Vanderbilt adjoint associate professor of biostatistics Chris Fonnesbeck is teaching about PyMC and Bayesian modeling both at the CQS Summer Institute (Nashville, July 20-24) and #JSM2026 (Boston, August 3). The last day to sign up for the Nashville course is July 13. www.vumc.org/cqs/cqs-summ...

Team creates premium fake people to speed HIV research news.vumc.org/2026/06/30/t... Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Zhuohui Liang is lead author, with biostatistics faculty Brad Malin, Bryan Shepherd, and Amir Asia among the co-authors of the paper @natcomms.nature.com #AI #NIHfunded

Huge congratulations to @vandyatvandy.bsky.social on being named a 2026 Chancellor Faculty Fellow! news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/24/2...

The 2026 Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute will feature four short courses this July, on genomic data analysis, PyMC and Bayesian modeling, Terra-based cloud computing, and causal inference. Register by May 31 for the early bird discount: www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Congratulations to the newest Vanderbilt Biostatistics MS graduates - Yiqing Pan, Xin Wu, and Haozheng Xu! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

I absolutely love this. Caregiver grants for those who need it to join @amstatnews.bsky.social JSM this year. I hope more conferences move in this direction. #academiceky #skystats #statssky #JSM2026

Congratulations to Dr. Megan Taylor Jones, graduating @vanderbilt.edu today with her PhD in biostatistics! Advisor: @vandyatvandy.bsky.social www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Upcoming presentations by Vanderbilt Biostatistics faculty include Ben French speaking Friday 4/17 on randomized trials for clinical decision support interventions. See www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... for details. Pictured: Dr. French and Dr. Amanda Mixon presenting their work in DC.

Belated congratulations to Bear (and to Vanderbilt staff biostatistician Elisa Yazdani, MS 2023, who adopted him at the start of her studies @vumedicine.bsky.social) on being chosen as Vanderbilt Health Dog of the Day! news.vumc.org/2026/03/31/v...

Interested in regression modeling? Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social will be teaching a 1-day intro to R/RStudio/Regression/rms on May 11 and a 4-day course on regression modeling strategies May 14-19. Details at hbiostat.org/course/ #Rstats #biostatistics

Yep. Funding is about a year late for a post doc program that was supporting one of my fellows. An award already made, but no dollars released. Also hearing similar things from faculty about R01s.

Study co-authored by Vanderbilt Biostatistics research associate professor (and graduate) Laurie Samuels: news.vumc.org/2026/02/25/p...

Vanderbilt Biostatistics paid internships for undergraduates - apply by February 23 to be considered for this six-week research program. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

On Wednesday 2/25 Vanderbilt Biostatistics will host "Statistical Modeling and Inference for Gene Networks from Single-Cell Data" by Emory Business School professor Emma Zhang, who is also @emoryrollins.bsky.social as professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

@plduthie.bsky.social one correction: I was not a co-author of the FDA draft guidance but was an advisor along with Jack Lee of @mdanderson.bsky.social; we both provided input throughout the process and are gratified to have had the opportunity. @fda.gov

New publication co-authored by a Vanderbilt Biostatistics professor. (Lots of food for thought at discourse.datamethods.org, in fact. Today the student journal club discusses FDA draft guidance on Bayesian methods, which Frank co-authored. Some comments at discourse.datamethods.org/t/fda-draft-...

On Wed 2/18 Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting "Invariance and Inversion in Medical Machine Learning" by assistant professor of computer science Daniel Moyer. The online seminar is open to the public: www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

One week left to apply for the 2026 Vanderbilt Biostatistics Summer Internships for Undergraduates program. 6 weeks, $4000 stipend. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Applications are now open for the 2026 Vanderbilt Biostatistics Summer Internships for Undergraduates. Apply by Feb. 23. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... (Pictured: 2025 intern Lauryn Holmes with her final project)

On Wed. 2/11 Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting "Statistics in the Age of AI: Theory, Methods, and Data," an online talk by Dr. Didong Li, at 1:30 pm CT. Learn more about the presentation and Dr. Li at www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs

Congratulations to Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Alexis Fleming on her appointment to the editorial board of Child Maltreatment, a peer-reviewed journal. At Gustavus Adolphus College and now VU, Fleming has excelled in service, teaching, and research. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Vanderbilt Health senior biostatistician Tess Stopczyński (MS statistics @uvmvermont.bsky.social) and associate professor Andrew Spieker among experts calling for better adherence to guidelines for antiviral prescribing for children at higher risk of severe influenza news.vumc.org/2025/12/11/e...

Congratulations to Dr. Ruby Jiangmei Xiong (advisers: @vandyatvandy.bsky.social & Siyuan Ma) on her graduation! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #machinelearning #statisticalimaging #healthinformatics @cens-enar.bsky.social #datascience

Do you want to report effect sizes for any brain-behavior association? Do you want to include spatial confidence intervals for effect sizes? This paper, by Xinyu Zhang has the methods and software you need! with @aarona-b.bsky.social @neilwoodward.bsky.social and others :)

First author Xinyu Zhang is a PhD candidate at Vanderbilt Biostatistics. Second author Kenneth Liao is a 2024 MS graduate of the program. Senior author Simon Vandekar is associate professor and director of graduate recruitment. Congratulations to all!

Sessions include @f2harrell.bsky.social with "Tips for Biostatisticians Collaborating with Non-Biostatistician Medical Researchers." $25 for ENAR members, $45 for non-members. www.enar.org/education/in...

