I am hiring a PhD & postdoc to work together with me at KTH on probabilistic machine learning. Both positions are fully funded and part of WASP. I will be attending @euripsconf.bsky.social, if you are around and want to talk about the positions or what we do at KTH, then ping me and we can meet.

Just about to submit my workshop proposal for ISEC 2027. 🎉

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

A new release of the mgcv #RStats 📦 is out on CRAN and Simon Wood (U Edinburgh) has added some significant new features despite the small bump in version number: 🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method

Friends of Stats: The U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics needs your help. The university's Chancellor submitted a FINAL proposal today for budget cuts (budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...) that eliminates the department. 1/ #LNK #Nebraska #Huskers @amstatnews.bsky.social

....our last plenary speaker for ISEC 2027 is...🥁 Dr. Alison Johnston 🎉 Co-director of the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM) & Reader in Statistics at the University of St Andrews.

We've got a great plenary speaker lineup -- covering theoretical ecology, statistics, AI, conservation, disease ecology, animal movement, Bayesian stats, machine learning & more! Deadline for workshops + round tables on Nov 15: statisticalecology.org (in English o en español) Come join us!

📣 Plenary speaker #3: Dr. Mevin Hooten 🐾 Professor of Statistics & Data Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Author of multiple books on Bayesian statistics and leading expert in statistical methods for the analysis of animal movement. statisticalecology.org

📣 Announcing our first plenary speaker:

 Dr. Jason Matthiopoulos 🎉

 He is a professor at the University of Glasgow whose work focuses on modelling the patterns and mechanisms that characterise spatial and population ecology. statisticalecology.org

📣 Plenary speaker #2: Dr. Erin Mordecai Associate Professor of Biology at Stanford University. Her lab uses mathematical models and empirical data to study the ecology of infectious diseases. 📈🦟 statisticalecology.org

moveHMM version 1.0 turns 10 today 🎉 Such a fun 10 years; exchanging with folks who use the package (and its extensions) has been one of the best parts of my job!

Previous workshops covered models for eDNA, animal movement, hierarchical Bayesian models, NIMBLE, Stan, INLA, space/habitat use, species distribution models, generalized additive models! We're open to similar workshops + machine learning, AI topics. Deadline Nov. 15th: statisticalecology.org 🧪

ISEC is a ~biennial conference that brings together statisticians, ecologists, & other quantitative researchers to develop & apply quantitative methods to answer critical ecological questions. 🦋📈🐾 Check out ISEC 2022 (www.isec2022.org) for examples of workshops & talks at previous iterations. 🧪

The next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will take place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México. Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth). Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪 Please share widely 📈🦋🐾

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University. Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

The Sierra Nevada’s glaciers—now projected to disappear by 2100 CE—have never before vanished throughout human history in the Americas. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3KouoUR

Proposals for contributed talks & posters are now being accepted for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting! The world meeting will take place in Nagoya, Japan between 28 June and 3 July, 2026. Proposals may be submitted here: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...

We will co-host the next Statistical Methods webinar on October 6 at noon US ET with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Statistical Ecology Section Kenneth Kellner will present “The {unmarked} R package for fitting hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence” Register at: bit.ly/3H7tri7

The new Bayesian Social Sciences section of @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has just been created: bss-isba.github.io. The committee is myself as chair, @robinryder.bsky.social, chair elect from 2027, @nialfriel.bsky.social, program chair, @monjalexander.bsky.social, Treasurer, EJWagenmakers, Secretary.

The Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is under threat of closure, with tenured faculty facing dismissal. This is a small but globally impactful department. Please consider writing a letter of support. Your voice could make a real difference.

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

My University has decided to close the #Statistics department along with several others. The public comment form opened up today: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu... Please feel free to explain how problematic it is to close a department teaching #datascience #rstats #python in this day and age.

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in statistics to develop methods for analyzing large scale biodiversity and ecosystem function data at the University of Helsinki. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.

Stan / CmdStan 2.37 release! blog.mc-stan.org/2025/09/02/r... - sum_to_zero_matrix type sums to zero across both rows and columns - simplex and *_stochastic_matrix types should be now faster and more stable - new functions exposing the built-in constraint implementations 1/2

AI efficiency is important. The median Gemini Apps text prompt in May 2025 used 0.24 Wh of energy (<9 seconds of TV watching) & 0.26 mL (~5 drops) of water. Over 12 months, we reduced the energy footprint of a median text prompt 33x, while improving quality: cloud.google.com/blog/product...

