Mark your diaries! The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online. Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework. Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au #statistics

Looking forward to speaking at the CAUSALab methods seminar series next week! 👇

Join us Wed 14 May as our biostatisticians @drkarenlamb.bsky.social & Phoebe Fitzpatrick address p-value misconceptions, explain the interpretation of p-values & confidence intervals & emphasise the importance of clinical significance in health research. Register ➡️ ow.ly/yB4W50VAzoo #EMCR

Congratulations to Margarita on this prestigious award! 🏅 The Moran Medal is awarded every 2 years to an outstanding emerging leader in statistical science. This recognises Margarita's outstanding scientific leadership in the fields of causal inference and missing data. More details in the 📼 below

Seminar announcement🗣️ Prof Kelley Kidwell (Uni of Michigan): SMARTer Trials: Integrating Patient Treatment Preferences for Pragmatic Multi-Stage Trial Design & Analyses 27 Mar, 9:30am AEDT Online + in person @ Monash SPHPM, Melbourne Details - www.vicbiostat.org.au/seminars

Exciting Monday news with two of our brilliant researchers awarded NHMRC Investigator Grants 🎊 Congratulations Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social and Julie Simpson @julieasimpson50.bsky.social More: www.vicbiostat.org.au/news @mischhub.bsky.social @cebu-melbourne.bsky.social

Another successful workshop from our missing data methods research group ✔️Led by Margarita Moreno-Betancur @margaritamb.bsky.social, with presenters Kate Lee, Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social, Jiaxin Zhang, Cattram Nguyen, Melissa Middleton and Jessica Xu. Thank you to all who came along!

We're off and away with Summer School 2025! Jonathan Sterne @jonathanasterne.bsky.social is leading our Advanced causal inference course, ably assisted by tutors Ghazaleh Dashti @ghazalehd.bsky.social, Marnie Downes, Daisy Shepherd and Jiaxin Zhang from CEBU.