But seriously hallway track was great. I met some great people working on diagnostics, midwifery, menstrual health, and data ethics. FemTech community >>> tech bro events (duh). The only bro energy was from a female founder who shook my hand hard enough to snap bone. Iconic.

HN discussion is live: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596...

Lots of interesting angles here (stats, ML, screening, safety). Would love feedback or critiques if you have time to skim.

What? No. There are hugely successful population-wide screening programs for rare diseases (e.g., HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C in pregnancy). Programs of this structure can net benefit society when uncertainty and secondary screening harms can be minimized. wildetruth.substack.com/p/links-0831

(Weeps quietly while FedEx's AI hangs up on me after a long, failed attempt to get a basic question answered.)

Psychologists are also definitely guilty of confusing change with treatment response, which is why I wrote about it here:

www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...

Yes, well. In the current climate, it has strong Bermuda Triangle vibes. Ships, planes, postdocs disappear in the Triangle. Jammed radios and half-finished R scripts litter the shores. The tide brings in preprints and grant proposals strangled in plastic trash. Even the seagulls go hungry...

The measles vaccine is safe and effective. A booster can increase your immunity even if you were vaxxed already. And it may also offer non-specific effects on immunity that are net positive against other infections, to boot. See, e.g., wildetruth.substack.com/p/book-revie...

Generally speaking, men with high social standing who violate basic norms of decency with their own women and children don't go around saying so, so that you know to discount it when they pronounce they're great dads.

Arguably the first and most important use of language: getting others to do things.

(Conveying factual information, on the other hand: not universally acquired and unstable without training.)

Congratulations!!! :)