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Jamie Collins

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Biostatistician, SAS-lover, R-learner, outcomes researcher, she/her. Biostatistician at Brigham and Women's/OrACORe https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/125364

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The first few beautiful spring days are such a JOY!!! ☀️☀️☀️hope all went well with the prodding… 😅

10.03.2026 00:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

08.03.2026 18:37 👍 5553 🔁 1963 💬 126 📌 82

people on the streets (of BOSTON!) were SMILING at eachother today!! SMILING! 🌞🌞🌞

09.03.2026 23:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cutting cancer and obesity research isn't how you make America healthy, in case you were wondering

09.03.2026 19:59 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

08.03.2026 02:12 👍 17808 🔁 4801 💬 618 📌 250

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.

07.03.2026 00:36 👍 95 🔁 69 💬 15 📌 15
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success.

Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

07.03.2026 01:59 👍 682 🔁 417 💬 19 📌 60

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

07.03.2026 01:32 👍 6419 🔁 1873 💬 121 📌 61

Thank you for posting about this!! Please keep fighting, this cruelty and disregard for human life must be called out and must be stopped! Abolish ICE!

06.03.2026 00:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Horrified by the death of our Massachusetts neighbor Emmanuel Damas in ICE custody. He was denied medical care for months.

I’m sending his family my deepest condolences. A family who has been robbed of their brother & son.

Emmanuel is at least the tenth person to die in ICE custody this year.

05.03.2026 15:02 👍 177 🔁 71 💬 8 📌 2
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Trump may have ordered a deadly military strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran because the Pentagon was using an out-of-date map.

At least 175 people, including dozens of young girls between seven and 12, were killed Saturday in an attack on a southern town miles from Tehran. trib.al/1BhX9NO

02.03.2026 16:02 👍 381 🔁 256 💬 26 📌 50

I definitely was sorry that I forgot my gloves, but 20 mins in the sunshine at lunchtime did wonders!

02.03.2026 20:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A great example of how we got here, “journalists” who value access above all else. Congratulations.

01.03.2026 16:46 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Tell Congress: No War with Iran Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. This reckless escalation is putting U.S. servicemembers, Ameri...

Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power.

Tell your Members of Congress to put an immediate stop to this war.

28.02.2026 12:55 👍 1853 🔁 740 💬 70 📌 31

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

28.02.2026 22:41 👍 3247 🔁 786 💬 32 📌 19

he is not serious about stopping insider trading in Congress. why would you even start with that premise?!

26.02.2026 20:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

wow, I am just working on this now for a july submission. thank you for sharing and saving me a huge headache!

26.02.2026 19:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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White House to pause $259M in Minnesota Medicaid dollars in fraud crackdown It’s the latest in a growing list of fraud-focused threats and probes from the Trump administration.

This is about political retribution.

Trump is weaponizing the federal government to punish states like Minnesota that didn’t vote for him — ripping away funds from pregnant women, seniors, and people with disabilities.

You don’t fight “fraud” by hurting the most vulnerable.

26.02.2026 17:57 👍 1049 🔁 319 💬 60 📌 18
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Cam morphology and the development of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome and hip osteoarthritis - Nature Reviews Rheumatology Cam morphology can cause intra-articular joint damage and lead to femoroacetabular impingement syndrome and eventually hip osteoarthritis. This Review explores the development and effect of cam morpho...

✨March Issue✨| Cam morphology and the development of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome and hip osteoarthritis

This Review discusses cam morphology and its links to femoroacetabular impingement syndrome and hip osteoarthritis.

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26.02.2026 10:37 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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30.01.2026 20:42 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 1

Co-pilot in outlook keeps offering coach to re-write my emails for me for some reason, but no longer auto corrects when I type a lowercase "i" instead of uppercase or autocorrects obvious typos. wonderful innovation here.

25.02.2026 00:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

24.02.2026 21:40 👍 3227 🔁 1105 💬 32 📌 15

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

24.02.2026 16:04 👍 3760 🔁 853 💬 54 📌 50

working with data from a study where every numeric field was programmed in the database as character free text - height, weight, age, range of motion, strength testing results, etc.... "but WHY does it take you so long to analyze the data? don't you just click a button?!"😅😅

23.02.2026 16:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All of my condo neighbors on tropical vacations and my husband at work today = lots of shoveling for me! ❄️❄️❄️After a long battle with a nasty cold/flu it will be my first workout in weeks... wish me luck😅

23.02.2026 15:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

shorts in the snow = congratulations you are an honorary New Englander!!!

23.02.2026 15:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

22.02.2026 23:01 👍 18517 🔁 6558 💬 431 📌 174

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

21.02.2026 13:44 👍 4815 🔁 1341 💬 117 📌 54

I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office.

ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.

We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.

19.02.2026 17:07 👍 2936 🔁 1123 💬 211 📌 100

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

19.02.2026 15:58 👍 6460 🔁 1901 💬 146 📌 47