The 2025 winners of the newly established David Cox Medal for Statistics are Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (causal inference), Nancy Zhang (statistical genomics & biomedical research), and Richard Samworth (methodological & theoretical statistics). tinyurl.com/ysyxxxvk

Congratulations to A. Philip Dawid, David Cox Foundations of Statistics Award winner. As a statistics professor at Cambridge, Dawid has made groundbreaking contributions that have shaped statistical science. He will receive the award and deliver a lecture at JSM2025. www.amstat.org/your-career/...

NCES shuttering negatively impacts NAEP at a critical juncture. www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa...

The time to restore NCES is now. Congress, the administration, and the public must recognize that protecting our statistical infrastructure isn’t just a technical issue. It’s an essential investment in America’s educational future. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

The abrupt termination of most NCES staff yesterday represents a shortsighted decision that threatens the integrity of our educational data infrastructure. NCES must be restored before irreplaceable institutional knowledge and data continuity are permanently lost www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Incredibly important that the disbanded statistical science advisory committees key to federal statistical agencies be restored. Quality and integrity of federal data and essential accountability mechanisms are at stake. www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa... www.linkedin.com/posts/steve-...

Grave concerns about the Department of Education placing Commissioner Carr on administrative leave www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa...

Without NCES products, families, communities, and decisionmakers throughout the country will be left in the dark on many aspects of our education system. This funding urgently needs to be restored. www.linkedin.com/posts/ron-wa...

With the reports of new Administration officials accessing sensitive data systems, I call upon Congress and the White House to take all necessary actions to forbid access to the data collected by the federal statistical agencies by individuals outside those agencies. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...