Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives. www.nber.org/papers/w33357

The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails

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EC 2025 will be held at Stanford from July 7-12. Itai Ashlagi and I are the chairs. The abstract deadline is February 3, and the paper deadline is February 10. The scope is inclusive of many topics across CS, economics, and operations research. Submit your best work!

Attn Tuxedo Cat People of Bluesky There is a new Lego that looks like all of our cats! 🤩 @sarahgollust.bsky.social @dmaanderson.bsky.social

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

tl;dr Healthcare access disparities cascade through the entire ML pipeline. Check out our working paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.07712

Join me virtually next month for the International Biometric Society Distinguished Lecture on January 30! “Ethical AI is More than Loss Functions" www.biometricsociety.org/education/dls

Our study, the first post-implementation evaluation of the removal of race adjustment from the eGFR equation, is discussed in this Nature feature www.nature.com/articles/d41... We found no change in nephrology referrals & visits Our paper, led by Marika Cusick proceedings.mlr.press/v248/cusick2...

Making kidney tests work for everyone

The United States has moved to deracialize kidney diagnostics. The move addresses major health-equity issues — but it also shines a light on a problematic clinical test.

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Was a pre-med junior when a faculty member sent me a flyer about a new program called the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics Had never heard of 'biostatistics' as a field; sounded like exactly what I wanted to do Was accepted into the program, ultimately led to a PhD in biostatistics

Dan Quintana@dsquintana.bsky.social · 2y ago

What's the moment of luck that's had the biggest impact for your academic career? For me, it was how I wouldn't have gotten a PhD fellowship if it wasn't for the 1st-ranked person declining, which meant that I was awarded the fellowship as 2nd-ranked applicant. That was my last shot at a PhD.

I mean...it feels like this is true, but this is not correct 😆

Hello everyone! I teach a class for graduate students on methods for reproducible research. 🔧 🔢 I would interested to hear about the barriers you face in implementing reproducible practices in your research (e.g., version control, code review, reproducible documents).

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Ok #FAccT folks - I'm still looking around for people. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/EQF5Ne1

definitely misread this as "causal mediterranean"

Our Post-PhD Health Data Science Careers Panel is this Thursday at 11AM Pacific! Hear from folks at Google, Mathematica, and J&J in careers focused on population health and health policy. Virtual and open to all who register: healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/events/post-...

Sherri Rose@sherrirose.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us virtually for a Post-PhD Health Data Science Careers Panel focused on population health and health policy! Panelists: Irina Degtiar, @mathematicanow.bsky.social Jack Ching, Google Ben Ackerman, J&J November 21 @ 11AM Pacific Registration: healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/events/post-...

I made one for stats papers

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2y ago

I made one of these for behaviour genetics back in the day.

Couldn't find a machine learning for health starter pack so I made one.  DM/Reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/PJKJ8vK

I made a starter pack for health policy statistics! 📈🔢

quote a favorite film using a gif only

a man says " the line must be drawn here "

Alt: Captain Picard says, "The line must be drawn here. This far. No further." From the movie Star Trek: First Contact.

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Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Excited to share that our paper "Self-Calibrating Conformal Prediction" with Ahmed Alaa is accepted at #NeurIPS2024! 🚀 We combine model calibration and prediction intervals by integrating Venn-Abers into conformal prediction. #conformal #calibration arxiv.org/pdf/2402.07307

👋 In Tokyo this academic year, on sabbatical at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. In town and interested in causal ML? Would love to grab coffee and chat.

Academics being asked if they want to write a book

a woman is making a funny face while looking at the camera .

Alt: Woman is making various faces in the gif that range from displeasure, to maybe, to no. Known as the “kombucha girl meme” the woman is comedian Brittany Broski.

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First post! I'm recruiting PhD students this PhD admission cycle who want to work on: a) impactful ML methods for healthcare 🤖, b) computational methods to improve health equity ⚖️, or c) AI for women's health or climate health 🤰🌎 Apply via UC Berkeley CPH or EECS (AI-H) 🌉. irenechen.net/join-lab/

@amstatnews.bsky.social HPSS conference #ICHPS2025 is two months away. I'm teaching a workshop, and so is @statstas.bsky.social! The keynote is @sherrirose.bsky.social who will discuss "Ethical Use of AI: Standards, Rigor, and Reality." Register so you don't miss these fantastic topics. #rstats

I didn't appreciate how much of being an academic is a bajillion microdecisions and fending off requests for hour-long chunks of my scarce time for "brain picking" or "brainstorming"

I have somehow accidentally(?) joined another academic committee

a bald man is wearing a red sweater with a star trek logo on it

Alt: Captain Picard face palm reaction gif

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Making Halloween candy purchase decisions based on last year's candy data, as one does...

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I volunteered to potentially host & organize an event. My 75-year old academic colleague, who is awesome: "I love it that you are down for this as the young people say."