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Tim Feeney

@tfeend.bsky.social
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Scientist, Physician, Husband, Dad, Editor @bmj.com, Nerd/Geek since before it was trendy. Epi/Biostat, Causal Inference, Epistemology. #episky thefeeney.netlify.app fediscience.org/@tfeend

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
hahahahahahah this is so funny
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
i never found anyone as aggressive with yearly birthday wishes as my dentists.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
just a deep sadness. i love this museum.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 📅Aug 31, 1854 John Snow --- Cholera outbreak in London leads to John Snow's famous dot-map graphic of those who died
Portrait of John Snow with his dot map of cholera deaths in the background
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Chandelier of stomachs
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
100000% this.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
an absolutely psychotic defense.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
\overbar{L} usually denotes a history of values. recently i was introduced to \underbar{L} which was defined as future values of L, but i really dislike this notation. at the very least it should be flipped. complexity without aiding description imo
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
speed without compromise! well, maybe just a little compromise.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Exercise some empathy people!
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Agree. The betting market surge is a scourge and completely emblematic of our times.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I thought this was @statsepi.bsky.social finally seeing the essay of grievances against the highly disadvantaged professor from harvard but this is a whole new dumpster fire.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
happy 9th anniversary to this unintentional bit of improv comedy
tweet of mine from july 4, 2017:
The MAGAs saw this and were outraged that
@NPR was tweeting shade at Trump. It wasn't. It was tweeting the Declaration of Independence.

quoted tweet from NPR:
A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Birthright citizenship is pretty clear. No one should ever listen to anything the justices that voted against have to say.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What is most galling about this is just how cheap it is to buy off these politicians.
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 24/06/2026
I've gone this far without learning what sunk-cost fallacy is, so I'm not starting now.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Anyone out there use a Boox e-reader and Zotero to read papers? if so hit me up, im curious about your experience #episky #medsky #academicsky
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is a fun thread
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Broken eggs cannot be mended. To try to do so, to try to return to some notion of normality is to court failure. Worse, it is to play a repeat of the last ... administration when, in pursuit of the familiar, ... all but passed the baton back to reactionaries working toward something revolutionary."
nytimes.com
Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-lysenko-...
sciencebasedmedicine.org
The Lysenko-ization of federal science takes a big step forward
From the beginning, Trump science policy has been Lysenko 2.0, in which ideology, not scientific promise and rigor, dictates federal grantmaking. OMB Director Russell Vought's proposed rules de-emphas
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I agree with this. Saying “having them somewhere” means it would be ok in the supplement and that is wrong imo. I would instead increase the size of the methods section and move the discussion to the supplement.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Some day in the not too distant future journals will just publish titles of papers, no details, everything in supplement.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Sad news. I met and had the opportunity to have dinner with Richard once and it was a fantastic time. I was looking forward to meeting up with him again in the future. RIP.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Fascism is not to be debated, it is to be smashed
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Aggie @aggiebobaggie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The European Union also has our friends covered. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/all-topics
ecdc.europa.eu
Related public health topics
Alphabetical list of infectious diseases, which links to overview pages with all related content.
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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 canada.ca/en/public-he...
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
how do people look at what Mamdani is doing and not think "I want a leader like that for me?"
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
the future belongs to countries that can think past the next quarter, always has
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
its official MD --> MD, PhD
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Biden's presidency and the aftermath we're living through should be enough to destroy the "let's the turn page, let's look forward, let's move on" mantra that has animated centrist Democrats for decades now. Accountability matters. There has to be a reckoning.
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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I don’t think the White House Correspondents Association Dinner is a ritual that defines democracy
Rockwell dude speaking up
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
All the bombs in the history of the world going off couldn't recreate the shock and awe of watching humans go around the moon *exactly* as planned.
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
a vote for velociraptor is actually a vote for deinonychus which jurrasic park mixed up for dramatic effect. deinonychus discovered by john ostrom kickstarted the birds as dinosaurs understanding too. clearly the best one. trex also cool af. ty
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
theverge.com
Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
maybe this is a bit much, but i judge schools by how good their library access to journals is.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a helmet with the words " this is the way " behind him
ALT: a man in a helmet with the words " this is the way " behind him
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
100% on board with this plan
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Pausal Zivference @pausalz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A new pre-print, led by one of the many students I am lucky to work with. It describes an extension of g-computation for studying causal effects on recurrent events (eg, hypertension) where there are competing events (eg, death) arxiv.org/abs/2603.10169
arxiv.org
Novel g-computation algorithms for time-varying actions with recurrent and semi-competing events
Background: A core aspect of epidemiology is determining the impacts of potential public health interventions over time. With long follow-up periods, epidemiologists may need to consider semi-competin...
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I hate what we're doing in Venezuela I hate what we're doing in Iran I hate what we're doing in America I cannot wait until the people in this regime are gone
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
turns out these are not what you might expect.
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Watching hegseth describe all the military assets the us has destroyed. It’s so so dumb. He is listing them off but …to what end, what is the point? Is this what he thinks makes him a tough guy? It’s like a HS student bragging about beating up a weak grade school student .
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
WTF is even the point of this? Dudes in power just like killing whales?
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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
one of the rep candidates in nc is running on a platform of supporting masculinity, but i thought getting support was emasculating. very confusing indeed
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