Chris Bilder
@chrisbilder.bsky.social
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Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; www.chrisbilder.com
#Lego
aisle at
#LNK
#Target
a few days before Christmas
about 23 hours ago
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It's strange that
#UNL
wants faculty in eliminated departments to put together annual performance review documents for themselves. My plans for next year simply say "find a new job".
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
1 day ago
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This is what could have been at
#UNL
rather than eliminating departments. The Regents would not take the time to examine it.
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
thebugeater.com/board-of-reg...
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Educational Leadership Experts Provide Alternatives to Academic Program Cuts - The Bugeater
At the University of Nebraska Board of Regents meeting last Friday, we heard from over 100 faculty, staff, students, and community members as to why the academic program cuts in the UNL Chancellor’s b...
https://thebugeater.com/board-of-regents/educational-leadership-experts-provide-alternatives-to-academic-program-cuts/
13 days ago
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The good apple is gone. The bad pumpkin remains.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiEr...
#Huskers
#Nebraska
#LNK
13 days ago
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Yesterday was a very sad day for Statistics: U. of Nebraska Board of Regents voted 9-1 (2 abstentions) to eliminate its Department of Statistics (
www.youtube.com/live/K5G-aeD...
). Stats testimony at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z3B...
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
@amstatnews.bsky.social
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University of Nebraska Board of Regents meeting on Dec. 5, 2025; testimony by Dept of Statistics
YouTube video by Chris Bilder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z3Bp5mdvG8
16 days ago
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Violating fire codes in the Varner Hall waiting room?
#Nebraska
#LNK
#Huskers
@journalstar.com
17 days ago
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reposted by
Chris Bilder
Susan Vanderplas
17 days ago
I have some awesome students protesting the
#universityofNebraska
#budget
cuts to the
#statistics
department and other departments on campus.
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Coverage of
@aaup.org
New Orleans-style funeral procession for 4 depts slated for elimination; purpose was to make public aware of what might happen w/ Friday's Board of Regents vote
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
@amstatnews.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zyy...
www.youtube.com/shorts/_TKyd...
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AAUP UNL Funeral Procession for UNL Budget Cuts 2025
YouTube video by srvanderplas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zyyrs46jRA
18 days ago
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Nebraska Board of Regents meeting 11-21-25: Testimony from
@srvanderplas.bsky.social
of the UNL Dept of Statistics; the department makes millions of dollars for the university beyond expenses, but the university wants to cut it. Why???
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
youtu.be/9rUcJiMxAK4
@journalstar.com
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Nebraska Board of Regents meeting 11-21-25: Testimony from Susan VanderPlas, UNL Dept of Statistics
YouTube video by Chris Bilder
https://youtu.be/9rUcJiMxAK4
about 1 month ago
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How can you help the Department of Statistics at the U. of Nebraska-Lincoln survive its proposed elimination? Participate in letter writing campaign #2!
#Huskers
#LNK
@amstatnews.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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How can you help the Dept of Statistics at U. of Nebraska-Lincoln survive its proposed elimination? Participate in letter writing campaign #2!
#Huskers
#LNK
@amstatnews.bsky.social
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https://nebraska.edu/regents/boar...
about 1 month ago
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#LNK
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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UNL Faculty Senate no confidence vote on Chancellor Rodney Bennett passes 60-14-3
#Nebraska
#Huskers
youtube.com/shorts/f21S6...
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UNL Faculty Senate's no confidence vote on Chancellor Rodney Bennett passes 60-14 #Nebraska #Huskers
YouTube video by Chris Bilder
https://youtube.com/shorts/f21S6Dq8TVg?si=4FohuCj6YAfW6ivZ
about 1 month ago
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A new YouTube playlist:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
. This puts all U. of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Department of Statistics videos regarding the budget reduction process in one place. Learn how UNL is misusing stats to eliminate its stats department!
#Huskers
#Nebraska
#LNK
@amstatnews.bsky.social
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln budget reduction process: Faulty data, faulty analyses, faulty conclusions - YouTube
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is recommending the elimination of my UNL Department of Statistics along with three other departments and other seve...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLugR2r-GFd_DJ_7OarRcr-ErksgbWUKiM
about 1 month ago
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Please get the word out about the U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics
@biometricsociety.org.au
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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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
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Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
https://budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget-reduction-plan/
about 1 month ago
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#LNK
#NorthStar
student section at state high school vball championship; they won the sportsmanship award
about 1 month ago
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#UNL
Dept of Statistics seminar, The Metrics, was yesterday with > 150 individuals attending (in person and Zoom),
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUk2...
