Emily Moin
@emilymoin.com
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
– George Eliot
What's your favorite song on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and why is it Poor Places?
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
What's your favorite song on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and why is it Poor Places?
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Between February and August 2025, 1 in 30 NIH-funded clinical trials lost grant funding, affecting over 74,000 participants, with disproportionate impact on prevention, infectious disease, and behavioral trials. ja.ma/4i4tSYx
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Between February and August 2025, 1 in 30 NIH-funded clinical trials lost grant funding, affecting over 74,000 participants, with disproportionate impact on prevention, infectious disease, and behavioral trials. ja.ma/4i4tSYx
Ladies and gentlemen, the Monday www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObOq...
That Funny Feeling -- Bo Burnham (from "Inside")
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November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the Monday www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObOq...
Great thread to see on the day I received a notice from the AMA begging for dues
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social the @ama-assn.org has caved to Trump. They invited known grifter Dr Mehmet Oz to give a speech, but, the AMA board/ John Whyte decided to censor all delegates in the following way.
1. Questions can be asked, but all must be vetted.
1. Questions can be asked, but all must be vetted.
November 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Great thread to see on the day I received a notice from the AMA begging for dues
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Oh yeah this is going great, everything is fine
November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Oh yeah this is going great, everything is fine
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very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math
TIL that Teen Vogue once published an essay about the Passy Muir valve! www.teenvogue.com/story/lost-a...
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
TIL that Teen Vogue once published an essay about the Passy Muir valve! www.teenvogue.com/story/lost-a...
Marjorie the Gathering
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Marjorie the Gathering
Instructions unclear, admitted to CUDA
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Instructions unclear, admitted to CUDA
I have to hand it to Fetterman's comms team I really would not have guessed that a US senator could have a cardiac arrest and successfully play it off as "a fall."
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I have to hand it to Fetterman's comms team I really would not have guessed that a US senator could have a cardiac arrest and successfully play it off as "a fall."
Currently preparing for Thanksgiving my bullying my older brother into learning how to play Goldfinger on the piano so we can recreate my favorite scene from Frasier www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfry...
Goldfinger Fraiser
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November 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Currently preparing for Thanksgiving my bullying my older brother into learning how to play Goldfinger on the piano so we can recreate my favorite scene from Frasier www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfry...
Doctor LLMs don't want you to know this one weird trick
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Doctor LLMs don't want you to know this one weird trick
When the editorial is 🔥
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
When the editorial is 🔥
I've never seen a dendrogram that deserved to exist
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I've never seen a dendrogram that deserved to exist
"I don't like taking medications"
Every internist knows this kind of guy and it's... stereotypically... not an attitude that is associated with being in good overall health.
Every internist knows this kind of guy and it's... stereotypically... not an attitude that is associated with being in good overall health.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"I don't like taking medications"
Every internist knows this kind of guy and it's... stereotypically... not an attitude that is associated with being in good overall health.
Every internist knows this kind of guy and it's... stereotypically... not an attitude that is associated with being in good overall health.
One Battle After Another was great!
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
One Battle After Another was great!
nothing good can happen, it can only bad happen
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
nothing good can happen, it can only bad happen
I fear that me teaching the secondary pulmonary lobule as resembling a Settlers of Catan board has become a dated cultural reference
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I fear that me teaching the secondary pulmonary lobule as resembling a Settlers of Catan board has become a dated cultural reference
"[Models] may be engineered to reduce bias more readily than human reviewers can control and disclose their own biases"
Citation needed?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Citation needed?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Artificial Intelligence in Peer Review
Like David Foster Wallace’s tale of 2 fish that don’t notice the water they’re swimming in because it’s all around them,1 the medical community has at times taken for granted peer review and its centr...
jamanetwork.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"[Models] may be engineered to reduce bias more readily than human reviewers can control and disclose their own biases"
Citation needed?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Citation needed?
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
smol bean agency forgot to do records retention as required by federal law 🥺👉🏻👈🏻
oh cool a lead-in modifier that presumes good faith — and gives the government the benefit of the doubt —exactly as prescribed in the famous book: how to do a good journalism
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
smol bean agency forgot to do records retention as required by federal law 🥺👉🏻👈🏻
"Then you lie to the computer about what's in the data to make it learn better because if it can see the actual data it doesn't learn as well"
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"Then you lie to the computer about what's in the data to make it learn better because if it can see the actual data it doesn't learn as well"
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Sometimes I see a pre-print and pray to the science communication gods that it isn’t reported in the news as though it is a peer reviewed study.
Sometimes I see a pre-print and can only pray that the peer review gods will bring it to me.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Sometimes I see a pre-print and pray to the science communication gods that it isn’t reported in the news as though it is a peer reviewed study.