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There are a lot of things I could say about this article, but in the interest of fairness, the authors at least aren’t wrong about the need to use the

There’s a new paper circulating today about “risk factors” for COVID19 which is getting misinterpreted in a pretty common way: applying conclusions about causation to results obtained via methods designed

Roughly 1 in every 2000 people in America has died of COVID, about 1 in 50 people have had a positive COVID test, and even more people may have been

I hear there’s drama with #causaltwitter creating an accidental dude party, so here’s a thread of some of the women of causal inference you should know about (epidemiology & stats

THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST: evaluating the President’s treatment regimen./ I’ve had lots of requests to speak about the medical treatments Trump is receiving, what it means that he’s getting them,

Flu vaccination experts, I have a question for you: There seems to be a trade-off between individual & community flu protection: waiting till Nov might be better for me, but

I want to talk about an important new study on racial disparities in infant survival, from @RRHDr & colleagues.The tl;dr: Black infants in the US are less likely to die

My dentist’s first question to me, knowing I’m an epidemiologist, was “when will this all be over”. Was super unsatisfying for us both for me to have to answer, “whenever

THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST: why are COVID deaths *still* not going up 3 weeks after case counts started increasing? There are many possible explanations, but one I haven’t seen mentioned

Are you a junior researcher, incoming grad student, or just starting out with research this summer? Here are some tips for creating your online presence as a scholar that maybe

The results of my #tweetorial poll were pretty clear: from over 350 votes, 38% of you want to know about causal survival analysis. So, pull up a chair and let’s

Today’s #tweetorial—positivity for #causalinference: what it is and why it matters. First, what it’s not: the type of positivity Im going to talk about is not a positive mental attitude!