. We discuss errors in stat analysis by administrators in their proposal to eliminate 6 departments. /1
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
@amstatnews.bsky.social
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUk2R0UYWpAon
about 1 month ago
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#UNL
Department of Statistics seminar: "The Metrics" on Thursday, Nov 6 at 12:30PM in Swanson Auditorium of City Campus Union. We will discuss the problems with the metrics: the data used, the formulation, and the analyses performed.
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
about 2 months ago
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The UNL Academic Planning Committee (APC) report was released late Friday. There is no direct link to it from the APC or UNL web page, so here it is
budgetprocess.unl.edu/sites/unl.ed...
.
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
@journalstar.com
@owhnews.bsky.social
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https://budgetprocess.unl.edu/sites/unl.edu.budget-process/files/media/file/20251024_apc_recommendation.pdf
about 2 months ago
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The evening sun is nicely illuminating the Stop Cuts at UNL Now sign on my freshly cut lawn
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
about 2 months ago
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Took LilK out trick-or-treating this evening. I like it when the house provides candy for the parent. I got something different this year: a free drink token for a local bar
about 2 months ago
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This graphic helps to explain some of the money problems at UNL (source: Flatwater Free Press);
flatwaterfreepress.org/university-o...
#Nebraska
#Huskers
#LNK
about 2 months ago
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Local news media coverage of the Stop the Cuts rally -
www.klkntv.com/stop-the-cut...
,
nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
,
journalstar.com/news/local/e...
#Huskers
#Nebraska
#LNK
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'Stop the cuts': Professors hold rally against proposed $27.5 million slash in UNL budget
Groups gathered in front of the Nebraska Union as Husker football fans flooded the campus. The rally-goers held signs as they tried to get people to sign petitions.
https://www.klkntv.com/stop-the-cuts-professors-hold-rally-against-proposed-27-5-million-slash-in-unl-budget/
about 2 months ago
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LilC has learned how to spell and use punctuation while a student at North Star; picture is from State Cross Country today where the Gators placed 2nd
about 2 months ago
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I just created a new subfolder in the main research folder of my computer. The subfolder name: "BudgetProcessPaper". I don't want to write it.
2 months ago
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More news media coverage today about U. of Nebraska-Lincoln's proposed budget cuts:
journalstar.com/news/state-r...
#Huskers
#LNK
#Nebraska
@amstatnews.bsky.social
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UNL faculty propose alternatives to cutting programs, departments
Several faculty from the departments eyed for elimination say there are alternatives to cutting their programs that could keep positions intact while also driving new funding streams to UNL.
https://journalstar.com/news/state-regional/education/article_975fd1e4-fe0a-4365-b177-6a46fab9e607.html
2 months ago
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LilC made the #1 Doubles award stand today at State Tennis!
2 months ago
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Flatwater Free Press article: As UNL proposes steep budget cuts, statistics faculty ask leadership to check their math
flatwaterfreepress.org/as-unl-propo...
#Huskers
#LNK
#Nebraska
#UNL
@amstatnews.bsky.social
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As UNL proposes steep budget cuts, statistics faculty ask leadership to check their math - Flatwater Free Press
A growing chorus of university voices is raising doubts about the data and metrics that UNL used to identify its proposed budget cuts — one of the largest single-year cuts in more than a decade.
https://flatwaterfreepress.org/as-unl-proposes-steep-budget-cuts-statistics-faculty-ask-leadership-to-check-their-math/
2 months ago
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UNL cuts diminish us all; emergency fund could bridge gap
nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/10/15/u...
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UNL cuts diminish us all; emergency fund could bridge gap • Nebraska Examiner
It’s always stirring to watch Interstate 80 swell with fans on a Saturday. But this fall, the university that the Big Red faithful pass on their way to Memorial Stadium teeters on a slope to academic ...
https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/10/15/unl-cuts-diminish-us-all-emergency-fund-could-bridge-gap/
2 months ago
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Interested in understanding problems with U of
#Nebraska
Lincoln's metrics to decide which programs to cut? See Apdx C from the Dept of Statistics report! Some metrics can be 0/0!
@srvanderplas.bsky.social
srvanderplas.github.io/2025-stat-ap...
