22nd @ 12:30pm
Haven Ave Plaza
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Spoke to an excellent intl student who was accepted to PhD programs in the US and is choosing to instead attend a program abroad due to fear and uncertainty re: the visa cancellations... Such a loss for the US :(
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Trustees: listen to the faculty! Fight back!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 12/04/2025
MONDAY in NYC: Stand with Columbia faculty, researchers, physicians, & nurses calling on the the Columbia Board of Trustees to resist Trump’s assault students, patients, lifesaving research, & teaching. @aaupcu.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @csmapnyu.org
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.
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Sen Pei @senpei.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It was great to have @danielmalinsky.bsky.social give an excellent lecture on casual graph discovery in my network science class today!
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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I am I'm this picture and I don't like it
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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Over 200 CUIMC medical, public health, and nursing researchers, clinical, support staff, and students took a stand in Haven Plaza Thursday March 27th. Standing up to Protect our Research, Protect our Students, Defend Science, Academic freedom and voicing the need for Columbia to Fight Back!!!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 27/03/2025
RIGHT NOW: Columbia Irving Medical Center researchers are speaking out on how the Trump admin cuts to research funding will cause harm to millions of families in the US and worldwide.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/03/2025
Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
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Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
An important statement by 2000+ Jewish colleagues:
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This evening, Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis came together to demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. We will not be silent about this outrageous assault on free speech. We will not be silent in the face of an authoritarian takeover. #FreeMahmoud
Professor Michael Thaddeus, Columbia University AAUP speaking in front of crowd at press conference to free Mahmoud Khalil. Professor Sonya Posmentier, New York University, Sanctuary Campus Network speaking in front of crowd with “Jews say no to deportations” signs at press conference to free Mahmoud Khalil Professor Emerita Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, daughter of Holocaust survivors speaking in front of crowd at press conference to free Mahmoud Khalil
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Looking forward to this! Say hi if you're in Atlanta.
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“Protecting our university from Trump’s cruel agenda means resisting his instrumentalization of antisemitism” – a new op-ed from some Jewish colleagues at Columbia www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
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Protecting our university from Trump’s cruel agenda means resisting his instrumentalization of antisemitism
In the days since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the federal government declared war on our University’s very purpose. It nearly<a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-g...
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Potentially an actually beneficial use-case of AI* in the clinic *Supervised learning w/ CNN, not gen-AI
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
It is barely February and I have already reached my emotional quota for peer review requests in 2025.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 01/02/2025
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My latest for The Nation. Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health In America: the administration has ground crucial scientific activity to a halt. It’s an act of national suicide. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health In America
The administration has ground crucial scientific activity to a halt. It's an act of national suicide.
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Dan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Good essay by @economeager.bsky.social FFO: Truth, Probability, and "Truth and Probability"
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