D. Andrew Brown

The latest issue of the ISBA bulletin is now available!

This issue features:

- A 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦 from the ISBA President;
- The 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴 from the Bayesian community
- The 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘴 section, full of ideas for bringing Bayes into the classroom.

isba-bulletin.github.io/ISBABulletin/

If you have news, #jobs, etc. that you would like to share with the #Bayesian community, go to bayesian.org to Submit News or Submit Jobs. These submissions are reviewed periodically and posted on the ISBA website.

Federal Judge Vacates NSF Indirect Cost Cap A federal judge tossed out the National Science Foundation’s policy capping reimbursements for costs indirectly related to research, finding “severe” deficiencies in the agency’s reasoning for the pla...

NSF Indirect Cost Cap Unlawful, Judge Rules #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3T7pDQA

A Kernel-Based Approach for Modelling Gaussian Processes with Functional Information Gaussian processes (GPs) are ubiquitous tools for modeling and predicting continuous processes in physical and engineering sciences. This is partly due to the fact that one may employ a Gaussian proce...

Recently arxiv'd: A new version of our paper dealing w/ adding functional constraints to GPs, defining them and establishing convergence of the process in function space.

An old version has been up there a while, and we finally got around to revisiting it.

arxiv.org/abs/2201.11023

In an exercise that is sure to enrage no one, we ranked our top NFL fanbases on the pod. My pick for #1?

THE ATLANTA FALCONS. Fight me!

🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri

📺: youtu.be/XTg02DgPAiQ?...

Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation Today’s supercomputers are enormously powerful, but the work they do − running AI and tackling difficult science − is pushing them to their limits. Building bigger supercomputers won’t be easy.

Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

#NSF is eliminating its divisions. #AcademicSky

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

letter informing of promotion to full professor

Personal 📰: I'm happy to share that, effective Aug. 15, I have been promoted to Full Professor of Statistics.

The ppl I should acknowledge are too many to list. I am a first-generation college student, but def. not "self made." I had a lot of help.

#AcademicSky #WaitIsThisMyLastPromotion

Efficient fully Bayesian approach to brain activity mapping with complex-valued fMRI data Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) enables indirect detection of brain activity changes via the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal. Conventional analysis methods mainly rely on th...

New pub to share in JAS: "Efficient fully Bayesian approach to brain activity mapping with complex-valued fMRI data." We deploy spatial Bayesian VS to identify activated areas in cv - #fMRI data, including computational considerations

#nsffunded

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ISBA 2026: Call for Invited Sessions & Panel Discussions The Scientific Committee invites the submission of proposals for Invited Sessions & Panel Discussions for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting, to be held in Nagoya, Japan from 28 June to 3 July, 2026. Invited...

The Scientific Committee welcomes proposals for Invited Sessions for the 2026 #ISBA World Meeting. Please submit proposals using this form: forms.gle/5G3xJWJaaE6Q...

Proposals will be accepted until 11:59pm (anywhere on Earth) on 6 July 2025.

Also see the conf. site: isba2026.github.io

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

"NSF’s division of grants and awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding and awaiting final signoff to the program officers ... In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards" #academicsky

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

The ISBA Program Council and the committee of Named Lectures for the 2026 World Meeting are pleased to announce a call for nominations for lecturers of the Bruno De Finetti and Susie Bayarri Lectures. The nomination deadline is Sunday, April 15th, 2025.

More info here:
bayesian.org/call-for-nam...

The March 2025 issue of the ISBA Bulletin is out!

This issue features:

- Message from ISBA President
- ISBA Awards
- Updates, Upcoming meetings and conferences
- Tributes in memory of Prof. Herman K. Van Dijk and Prof. John Joseph Deely

isba-bulletin.github.io/ISBABulletin/

Bonus: Around the 5:21 mark, he breaks a stick and doesn't miss a beat. I know I'm really going out on a limb here that nobody has before (/s), but DC is an amazing drummer.

YouTube video by mark shan Danny Carey Drum Cam [Triad] (Live 2002) [AI Enhanced] 1080 HD

Unrelated to #statsky: In my free time I like to bang on my drums. If you're into that kind of thing, check out this ridiculous exercise in limb independence by Danny Carey (of #TOOL). This video is from yrs ago and I just now found it for some reason! Worth a watch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mT-...

I really enjoyed my trip to @georgemasonu.bsky.social. Thanks to David Kepplinger, John Stufken, Lily Wang, and everyone else for being great hosts! Beautiful campus and beautiful cherry trees!

The València International #Bayesian Summer School (#VIBASS 8), a four-day summer school designed to provide an introduction to Bayesian learning, will take place7-10 July 2025 in València, Spain.

Info and registration can be found at vabar.es

I'll be at @georgemasonu.bsky.social this Friday (March 28) visiting the stat dept. to give a talk on some recent #Bayesian #fMRI work. I'm looking forward to catching up with old friends and making some new ones. Come find me if you're in the neighborhood!

#statsky

The EVA conference aim is to bring together researchers in Extreme Value Theory, and its Methods and Applications. The conference is concerned with a broad spectrum of topics

The 14th International Conf. on Extreme Value Analysis ( #EVA2025) will be hosted by UNC Chapel Hill from 23 - 27 June, 2025.

Registration and abstract submission are open for EVA2025. The deadline for abstracts is March 15. See the website for more info 👇

#statsky

eva2025.unc.edu

A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.” The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...

www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

Sometimes I feel like the only sports-following statistician who has never seen Moneyball. #AcademicSky #statsky

The current administration accidentally fired people who do critical work with NUCLEAR WEAPONS (Oops!). But, sure, we can be confident that no critical personnel for flight safety was fired. Definitely not. Everything is fine.

www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-fi...

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

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The 14th conf. on Bayesian nonparametrics (BNP14) will be held at UCLA June 23-27. Early bird reg. has been extended to 15 Mar. Also, initial allocation of dorm rooms has been booked. If you want to stay on campus, submit your req. by TODAY (Feb. 18, 11:59 pm PST). More info below: 👇

bnp14.org

Nice troll

We are sad to share the passing of Herman K. van Dijk, the founder of ESOBE and a founding member of ISBA who passed away on 24 January 2025.

He will be sorely missed by co-authors, collaborators, students, and friends.

Read the full obituary at here:

bayesian.org/in-memoriam-...

Just FYI not enough of you are following @asa-scipol.bsky.social, a policy arm of @amstatnews.bsky.social. #statsky

Bayes Comp 2025 will take place at the National University of Singapore June 16-20, 2025. Registration is now open, and you are invited to submit abstracts for posters and contributed talks (dl Feb. 17). Register by March 15 for early bird rates. More details here: #Bayesian #ISBA

bayescomp2025.sg