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...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 000
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.comProzac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trialOne small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say. 020
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 17hBruh Fk y’all for even thinking about it www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...washingtonpost.comMLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National ParkAfter The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition. 010
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." 040
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pipeline straight to MDPI/Hindawi/Dove Press/etc 020
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." 🤭 000
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026lolololooooool someone actually read my preprint! 1/ www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...npr.orgWhat's behind HHS claims that gender-affirming care 'may' radicalizeThe 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. 120
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Live your life in such a way that an event like this does not make its way into your obituary 020
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026All this shhhtte need to get reversed on day one 000
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." 000
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.comOn Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on ImmigrantsPreaching 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... 010
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026lolololol 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.comAI saves scientists seven hours a week, Google paper finds - Research Professional NewsBut study also highlights extra time spent verifying AI-generated results and push towards “safer” projects 030
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Now do authors vs editors 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...nytimes.comBattle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs HigherThe use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care. 000
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Only 37 unread emails I don't believe it not for one second 000
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When 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/ 130
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026was scanning through my feed quickly and all I saw was "chocolate foot job" 120
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I 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 010
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... 000
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I 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 140
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Good lord www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...sfgate.comElizabeth Holmes documentary gets an R rating for graphic nudityDirector Nathan Fielder was apparently invited by Holmes to live in a guest room at her Calif. home. 011
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.comOn Becoming a Gold Standard ScientistThis 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... 001
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." 040
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026JFC hitting home run pub after home run pub even while NSF just keeps kicking you repeatedly in the nuts 010
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Now do Health Affairs gtfoh with that 12 point Courier New bullshhhttte 030
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/193631apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 035
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'" 😂 000
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." 1/2 130
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.comUsing 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. 100
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.comPhysics Faculty Lose Bid to Preserve Grant Administrator’s Role Under FAS Restructuring | The Harvard CrimsonPhysics 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 ... 000
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026👀 www.forbes.com/sites/michae...forbes.comPhil And Penny Knight Donate $1 Billion To The University Of OregonNike 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. 161
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 23/09/2026wtf is this shhhtte and why is it showing up in my feed 000
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..." 052
Reposted by Alexander Tsai, MDKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 21/09/2026You 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. 2544244
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This 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? 🥸 030
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Lol gtfoh www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....nejm.orgThe End of the War on Biomedical Science? | NEJMThe 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. 271
Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Question is, who is leaking this stuff: JB or RV? 001