Jacquelyn E Neal

I lost my sister (age 13) when I was 14 and my dad a few years ago. The blurring is so hard to describe to those who haven’t been through a major loss.

You’ve captured exactly what my mom has tried to describe in being widowed so vividly. It’s clear there was great love in your life and his 💜

I’m experimenting with what it would take to start my own bookstore, so for IDWSDS, I curated a list of books by women and for women related to data, statistics, and science.

Any proceeds from this will be donated to my Junior League chapter, specifically our project addressing period poverty.

I’ve missed the statistics world more than I realized. Here’s to hoping I get to attend a full JSM again soon.

So in reflecting tonight, I am finding myself deeply grateful I came up here for the department gathering. I still have demons I’m fighting from my time in graduate school, but tonight I am able to appreciate the work and the people I’ve known.

But when I think about the friends I made, the experiences I had, everything that shaped who I am - I would do it again.

I’m blessed to be in the presence of these people. I’m grateful that I got even a few moments to see them as teachers, researchers, parents, and more tonight.

I’ve been asked tons of times whether I’d still do my particular PhD, knowing what I do now about myself, statistical research, and the process.

When considering the research and my career, the answer is probably not.

I am happier post-PhD and in my job than I thought I would ever be. For a long time, I wasn’t sure if that could be true.

I’m still figuring out my career path, almost 3 years post-PhD.

My current role and path are not really understood by most of my department. Which I am ok with, it’s just a realization I had - the world of jobs and careers is bigger and broader than I ever imagined when I started my PhD.

It was a last minute decision to drive up for my department reception - I am not actually attending JSM this year, but I live 2 hours from Nashville and I knew I’d likely not see some of these people in the same room again for several years, if ever.

I wrote a slightly sappy LinkedIn post about seeing friends and faculty from my grad program during #JSM2025 but it was getting a little too personal for me to share it there, so I’m going to think out loud here.

If schools were actually preparing kids for white-collar work they wouldn't be phone-free, you'd have to have your phone on your desk all day for the authenticator apps

Incredible. I never thought I would see a poster session as protest. 💪

Data Analytics, Data Science, and the Lifecycle of Using Data I am retooling a blog post here I wrote for a previous company internally, as this topic is even more important with the rise of AI. I’m working on a series of posts about AI and how it will …

Restarting my blog from undergrad/early grad school, and starting off with some thoughts on the nuance of work between data analytics and data science, and what this means in the "Age of AI."

Rebuilding my writing habit is a work-in-progress but I'm noticing improvements in my work already!

📢 The SoLaR workshop will be collocated with COLM!
@colmweb.org

SoLaR is a collaborative forum for researchers working on responsible development, deployment and use of language models.

We welcome both technical and sociotechnical submissions, deadline July 5th!

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

At the same time, the organization disclosed today in a new blog post, the situation is becoming untenable: AI-driven requests for Wikipedia content are growing exponentially, at significant cost to the foundation, and are not being paid by the companies responsible. Those companies are also serving information from Wikipedia without attribution, greatly reducing the chances that their users will visit Wikipedia and contribute or donate to it. Moreover, during surges of interest in the site — after the death of a celebrity, for example, or in the wake of a natural disaster — bot traffic to other pages is now so significant that it is causing slower page loading times for human users.

NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...

The R Graph Gallery – Help and inspiration for R charts The R graph gallery displays hundreds of charts made with R, always providing the reproducible code.

Ever stuck choosing the right plot or trying to figure out how to make it look just right? My go-to resource is the R Graph Gallery (r-graph-gallery.com), which is full of examples and clear code for everything from scatterplots to Sankey diagrams! #dataviz #rstats #rladies

My thoughts are with all the HHS employees today.

Please know that the cuts being made are not a reflection of the value of the work you all have been doing. We know how critical you all are to public health.

#ThisIsPublicHealth

Cover of John Green’s 2025 book “Everything is Tuberculosis”. It is a yellow cover with an orange circle containing microbes and a green triangle on top

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green released at the perfect time.

Knowledge, despair, hope, a history of the deadliest disease in human history has so many parallels today.

The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️

Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...

Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

John Green’s brand is optimism. On book tour, he’s fighting despair. The author of “Everything Is Tuberculosis” is trying to find hope on the road as medical research funding disappears.

tbf i will also be fighting despair when the tour is over.

Lovely feature in the Washington Post written by the brilliant Sophia Nguyen.

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Happy World TB Day. Grateful for all the work global TB Fighters pour into preventing this curable and preventable scourge. Together, we can end TB.

Asking because my mentee with MS in biostatistics who is applying to PhD programs didn’t know about opportunities through #enar or @amstatnews.bsky.social

I’m making a list but I’ve been out of the academic/conference world for a few years. Anyone have a reference resource I can share?

#databs

For #rstats, #statistics, #datascience, and data-adjacent people, especially those who’ve mentored early career statisticians

How do you track opportunities and professional societies for trainees?

🤔 Ever wondered how prevalent some type of web content is during LM pre-training?

In our new paper, we propose WebOrganizer which *constructs domains* based on the topic and format of CommonCrawl web pages 🌐

Key takeaway: domains help us curate better pre-training data! 🧵/N

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

This is good. Not “will impact budgets” but “your hospital will close and you will die from cancer that could have been treated.”

There is something foundational in my being that simply reading a book, a letter, this very post, is something people killed to stop from happening. I don't have the words to explain it.

Two dates regarding posit::conf(2025):

- The call for talks is open until Feb 14 (that's the extended deadline).
- The deadline for applications for the Opportunity Scholarships is Feb 21.

#dataBS #RStats

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x