Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia. I study causal inference, graphical models, machine learning, algorithmic (un)fairness, social + environmental determinants of health, etc. Opinions my own. http://www.dmalinsky.com
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Dan Malinsky@danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 4w agoNewly proposed rules from the federal government will irreparably damage US science: please express your dissent and post a comment before the OMB public comment period closes this Monday, July 13. Read about the endgame here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Russell Vought is working to advance a key part of his Project 2025 agenda by giving political appointees unprecedented authority over federal science funding decisions. Fight back by leaving your public comment by visiting this link: zurl.co/hdmlB Article: zurl.co/ijSUz
Trump administration proposal would all but end scientific merit in grant funding, critics say
Proposed in late May, the rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over federal grants for research, education and infrastructure.
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Newly proposed rules from the federal government will irreparably damage US science: please express your dissent and post a comment before the OMB public comment period closes this Monday, July 13. Read about the endgame here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel Malinsky
New Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cuts
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🚨 The deadline for our Call for Tutorials is approaching. Don't miss the chance to introduce the #UAI2026 community to your work and research field! 🧑🏫 ⏳ Submit your proposal by the end of April 30th (AoE) 👉 auai.org/uai2026/call...
New paper on algs for clinical decisions and disparities: www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.... led by my wonderful student Safiya Sirota (soon on the market) TLDR: making decisions based purely on risk scores is not just suboptimal but may have consequences for racial disparities in treatment rates
Health Equity Perspective on Data‐Driven Treatment Decisions in Cardiovascular Care: Risk Assessments Versus Individualized Treatment Rules | Journal of the American Heart Association
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🎉 We’re excited to announce the Keynote Speakers for #UAI2026 — three researchers shaping the future of causal learning, large-scale ML, and responsible AI. 👇
New Yorkers really believed, until now, that Penn Station could not possibly get any worse gothamist.com/news/is-nyc-...
White House pitches renaming Penn Station as Trump Station to unlock Gateway tunnel funding
Riders at the dreary rail hub said they just wanted to see transit improvements continue.
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Highly recommend reading the entire excerpt, linked below, from Peter Drucker's autobiography -- on some different rationalizations for collaborating with an evil regime
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is an excerpt from Peter Drucker’s autobiography that was featured in The Atlantic. Frankfurt university’s faculty had been gathered, the Jews were forbidden to enter, and a lead scientist asked about funding. Indeed, there was much for Nazi “science”. cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archiv...
Thanks for the re-post @gregggonsalves.bsky.social -- this is from a while ago but things are much much worse now, so still relevant, I think. This whole thread is recommended reading!
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 6mo agoIt's time to step up. It has been for a while. end/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune is on the scene: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
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Proposed* official UAI2026 conference taglines: "UAI2026: gotta be crazy to be certain about AI these days" "UAI: 2 uncertain 2 AI" "I went to UAI2026 and all I got was this lousy uncertainty" Vote for your fav or propose your own! www.auai.org/uai2026/ (*by me, under consideration by no one)
Dan Malinsky@danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 8mo agoExcited to be serving as Program co-Chair of UAI 2026 with Ema Perkovic! We are busy working on facilitating an excellent program. In my unbiased opinion UAI is an ideal venue at the intersection of stats & CS: good size, good science, good vibes. Please submit your work!
Excited to be serving as Program co-Chair of UAI 2026 with Ema Perkovic! We are busy working on facilitating an excellent program. In my unbiased opinion UAI is an ideal venue at the intersection of stats & CS: good size, good science, good vibes. Please submit your work!
uai2026@auai.org · 8mo agoReady to bike along the canals? 🚲 The 42nd Conference on Uncertainty in AI will be in Amsterdam, August 17-21! 🇳🇱 CfP is out 👉 auai.org/uai2026/call... 🚨 Feb 25: Paper submission 🗣️ Apr 23–May 2: rebuttal period 🎉💀 Jun 1: Author notification #UAI2026 #ML #stats #learning #reasoning #uncertainty #AI
Inspiring to see communities doing both the science and advocacy needed to protect their neighborhoods, as the federal government rolls back environmental regulations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... by @thaliajuarez.bsky.social
US Latinos mobilize to monitor – and improve – local air quality: ‘We have to fix it’
As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations
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A Letter From Detained Journalist Mario Guevara | ACLU
After 100 days in immigration detention, journalist Mario Guevara shares a handwritten letter describing the toll of separation from his family, his love for the U.S., and his determination to keep re...
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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 11mo agoIf you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.
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Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky
From the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism
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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 11mo agoExclusive: The White House is preparing a report laying out alleged shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs data, five weeks after President Trump fired the chief of the agency
In case you want to take a break from ~everything else going on~ to read a lil bit about causal mediation analysis, sample selection bias, and disparities in liver transplantation decisions... here's a new paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01969
Mediation Analysis in the Presence of Sample Selection Bias with an Application to Disparities in Liver Transplantation Listing
The study of disparities in the liver transplantation process may focus on quantifying causal effects, particularly the average, direct, or indirect effects of various social determinants of health on...
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I wrote something about statistics under authoritarianism
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 11mo agoWhy Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky
This paper I contributed to may be of interest to both public health folks and philosophers of science — we outline a view of how to understand and operationalize “intrinsic health” as distinct from “no disease” (ffo of words like “emergence” and “operationalize”)
Science of Health at Columbia University@cusciofhealth.bsky.social · last yr.Complex systems theory meets evolutionary biology in our new paper on 'intrinsic health.' We propose a first-principles approach to understanding health as an emergent property with measurable dynamics. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Zohran's victory is a glimmer of light in a very dark time <3
Join the AAUP and your dues go to support lawsuits like these against the Trump admin!
AAUP@aaup.org · last yr.NEW: Judge William Young rejected the Trump administration's motion to dismiss in AAUP v. Rubio, our lawsuit challenging the admin's policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. 🧵 1/3
A powerful piece by Daniel Malinsky on why scientists must resist Trump’s authoritarian agenda: “In these times … scientists have a duty to dissent.” We completely agree. Ready to act? Join the #SummerFightForScience now (1/2)➡️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky
The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
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I wrote something to say that scientists cannot afford to be 'apolitical' Scientists actually have the skills and the duty to join in the fight against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky
The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
theguardian.com
My NIH-funded friends: please take 1min to post a public comment opposing this awful policy change that would expedite political interference in federal science funding www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Jon Freeman@freemanjb.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
OpenAI's "most powerful system" makes shit up more than half of the time. For its "o4-mini" model, the rate is ***79 percent***
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
Decades of research that American taxpayers have invested in is being imperiled at universities like mine. Our paper wrote about some of the projects affected www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...
Columbia faculty (700+ signatures!) urges our Trustees to do 6 things: 1. Stand up for higher ed 2. Fight back against federal attacks (sue!) 3. Protect our students 4. Preserve academic freedom & fac governance 5. Affirm tenants of DEI 6. Protect research & provide backup funding shorturl.at/6OLTJ
To Columbia’s trustees: Protect the future of higher education
Even before coming to power this year, President Donald Trump’s administration made its plans for targeting American higher education abundantly clear. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Ci...
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Columbia faculty (700+ signatures!) urges our Trustees to do 6 things: 1. Stand up for higher ed 2. Fight back against federal attacks (sue!) 3. Protect our students 4. Preserve academic freedom & fac governance 5. Affirm tenants of DEI 6. Protect research & provide backup funding shorturl.at/6OLTJ
To Columbia’s trustees: Protect the future of higher education
Even before coming to power this year, President Donald Trump’s administration made its plans for targeting American higher education abundantly clear. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Ci...
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