Reposted by John KubaleAmy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026CDC is reporting one US measles death in 2026, but won't say when or where. Pennsylvania clearly reports that four people have died with measles in their state. The obstruction of public health data serves no one (except for an administration hellbent on saving face). 011735
Reposted by John KubaleBrady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The University of Michigan National Survey Panel (M-Panel) is now openly accepting questionnaire content from researchers. Would you like to ask questions to a national probability-based panel of adults in the U.S., with an oversample from Michigan? Tap below! mpanel.isr.umich.edu/for-research...mpanel.isr.umich.eduFor Researchers | M-Panel: National Survey PanelFor Researchers – M-Panel: National Survey Panel 12118
Reposted by John KubaleCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities. 152092441
Reposted by John KubaleD. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is an incomplete understanding of academic freedom, and partly confuses academic freedom with freedom of speech. (🧵 adapting some things from this paper, esp. §5: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28499/. Highly recommend the papers by Dea and Kronfeldner that I cite there!)philsci-archive.pitt.edu 412141
Reposted by John KubaleDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This is the nut graf here to me. The MLB needs to be fierce and put on a full-court press here, and they almost certainly won't, which means it will be open season on a sports league which relies on Latin American players to make billions. 221705409
Reposted by John KubaleDr. Meredith Wills ⚾️⚾️👀 @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Fuck. MLB, the Padres, and the MLBPA better put this on blast. No excuses. 317061
Reposted by John Kubalepublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026this is so fucking offensive 311824
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026New preprint from @ajmillion.bsky.social, myself, and fantastic recent UM undergrad Ashvin Narayan (they're on the job market!) exploring the prevalence and persistence of data implicated in retracted papers.doi.orgOSF 030
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This makes me so happy. Abbas is one of the most intelligent, kind, funny, and just all-around decent people I‘ve ever been fortunate to know. 000
Reposted by John KubaleHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/07/2026This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”wxyz.comNeighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their livesOne Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives. 331865954
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Fun to start the day with @vincentab.bsky.social and refreshing my knowledge of {marginaleffects}! 060
Reposted by John KubaleEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comIdaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America. 222781888
Reposted by John KubaleAlex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This is why I won’t read your Substack, people. 42476917
Reposted by John KubaleDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Societies rightly spend a lot of money on regulating drug trials. Allowing large scale betting on these trial outcomes just creates incentives to distort findings. This should be immediately legislated out of existence. 1218680
Reposted by John Kubalepublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026emily oster is one of the main conduits mainstreaming rfk jr.’s fake science. she’s laundering it for wealthy white liberals. unfortunately a lot of them like it, including the times, which has a contract with her 😬 521938
Reposted by John KubaleAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026there is infinite money for weapons, non-educator vice chancellors of nothingness, and tech-grift corporate welfare but zero money for teachers, libraries, tuition 111002348
Reposted by John KubaleBradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.inquirer.comFanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addictionTerry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' All-Star first baseman. 12947831210
Reposted by John KubaleGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/07/2026Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact. 3624921183
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 08/07/2026New article in the Conversation on what continues to be done to CDC data and what it means for public health.theconversation.comFrom maternal health to influenza rates, gaps in CDC’s public health data are creating dangerous blind spots for disease tracking and preventionBy interfering with how communities collect data and how researchers access it, the CDC risks undermining the hard-won trust needed for effective public health. 143
Reposted by John KubaleRob Calver @robcalver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I am giving away a free copy of the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al!! Please like, repost, and follow to enter. I will randomly draw the winner next Weds July 8. 😀 routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian 36947
Reposted by John KubaleLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts 196133306755
Reposted by John KubaleHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 17/06/2026NEW: Researchers & data advocates @apduorg.bsky.social, @copafs.bsky.social, @icpsr.bsky.social, @popassocamerica.bsky.social call for the Trump admin to rescind a ban on “noise infusion” as a way to protect people’s privacy in Census Bureau statistics or allow for public input before data changescopafs.orgAPC, APDU, COPAFS, ICPSR, and PAA Statement on Commerce’s Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products – Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics 12518
