when you love community but hate civilization

Basic tests for research reproducibility still aren't being met, even in our top journals. Some 15% of papers in even our best publications still contain code that doesn't run

For the past month, @asteriskmag.bsky.social has been working with a group of forecasters for a series on the mortality impacts of the Trump Administration's USAID cuts

5 forecasts, transparent and probabilistic, on PEPFAR, malaria, TB, nutrition, and WASH asteriskmag.substack.com/p/forecast-s...

Thrilled to announce that @asteriskmag.bsky.social and I will be hosting a conversation between Rob Long and Kati Devaney on where two tracks in consciousness research — AI and meditation — collide

If you're local to the Bay, would love to see you there!
www.eventbrite.com/e/where-huma...

the property

not pictured: when Anza met Pearl

I still think that social media and phones are doing bad things to our mental health, but I appreciate Claude's contrarian take on what's been happening in the past ten years with loneliness: housing is expensive, and it's hard to make friends when you live with mom and dad

this has been our mission from day one

It’s fine, even good, to fight about the Bay, as long as we all agree that - whether it’s the best or worst governed city, full of the best or worst people, so back or so over - beneath the bullshit it is one of the most fantastically beautiful places on earth and we’re lucky to be here