#LNK
@journalstar.com
@owhnews.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Article from @JournalStarNews about the faulty data, faulty analyses, and faulty conclusions used for U of
#Nebraska-Lincoln
budget cuts - UNL relied on statistics to choose programs to cut. Statistics faculty say the analysis was done poorly.
journalstar.com/news/state-r...
@Huskers
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UNL relied on statistics to choose programs to cut. Statistics faculty say the analysis was done poorly.
The data-driven process used by UNL to determine which departments to cut is flawed, says the faculty of the Department of Statistics — one of the programs on the chopping
https://journalstar.com/news/state-regional/article_7a2076e0-9865-43c3-9037-b84d6e0a5ef1.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=user-share
2 months ago
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Here's a video from the October 10th hearing about the proposed elimination of the Department of Statistics:
youtu.be/v_J96zYjF_Q
. Check out
www.SaveOurStats.com
for more information about the issues.
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UNL Department of Statistics presentation for the Academic Planning Committee on October 10, 2025
YouTube video by Chris Bilder
https://youtu.be/v_J96zYjF_Q
2 months ago
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Senior day tennis at
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NS
3 months ago
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Faulty data, faulty analyses, and faulty conclusions - This was the theme discussed by UNL Dept of Stats faculty yesterday during Nebraska Board of Regents meeting regarding the
@unlincoln.bsky.social
Budget Reduction Process:
youtube.com/watch?v=IqBM...
@owhnews.bsky.social
@journalstar.com
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Nebraska Board of Regents meeting on 10-3-25: Testimony from members of the UNL Dept of Statistics
YouTube video by Chris Bilder
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IqBM2GkdkFw
3 months ago
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A pause in the budget reduction process at
@unlincoln.bsky.social
is needed -
omaha.com/news/state-r...
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UNL programs up for elimination ask chancellor for delay; hearings on cuts begin
University of Nebraska-Lincoln programs slated to be cut asked that the process be delayed to ensure they were afforded a full and fair hearing before the Academic Planning Committee.
https://omaha.com/news/state-regional/education/article_f3c66a08-8280-5f07-aec5-42df6d00ed9f.html#tracking-source=home-the-latest
3 months ago
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With our students to Save Our Stats today at the City Campus Union
@unlincoln.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Excellent "Save Our Stats" logo created by one of our graduate students in the Department of Statistics at
@unlincoln.bsky.social
3 months ago
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LilC first place for NorthStar #1 doubles at Bell West Invite today!
3 months ago
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reposted by
Chris Bilder
Michele Guindani
3 months ago
Unbelievable. A University shutting down a Department of Statistics in this day and age highlights the sheer incompetence of its governance.
@amstatnews.bsky.social
@instmathstat.bsky.social
@canssi-incass.bsky.social
My thought is with all the members of the Department in this difficult moment.
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Discussions about recommended elimination of U. of Nebraska-Lincoln (
@unlincoln.bsky.social
) Dept of Statistics:
www.reddit.com/r/Nebraska/c...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Make your voice heard by submitting comments at
apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu...
or contact administrators directly
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From the Nebraska community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Nebraska community
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebraska/comments/1ngb3ba/open_letter_to_unl_administrators_and_regents/
3 months ago
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For those posting about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln budget cuts, please use
#UNLcuts
in your posts.
budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-bud...
nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
3 months ago
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There is definitely "no place like Nebraska": U. of Nebraska-Lincoln (
@unlincoln.bsky.social
) is recommending the elimination of my Dept. of Statistics along with 5 other departments and other cuts. These recommendations include laying off 50+ tenured faculty--no other university does this. 1/
3 months ago
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Driving a loaner Cadillac to work today while my
#EquinoxEV
is getting fixed
3 months ago
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Finished stringing three Carve racquets for Lincoln North Star High School tennis. Used Solinco's Mach 10, Toroline's Snapper, and Toroline's Toro Toro; all at 52 lbs.
4 months ago
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Stadium pics
#Huskers
4 months ago
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Two red Chevy
#EquinoxEV
charging
4 months ago
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New Carve tennis racquet for LilC! Strung at 52 lbs with Toroline's O-Toro Spin. Expect to see some neon pink scorch marks on tennis balls this season!
4 months ago
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New record driver distance for LilC
4 months ago
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New
#MutualOfOmaha
skyscraper in
#Omaha
4 months ago
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