Links to news and things we find useful or interesting
14 Nov 2026, “What Hiring Managers Are Actually Evaluating … If you are finishing your PhD and trying to enter pharma or biotech right now, you have felt how difficult this market has become.” https://asabiopreport.substack.com/p/cracking-the-industry-code-a-letter
12 Nov 2026, “A diffusion of responsibility limits [PubPeer’s] correcting ambition, highlighting the need for complementary post-publication debate venues.” https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/nh3eg_v1
08 Nov 2026, “Over the next few weeks, Goldman’s bankers will be marketing shares in a company whose coding agent most of them are no longer allowed to use.” https://www.thestateofai.com/news/goldman-sachs-claude-code-traders-bankers
27 Oct 2026, an interview from summer: “As the agency considers seven unapproved peptides, Mikkael A. Sekeres traces the origins of the FDA’s authority.” https://undark.org/2026/07/23/interview-mikkael-sekeres/
22 Oct 2026, “Journal founded by plastic surgeon touts studies of products he’s tied to – including one that has been retracted” https://retractionwatch.com/2026/10/21/journal-founded-by-plastic-surgeon-touts-studies-of-products-hes-tied-to-including-one-that-has-been-retracted/
17 Oct 2026, “I spent 24 years at [the] FDA reviewing the statistics in NDA and BLA submissions. Now I write The Significant Difference: what [the] FDA’s reviewers see, and what sponsors need to know.” https://www.thesignificantdifference.com/
10 Oct 2026, “Digital twins are funhouse mirrors: Five systematic distortions” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh8260
09 Oct 2026, Call for papers: “The collection is partly motivated by the thirtieth anniversary of Deborah Mayo’s (1996, Chicago) Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge” https://link.springer.com/collections/ebjdhfadcd
08 Oct 2026, “FDA launches new clinical trial modernization office within CDER”: https://endpoints.news/fda-opens-clinical-trial-modernization-office-in-cder/
06 Oct 2026, Those like Boghossian who say “send your kids to trade school” don’t seem to know any tradesmen: So You Think You Could Be An Electrician?
04 Oct 2026, It seems Standpoint magazine is coming back: https://www.standpointmag.co.uk/
30 Sep 2026, Harrell is right: “I have engaged in a long discussion on X.com about the role of causal formalism in randomized clinical trials” https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/causal-formalism-and-rcts/28854
26 Sep 2026, “Some students also told authorities [the Professor] required them to take care of his dog during spring break without payment.” https://retractionwatch.com/2026/09/24/tennessee-researcher-heads-to-court-amid-claims-of-theft-forgery-and-revenge/
22 Aug 2026, Stephen Senn was on Berry Consultants’ podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnb0AUC_Dgk. They discuss adaptive designs, platform trials and accounting for time.
20 Aug 2026, Jenner can run SAS code: https://docs.jenneranalytics.com/getting-started/sas-alternative/