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Alexander Tsai, MD

@drdrtsai.bsky.social
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Husband, father, & psychiatrist at @GlobalHealthMGH + @MonganInstitute, prof @harvardmed + @HarvardChanSPH. Editor-in-Chief @SocSciMed-Mental Health. TweetDelete on. Fk cowards. Website: connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profi…

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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 35m
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 1h
"the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists" 🤭 muse.jhu.edu/article/1001...
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 2h
"The effect size of [the 2006 Iranian trial] was so big as to be unheard of in biomedical science, says Martin Plöderl... 'It’s the kind of effect size you only get if you ask people whether they prefer chocolate or faeces,' he says." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial
One small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say.
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 17h
Bruh Fk y’all for even thinking about it www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
washingtonpost.com
MLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National Park
After The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition.
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"[Policy research] is not advocacy or lobbying by another name. Evaluating the effects of government action offers insights that carry no party label... Its purpose is not to advance ideology but to provide objective evidence that can improve public decision making."
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pipeline straight to MDPI/Hindawi/Dove Press/etc
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"My own speculation is that a similar workflow as the NBER paper directed at the last 20 years of empirical papers in ASR or Demography would be a bloodbath." 🤭
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
lolololooooool someone actually read my preprint! 1/ www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...
npr.org
What's behind HHS claims that gender-affirming care 'may' radicalize
The report is the agency's latest effort to chip away at trust in established health care models for transgender people. Critics say it frames transgender identity as illegitimate or even dangerous.
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Just how stupid could I be?"
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love it
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Live your life in such a way that an event like this does not make its way into your obituary
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FEED THE TREE OBVIOUSLY
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is how you do it
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All this shhhtte need to get reversed on day one
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Hannah-Jones is the protagonist in her own story about the rise and fall of an idea, and although I was deeply affected by her regret, I came away even more convinced that the virtue of a parent is ultimately meaningless when it comes to improving the public-school system."
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"CardinalMcElroy closed with... Catholics must 'recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight every dimension of it,' he said, and they must 'seek to convert our political representatives from tolerating this evil, or replace them.'" www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/on-pope-le...
thelettersfromleo.com
On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lolololol Reduced-form, partial-equilibrium estimate of private time savings that omits the general-equilibrium verification congestion caused by widespread AI adoption www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
researchprofessionalnews.com
AI saves scientists seven hours a week, Google paper finds - Research Professional News
But study also highlights extra time spent verifying AI-generated results and push towards “safer” projects
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I thought she prints stuff out
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now do authors vs editors 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
nytimes.com
Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Only 37 unread emails I don't believe it not for one second
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you're in the DC area
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When someone pays me for something I thought I was doing for free, I feel like I won the lottery. I have won the lottery exactly 3 times: 1. Once I gave a keynote at a symposium. Totally not my field-- cancer/enviro epi. 1/
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
was scanning through my feed quickly and all I saw was "chocolate foot job"
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
getting a NOA in 2026
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I never had these kind of cojones when I was a junior I mean, I still don't have these kind of cojones as a non-junior
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Given this Court’s two prior orders in this litigation, our conclusion that this was error should come as no surprise" Oof. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I hate it
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would support one warning followed by a lifetime shadow ban. You don't get notified that you are under a ban but all of your submissions get auto desk rejected. Then you spend all your time submitting slop and wondering why you keep getting rejected
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good lord www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
sfgate.com
Elizabeth Holmes documentary gets an R rating for graphic nudity
Director Nathan Fielder was apparently invited by Holmes to live in a guest room at her Calif. home.
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"the new policy creates a catch-22: investigators must demonstrate independence to successfully compete for larger trial funding, while the K award can no longer support the career development needed to demonstrate it" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com
On Becoming a Gold Standard Scientist
This Viewpoint discusses the recent National Institutes of Health announcement that its Career Development (K) awards cannot be used to conduct clinical trials, feasibility studies, or ancillary studi...
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Choice can provide an exit from a bad school; it isn’t a production function for creating a good one."
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JFC hitting home run pub after home run pub even while NSF just keeps kicking you repeatedly in the nuts
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now do Health Affairs gtfoh with that 12 point Courier New bullshhhttte
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👀👀👀 Tenure-Track Faculty (Open Rank) - R159104 The Ohio State University: College of Public Health: Division of Epidemiology apply.interfolio.com/193631
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"In the past, when Meyerowitz-Katz flagged a potentially fraudulent study to a journal, he rarely received a response from the authors. 'Now, every time I complain about a paper to a journal, I will receive a 5pg, in-depth rebuttal to my points, which Pangram says is almost entirely AI generated'" 😂
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Capitulations will run the gamut from substituting euphemisms for prohibited terms to fundamental changes in orientation whereby researchers turn away from defunded areas such as climate change, vaccines, and cancer." 1/2
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Then there’s the curious case of Nicholas Polson. The University of Chicago statistician has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers and as many as 14 books released this year..." www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
washingtonpost.com
Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“It’s probably a good idea to have the same person shepherd you through the application process, and then also manage the money if you get the grant. But I think if those are two separate people, personally, I don’t think that that’s a catastrophe.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
thecrimson.com
Physics Faculty Lose Bid to Preserve Grant Administrator’s Role Under FAS Restructuring | The Harvard Crimson
Physics faculty waged an unsuccessful campaign last month to preserve the job functions of the administrator overseeing the department’s roughly $150 million research portfolio, and are now racing to ...
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
👀 www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
forbes.com
Phil And Penny Knight Donate $1 Billion To The University Of Oregon
Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny have donated $1 billion to the University of Oregon — its largest gift ever — to establish an engineering school in Eugene.
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
wtf is this shhhtte and why is it showing up in my feed
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hrm what could go wrong
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The reason I serve [on review panels] is that the act of reviewing the proposed work of peers defines what kind of system we would like to build and transform. The system is imperfect, but it has at its core something non-negotiable - the involvement of independent scientists as essential..."
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cool cool
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 21/09/2026
You have to hand it to the Times. When it comes to local stuff they are just so good at trolling 90 percent of their own readers while making the other 10 percent happy. I like to imagine that the Real Estate people and the Vows people have a scoreboard, like Legolas and Gimli in Lord of the Rings.
AFFORDING NEW YORK
How a Risk Associate Lives on $110,000 in
Lenox Hill
While his mother helped him buy a co-op in Manhattan, Sean de Ganon, 26, has also benefited from learning financial literacy at a young age.
By DAVAUGHNIA WILSON
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is why academics who are trying to shift opinion and influence policy are always trying to publish op-eds in the NYT and not the Des Moines Register or the Wichita Eagle right? 🥸
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lol gtfoh www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
nejm.org
The End of the War on Biomedical Science? | NEJM
The turmoil of the past 20 months has inflicted lasting damage on American science and public health. But history and recent events suggest that the attacks will subside.
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Question is, who is leaking this stuff: JB or RV?
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