Dan Malinsky

Dan Malinsky

@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia. I study causal inference, graphical models, machine learning, algorithmic (un)fairness, social + environmental determinants of health, etc. Opinions my own. http://www.dmalinsky.com

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Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Today is the last day to submit public comment!

Dan Malinsky@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Newly proposed rules from the federal government will irreparably damage US science: please express your dissent and post a comment before the OMB public comment period closes this Monday, July 13. Read about the endgame here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comIs the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel MalinskyNew Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cuts

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Stand Up for Science!
@standupforscience.net

Russell Vought is working to advance a key part of his Project 2025 agenda by giving political appointees unprecedented authority over federal science funding decisions. Fight back by leaving your public comment by visiting this link: zurl.co/hdmlB Article: zurl.co/ijSUz

zurl.coTrump administration proposal would all but end scientific merit in grant funding, critics sayProposed in late May, the rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over federal grants for research, education and infrastructure.
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Newly proposed rules from the federal government will irreparably damage US science: please express your dissent and post a comment before the OMB public comment period closes this Monday, July 13. Read about the endgame here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comIs the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel MalinskyNew Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cuts

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uai2026
@auai.org

🚨 The deadline for our Call for Tutorials is approaching. Don't miss the chance to introduce the #UAI2026 community to your work and research field! 🧑‍🏫 ⏳ Submit your proposal by the end of April 30th (AoE) 👉 auai.org/uai2026/call...

Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

New paper on algs for clinical decisions and disparities: www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.... led by my wonderful student Safiya Sirota (soon on the market) TLDR: making decisions based purely on risk scores is not just suboptimal but may have consequences for racial disparities in treatment rates

ahajournals.orgHealth Equity Perspective on Data‐Driven Treatment Decisions in Cardiovascular Care: Risk Assessments Versus Individualized Treatment Rules | Journal of the American Heart Association

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uai2026
@auai.org

🎉 We’re excited to announce the Keynote Speakers for #UAI2026 — three researchers shaping the future of causal learning, large-scale ML, and responsible AI. 👇

Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Highly recommend reading the entire excerpt, linked below, from Peter Drucker's autobiography -- on some different rationalizations for collaborating with an evil regime

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social

This is an excerpt from Peter Drucker’s autobiography that was featured in The Atlantic. Frankfurt university’s faculty had been gathered, the Jews were forbidden to enter, and a lead scientist asked about funding. Indeed, there was much for Nazi “science”. cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archiv...

Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Thanks for the re-post @gregggonsalves.bsky.social -- this is from a while ago but things are much much worse now, so still relevant, I think. This whole thread is recommended reading!

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social

It's time to step up. It has been for a while. end/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comNow is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel MalinskyThe administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Proposed* official UAI2026 conference taglines: "UAI2026: gotta be crazy to be certain about AI these days" "UAI: 2 uncertain 2 AI" "I went to UAI2026 and all I got was this lousy uncertainty" Vote for your fav or propose your own! www.auai.org/uai2026/ (*by me, under consideration by no one)

Dan Malinsky@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Excited to be serving as Program co-Chair of UAI 2026 with Ema Perkovic! We are busy working on facilitating an excellent program. In my unbiased opinion UAI is an ideal venue at the intersection of stats & CS: good size, good science, good vibes. Please submit your work!

Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Excited to be serving as Program co-Chair of UAI 2026 with Ema Perkovic! We are busy working on facilitating an excellent program. In my unbiased opinion UAI is an ideal venue at the intersection of stats & CS: good size, good science, good vibes. Please submit your work!

uai2026@auai.org

Ready to bike along the canals? 🚲 The 42nd Conference on Uncertainty in AI will be in Amsterdam, August 17-21! 🇳🇱 CfP is out 👉 auai.org/uai2026/call... 🚨 Feb 25: Paper submission 🗣️ Apr 23–May 2: rebuttal period 🎉💀 Jun 1: Author notification #UAI2026 #ML #stats #learning #reasoning #uncertainty #AI

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Aaron Bady
@zunguzungu.bsky.social

www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...

aclu.orgA Letter From Detained Journalist Mario Guevara | ACLUAfter 100 days in immigration detention, journalist Mario Guevara shares a handwritten letter describing the toll of separation from his family, his love for the U.S., and his determination to keep re...
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comWhy Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel MalinskyFrom the firing of the labor statistics chief to plans for a new census, the president’s moves serve to entrench authoritarianism
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com

Exclusive: The White House is preparing a report laying out alleged shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs data, five weeks after President Trump fired the chief of the agency

on.wsj.comWhite House Prepares Report Critical of Statistics AgencyThe assessment would follow President Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

In case you want to take a break from ~everything else going on~ to read a lil bit about causal mediation analysis, sample selection bias, and disparities in liver transplantation decisions... here's a new paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01969

arxiv.orgMediation Analysis in the Presence of Sample Selection Bias with an Application to Disparities in Liver Transplantation ListingThe study of disparities in the liver transplantation process may focus on quantifying causal effects, particularly the average, direct, or indirect effects of various social determinants of health on...
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

This paper I contributed to may be of interest to both public health folks and philosophers of science — we outline a view of how to understand and operationalize “intrinsic health” as distinct from “no disease” (ffo of words like “emergence” and “operationalize”)

Science of Health at Columbia University@cusciofhealth.bsky.social

Complex systems theory meets evolutionary biology in our new paper on 'intrinsic health.' We propose a first-principles approach to understanding health as an emergent property with measurable dynamics. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Join the AAUP and your dues go to support lawsuits like these against the Trump admin!

