Kevin Griffith @AssumeNormality Twitter profile

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Fostering these 3 in Nashville until they find a good home @KFFCats ! Simba & Toothless (kittens) Lobo (2 y/o) Kittens were trapped from a feral litter, Lobo was abandoned outside when previous owner moved

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Kevin Griffith

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2 years

Absolutely wild: An Ohio city paid $800K to wipe out ~ $200M of medical debt for its 268,508 residents.

Colin Flanagan

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2 years

Last night, Toledo City Council approved $800,000 to purchase the medical debt of Toledoans, creating roughly $160-240 million in debt relief. This is what it looks like when your government works for you. Toledo is leading the way!

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This is the cockiest hospital I've ever seen

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Faculty achievement unlocked - I have become the bottleneck on all of my projects

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That's an average $750 of debt for every man, woman, and child eliminated at a cost of less than $3/person Can we get ballot initiatives going to copy this in other cities??

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@mikekofoed

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Kevin Griffith

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Moving in your 30s:

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Kevin Griffith

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An hour of illegal #Boston fireworks in 2 minutes

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Kevin Griffith

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Metaphor I heard recently - the Democrats are pointing at the rule book screaming "A dog isn't allowed to play basketball!" while a dog dunks on them over and over again and the crowd goes wild.

Eric Deggans at NPR

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I fear the biggest threat to America right now is the death of compromise; the sense among Democrats that the only way to beat a win at any cost strategy by a party with faithful allegiance from a sizable minority is to do the same.

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Kevin Griffith

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@Breaking911 @realDonaldTrump This hasn't aged well for @TuckerCarlson

Fox's Tucker Carlson: It's "Fascism" For Trump Protesters To Block Highways

From the March 20 edition of Fox & Friends Sunday:

www.mediamatters.org

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Kevin Griffith

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3 years

🚨 PUBLIC GOOD ALERT 🚨 Measuring wait times for U.S. medical care is hard Data are private, limited to "secret shopper" surveys, or particular specialties UNTIL NOW. We've released 38M appt wait times for public use Link: A 🧵on these data (1/n)

Appointment wait time data for primary & specialty care in veterans health administration facilit...

The datasets summarized in this article include more than 38 million appointment wait times that U.S. military veterans experienced when seeking medic…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Kevin Griffith

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Reviewers: please don't ding a manuscript for not having power calculations when the analysis covers the entire U.S. population

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Kevin Griffith

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@jmwooldridge Me when I pronounce "Poisson" like p w ä - ˈs ō n

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Kevin Griffith

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Daily battle #RStats

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Phd c̶a̶n̶d̶i̶d̶a̶t̶e̶

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Kevin Griffith

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@DrSarahLiu Is this satire? I 100% reflect on and recognize my privileges as a cishet white man, but if you're suggesting I submit a checklist every time I post a W... that's insane

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Kevin Griffith

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Han & Rosa snuggling, thank you @lined_cats !

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Kevin Griffith

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@realDonaldTrump This explanation is in comic form, so you might understand it

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Kevin Griffith

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what idiot called it a "randomized controlled trial with placebo" and not "trick or treatment"

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Kevin Griffith

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If a student looked at this screenshot on an exam and said it's not a DID they'd get an F

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Kevin Griffith

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4 years

It finally happened - someone flushed during my webinar presentation

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Kevin Griffith

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4 years

Very pleased to announce that I will be joining the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University ( @VUHealthPol ) in the fall as an assistant professor! I'm excited & honored to start the next phase of my career with such a talented group of scholars.

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Kevin Griffith

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@dieworkwear @AshleyRindsberg Every time I see someone attack you for using GOP examples, as if it means everything else you say is meritless, I think of this

derek guy

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it's funny that ppl follow this acct and expect the fairness doctrine like I'm NPR and not a menswear blogger with a jokey name who lives alone with a cat and feeds raccoons at night

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Kevin Griffith

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5 years

View of Mount Washington & @MWObs from the Wildcat Ridge Trail

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Kevin Griffith

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It seems like there's now 19 different approaches to address differential treatment timing in DID settings As reviewers, we can't keep asking researchers to run all of them Is there a piece that provides guidelines for when some are more appropriate than others? #EconTwitter

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Kevin Griffith

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3 years

My 4yo just said "Daddy, why do people make up things that their children have said for social media? Isn't it just inherently dishonest & indicative of an inability to construct a compelling narrative of themselves?"

