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'Darted to the win': Saints petty jab at Jaxson Dart leads NFL Week 5 trolls https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46501465/nfl-week-5-trolls

'South Park' Trolls Donald Trump's DHS Ahead Of ICE Barbie Episode: "Wait, So We ARE Relevant?"
https://deadline.com/2025/08/south-park-trolls-donald-trump-dhs-ice-barbie-1236479471/

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/health/drug-trials-ethics-ozempic.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p70#a251004p70

Debiasing Machine Learning Predictions for Causal Inference Without Additional Ground Truth Data: "One Map, Many Trials" in Satellite-Driven Poverty Analysis
Markus Pettersson, Connor T. Jerzak, Adel Daoud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01341

Debiasing Machine Learning Predictions for Causal Inference Without Additional Ground Truth Data: "One Map, Many Trials" in Satellite-Driven Poverty Analysis
Machine learning models trained on Earth observation data, such as satellite imagery, have demonstrated significant promise in predicting household-level wealth indices, enabling the creation of high-resolution wealth maps that can be leveraged across multiple causal trials. However, because standard training objectives prioritize overall predictive accuracy, these predictions inherently suffer from shrinkage toward the mean, leading to attenuated estimates of causal treatment effects and limit…

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Temporal Exposure Dependence Bias in Vaccine Efficacy Trials
Hiroyasu Ando, A. James O'Malley, Akihiro Nishi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03476 https://a…

Temporal Exposure Dependence Bias in Vaccine Efficacy Trials
Using time-to-event methods such as Cox proportional hazards models, it is well established that unmeasured heterogeneity in exposure or infection risk can lead to downward bias in point estimates of the per-contact vaccine efficacy (VE) in infectious disease trials. In this study, we explore an unreported source of bias-arising from temporally correlated exposure status-that is typically unmeasured and overlooked in standard analyses. Although this form of bias can plausibly affect a wide rang…

Semi-Dirac spin liquids and frustrated quantum magnetism on the trellis lattice
Sourin Chatterjee, Atanu Maity, Janik Potten, Tobias M\"uller, Andreas Feuerpfeil, Ronny Thomale, Karlo Penc, Harald O. Jeschke, Rhine Samajdar, Yasir Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02663

Semi-Dirac spin liquids and frustrated quantum magnetism on the trellis lattice
Geometrical frustration in quantum magnets provides a fertile setting for unconventional phases of matter, including quantum spin liquids (QSLs). The trellis lattice, with its complex site arrangements and edge-sharing triangular motifs, presents a promising platform for such physics. In this work, we undertake a comprehensive classification of all fully symmetric QSLs on the trellis lattice using the projective symmetry group approach within the Abrikosov fermion representation. We find 7 U(1)…

Let’s be crystal clear about what this law actually accomplishes: It makes it harder for adults to access perfectly legal (and often helpful) information and services. It forces people to create detailed trails of their online activit…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About
Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

Sample size calculations for multilevel factorial longitudinal cluster randomised trials
Rhys Bowden, Jessica Kasza, Andrew Forbes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01610 https://

Sample size calculations for multilevel factorial longitudinal cluster randomised trials
Typically, trials investigate the impact of either an individual-level intervention on participant outcomes, or the impact of a cluster-level intervention on participant outcomes. Factorial designs consider two (or more) treatments for each of two (or more) different factors. In factorial trial designs, trial units (individuals or clusters) are each randomised to a level of each of the treatments; these designs allow assessment of the interactions between different interventions. Recently, ther…

A Comparative Evaluation of Statistical Methods in Hybrid Controlled Trials
Di Ran, Fanni Zhang, Sima Shahsavari, Kristine Broglio, Alasdair Henderson, Binbing Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01052

A Comparative Evaluation of Statistical Methods in Hybrid Controlled Trials
Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are widely considered the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of new treatments or interventions in drug development. Still, they may not be feasible in certain cases, such as with rare diseases where randomization to a control group is ethically challenging. In such scenarios, external data can complement either a single-arm trial or a hybrid-controlled trial. The hybrid-control design involves enrolling fewer concurrent control patients and then su…