"With user-pleasing AI agents getting faster at tasks – and potentially subject to less user scrutiny – there’s more need for statistical thinking than ever"

I had been wondering about this….

Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly. Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help! 🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm

Like to develop spatio-temporal models? Interested in Arctic marine mammals 🦭🐳 and their susceptibility to oil spills? You may be the postdoctoral fellow Dr. Mariane Marcoux and I are looking for! See the details in the job ad: tinyurl.com/spatiostatamm

Want to reduce perceived uncertainty by billions of fish? Try highest density intervals instead of equal-tailed intervals. Can also change perception of stock health. New short paper with @marieaugermethe.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New R package: github.com/andrew-edwar...

it's a hard and sad time in science / higher ed in the US right now. on the other hand, lots of PhDs are looking for work, so I wanted to share— I'm hiring a postdoc! it's a two-year position at UCSC to do (preferably Bayesian) modeling of marine ecosystems: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01892

...but today NOAA abruptly shifted shifted the Hake review meeting to be online only. It's already booked and paid for, hotels booked, 30-40 people travelling to attend, and industry members now out of pocket. During covid, the online meetings were vastly less effective for international diplomacy.

Next week, I am meant to be reviewing the Pacific hake assessment. This is the largest fishery on the US West Coast, catching hundreds of thousands of tons of fish, providing $295 million in income and providing 4324 jobs (in 2022). But... 1/n