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Kevin Griffith

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@mikekofoed PhD is Latin for a doctor who can't help you

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Kevin Griffith

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🚨🚨 PUBLIC GOOD ALERT 🚨🚨 Have you needed old Area Health Resource Files & been bummed HRSA only has the most recent 1-2 years of data online? We have good news, AHRFs 2004-present now in citeable format Please share for those who may benefit (1/3)

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Kevin Griffith

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2 years

First dissertation paper ACCEPTED 🎉

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Kevin Griffith

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6 years

"Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion." ~Anatoli Boukreev For @BackpackerMag 's #nationalsummitday , here's some photos from my trip to the Wind River Range

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Kevin Griffith

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1 year

Do PhDs working in industry have to fill out their own expense reports in Concur? If not, I'd seriously consider a switch

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Kevin Griffith

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4 years

Good luck everybody

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Kevin Griffith

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3 years

A little anticlimactic to receive by mail, but you'll still have to pry it from my cold dead hands! @BUSPH

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Kevin Griffith

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2 years

@katiedimartin RIP your mentions

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"My biggest concern is epistemological diversity ... that in health services, we focus to much on questions that are federally fundable." #ARM22 @mclemoremr

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Kevin Griffith

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🚨NEW RESEARCH in @JAMANetworkOpen 🚨 Led by @YFeyman + @dani_econ , we looked at waits that vets experience for: 1) primary care 2) mental health 3) other specialties + variation by region & where care was delivered (VA vs. private) LINK: 🧵(1/n)

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Kevin Griffith

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My 4yo just said "Daddy, why do people make up things that their children have said for social media? Isn't it just inherently dishonest & indicative of an inability to construct a compelling narrative of themselves?"

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Kevin Griffith

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@AcademicsSay @DusetzinaS

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Kevin Griffith

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Woo! Got the formal notice for my R36 Dissertation Award from @AHRQNews 🥳🥳

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Kevin Griffith

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2 years

Social risk screenings are increasingly prevalent in health care settings Pilot work from @The_BMC suggests screening may be associated with *worse* mental health, potentially by increasing patient awareness of their unmet needs without addressing them @stephanieloo19 #ARM22

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Kevin Griffith

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5 years

. @DrJenGunter busting myths and tearing up the charts! Now only if Twitter will stop censoring promos due to the title

Jennifer Gunter

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The Vagina Bible is #12 for Trade Paper in @PublishersWkly

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Kevin Griffith

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3 years

For anyone interested, I've put complete R code and datasets to recreate three of my ACA/Medicaid expansion studies here: 1) Medical Care 2020 2) Journal of Adolescent Health 2020 3) Health Affairs 2020

Kevin Griffith

@AssumeNormality

3 years

@pedrohcgs I can provide complete data & R code for any of these studies on Medicaid Expansion/Affordable Care Act:

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Kevin Griffith

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4 years

My contribution to the Stata vs. #RStats debate

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Kevin Griffith

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4 years

🚨🚨New article alert!🚨🚨 We looked at trends in health care access under Obama (2011-2016) and the first year of the Trump administration (2017). New work with @dklinejones , @JacobBor , and Ben Sommers @HarvardChanSPH in @Health_Affairs ! What did we find? Read on... (1/n)

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Kevin Griffith

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I submitted a grant today and I'm SO drained. I poured months of time + my soul into this application, and I truly believe this work would directly improve the lives of residents in public housing - both in Nashville & beyond. Hopefully our reviewers agree 👍 #AcademicChatter

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Kevin Griffith

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2 years

@drStuartGilmour Regardless of the paper's merits, this statement is obviously wrong. It's clearly a DID from the part you shared...

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Kevin Griffith

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3 years

All I want for Christmas is format-naive initial journal submissions

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Kevin Griffith

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Fixed it

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This is the cockiest hospital I've ever seen

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Kevin Griffith

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Randomized encouragement designs are not a joke, but a powerful tool for causal inference when you can't ethically compel treatment/control

Lyell Jones MD

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I don’t usually weigh in on non-neurology debates but thought I would fix a typo in this title

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Kevin Griffith

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Celebrating @DusetzinaS 's promotion Nashville style!

Stacie Dusetzina

@DusetzinaS

2 years

Dr. Stacie Dusetzina. PROFESSOR of Health Policy ( @VUHealthPol ). Promotion is now TWITTER official! Thanks to the massive support from mentors and trainees who have made this job so fun and rewarding!

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Kevin Griffith

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Me, a health researcher: people are really bad at following medical advice Doctor: you need to fast and avoid caffeine for 12 hours before this blood draw Me: lol no

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Kevin Griffith

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4 years

Every "quick-hit" project in academia

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Kevin Griffith

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@Eve6 Family and local self-determination are now woke

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Kevin Griffith

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2 years

Friends, some unfortunate news - my cousin Shawn, a father of 3, lost his battle with opioids yesterday morning He'd also lost his job during the pandemic, so his family won't benefit from life/burial insurance Please consider helping if you are able

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Kevin Griffith

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@CarceralPolicy @Phil_Lewis_ Mow the lawn? 🤯 yeah unless there's no hotels or there's a huge price differential I'm done with airbnb

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Kevin Griffith

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Online conferences Myth Reality

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Kevin Griffith

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3 years

@sargsyanz This is why I only study straightforward injuries/diseases such as

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Kevin Griffith

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8 months

Health insurer profit margins are generally between 3-4%. There's much to be criticized about insurer behavior, but excessive profits ain't it $40 billion sounds like a crazy number, but health insurers had $1.25 trillion in revenue last year & 86% of that was paid out in claims

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it’s almost as if all the healthcare workers and all the patients hate the system and hate being treated like shit and are absolutely fed up and on the brink of total and complete collapse, while the health insurers made over 40 billion in profits last year

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Kevin Griffith

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3 years

If you are teaching intro stats, please for the love of God stop telling students they *need* to use logistic for a binary outcome It might just be the stats myth I have to correct most often

Austin L. Wright

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3 years

Did it hurt? When you realized you should have just used an LPM?

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Kevin Griffith

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tfw your study design is observational but you *know* the relationship is causal

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Kevin Griffith

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@askellyphd Uninsured patient on the left; EM physician on the right

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Kevin Griffith

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🚨NEW PAPER in @DrugAlcoholDep 🚨 We looked at: 1) drug overdose mortality during COVID-19 2) whether trends differed in #Medicaid expansion states Anecdotally, we expected it to be bad. But now know the toll and.. yikes🧵 Led by @sam_auty , LINK: (1/4)

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Kevin Griffith

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Me after lecturing for 2 hours in my late 30s

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Kevin Griffith

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ICMYI, here's my poster comparing VA to private sector wait times #ARM21 ! tldr; 3 big takeaways 1) VA wait times on average lower than private 2) Areas with longer VA waits tend to have longer private waits --> points to general lack of access not specific to VA ...

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Kevin Griffith

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4 years

🚨🚨New in @Health_Affairs blog 🚨🚨 The only thing that could make the tragedy of COVID-19 worse is if we fail to learn from it @MelindaBBuntin & I discuss promising study designs and data that researchers may use to improve value in health post-COVID

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Kevin Griffith

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Being an adult is telling yourself this every week until you die

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Kevin Griffith

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I disagree with this adversarial framing. It may score Twitter points, but is self-defeating We shouldn't use privilege to lessen each other's accomplishment We should instead encourage the privileged (such as myself) to reflect and use it to lift up others @AcademicChatter

Sarah Liu (she/her)

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Academics who announce their accomplishments should disclose their privileges. Do you come from an academic family? Are you white? Are you a man? Are you straight? Are you cis-gender? Are you able-bodied? Are you a citizen of where you work? All of the above? #AcademicChatter

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Kevin Griffith

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🚨🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨🚨 Gov. Kasich & Ohio GOP were quite effective at reducing access to abortion clinics What happened to women's health when they closed? New in @AmJPrevMed , joint with @JackieeEllison @JacobBor @DavidSlusky (1/n)

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Kevin Griffith

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Goodbye sweet prince 💔

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Words no pet owner wants to hear from the vet: "He's a very sick kitty." Keep your fingers crossed for Oscar 🤞🙏

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Kevin Griffith

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Manuscript acceptance and a notice of award this week!

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Kevin Griffith

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Fastest way to annoy a reviewer: have your abstract says no one has ever answered your research question, when in fact several have, including yours truly

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Kevin Griffith

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3 years

New BU Lab Studies Medicaid, Where Racism, Poverty, and COVID-19 Meet (featuring @shaferpr @meganbcole @SarahHallGordon )

New BU Lab Studies Medicaid, Where Racism, Poverty, and COVID-19 Meet

A new, friendlier White House heralds possible fixes in health program for the poor

www.bu.edu

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Kevin Griffith

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Strong "Between Two Ferns" vibes @johngraves9

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Kevin Griffith

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Received the notice of award today! 🥂🎉

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Am I going to get this grant?

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Kevin Griffith

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Normalizing failure: I received three journal rejections this weekend. Whee!

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Kevin Griffith

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Asking a PhD candidate when they'll finish their dissertation is a HIPAA violation

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Asking me if the syllabus for my Fall course is ready yet is a HIPAA violation

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Kevin Griffith

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Whenever I ask if students have any questions after a Zoom lecture

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Kevin Griffith

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3 years

I thought about David & this tweet often, and now it just destroys me Please donate to his family's GoFundMe if you can

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As I told my three kids their mom has cancer I thought about the nest outside our recent Airbnb window, the three babies who spent most of their days with mouths open waiting for food to arrive. I read that robins parent together, the dad taking care when the mom isn’t around

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Kevin Griffith

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Studies of the effects of preschool, Head Start, etc. are plagued by selection issues - parents and families who enroll their kids are different from those who don't I'm ways that affect outcomes But Boston used a lottery to test public preschool and the results are.. wow

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These are some of the most amazing RCT results I've ever seen.

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Kevin Griffith

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Them: would you like to eat 30 apricots? Me: lol no Them: what if we dehydrate them first Me: oh hell yeah

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Kevin Griffith

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Son, you're old enough now for me to tell you about regression discontinuity designs...

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How do you explain to people that if their kid is just over 5 year old, they need a booster, but if they are just under 5 years old, they should get… nothing?

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Kevin Griffith

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Are @shaferpr and I doing this right?

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Kevin Griffith

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Agree 100%. If folks don't feel safe, they're not going to fully resume economic activities. Household mobility data from Google show big declines BEFORE states' shelter-in-place orders Shutdowns aren't killing the economy - our inadequate COVID response is the real culplrit

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As lockdowns have been lifted in most of the country and businesses have been able to reopen, supply shock has waned, only for a new problem to emerge: weak demand.

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@vision_beth @Ariela_Lupi88 @AcademicChatter Yah, downside of going to ombudsman is you're not immune from being blackballed in academia but since you're leaving...

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Kevin Griffith

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@jenni_tabler I literally LOL'd when I first saw it about: 1) how small it is 2) that we insist on throwing pennies at it like a mall fountain

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Kevin Griffith

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Office view being a bit dramatic this evening

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Kevin Griffith

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For those asking, this artwork is Keeping Away Death by Julian Hoke Harris (1959)

Julian Hoke Harris' works stand, or fall, as monuments to another era's ideals - ARTS ATL

In the early 20th century, Georgia artist Julian Hoke Harris created some of the state's most enduring, and endangered, works of public art.

www.artsatl.org

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High: First day of in-person teaching in over a year, still fit into my biz clothes Low: Ordered a pill organizer so I'm now officially an Old

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Kevin Griffith

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@dyudkin Try multiple languages in Google Translate and convert to the shortest

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Kevin Griffith

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@Jess_Hoel Wait is this a serious question? Because I take "Take it again" as a joke

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Kevin Griffith

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🚨The world is on fire but I have NEW RESEARCH🚨🚨 Just out in @DrugAlcoholDep , "Implications of county-level variation in U.S. opioid distribution," joint with @erikacrable @Tim_Levengood @sam_auty @YFeyman when we were all students! Quick thread (1/N)

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Kevin Griffith

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@khgeissler I figure academia is telling myself I'll have more time in the next couple months, every month until I die

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Kevin Griffith

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And for those who haven't been following this saga for awhile, this 🧵is why Scott's continued defense and behind-the-scenes retaliation against victims is so problematic.

Jennifer Doleac

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False and defamatory claims about the AEA DeAngelo investigation are being circulated online by anonymous accounts. If our institutions aren’t going to protect us, we have to protect ourselves. Time to set the record straight.

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Sign of approaching middle age: Driving to a new city, to start a new job post-PhD, and I'm most excited about sleeping on the fancy new mattress I ordered 😴

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Kevin Griffith

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No, I can't, I've got a full schedule today

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Kevin Griffith

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I have a feeling the primary outcome from getting a PhD is making you much more annoying to argue with

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Kevin Griffith

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And just like that, all the military strategists became experts in design of cluster randomized trials

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Kevin Griffith

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Art imitates life

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Dear anonymous reviewer who submitted on July 4th You are a true American patriot

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Kevin Griffith

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I love being able to write this as my entire review for an R&R: "The authors have addressed all of my previous concerns, and the revised manuscript looks great. I can't wait to see it in print!"

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