Hey #stats and #biostats folks I have a new starter pack. Which departments or organizations am I missing here? go.bsky.app/NrqteQw

I am currently reading a prerelease version of the Bayesian workflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et. al . It is SO GOOD. I will have a lot more to say when I finish it but it is one of the most practical stats book I have ever read.

I made it! Thank you Dudamel, Yo-Yo Ma, and LA Phil 🩶

A British friend texted me that PinkPantheress’ dad is a statistician. Stephen G. Walker is a Bayesian. This is our chance to make Bayesian nonparametrics mainstream. Looking at you @isba-bayesian.bsky.social.

a rothko for your current weather

I would like Posit to host an #rstats table contest but the output has to be a pdf table. Grand Prize: A paid subscription to a therapist because the winner will need it.

Making use of long weekend to do some fun writing about the movies that I have seen lately Blog posts on 1️⃣ My First Japanese “Silent” Movies anartistandascientist.com/posts/2026-0... 2️⃣ Real Women Have Curves anartistandascientist.com/posts/2026-0...

🎨 Being married to an artist means my #DataScience classes get custom illustrations! 🧥 I teach overfit models in #MachineLearning like a jacket tailored perfectly to fashion models—flawless on them, but fails to fit an ordinary sample of people.

Oooof

I finished listening to this podcast last week. It is a US queer history masterpiece. Excellent production. Difficult to listen at times but worth it.

Spring cleaning required a new website www.minedogucu.com

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✍ I celebrated International Labor Day by signing a new labor contract. 🏛️ I am delighted to share that I will be joining the Department of Statistics at Harvard University as a Senior Lecturer. 🙏 I have a lot of people to thank to who made this transition possible.

Käthe Kollwitz, Working Woman (with Earring), 1910 etching #WomensArt #MayDay, also known as Labour Day is a celebration of the working classes #InternationalWorkersDay

Forget tenure or h-index. I have reached the true mark of academic prestige. This academic term I teach in a classroom where I can control the temperature.

From: Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education The April 2026 Issue of the JSDSE is out. Please, find it at www.tandfonline.com/toc/ujse21/c...

I asked Gemini what I should take to DMV for my driver's license renewal. It told me the documents I should take & said The "Cinnamon Bun" Check: Since you're often busy with your statistics curriculum and short stories, double-check that your documents aren't tucked away in a "cat-approved" spot—

Not a legal comment. April 24, 2026 is the compliance deadline for universities in the US to make websites accessible. Many #highered folks are in a rush. As you can imagine there are many folks who have provided their papers, course materials, presentations #openaccess on their websites for years.👇

Would you like to read all the articles from the 25 years of R special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics? They are all freely accessible for the next month or so at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #rstats

In a Working Scientist profile, conservation researcher Anne Poelina speaks with Nature Careers about giving first authorship to a source with deep knowledge about water, the river itself. 🌍 🧪

We are thrilled to announce that Positron Server is now available for academic use via JupyterHub! This gives students a robust #RStats & #Python data science IDE without needing a local install or new infrastructure. Learn more: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

Today is (the very first) National Black Bookstore day! Celebrate with a treat from a Black-owned indie bookstore. Brittany Allen lithub.com/today-is-the... #books #literature #blacklivesmatter #NationalBlackBookstoreDay

The National Association of Black Bookstores (NABB) has declared April 7 to be #NationalBlackBookstoreDay — a day to recognize the "cultural, economic, and community impact of Black-owned bookstores across the United States.” pen.org/black-owned-...

I don't know where I'd be in 2028 but I just bought ticket to one of the Women's Volleyball Quarterfinal matches in the Olympics. I have no doubt that Turkey's "Sultans of the Net" will make it to the quarterfinals but the question is will it be the quarterfinal that I bought a ticket for 🤞

In grad school in Ohio, we used to go to a Turkish store to buy delicious Pakistani basmati rice from a Senegalese man. Today I ran into him on a train in LA. We immediately hugged with shocked eyes. Unbelievable! After 7 years and more than 2000 miles!

After seeing @mickael.canouil.fr’s project, I so regret not logging in my theater information over the years 😭 github.com/mcanouil/imd...

Sharing with #QuartoPub and #rstats as well.

Roald Dahl’s “My Uncle Oswald”

I'm looking for a post-doc to help organize Bayesian Data Analysis course avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A... (200 students) and to do research on Bayesian workflow users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... at Aalto www.aalto.fi/en, Finland. Background in Bayes needed. Up to five year contract possible.

The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025. n.pr/4t9rLqU

Some good news on our end. Our little Mohsen is now 10 years old 🎈🌸

Lucky day Wordle 1,737 2/6 🟨🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This year is so bad that we have not even set up our Nowruz table. Wishing for a happy new year nonetheless.

I told you so.

I see some R folks posted their pi day pies. Unless it is a CRANberry pie, I am not interested.

🔔 New preprint w/ Catalina Medina ❓ We ran a quasi-experiment in an introductory stats course to see if giving students a choice of real data context on homework actually has impact 📄 Engaging students with statistics through choice of real data context on homework 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2603.04541

A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.” Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.

I can't believe people are posting about gas prices or their retirement accounts without talking about lives lost in the war. Are you all ok? Thoughts and prayers for your losses!

I now made this my cover photo. Having a job with a public email address is overwhelming.

“la statistique bayésienne” — everything sounds classier en français

Publication date looms ever closer ... physical copies exist (at the @sagepub.com London office, I await my own copy with excitement).

U.S. Commerce Dept. has published a Federal Register notice proposing signicant changes in the scope of preparation for Census 2030. Tomorrow is the deadline to make comments. We encourage you to speak out. Read more about the changes @prbdata.bsky.social www.prb.org/news/newly-u...

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

One of the reasons I read a lot of books in public is not to hear/pay attention to all the noise around me.

Taking the quiet car of the train for my commute to work regularly made me realize once again, we need more silent public spaces. There is just too much noise everywhere!

This is hilarious and now I’m kind of glad I screen recorded the site yesterday. I especially love that they deleted the “Will my professor know?” question.

Einstein, meet Eisenstein.

Excellent movie rec 👇🏼

Currently reading (slowly) my first (non-picture) book in Spanish. Learning a language is arduous but the joy of starting to understand stories is priceless.