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Emily Moin

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Intensivist, ethicist, epidemiologist, math enthusiast. Es könnte auch anders sein. (I call them tweets and they're my own)

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · Apr 20

“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
– George Eliot

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 56m

Just a throwaway line! But he's the inventor of Tru Blood

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1h

I mean, "alive"

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1h

lol I forgot that canonically in the True Blood universe Louis Pasteur is still alive and doing science in the 21st century

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1h

It's a big tent, and we're in it now with David Brooks and Bill Kristol.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2h

Yeah, this seems like an issue of confounding by indication that is nearly impossible to solve (and certainly not possible to solve by adjusting for Gagne comorbidity score, age, sex, etc like the authors did). I have no doubt that hospice patients who require benzos and/or APs die sooner...

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2h

Yeah, that is extremely strange.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2h

One more thing about working with large data in R, RStudio is notoriously memory inefficient, so if you have an R script that works for your purposes to generate the filtered/small dataset, just execute it from the command line and save the output to disk.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2h

This feels like more of a Table 2

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2h

For pre-processing a shell script would probably be the best approach however be cautious if you're unfamiliar because ChatGPT has provided me with shell scripts on more than one occasion that would have wreaked serious havoc on my computer.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2h

It is 100% correct that R is not the tool for this, but also 15 million rows is not thaaaat much and depending on your system RAM you should be able to do this in data.table. I routinely use data.table for datasets about that size because I refuse to use Python for statistics.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 7h

Wow, mazel tov!

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 11h

Mr President Sir without NHANES the US will lose the trade war and become a net importer of observational studies

Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t begin to tell you how much research, policy, and programming revolve around the use of NHANES data. Again, you think these lay offs don’t affect you? Think again- money gets allocated based, in part, on what these data show. This is stunning

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

A journal that I won’t name check because I have no self respect and still hope to publish in it someday sat on a timely (current events related) paper of mine for months, requested very minor revisions, and then rejected it.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

Pure hopium

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

After spending the past ten years getting stochastically terrorized with cyber attacks, large health systems are hanging "kick me" signs on their backs because of their fear of being left behind by a tech revolution they don't understand.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

There's a lot going on in this article, and this is far from the most important criticism, but if I were a health system I would simply not implement a tool where the expected workflow is for physicians to copy and paste their patients' charts into a browser window. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How Physicians Can Prepare for Generative AI

This Viewpoint discusses basic skills for using generative artificial intelligence (AI) and how to take an active role implementing AI into patient care.

jamanetwork.com

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

Oh...

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 2d

If it’s your birthday and you really want to

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

clean girl aesthetic (theme_classic())

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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 3d

Presented at #OTOMTG25:

Valayannopoulos and colleagues report the outcomes of treating 12 participants who had complete inherited deafness with gene therapy. Full CHORD phase 1–2 study results: nej.md/4o7ky8f  

#MedSky #Otolaryngology

AAO-HNSF 2025 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO

Original Article | OCT 12, 2025 | NEJM.org
DB-OTO Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness

Figure 3. Auditory Brain-Stem Response at Week 24.

NEJM identity sits at the bottom.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

I find this essay confusing because a huge amount of Taylor Swift's catalog is about being sad, not happy? Same with the other female artists she name checks for existing on "a higher plane of cute, breezy fun"? It's hard not to read this as internalized misogyny tbh.

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

Rewatching True Blood for spooky season

"No offense, Sookie,

but humans are shocking susceptible to just about

every form of thought manipulation."

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

What is hypotension, anyway, other than a blood pressure that we infer to be harmful to health based on its numeric lowness?

Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 3d

"[The] long-standing research focus on correcting hypotension may have diverted attention from investigation of many other factors—eg, bleeding risk, cardiovascular comorbidities, anesthetic drug dosing, surgical techniques—that may directly affect outcomes and also cause hypotension."

JAMA @jama.com · 3d

💬 Editorial: Personalized perioperative blood pressure management did not reduce organ injury or disability compared with standard MAP targets.

#ANES25 @asahq.bsky.social

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A page from JAMA, published online October 12, 2025, featuring an editorial titled "Perioperative Outcomes—The Limits of Blood Pressure-Centered Strategies" by Matthieu Legrand et al. The article discusses intraoperative hypotension.