We absolutely should be competing in renewables. Instead we are stuck wasting tax dollars propping up antiquated industries because they are propping up our antiquated leaders.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

This is beyond stupid. NCAR is immensely important to the meteorological community in too many ways to list. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Yesterday was a very sad day for Statistics: U. of Nebraska Board of Regents voted 9-1 (2 abstentions) to eliminate its Department of Statistics (www.youtube.com/live/K5G-aeD...). Stats testimony at www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z3B... #Nebraska #Huskers #LNK @amstatnews.bsky.social 1/

macquarie uni has an internationally renowned group of classics and acheological scholars, a group that is now being squeezed by higher admin for resources as part of cutting arts courses and presumably prioritising other areas in which the uni has less comparative advantage. great.

"A key lesson of the Beyond Coal campaign is that the energy transition isn’t going to happen on its own. People have to do the work to make it happen," writes @mikegrunwald.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... 🔌💡

My theory, tested through exposure to Australian higher education administration, is that they are hopelessly captured by the consultants, and that higher education consultants are particularly shallow and uninteresting.

Vaccines & autism make headlines. But the root of the problem -- statistical shenanigans - doesn't If you test enough variables, you're gonna find some associations. @adamjkucharski.bsky.social explains. kucharski.substack.com/p/is-this-pa...

I wanna invent time travel and then require every high school student to take a class called "All The Shit We Fixed Before You Got Here" where they tour smog-filled US cities, polio wards, pre-vaccine hospitals, buildings with no safety regulations, kids working in mines, etc.

Once again: don’t trust Australia with your research career. Oz governments of all stripes have been consistently unable to support science on the time scales that would actually yield dividends.

Warwick Statistics is recruiting two Assistant Professors! We are looking for a researcher with a strong track record and outstanding promise in one or more areas of Statistical Methodology and Theory, Computational Statistics and Machine Learning. Closing date: 25th Jan 26 warwick-careers.tal....

this Morrison Government policy was highly criticised within Labor and the centre-left media. All just forgotten and accepted now?

This has got to be one of the most short sighted moves I’ve seen a university administration make, at least outside Australia. Statistics is vital to the entire research enterprise and eliminating it marks UNL as a non-serious institution.

"Schrödinger's causal inference" (n): The practice of making causal claims or interpretations within a scientific article - typically in the title, abstract, implications, or conclusion - while simultaneously warning that the study design is unsuitable for causal inference.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Announcing SLDS 2026: the biannual conference of @slds-asa.bsky.social! Nov 1-3 at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott in New York! Theme is Inference and Intelligence and we have keynotes from Dean Foster, David Rosemberg, and Bjn Yu. Mark your calendars and stay tuned!

July, Dr. Tidmarsh warned that the initiative risks injecting politics into what should be a strictly science-based review process. When experts raising red flags are silenced instead of heard, the public loses trust and patients lose protection. Science should lead, not politics.

Anglosphere your culture warriors still aiming guns at their own feet

Oh man a podcast conundrum. Do I listen to @reginanuzzo.bsky.social and @kristinsainani.bsky.social on Normal Curves (on exercise and cancer) first? Or go all meta and hear them talk about making it on Stats and Stories?

JSM is starting! A reminder that the @slds-asa.bsky.social mixer is Monday 5-7pm in the Omni Music Room 3. Please come along!

Next @slds-asa.belly.social webinar is July 1, 2-3:30 EDT. Giles Hooker @gilesh.bsky.social will discuss inference for ensemble models. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/trees-and-...

Proud advisor moment at Berkeley stats

🎧The latest episode of Normal Curves is out! We discuss a Phase IB trial of *Hookworm Therapy*🪱 With @reginanuzzo.bsky.social bit.ly/hookwormtherapy

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I wish the government would understand that open access mandates are (on their own) invitations for profit-seeking publishers to gouge authors, universities, and funders by charging exorbitant fees. The government should directly support open access publishing, so that they can control costs.

No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

My wife noticed an article with my name on it in her feed and said “Did you write this? It doesn’t sound like you.” I was surprised to see an alarmist headline attributed to me and @sayash.bsky.social by Wired: “Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous”

Psychology’s fraud crisis — following hot on the heels of its replication crisis — just keeps on keeping on. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Most carbon emissions from food miles are produced by trucks on the road

Once more with feeling (mostly sadness). Don’t trust @Australia with your research career. 
 www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... 
Governments of all persuasions and uni admin have shown themselves fickle time and again: excited by shiny baubles and unable to provide stability.