Jon Huang

Hi #EpiSky! I work on theory, stat, & molecular methods of intergenerational, life course, & family health equity (repro/perinatal/peds) I care about raising & supporting folks who do & care in non-Western/indigenous ways: community, lineage, environment (vs atomistic, ahistorical, self-centered).🙏🏽

Here, I think you dropped this:

What are the chances this guy was angry about NIH rejections during his first academic job...? www.science.org/content/arti...

What she said youtube.com/shorts/v0hh9...

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

And boys should get them, too 🤙🏽

What are we doing 😑 "Your Data. Your Choice."

As recently as last month, the Alt National Park Service was amplifying election misinformation. For god's sake, don't trust them. They're just click farmers.

It should go without saying, but having genital police doesn't make girls safer.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

My students found out about Tyler VdW recently (from TikTok no less). If cautions against unrealistic assumptions won't dissuade them from causal mediation analyses, this surely will.

🥳 A good day for announcements—thrilled to share that our NIEHS R21 was funded! We'll study how prenatal PFAS exposure affects placental imprinting and neurodevelopment. This was the first NIH grant I wrote; so grateful to my mentors/collaborators @arjunbhattac.bsky.social & @jonhuang.bsky.social!

Excited to see this out in EHP. Led by talented postdoc/data scientist @seantbres.bsky.social in my group @mdanderson.bsky.social . Great collaboration with co-senior author @jonhuang.bsky.social and researchers at SDSU, A*STAR, and NUS Medicine: pubs.acs.org/evhpaz/artic...

Just handled a paper with hallmarks of LLM: Vapid rhetorical flourishes. Non sequiturs. Credit to the authors, they clearly disclosed it. Listen, non-native English speakers: I get the appeal. But these models are writing things you didn't intend & if you can't strongly edit, it's not serving you.

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

Wow good for her.

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Right. That's why my white Nissan Leaf keeps getting charged when a Nissan Xterra with the same plate number (but different state) is parking. The poor customer support is tired of hearing from me. Bad AI isn't destroying the world, loser executives who insist on using them absolutely are.

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

whether or not it stayed in the headlines, ICE's on-the-ground presence “shocked the whole system” (in one advocate's words), changing life for Maine communities. many immigrants have been effectively sheltering in place since Jan, relying on grocery drop-offs and volunteers to take kids to school.

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Saying it again: the destruction of the service academies as actual universities is a very importany piece of the Trump administration's undermining of both higher ed and the civilian-military constitutional order. thehill.com/policy/defen...

> Capitalist elites hate workers and despise worker expertise. [I] have decades of experience, sitting in rooms with (mostly) men who [...] hated that a wage servant possessed technical expertise they needed, but were too lazy, arrogant or stupid to grasp. — @cloudquistador.eurosky.social

I think that most college professors have gone through something like this at some point. Craig's response was the right one, I believe.

Today in class I saw, again, a student just on their phone scrolling through videos. I have a no phone policy in class. This happens every day. I teach college. Honestly, I didn't know what to do. I stood there shaking in confusion for a while until I started talking again.

These people watched Jurassic Park and thought, "See, the problem was that their complex system failure could only eat one person at a time. How inefficient."

don't fear ai. feat what powerful and incompetent men (it's always almost men) do with ai www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

Is everyone else getting human verification screens when they just open a normal journal article url? Not downloading the pdf, just clicking to the article from a TOC email say? I feel like this is new this year, and probably reflects what @carlbergstrom.com is talking about here.

Boomers continuing to find new ways to destroy our future

Public health researchers might only know how to use logistic regression, but at least that means they'll never use MANOVA

They want these rules/policies/culture because they want to normalize policing girls and women. No women are safe when female-ness must be inspected, regulated, and adjudicated by the state.

This "going rogue" framing is nonsense. These are still just text analysis models. It's openAI that is "going rogue" by giving a computer program complete autonomy to make decisions without human oversight. That's a danger whether it's a fancy new LLM or an old-fashioned SQL database.

A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.

No matter how much they try, conservatives can't deliever on their male breadwinner economy. New post. Industries that already employ women are growing faster, indeed they are the only thing growing overall and still the majority effect since November. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/why-are-wo...

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

Easy. Just switch to price per litre like the rest of the world.

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NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

NIH can't scrape together enough reviewers or study sections and they're simultaneously making reviews jump through more hoops. Realtime retraining for experienced reviewer. No more zip downloads of all apps. I regret agreeing to a Nov section because it's not just more work, it's more busywork.

People are being charged in Singapore for flying kites with the names of children killed in Gaza. A link to an IG post, where most things are shared these days: www.instagram.com/p/Dc79r34o8b...

Oh good, because the DoD doesn't have... [checks notes] enough...money...?