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Jared Huling

@jaredhuling.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota jaredhuling.org

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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope I'm not the only one who thinks the AP stuff has gone way too far. No one actually believes most of this stuff is genuinely at a college level. I don't see how it actually helps students except pad credit hours
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Congress was not a fan of the reports circulating this weekend that Vought is pushing for a commission to review all NIH grants www.statnews.com/2026/09/21/t...
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Members of Congress push back on plan to create a commission of political appointees to review NIH grants
Several members of Congress voiced strong opposition about a reported plan to create a panel of political appointees to sign off on NIH grants
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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 21/09/2026
At conf I saw so many humans sharing ideas, showing each other how to write and use new tools, new packages, new #RStats and #Python code. We may not be writing or reading code in the same way, but we're still out there building tools for each other, trying to solve big and important problems.
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The University is not here to teach you how to make a shiny, well-polished report. It’s to teach you how to think, how to learn, how to communicate...if you start relying on GenAI to replace the work of learning, or use it as a crutch, ... you’ll stop doing the hard work of learning."
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"In recent months, the success of AI in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines even outside mathematical circles. But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may..."
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Molly Offer-Westort @mollyow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I participated in a reading group of Asymptotic Statistics this summer (thanks @bobbygulotty.bsky.social!). The text is very dense and there is not a lot of hand-holding, so I used an AI assistant to write up notes informed by our discussions mollyow.github.io/bloomsday/
mollyow.github.io
Reading Companion for Asymptotic Statistics
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
okay this is very good! please read this
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I like bike racing and I like data. Each of the last 3 years I've raced the Gray Duck Grit gravel race, a favorite of mine. This year felt much harder than last year's edition, but the typical aggregate measures (normalized power/HR) were almost identical. What made this year's so much harder?
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Frog tied some string around the box. “There,” he said. “Now our manuscript is completed.” “But we can do lots more robustness checks,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I'm now at the point where I'm not even sure peer review is doing anything at all. I don't think people in our field understand how prevalent copy-pasting AI output into peer reviews is. It genuinely makes me question what we're all even trying to do anymore. Our field needs to decide what it values
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
entirely unsurprising, but still interesting to see quantitatively
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Alex Schieferdecker @alexschief.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I appreciate this video, not just because it's complimentary towards the work that we're doing in Minneapolis, but because it reflects the same sense that I have about our *momentum* towards building a better city. I think we've got something special here and I'm glad people are noticing.
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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Nice post from @eytan.adar.prof on the cargo cult science of "AI-native" PhD students, who come in super productive because they perform all major parts of research with genAI. No one needs all these quick papers, and they can really hurt students down the road. eytanadar.medium.com/ai-native-ph...
eytanadar.medium.com
AI-Native PhD Students
If you’re a student and just want the tl;dr, feel free to jump to the end.
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
cycling gives you more freedom to control your own schedule. it's also just so much more enjoyable than any alternative mode of transportation. and the more, the merrier!
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: Vanderbilt's board just launched a horrifying assault on academic freedom that threatens the legitimacy of their university. 1/x #AAUP #academicsky #edusky
insidehighered.com
Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom
A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Today I won the Minnesota Cat 4 State Cycling Road Race championship. A hot and hard day -- over 105F at points according to my Garmin device
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I'll never forget coming across this part of his book, it really left an impression on me. Teaching is not only such an important part of what we do as academics, but also truly does have benefits for our own work!
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Alan Grossfield @agrossfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Another important thread from @jeremymberg.bsky.social , this time on data showing nih programs to improve minority access to research careers worked.
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arxiv.stat.ME @arxiv-stat-me.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Martha Barnard, Jared D. Huling, Julian Wolfson Causal Inference for Functional Treatments with Stochastic Policies arxiv.org/abs/2606.27518
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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@natecohn.bsky.social (the author of this post) reached out to me for some help with it. Energy balancing is a weighting method (similar to entropy balancing) that balances the entire covariate distribution, not just the means. It's described here by @jaredhuling.bsky.social:
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I find this fascinating because my reaction to Dutch suburbs was how wonderful, sane, and livable they are in comparison to suburbs in the US
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Academic freedom assessment across the world. The US is on a steep decline, below >120 countries www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
With the latest update on CRAN, I've made additional changes to fastglm, including Firth bias correction for all standard GLMs. If you need to fit negative binomial models, try fastglm, as it's much more likely to converge than MASS::glm.nb(), see cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
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Negative Binomial Stability Benchmark: fastglm vs MASS
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“You were respectfully informed that distribution of materials [critical of the Trump administration] was not permitted and given the opportunity to remain in the meeting if you stopped handing out the materials. When you continued the behavior, we had no choice but to remove you from the meeting.”