Reposted by John KubaleAPDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026"This order subverts processes developed over decades to foster transparency and public trust and creates a scenario in which there will either be less privacy for our personal information, or less usable data, or both." Read the full joint statement: apdu.org/joint-statem... 033
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I think many of us thought this was likely to happen, but it’s still awful to hear. Hard to think of many faster ways to torch institutional credibility. I really feel for the UCSF students, faculty, and staff whose good work may be undermined by this. 1263
Reposted by John KubaleSamantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I’m not sure people realize how huge this problem is. During Trump 1.0, ~5,000 kids were separated from parents at the border. During Trump 2.0, the Brookings Institution estimates *145,000* US citizen kids have been separated, mostly in the country's interior www.brookings.edu/articles/how... 5/x 9563302
Reposted by John KubaleMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/06/2026For all the talk of genocide elsewhere, this is going to end up as the largest scale mass killing event in modern history. A crime against humanity & the rule of law of almost unimaginable proportions for which Musk must be marched in chains to the courthouse & then to jail for the rest of his life. 581909648
Reposted by John KubaleBrady West @bradytwest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This is just unreal. Read the summary if you get a chance…and do everything in your power to prevent this from becoming reality. 🙄😑 051
Reposted by John KubaleMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The Trump admin is bragging about starving children. Don't take my word from it, hear it from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/05/food... 42860334
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 22/05/2026So happy to see @bradytwest.bsky.social get this recognition. I am incredibly fortunate to count him as a mentor and a colleague. 1132
Reposted by John KubaleACLU @aclu.org · 20/05/2026BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students. 15630261181
Reposted by John KubaleICPSR @icpsr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026🍕 Fresh data, delivered! ICPSR is serving up new & updated data to fuel your next research project. Check out this week’s specials at myumi.ch/ICPSR-new-releases #ICPSRdata #ResearchData #DiscoverData #NewDataReleases #DataUpdate 131
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 19/05/2026@publichealthguy1.bsky.social what is the name of that subscription search engine you've mentioned really liking?techcrunch.comGoogle Search as you know it is over | TechCrunchGoogle is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t... 010
Reposted by John KubaleParis Marx @parismarx.com · 14/05/2026incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people 91618620
Reposted by John Kubalemaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!! 463001724
John Kubale @johnkubale.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Really nice talk from @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social today on problems with "associational" language. Such a nice job highlighting some logical inconsistencies that are inherent to using associational language and a great discussion of what researchers can/should do instead. 272
Reposted by John KubaleMo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Over the weekend the university president published a statement apologizing for the faculty commencement speaker's remarks. Every line of Derek Peterson's reply is worth a read: 333295
Reposted by John KubaleAmy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Doctors & researchers close to UCSF are circulating a petition to block Vinay Prasad's return to the university. They cite: -suppression of scientific findings -allegations of abuse -harmful rhetoric attacking public health -conflicts of interest form.jotform.com/260836126659...form.jotform.comOPEN PETITION TO UCSF LEADERSHIPPlease click the link to complete this form. 224390
Reposted by John KubaleKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this 1139911043
Reposted by John KubaleShobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 23/04/2026Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.yousofazizi.comFree Yousof Azizi 191575851
Reposted by John KubaleDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2026Tell me, when you drop bombs on giant crowds of peaceful protestors, are you the good guys? 331313380
Reposted by John KubaleCarlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 06/04/2026And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)quarto.orgWhat’s next: Quarto 2 – QuartoWe’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust. 1019254
Reposted by John KubaleInstitute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan @umisr.bsky.social · 26/03/2026ISR is launching a new phase of statistical consulting modeled on CSCAR @ the University of Michigan, expanding access to data analysis and research support across campus. Led by ISR researchers @bradytwest.bsky.social and @sungheelee.bsky.social, the program supports innovation across disciplines 11311
Reposted by John KubaleNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Tremendous commentary here as well. This is what I assume Russian dashcam videos are saying in Russian. 172042352
Reposted by John KubaleMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 22/11/2024nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish 204110923890