Yiran Wang

Diagrams illustrating knowledge domains in computer science and public health, a self-auditing process across the data life cycle, and differences in key notions of equity, including data, learning/information, and decision equity.

Special Communication: This proposed framework recommends embedding equity concepts—including fairness, transparency, and representativeness—throughout study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and translation.

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Just presented some early work on our ongoing project "Bayesian Mediation Analysis with Latent Exposure Mixtures" at #JSM2025!

#BayesianStatistics #CausalInference #EnvironmentalHealth #Biostatistics #PublicHealth #EarlyCareerResearch

Excited to share that my PhD research paper "Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures" has just been published in Epidemiology!
👉https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2025/05000/plant_capture_methods_for_estimating_homeless.5.aspx

Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?

Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

That had to have been one of our geese right? 🇨🇦💪

Learning from uncertainty by embracing it | Samuel Wong | TEDxUW YouTube video by TEDx Talks

Check out Samuel's TED talk on uncertainty!

One of the most important posts of the week!

Registration is now open for BAYESM 2025!

Are you

👩🏽‍🎓 an undergrad student
📈 interested in #datascience & #stats
⚕️ with applications in biomedical research?

We’ve a funded summer program led by Drs. @vmminin.bsky.social, Gillen, Shahbaba, & me.

📅 Apps due: Mar 14
🇺🇸 US citizenship or perm residency req
🔗 www.stat.uci.edu/isi-buds/

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

This week, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of two federal court orders.

On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

For those curious about the purpose of “indirects,” I suggest this FAQ from AAU (thread to follow).

In the lingo of Musk et al - BLOF = this hurts economies, employment, science, & health. 🧵

www.aau.edu/key-issues/f...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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Ron Wasserstein on LinkedIn: Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage Without explanation, the U.S. Census Bureau's website (census.gov) was taken offline for two hours on January 31, 2025, raising serious concerns about access…

www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa...

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...

Thank you @ron-wasserstein.bsky.social, executive director of the ASA @amstatnews.bsky.social for taking a stand against data tampering by the US government

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

We are all hard at work in our own ways right now, trying to protect health for all.

One person doing great work is my dear friend @jeremyfaust.bsky.social - please consider subscribing to his newsletter Inside Medicine.

Information is power. 🛟🧪🩺

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.

I think that @amstatnews.bsky.social should say something about such an open data manipulation at large scale - what government data can we now trust?

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

🚀 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥

Looking for my first PhD student

🔬 Project: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥, 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 & 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨-𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡

Joint with LSHTM & UKHSA

See links below.

📅 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 7 March 2024

📩 Questions? DM me!

#PhD #HealthEquity #ImperialCollege

Happy Spring Festival!

Photo of MLK with quote, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

As we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today, we reflect on his legacy of advancing equity, dismantling systemic injustice, and serving those in need.

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Outstanding resource

#vaccineswork

🚨 Re-upping this Postdoc at Yale! 🚨

It is a great time to be at YSPH:

1️⃣ We're a newly-independent school

2️⃣ W/ a fantastic new dean @meganranney.bsky.social

3️⃣ The school is doing impactful work in many areas

This is a great place to finish the work you've started and launch new collaborations!

Postdoc, doctoral student, and summer intern positions, Bayesian methods, Aalto
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Big Data Summer Immersion at Yale YouTube video by Yale School of Public Health

Big data is transforming public health and society like never before! This summer, we are launching the Big Data Summer Immersion at Yale (BDSY), an interdisciplinary training, research, and professional development program in biostatistics.

Apply now at sph.yale.edu/bdsy.

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Racism against Chinese during an invited talk by an MIT professor at NeurIPS in Vancouver. That's what happened.

I put it in my Rprofile file with the cowsay package. Now I have an animal giving me a stats quote every time I open R🤩

I put it in my Rprofile file with the cowsay package. Now I have an animal giving me a stats quote every time I open R🤩

Output from: library(statquotes) statquote() statquote() search_quotes("truth")

Wordcloud of statquotes words

Looking for a good #stats #quote for a paper or just want some inspiration for today?

The #rstats {statquotes} pkg is here to help.
🔗https://friendly.github.io/statquotes/

APPLY NOW for a CANSSI Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship!
#statistics #biostatistics #actuarialscience #datascience

✅ 2 years
✅ $70,000+/year
✅ Comprehensive statistics-focused research & training

Get the details:
canssi.ca/program/dist...

I'm seeking a postdoc to work with me and @kenholstein.bsky.social on evaluating AI/ML decision support for human experts:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/10/p...

P.S. I'll be at NeurIPS Thurs-Mon. Happy to talk about this position or related mutual interests!

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