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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 22h

For context, the supposed free fall is actually fewer 9th graders identifying as bi

Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 22h

Wait, you're telling me that the kids who can pass as straight decided to start doing that in an increasingly regressive environment?!?

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hate academic epidemiology Halloween, what do you mean you're dressed as "collider stratification bias"?

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My wife and I have a running joke that "no wonder service lasts so much longer" because the songs take so much longer to sing.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Similar to others, growing up Baptist and coming into TEC, the new hymns aren't the hardest. It's when (dont have specific examples, just seems to happen frequently) it's a hymn I've sung since childhood but the music is "off" in some way. Often it feels slower, or notes hit different than expected.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New favorite euphemism for lack of variability

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've been outta the epi game too long it seems, what are we arguing about wrt distal vs proximal causes?

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Bsky may not be the place for a nuanced discussion, but what separates this from "annihilationism, but for everyone"?

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Oooph. Man, to be able to forget... At this point I'm happy when family has Fox on because the alternative is YouTube algorithms that make Fox look sober and restrained by comparison

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Look sometimes all a guy wants is to drink the battery acid juice, listen to Linkin Park, and go to the gym

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

One of those lines that hits different as an adult vs HS

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Up there with trying to execute a reliance agreement when the universities cannot agree on how much liability insurance is needed... for a secondary data analysis....

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Tell your boyfriend, if he says he's got beef, that I'm a vegetarian and I'm not fucking scared of him

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It is fascinating though to see "community ways of knowing" but from the right.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I've spent my career doing both community based intervention work as well as "technocratic" policy work. What's being presented in this article rings as false dilemma. You can and should do both, and they should feed into each other. That's not progressive or conservative. That's just good science.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I need to think carefully about how to express my opinion on this. But there is a shell game going on here where basic principles of community based public health are being labeled as "not progressive" in some fundamental way.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Darren, someone has to take care of the family while amicus briefs against gay marriage get written

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

From a fellow occasional dad DM, good luck

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yeah, was gonna say. That sounds like a problem for Dr Heydari.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

So we probably aren't doing ourselves any favors with people nervous about this when we buy into and rebroadcast the "whoa is TEC" narrative

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Another thought on this is that some parishes do a lot of their own hand wringing about this. Prior parish was Inclusive Orthodox and anglocatholic. Lot of "well we aren't like most of the diocese crossing their fingers during the creed" sentiment. Wasn't my experience on the rest of the diocese

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Yeah, I think "common" is def overwrought. I think a lot of it is likely ex-Evangelicals scoping out liturgical Christians for the first time and getting nervous. It's definitely the propaganda I heard back in my ACNA days

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Probably others, too. I don't see this leading to abandoning the creeds, but I can see how someone else could look at that and get nervous.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

3. We already have parishes that modify the creeds. I've been attending one that subs feminine pronouns for the HS. While I don't find that theologically problematic, it is changing the creed.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Not an actual fear of mine, but a combo I'm familiar with. Some I've heard: 1. We already don't actually enforce the canons (CWOB, etc) 2. Creator/Redeemer/Sustainer language is soft modalism (slippery slope towards creeds) /1

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Can't practice them or I fumble the real thing. Make slides so I know where I'm at in the talk, and wing it. Glad practicing works for others, but it just makes me try to adhere to a script. And I'm bad at that.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is a wild pipeline. How exactly is he applying Girard?

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Earth and Altar might be interested? Don't know if that's the type of outlet you'd be interested in. It's pretty TEC focused. earthandaltarmag.com/posts

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Would be fascinated to hear what he thinks counts as the right kind of public health in this context

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ok, this one was a lot of fun. Now time to lean into being a Hermetic Magus

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Also pretty common at Church of Our Savior in Atlanta

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

There's characters I liked in HoD and CHD, but man they are overall kinda tough to get through these days.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A life of fit statistics, condolences.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Agreed. It's just sort of a wild take to me based on slide alone. Identification based on covariate adjustment (no matter how fancy the algorithm) just isnt as convincing as proper design. So hanging our hats on "all our covariate adjustment methods give the same estimates" feels really suspect

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"we identified the effects based on observables, and all the algorithms produced similar results." Thats not the endorsement I think they want it to be....

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Summer before middle school has begun. Which means kid #2, gets to start Fullmetal Alchemist

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

End of an era, it's been real Emory.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Used this (with attribution) in my job talk recently. Not saying it got me the job, but also....

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Them: Christians are polytheists Me: nuh uh *taps the Athanasian Creed sign*

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Anything to avoid the citation wars huh?

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

So more about we each have a different job and have to rely on each other to do theirs. Otherwise large trials just can't be done.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

For me, it's a function of large projects requiring diverse and specialized knowledge. There are cites in papers I'm on about behavioral interventions that I am not the appropriate author to verify. Same for colleagues who rely on me for what we should cite for dealing with clustered randomization.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Exactly, co-authors that can't be trusted like that do not remain co-authors for long

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Oh, that's absolutely a problem. And it's a big driver of bad med/health papers. But thinking about massive NIH trials, those are distributed effort kinds of projects or they can't happen. There just seems to be a lack of understanding of what that version of academia even is in these convos.

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Doug Livingston @douglivingston.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Said it elsewhere, but it's clear that other folks don't have to rely on team science. My interventionist colleagues wouldn't even know where to start verifying the stats citations I add. That's my responsibility, and expectation is I have read them.

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