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Alex Everhart
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Instructor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, health economist studying development and adoption of medical technology.

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So I sorta thought that risk-sharing in MA might have the sauce since they have a lot more options to restrict networks and just manage care more tightly. Guess not.
"Discussion In this retrospective cohort study of risk-based contracts in Medicare Advantage, we examined whether health care use differentially changed following health care organizations’ voluntary adoption of risk-based contracts, compared with trends in comparison organizations with stable contracts. Adoption of risk-based contracts was not consistently associated with subsequent changes in health care use. Findings were mixed and largely null across the 9 utilization measures and 26 low-value care measures examined, although large confidence intervals were noted. Upside-only risk contract adoption was associated with subsequent reductions in ED visits and cardiovascular stress testing. These results are consistent with the possibility of upside-only risk contracts shaping some utilization patterns in a valuable way.20 However, we did not observe similar changes for related measures (ie, advanced imaging or low-value cardiovascular testing and procedures), or for organizations adopting 2-sided risk contracts. We observed reductions in ED utilization for a subgroup of health care organizations adopting 2-sided risk contracts in later years; however, these findings did not follow the anticipated pattern of greater changes emerging with a longer duration of risk contracts."
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Uhhh, very rude to completely call out my 2025 reading list like that
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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"Privately funded basic biomedical R&D is only viable when the market for it is good, and we didn't know it was going to be bad." - one of the people most likely to be able to tell whether the market was going to be good or not
“There are a lot of efforts today to look at the inefficiencies in the overall biotech ecosystem,” Schreiber said. “In retrospect, I would say that if you want to test the new model, you should do so in a period of time when biotech venture investing is at least on a level playing field with the other options that investors have.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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WashU chancellor basically says, "We're still taking calls from the Trump administration, but we're not going to sign the proposed Compact."
Response to Faculty Senate Council October 21, 2025 Dear Faculty Senate Council Colleagues, Thank you for your statement. I deeply appreciate your partnership in our community and your careful consideration of the issues that face our institution and higher education more broadly. I want to respond to the two action items that the statement raises. First, I confirm that the university is not “seeking preferential treatment by our federal government in exchange for compliance with one political ideology.” Indeed, my statement yesterday said that “this decision was not made to advantage ourselves or gain any type of preferential benefit” for any reason, and we stand by that. Second, I also can confirm that we won’t sign the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education offered to us for feedback, or any document that undermines our mission or our core values, perhaps highest among these our commitment to academic freedom, access, free expression, and research integrity. We have chosen to participate in this conversation because we have been invited and with the intention of promoting our mission, values, and independence by having our voice at the table for these potentially consequential conversations. Again, I am grateful for your partnership and leadership and fully appreciate the critical role our faculty play in shaping our institution. The issues in front of us are complex and extremely challenging, and I ask for your trust that we are acting in the best interest of our university and higher education. We will continue to keep you informed as there are key developments. I look forward to seeing you again tomorrow and meeting with the Faculty Senate on Thursday, and to additional conversation as we navigate these issues. Best, ADM
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Kinda wild how much econometric knowledge is use it or lose it. Like a year ago, I typed out this equation in Word and understood what all of the parameters meant. It wouldn't take me that long to remember everything, but there's definitely some initial shock seeing it.
Black font on white background with formula for de Chaisemartin and D'Haultfœuille differences in differences estimator. It includes six different summation signs.
October 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Even when you were a baby? I don't think so. Checkmate.

jk jk, ordered this shirt the other day and refer to it as my Will Stancil shirt
October 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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This is a joke website that just tells you to preprint your manuscript. Don't do what I did and bring it up in a meeting without testing it!
Bold black letters on white text with message you get when you put anything into formatmypaper.com: "Come on. You can just preprint your work."
October 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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One of the modestly reassuring parts of the NIH story is that there was a "correction" period where grants got out the door faster than usual this summer, to try to make up for prior delays. People that submitted to AHRQ never got that correction.
Graph depicting numbers of projects funded by the NIA from October through September, with 2025 in red and gray reference lines for years 2021 through 2024. Projects funded for 2025 began to lag in February as the White House budget office froze federal grants. But starting in July, projects were funded at an accelerated pace, faster than what was done in prior years. There is an expected gap of approximately 3,000 to 4,000 projects funded for 2025 compared to prior years.
September 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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it wasn't supposed to be like this
Screengrab from my Gmail. An email from Shake Shack with subject "We've updated our Terms of Use" and first sentence, "Hey there, We wanted to let you know that we've made a few changes to our Shake Shack Terms of Use."
September 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Preview image of a heather gray t-shirt with blue font, inexplicably set against a field of sunflowers. The t-shirt has an anthropomorphic cartoon dog in a sailor outfit giving a peace with the text, "TOTAL INFORMATION COLLAPSE & THE END IF ALL CONSENSUS REALITY" and smaller text with "THE DAMAGE CANNOT BE UNDONE" underneath.
September 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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This is so funny if you're not a microcelebrity on this site. I'm as good as, "Possibly the worst blotch on Sonic's record."
Screenshot of my score from Bluefacts.app. I have a score of 3.2. Screenshot of Metacritic page for Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for Wii U. It has a user score of 3.7 and a metascore of 32, just like me!
September 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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David Cutler popping off, my goodness