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

The Sep 18 NISS-CANSSI Collaborative #DataScience webinar is on "Statistical Ecology." Laura Cowen (UVic) & Patrick O'Hara (ECCC & Institute of Ocean Sciences) will share new work in ecological monitoring, spatial analysis & population modelling. loom.ly/_uEjjTc

We're excited to announce a second physical location for NeurIPS 2025, in Mexico City, which we hope will address concerns around skyrocketing attendance and difficulties in travel visas that some attendees have experienced in previous years. Read more in our blog: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...

Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities. Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!

Out in #matter !! #ElAgente is now published! Please sign up at elagente.ca as we finish the deployment to the cloud and open in alpha testing mode later this summer or early Fall. #ChemSky #CompChemSky #AIforScience #AgenticAI #Agents #Science #Academia #Quantum #Chemistry

Finishing up pride month by thinking about my very gay & Jewish wedding from a week ago ✡️🌈 Tomorrow I’m back to the academic grind, trying to get those papers submitted & published before the start of the semester 😅

How many professors & PhD students does it take for it to count as an academic event? ✡️🕍👩🏽‍❤️‍👩🏾

If you missed StanBio live-stream, the full day recording of Bayesian Stan goodness is available at stanbio.org

Coming up soon (June 16-18)! ... calvin-regression-workshop-2025.netlify.app taught by excellent ecological statisticians (and great people) Stacy de Ruiter (Calvin College) and Leslie New (Ursinus College)

StanBio: Advancing Biomedical research with Bayesian inference. Free 1-day showcase of research being done in this area on Friday, May 30th. Register and live-stream here: stanbio.org #Bayesian #Biomedicine #DrugDiscovery

Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/28/e...

Brought to you by Austin Cheng (@auhcheng.bsky.social) — meet the newest member of our team: Quetzal! Named after Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god of creation, Quetzal is a simple yet scalable model for building 3D molecules atom by atom. 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2505.13791 [1/4]

StanBio Connect 2025 free online conference May 30 stanbio.org ... Stan in biomedicine including drug discovery and development, bioinformatics, medical devices, health economics, real-world evidence, and decision-making under uncertainty

📖Published📖 Improved order selection method for hidden Markov models: A case study with movement data 🌎 🧪 Read the full paper here 👇

Mitzi Morris's new case study mc-stan.org/learn-stan/c... illustrates with hierarchical and spatial models the better efficiency of the new sum_to_zero_vector constrained parameter introduced in Stan 2.36 (2024-12). Mitzi used CmdStanPy, but the Stan code is the same with all interfaces

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

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)

📣 Nominations for the Stan Governing Body are open for another two weeks. Calling on all members of the Stan community to consider this role. 🔗 discourse.mc-stan.org/t/elections-... 💡 A post about my own experience: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/15/e...

Kind of thrilled my first post on here is this paper :) Thankful for all the time spent talking seals, and reviewing and correcting model outputs! It’s a privilege to get to work with all of these amazing Knowledge holders and researchers :) 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Earth Day began in 1970 in the wake of major environmental disasters. In 2022, the UN warned it’s “now or never” on climate. Philip Dixon joins "Stats + Stories" to explore how stats are critical to tackling today’s environmental challenges. tinyurl.com/4jd3wcnp

Fanny Dupont, Marianne Marcoux, Nigel Hussey, Marie Auger-M\'eth\'e Improved order selection method for hidden Markov models: a case study with movement data https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18826

Want to link animal health to movement behaviour? Take a look at our new paper, led by Courtney Shuert: tinyurl.com/2s44wuyu

🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

New paper! We use biologging to look at diel changes in search behavior by great hammerhead sharks, a predator that never stops swimming @etspencer.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There is a great initiative by researchers at KI to teach and learn more about Bayesian methods. This is open to all, inside and outside KI - check it out! Join the email list so you can get the zoom links for seminars by really excellent speakers learnbayes.se #epidemiology #biostatistics