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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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"Trust and credibility are the cornerstones of any successful business"

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Do I know any non-statistics* faculty in the US teaching #Bayesian methods to undergraduates? Please comment/share even if you are in close proximity to such educators. I am having a hard time finding them. *By non-statistics I mean, their primary appointment is outside of a statistics dept.

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When will our indignation be enough to compel us to do something?

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The Gold Standard was a failed economic system we got rid of for many good reasons. I always wonder why people think about the “Gold Standard” being a reference for anything 😌

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The US auto-inflicted decline

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What do you expect from someone who killed her dog with a gun?

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📢 A reminder that the NeurIPS deadline for full paper submission is May 15th (Anywhere on Earth, AOE). We look forward to receiving your work, good luck to all submitting authors!

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A call for scientists to stand up for scientific freedom as well as funding: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Those who ask LLMs to confirm recent news 🤦‍♂️

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Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie at the University of Wollongong (UOW) Australia has been awarded the Hannan Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. More info: www.science.org.au/supporting-s...

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This is a national tragedy. NSF has done so much good, supported great discoveries, and trained the national STEM workforce. I guess more Project 2025 aimed at unraveling our national educational and research infrastructure. Heartbreaking. Write/call your GOP reps.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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We’d like to announce next week’s virtual seminar on Bayesian Decision-making and Uncertainty! Sebastian Ament (Meta) Unexpected Improvements to Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization Sign-up link: gp-seminar-series.github.io

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The destruction of US research continues. “Cancel and dictate culture”

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Applications for the 25th New Researchers Conference (NRC) are open. NRC 2025 Jul 31 - Aug 2 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Just before the JSM nrc2025.github.io Deadline: May 15

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Congratulations to the 2025 Class of IMS Fellows! Each Fellow has demonstrated distinction in research in statistics or probability or has demonstrated leadership that has profoundly influenced the field. See the new Fellows here: imstat.org/2025/05/05/c...

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A new paper with Alex Cooper and Catherine Forbes "Joint leave-group-out cross-validation in Bayesian spatial models" arxiv.org/abs/2504.15586 (Alex did the hard work for this, and running many cross-validation simulations with spatial models is hard)

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I'll talk about Bayesian workflow Thu 24th April 11-12 CEST in Learn Bayes seminar by Karolinska Institutet @ki.se learnbayes.se/events/bayes... (zoom available) The focus will be different to my previous workflow talks (see users.aalto.fi/~ave/videos....). This time more flowcharts and shortcuts

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Last Statistics colloquium of the year tomorrow (April 24) at 2:50 PM in LeConte 224! Please join us for this presentation by Dr. Anirban Bhattacharya from Texas A&M!

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Very nice opportunity for young researchers to meet and discuss with their peers and senior researchers

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I am happy that IMS has joined ASA and ISBA with a new BlueSky account. I am looking forward to other statistical societies making the change. Let's talk research on @bsky.app Congratulations to Grace Wahba for being awarded the 2025 International Prize in Statistics!

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New paper w/ Tony Linero on Bayesian causal inference: Independent priors on propensity score & outcome models often imply a strong prior on no measured confounding - a prior belief that 1) we rarely hold and 2) leads to bad frequentist performance tinyurl.com/2udmbf6a #statsky

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UC Academic Senate’s statement in defense of the university is worth reading in full. It calls for UC to leave no stone unturned or resource unspent to protect their mission, and that this effort should “extend to working together with colleagues at other universities.” #AcademicSky #MomSky 👇🏻

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Here's something useful! 🤖👾 Create a working (and checking) R package with RcppArmadillo code in 15 steps! 👽🚀 How good is that?! 🌏🌑 github.com/donotdespair... #rstats #Rcpp #RcppArmadillo

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And calls for Invited Session proposal and Named Lectures for next year's World Meeting in Nagoya: isba2026.github.io

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Our short course on Subnational Probabilistic Population Projections at PAA 2025 (description attached) will now be hybrid. To ask to join remotely, email [email protected] from your professional email by April 7 with subject “Join PAA workshop”, saying why you want to.

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Congratulations to ISBA fellow, Honorary Lifetime Member, De Finetti Lecturer, and ISBA past president, Philip Dawid, for another outstanding achievement.

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The March 2025 issue of the ISBA Bulletin is out! This issue features: - Message from ISBA President - ISBA Awards - Updates, Upcoming meetings and conferences - Tributes in memory of Prof. Herman K. Van Dijk and Prof. John Joseph Deely isba-bulletin.github.io/ISBABulletin/

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Ditto www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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We are excited the next webinar in the BNP-ISBA series. D/T: 17:00 UTC on Wed, 2 Apr., 2025. SPEAKER: Vanda Inacio (U. of Edinburgh) TITLE: Density regression via Dirichlet process mixtures of normal structured additive regression models Zoom link & more info 👇 bnp-isba.github.io/webinars.html

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The ISBA Program Council and the committee of Named Lectures for the 2026 World Meeting are pleased to announce a call for nominations for lecturers of the Bruno De Finetti and Susie Bayarri Lectures. The nomination deadline is Sunday, April 15th, 2025. More info here: bayesian.org/call-for-nam...

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New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!

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AAAS webinar on grant terminations. Register if interested. aaas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Want to check out the source for the "AlexNet" paper? Google has made the code from Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton's seminal "ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" paper open source, in partnership with the Computer History Museum. computerhistory.org/press-releas...

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I still know my economics

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The 14th International Conf. on Extreme Value Analysis ( #EVA2025) will be hosted by UNC Chapel Hill from 23 - 27 June, 2025. Registration and abstract submission are open for EVA2025. The deadline for abstracts is March 15. See the website for more info 👇 #statsky eva2025.unc.edu

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As the NIH expects staff cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said. www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n... ($) #nih

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