Participants include Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD students Hannah Klinger and @ashleymullan.bsky.social, professor Rameela Raman, and alumni Sarah Lotspeich, Lucy McGowan, and Jacquelyn Neal. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #CausalInference #StudentResearch #PublicHealth

Jiangmei Xiong will defend her dissertation, "Statistically Guided Improvement of Medical Imaging Analysis," on Monday 10/27 at 9 am Central Time, in Nashville and online. Her advisors are @vandyatvandy.bsky.social and Siyuan Ma. #Rstats #biomedical #AppliedStats www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Congratulations @vandyatvandy.bsky.social (right, with 2025 graduate @kaidikang.bsky.social) on being named Outstanding Faculty Mentor by the Vanderbilt Biostatistics student body! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Interested in obtaining an MS or PhD degree in biostatistics? Vanderbilt is hosting a virtual info session with director of recruitment Simon Vandekar (@vandyatvandy.bsky.social) on Thursday 10/9, 6pm Central. vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... (Pictured: MS students Seth Young and Zongyue Teng)

Vanderbilt Biostatistics will welcome past ASA president Jessica Utts on Wed 9/24 for "Statistical Literacy and Data Science Ethics." This one-hour non-technical webinar is open to all; visit www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... to view the full description and request access.

Registration will remain open for "Everyday Reproducibility" until 8 pm Central Time Wednesday 9/17. This Friday's short course is an excellent opportunity to pick up tools and methods to enhance computationally reproducible, shareable, and accessible analyses. www.eventbrite.com/e/asa-travel...

There is still space in September 19's Everyday Reproducibility, an in-person half-day course organized by the American Statistical Association and hosted by its Mid-Tennessee chapter. www.eventbrite.com/e/asa-travel...

Vanderbilt Biostatistics professor Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social is presenting a hybrid seminar on Wednesday 9/17 at 1:30 pm Central that is open to all: "Goal-Driven Flexible Bayesian Design" #ClinicalTrials www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... Photo: Erin O. Smith/VUMC

There is still space in September 19's Everyday Reproducibility, an in-person half-day course organized by the American Statistical Association and hosted by its Mid-Tennessee chapter. www.eventbrite.com/e/asa-travel...

Frank Harrell ( @f2harrell.bsky.social ) is busy as ever, with two upcoming talks online and open to the public - "Challenges of Dimensional Data Analysis" 9/10, and "How to learn to use the data.table package in R" 9/11. Learn more and contact the organizers via www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting a hybrid seminar on Wednesday, September 3, where University of Central Florida statistics professor Hsin-Hsiung Huang will introduce two methods to improve statistical analysis in neuroimaging. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

There's still room in the ASA Everyday Reproducibility half-day course on September 19! Held at Vanderbilt Biostatistics in Nashville, Tennessee. www.eventbrite.com/e/asa-travel...

Y'all, Vanderbilt Bookstore is hosting Silent Book Club at 2 pm Sat 8/22. Participating 10 times gets you a free book! events.vanderbilt.edu/event/87698-...

The Middle Tennessee chapter of the American Statistical Association (@amstatnews.bsky.social) is hosting a half-day course 9/19: Everyday Reproducibility. Lunch and parking provided. Sign up by August 27 for a 10% discount! www.eventbrite.com/e/asa-travel...

Congratulations to Dr. Lee on being named chair of National Cheng Kung University's Department of Statistics!

Vanderbilt Biostatistics faculty member Yuwei Zhu is co-author of a study debunking claims that Tamiflu causes seizures and other neuropsychiatric events news.vumc.org/2025/08/04/r...

Statisticians from Vanderbilt & 3 Taiwanese universities are presenting a half-day symposium on August 2, featuring @spiekerstats.bsky.social @vandyatvandy.bsky.social and more! Full lineup at www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

‘Statisticians Leading the Way’ panel to be part of Joint Statistical Meeting Conference, Aug. 4 news.vumc.org/2025/06/24/s... feat. Vanderbilt Biostatistics faculty Cathy Shyr, Paul Harris & Cindy Chen

Statisticians from Vanderbilt & 3 Taiwanese universities are presenting a half-day symposium on August 2, featuring @spiekerstats.bsky.social @vandyatvandy.bsky.social and more! Full lineup at www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Congratulations to Dr. Bob Johnson on his Outstanding Chapter Service Award @amstatnews.bsky.social! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... Recently retired from @vanderbilt.edu, Dr. Johnson previously received the award in 1996 for his longtime service to the Virginia chapter.

Thrilled to see International Journal of STD and AIDS paper first-authored by one of our first VN-Biostat fellows, Dr. Bryan Shepherd, Dr. Muktar Aliyu, and more journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #sicklecell #HIV #kidneydisease #Nigeria #WestAfrica

New methods paper @gigascience.bsky.social has an all-Vanderbilt byline, with Biostatistics research assistant professor Jing Wang and data scientist Hua-Chang Chan as co-first authors and professors Yu Shyr and Qi Liu as co-corresponding authors. academic.oup.com/gigascience/... #transcriptomics

Do you know someone who deserves to be recognized for outstanding or groundbreaking work? Is your institution embarking on an exciting project? Send ACTS your story using this form to be highlighted in future issues of the ACTS Connection. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨BREAKING: IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health. We refuse to stand by while America’s public health safeguards are torn apart. bit.ly/4lm7UkW