AAUP@aaup.org

NEW: Judge William Young rejected the Trump administration's motion to dismiss in AAUP v. Rubio, our lawsuit challenging the admin's policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. 🧵 1/3

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Stand Up for Science!
@standupforscience.net

A powerful piece by Daniel Malinsky on why scientists must resist Trump’s authoritarian agenda: “In these times … scientists have a duty to dissent.” We completely agree. Ready to act? Join the #SummerFightForScience now (1/2)➡️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comNow is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel MalinskyThe administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

I wrote something to say that scientists cannot afford to be 'apolitical' Scientists actually have the skills and the duty to join in the fight against authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comNow is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel MalinskyThe administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

My NIH-funded friends: please take 1min to post a public comment opposing this awful policy change that would expedite political interference in federal science funding www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Jon Freeman@freemanjb.bsky.social

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Noah Shachtman
@noahshachtman.bsky.social

OpenAI's "most powerful system" makes shit up more than half of the time. For its "o4-mini" model, the rate is ***79 percent***

The New York Times@nytimes.com

The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.

nytimes.comA.I. Hallucinations Are Getting Worse, Even as New Systems Become More PowerfulA new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.

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Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Columbia faculty (700+ signatures!) urges our Trustees to do 6 things: 1. Stand up for higher ed 2. Fight back against federal attacks (sue!) 3. Protect our students 4. Preserve academic freedom & fac governance 5. Affirm tenants of DEI 6. Protect research & provide backup funding shorturl.at/6OLTJ

shorturl.atTo Columbia’s trustees: Protect the future of higher educationEven before coming to power this year, President Donald Trump’s administration made its plans for targeting American higher education abundantly clear. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Ci...
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Columbia faculty (700+ signatures!) urges our Trustees to do 6 things: 1. Stand up for higher ed 2. Fight back against federal attacks (sue!) 3. Protect our students 4. Preserve academic freedom & fac governance 5. Affirm tenants of DEI 6. Protect research & provide backup funding shorturl.at/6OLTJ

shorturl.atTo Columbia’s trustees: Protect the future of higher educationEven before coming to power this year, President Donald Trump’s administration made its plans for targeting American higher education abundantly clear. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Ci...
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Spoke to an excellent intl student who was accepted to PhD programs in the US and is choosing to instead attend a program abroad due to fear and uncertainty re: the visa cancellations... Such a loss for the US :(

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AAUP
@aaup.org

MONDAY in NYC: Stand with Columbia faculty, researchers, physicians, & nurses calling on the the Columbia Board of Trustees to resist Trump’s assault students, patients, lifesaving research, & teaching. @aaupcu.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @csmapnyu.org

CUIMC Stands Up@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social

Join us on Monday as we call on Columbia and the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump administration's assault on our students, research, teaching and patients! 📍Low Library Steps ⏰ 12:30pm Monday April 14

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Elizabeth N. Saunders
@profsaunders.bsky.social

Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

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CUIMC Stands Up
@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social

Over 200 CUIMC medical, public health, and nursing researchers, clinical, support staff, and students took a stand in Haven Plaza Thursday March 27th. Standing up to Protect our Research, Protect our Students, Defend Science, Academic freedom and voicing the need for Columbia to Fight Back!!!

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AAUP
@aaup.org

RIGHT NOW: Columbia Irving Medical Center researchers are speaking out on how the Trump admin cuts to research funding will cause harm to millions of families in the US and worldwide.

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AAUP
@aaup.org

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

nytimes.comColumbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are StrippedThe administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

An important statement by 2000+ Jewish colleagues:

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

2000+ Jewish professors, staff, and students circulating a letter on Trump-Vance's arrest of Mahmoud Khalil: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action
@jfrejnyc.bsky.social

This evening, Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis came together to demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. We will not be silent about this outrageous assault on free speech. We will not be silent in the face of an authoritarian takeover. #FreeMahmoud

Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Looking forward to this! Say hi if you're in Atlanta.

Aaron Roth@aaroth.bsky.social

Alex Tolbert is running a stellar conference next week at Emory that I am bummed to be missing out on. The speaker lineup is especially remarkable- spanning theoretical computer science to machine learning to law to philosophy. You should go and enjoy it for me. 39893947.hs-sites.com/aiethicsconf...

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Joseph Howley
@illdottore.bsky.social

“Protecting our university from Trump’s cruel agenda means resisting his instrumentalization of antisemitism” – a new op-ed from some Jewish colleagues at Columbia www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

columbiaspectator.comProtecting our university from Trump’s cruel agenda means resisting his instrumentalization of antisemitismIn the days since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the federal government declared war on our University’s very purpose. It nearly<a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pause-federal-g...
Dan Malinsky
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social

Potentially an actually beneficial use-case of AI* in the clinic *Supervised learning w/ CNN, not gen-AI

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

thelancet.comScreening performance and characteristics of breast cancer detected in the Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence trial (MASAI): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, non-inferiority, ...The findings suggest that AI contributes to the early detection of clinically relevant breast cancer and reduces screen-reading workload without increasing false positives.