nytimes.com
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is huge. You could have perfectly good cholesterol, do all the right things in terms of diet, exercise and sleep and yet still be at major risk of CVD due to high LP(a). Lots of promising therapies and we'll get to hear whether one of them works this year
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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Always found this type of trick very cute (I guess an instance of 'lifting?):
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I've made some big changes to the fastglm package with version 0.1.0 on cran: cran.r-project.org/package=fast... - updates that further improve speed - three new models for more complex outcome (neg binom, hurdle, zero infl) - First bias correction - big data support ** Details outlined below:
cran.r-project.org
fastglm: Fast and Stable Fitting of Generalized Linear Models using 'RcppEigen'
Fits generalized linear models efficiently using 'RcppEigen'. The iteratively reweighted least squares implementation utilizes the step-halving approach of Marschner (2011) &lt;<a href="https://doi.or...
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Canvas hack is "the biggest student data privacy disaster in history." For years critics have been warning about the centralization of EdTech. Well, millions of students being locked out is what happens when you do exactly that www.404media.co/the-biggest-...
404media.co
'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech
Messages could include "medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes, sexual assault allegations," and more.
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I've made some big changes to the fastglm package with version 0.1.0 on cran: cran.r-project.org/package=fast... - updates that further improve speed - three new models for more complex outcome (neg binom, hurdle, zero infl) - First bias correction - big data support ** Details outlined below:
cran.r-project.org
fastglm: Fast and Stable Fitting of Generalized Linear Models using 'RcppEigen'
Fits generalized linear models efficiently using 'RcppEigen'. The iteratively reweighted least squares implementation utilizes the step-halving approach of Marschner (2011) &lt;<a href="https://doi.or...
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 28/04/2026
Paris reduced the number of on-street parking spaces from 140,000 to 70,000 - that is how to enable people-centric neighbourhoods 👍
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I've now in the past two weeks received multiple paper reviews for papers I've submitted that were very obviously written by AI. As a field I think we need to re-assess the role of editors and associate editors in the review process
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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 23/04/2026
Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3
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mori: Shared memory for R objects
mori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere.
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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
#OTD 1878 Kirstine Smith b (d 11 Nov 1939) inventor of optimal designs; her 1918 PhD thesis at UCL described G-optimal designs for polynomial regression. Her work was virtually unnoticed for almost a half-century until its rediscovery by Jack Kiefer in 1959. 1/4 🧵
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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Although AI improves performance during assisted sessions, performance drops sharply once it's removed. And relative to controls, AI-assisted participants also gave up more frequently on test problems.
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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 27/03/2026
(2) If you have ideas related to the role of #statsky, #AI, #realworlddata, or #digitalhealth in policy, we’d love to see them! Please share with your networks. #hpsr #hspr @drjwolfson.bsky.social @jaredhuling.bsky.social @mboudreaux.bsky.social @amstatnews.bsky.social @enar-ibs.bsky.social
amstat.jotform.com
ICHPS 2027 Invited Proposal
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 27/03/2026
🧵(1) @rhubbbstat.bsky.social , @drjasonbrinkley.bsky.social , @lizstuart.bsky.social , @sherrirose.bsky.social , @lucystats.bsky.social , @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social , and I remind you that #hpss is accepting invited session and workshop proposals for #ICHPS2027 by March 31!
ICHPS 2027, Jan 13-15, 2027. Annapolis, MD
Evidence-Based Policy in Action: Statistics, AI, and Digital Health in Practice
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I almost had a heart attack reading this
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The most relieving 6 words that you can ever read in an email:
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas
@aandeloucas.com:

In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University:

Nine majors "sunsetting":
• Classical civilization
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
• Digital humanities
• Fine arts
• German
• Latino-Latin American studies
• Middle Eastern studies
• Modern Jewish studies
• Russian
ALTThe First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy
Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education.
The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin).
Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership.
By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Stories of Grace and what she accomplished have always been deeply inspiring to me!
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Interesting paper, especially interesting it's coming from researchers at Anthropic arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
How AI Impacts Skill Formation
Judy Hanwen Shen∗ Alex Tamkin†
February 3, 2026
Abstract
AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for
novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise
AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise
their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers
gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of AI.
We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without
delivering significant efficiency gains on average. Participants who fully delegated coding tasks showed
some productivity improvements, but at the cost of learning the library. We identify six distinct AI
interaction patterns, three of which involve cognitive engagement and preserve learning outcomes even
when participants receive AI assistance. Our findings suggest that AI-enhanced productivity is not a
shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill
formation – particularly in safety-critical domains.
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Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ok, how about this happens at the Minneapolis Orchestra Hall, instead?
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I've never been more proud to call Minneapolis my home
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open Letter to Minnesota Law CommunityJanuary 25
January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoin...
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Excited for the polar vortex!
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I've never been more proud to call Minneapolis my home
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