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Piece in JAMA Health Forum written by David Cutler entitled, "The Worst Piece of Health Care Legislation Ever"
August 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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what a nice little ray of positivity
"We've been having fun," [Team Cherry Co-Founder Ari] Gibson said. "This whole thing is just a vehicle for our creativity anyway. It's nice to make fun things."
August 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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oops
The area west of the lakes drew the most varied alternate definitions, ranging from spins on “Whole Foods” and “West Lake” to “Bde Maka Ska” and even “St. Louis Park.” Indeed, walk west from Bde Maka Ska and you’ll reach St. Louis Park in 10 minutes.
August 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I'm sorry, I was just doing a bit. I didn't think they would call me out.
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The area west of the lakes drew the most varied alternate definitions, ranging from spins on “Whole Foods” and “West Lake” to “Bde Maka Ska” and even “St. Louis Park.” Indeed, walk west from Bde Maka Ska and you’ll reach St. Louis Park in 10 minutes.
August 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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"post a screenshot of your first 5 steam purchases and let bluesky judge you

open the steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> view purchase history and scroll down"

Huh, I forgot what it was like to not having a gaming PC.
Aug 13, 2016: Rivals of Aether June 30, 2020: The Jackbox Party Pack 1, The Jackbox Party Pack 2, The Jackbox Party Pack 3, The Jackbox Party Pack 4, The Jackbox Party Pack 5 Oct 23, 2020: Among Us
August 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Andy from The Office Series Finale: "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good ol days before you've actually left them."
August 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I'm still on board here, but this got a real laugh out of me
Post from Daniel Kibblesmith with screenshot from I Think You Should Leave. Post says, "I don't know what changed, but this is what it feels like to use this website now." Screenshot says, "So we're at the Lions game--" "Like the animal... from the circus?" with Tim Robinson's big dumb face.
August 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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am I doing it right
July 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Lo and company hitting nonprofits with this bad boy:
Harold Pollack's original index card of nine rules for personal finance. Items 2 and 3 are "Buy inexpensive, well-diversified mutual funds such as Vanguard Target 20XX funds" and "Never buy or sell an individual security. The person on the other side of the table knows more than you do about this stuff."
July 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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This guy is in the pocket of Big STATA, can't be trusted. I'm going to keep doing pre-post lines without control groups in Excel, the way the universe intended.
"Conflict of interest. Both of us received free Stata licenses from StataCorp." I wish I could get a free STATA license, but I also don't want to write a 300+ page econometrics textbook.
June 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Big yikes.
June 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Work is daunting, but in other news, I've tried to make a real effort to actually meet people and make friends in St. Louis. So I started playing in a league for Rivals of Aether 2. And this season I got 7th in the rankings!
St. Louis Rivals of Aether 2 Season 1 PR. Background of image is a brick wall with graffiti, ranking list is taped onto the brick wall. Rankings are: 1. Timprater, Clairen main 2. Timtempor, Zetterburn main 3. Wk9, Loxodont main 4. Notched, Olympia main 5. Hylian, Clairen main 6. w0wells, Wrastor main 7. Advers_Event (me!), Fleet main 8. Luna_Gabs, Zetterburn main 9. Serenivita, Olympia main 10. Dingodial, Olympia main
May 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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WashU prepping everyone for some tough times ahead:
"Addressing our internal budget challenge is also a prerequisite to positioning ourselves to adapt to potential changes in federal policy. As you undoubtedly are aware, proposed federal actions in areas including research funding, healthcare finances, and changes to the taxation of university endowments have potentially serious implications for Washington University. Peer universities across the country are taking steps in anticipation of these potentially large reductions in federal support. Increasing numbers of our peers are freezing and/or reducing positions and discretionary spending, revisiting compensation programs, and considering various other cost-saving initiatives. At WashU, we must be prepared for these types of choices as well."
May 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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"Oh my god! That's disgusting. Where?" from Always Sunny in Philadelphia
May 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM