Simon Straubinger

Data Analyst, Health and Care Administration, City of Copenhagen. Political science education. I love all things #rstats & #dataviz

[Saloni @salonium]

The dataset behind this famous chart on the declining cost of genome sequencing has had its NIH funding cut.

It tracked progress towards & beyond an ambitious goal ($1000 genome) that succeeded.

Could any funders rescue the project? Sharing this would be very appreciated.

[Søren Kierkegaard Club @Kierkegaarddd]

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

[Saloni @salonium]

I wrote a new piece on how much progress has been made in treating childhood leukemia.

The answer is: quite a lot!

Before the 1970s, fewer than 10% of children diagnosed survived 5 years after diagnosis.

Now most are cured and around 85% survive that long.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

South Korea gender divide update 😲

Young men lean right by 50 points
(74% conservative vs 24% centre-left)

Young women lean left by 22 points
(58% centre-left vs 36% cons)

[John Sides @johnmsides]

Social trust declined from 1973-93 but basically hasn't changed since then.

"Americans are no less trusting than they were 30 years ago" isn't a grabby headline but may it's true?

[Tom Wood @thomasjwood]

Stark class income * partisan effect also apparent in 119th Congress's congressional districts:

[trash @trashh_dev]

you can’t make this stuff up.

[Jason Abaluck @Jabaluck]

There are three types of social scientists:

Pornographers, plumbers, and social justice warriors

🧵

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

If Max is paying a marketing company a $1m annual retainer for naming strategy, this is pathetic.

But. If Max figured that it can add and remove “HBO” from its streaming title every 2 years to create a bunch of free outraged publicity, I sort of respect the play.

[Leonardo Rizzo @LnrdRizzo]

How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: https://t.co/xQ0fTmpVxb @Unibocconi

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This is interesting.

Americans pay about 4X more for brand-name drugs than the typical OECD country

... but Americans pay 33% *less* for generics, which make up 90 percent of our purchases by volume.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I'm basically an optimist, but I find it hard to argue against two claims:

a) Screens/social media makes it easier to not pay attention in school
b) GenAI makes it easier to cheat in school

The combination of (a) + (b) is going to be a huge challenge for young ppl's education.

When you layer over that the fact that generative AI tools are going to get more intelligent over a period of time when teen and adult literacy scores are declining, I think you've got the basic ingredients of a pretty serious cultural problem.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Hi everyone — I was laid off from my job on Friday

If you know of any open opportunities in polling or market research (full-time or contracts/consulting), please let me know. I have 12 years of experience in the industry

If you don’t, please consider reposting/sharing

Thanks!

[Tom Wood @thomasjwood]

The Australian Federal election swing in historical context (1943-2025).

The shift in two-party preference is more modest than I expected, given the swing in seats. #Auspol2025 #AusVotes2025

[G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris]

There is simply no historical precedent for a U.S. president losing support as quickly as Trump has in term 2.

[G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris]

New piece: It's not just Trump's approval taking a hit. Voters also say they care less than they did in 2024 about (formerly) GOP-leaning issues like crime and immigration. Concerns about the economy, social security, and health care are up. The thermostat comes for Trump

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Negative partisanship is a helluva drug:

Up until a few months ago, liberal and conservative Americans held pretty much the same views on free trade.

Now, not so much…

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

Here is the original reporting by NPR on this story - https://t.co/U5i2fNFMJG

[Owen Winter @OwenWntr]

We are tracking his standing with data from @YouGovAmerica

As of this week, YouGov finds that 52% of Americans disapprove of how he is handling his job as president, while 42% approve.

https://t.co/2h2Innn18C

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Dismal expectations for the economy in the NY Fed's survey of regional manufacturers.

Basically every line -- new orders, employment etc. -- is going down, with the exception of prices (received, and paid) which are going up.