Alexander Tsai, MD

just fall on your sword

We got like a foot and a half of snow two weeks ago and today it's 75 degrees

And next week it'll be back down to 32 degrees

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That would be great but lol good luck mapping Boston streets 😵‍💫

Sick burn
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Exclusive | National Bureau of Economic Research Cuts Ties With Larry Summers The former Treasury secretary and Harvard president is no longer affiliated with America’s leading economics organization.

Holy shhhtte
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"'I was a nerdy kid in the nineteen-eighties. I recognize these tactics from the folks I knew growing up who valued humiliation.' He mentioned Biff Tannen, the bully in the 'Back to the Future' movies. 'That fucking guy is running the country right now.'"

My kid is saying things like "I want to see a medium shower" (I want to see a meteor shower) and "I've got peas in my river" (I've got peace like a river) and I refuse to correct them-- what do I call them? malapropisms? eggcorns, mondegreens?-- because they are so stinkin' cute

Time to send applications to NHLBI

Immigration, Innovation, and Growth (March 2026) - We propose a novel identification strategy to isolate exogenous immigration shocks across US counties, by interacting quasi-random variations in the composition of ancestry across count...

Immigration causes an increase in per capita patenting activity (primarily by _native_ inventors), per capita wages (including wages of _natives_), and productivity--with _positive_ spillovers for nearby counties.

CC: Trump, Miller, etc
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New in SSM-Mental Health, by @albeccia.bsky.social, @scott-delaney.bsky.social, @noamross.net et al.: Congressional district mapping of the NIH/NSF/SAMHSA mental health/substance use grant terminations from early 2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Demography desk rejected us after 9 months 🖕🖕🖕🖕

Say it was late '06, early '07 and amidst all the heady excitement we found out Obama had a Totenkopf. Okay okay, I can see people twisting themselves into pretzels to justify it. But Platner? What is it about this guy that makes people try ***so hard*** to look past the Nazi stuff?

Exclusive | FDA’s Controversial Vaccines Chief Will Leave the Agency Dr. Vinay Prasad will depart in April, after a year leading the division that approves vaccines and biotech drugs.

I hear Jay is available for the job
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Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful In what appears to be a first in the country, legislation headed to the desk of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) would prohibit public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capit...

Oh so NOW the Republicans worry about state sponsored mind control
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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

"The exercise in question required ships not to carry any ammunition. Normally, the Dena carries various missiles and guns, including anti-ship missiles. Because the U.S. also took part, it would have been aware that the Dena was unarmed. "
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Midnight Run

Remember the good ol' days of unlimited resubmissions?
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I think of it as "5 most relevant" and "5 for peacocking, even if not relevant". Not sure if that is the right way to do it.

And then in the "contributions" text, refer to other pubs manually (eg "Tsai et al, J Rheumatol 2026"). Also not sure if that is okay. So far no admin rejections...

State Dept needs to first figure out who they voted for before agreeing to help evacuate

Wish y'all mfkas had figured this out sooner

So good

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

So much winning
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"Published in Support of Self" (PISS)" 😂

Dinner with Lisa!