Michele Guindani

ISBA 2026: Call for Contributed Talks & Posters The Scientific Committee invites the submission of proposals for Contributed Talks and Posters for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting, to be held in Nagoya, Japan from 28 June to 3 July, 2026. Contributed ta...

ISBA Community:

The deadline to propose a contributed talk for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting is next Friday, November 21. Proposals may be submitted using this form: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...

See the call below for details 👇

Stat literacy—the ability to interpret, evaluate, and communicate about data—is essential in today’s world. In this episode, @johnbailer.bsky.social and @rompenni.bsky.social talk with Pedro Campos, Mark Glickman, and Larry Lesser about creative ways to promote it worldwide. tinyurl.com/bdzbcj2h

This is joint work with @aaronbornstein.bsky.social and Marina Vannucci.

Discrete Autoregressive Switching Processes with Cumulative Shrinkage Priors for Graphical Modeling of Time Series Data We propose a flexible Bayesian approach for sparse Gaussian graphical modeling of multivariate time series. We account for temporal correlation in the data by assuming that observations are charact...

New paper in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Kudos to Beniamino Hadj-Amar for leading the work.

The model uncovers evolving connectivity patterns in multivariate signals by combining switching dynamics with sparse graphs.

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

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

"The number of suspicious letters keeps growing [...] In 2023, the share of letters written by prolific authors -those who had three or more published in a year - was 6%. In 2024, it was 12%. This year, the investigators report, it is approaching 22%".

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

My checklist before I record my class on Zoom without missing any step is to start my CARS: Connect, Audio on (unmute!), Record, and then Share screen.

Grateful for the unexpected madeleine moment back to the first year of high school, when we learned quadratic equations.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐒𝐁𝐀 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧?

A provocative question in the Message from the President in the latest 𝐈𝐒𝐁𝐀 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧, now online:

isba-bulletin.github.io/ISBABulletin/

I had a chance to read again the review paper by Baladandayuthapani and colleagues,

𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙖
bit.ly/4hnaB4w

Great work, and I am happy it has been published in 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨
www.tandfonline.com/journals/usd...

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The Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, in association with Merton College, is recruiting an Associate Professor of Statistics.

Closing date for applications: 19 November 2025
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True. Sometimes, though, the authors simply cannot write, but their idea is nice. Those are some of the tough decisions, either way you go.

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The Women in Statistics & Data Science Conference is coming Nov. 12–14 in Cincinnati! A welcoming community to connect, learn, and grow through networking events, plenaries, workshops, posters, and more. WSDS is your place to shine! Register today: tinyurl.com/4xch84kb #STATSSKY

Insane! The damage to the US will take years if not decades to repair.

Congratulations to the winners!

Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

So Christian...

wapo.st/46GSwcv

A Novice Defense Secretary Lectures the Brass on What It Takes to Win

A practical explanation of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

🧪 Major changes to #GRFP!

If you are already in graduate school, you are now only eligible to apply in your first year for GRFP.

Meaning PhD students with a Master’s and 2nd year Master’s students are now ineligible.

#GradSchool #Fellowship #Funding #STEM #AcademicSky

GitHub educator benefit application -- Apprived on May 25 and August 28 for 2 years, then asked to reverify on Sep 11 and denied, approved again September 27 and then denied three times again on the same day.

What is it @github.com @githubeducation.bsky.social? Am I faculty or am I not faculty? Why do you keep asking me the same question, after saying you won't ask for 2 years, and then not believing my answer?

I was in Portland last weekend. It was fine and fun, as always.

Proposals for contributed talks & posters are now being accepted for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting! The world meeting will take place in Nagoya, Japan between 28 June and 3 July, 2026. Proposals may be submitted here: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...

Stochastic HIV-1 infection model with time delay: case study of clinical data This paper proposes an immunosuppressive infection model with time delay and stochastic perturbation. A stochastic threshold R0s is constructed, and the sufficient conditions for virus extinction a...

Stochastic HIV-1 infection model with time delay: case study of clinical data www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The new Bayesian Social Sciences section of @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has just been created: bss-isba.github.io. The committee is myself as chair, @robinryder.bsky.social, chair elect from 2027, @nialfriel.bsky.social, program chair, @monjalexander.bsky.social, Treasurer, EJWagenmakers, Secretary.

When thinking about causal inference, mechanistic or process models are important. I think that the association of “causal” with black-box models leads to lots of problems.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/19/w...

Your idea that the judicial system depends on the government is interesting, and contrary to the Constitution. The idea that Americans may be free of consequences because of their citizenship status is, at best, a testament to political bullism, which may explain the general disdain toward Americans

Your request doesn't make any sense because these are two different systems of law. The US's non-cooperation is a problem as long as the felon remains in the US. If the felon travels to Europe, they are subject to European laws. It's as simple as that.

That doesn't make any sense. Americans don't rule the world. They can freak out all they want. I doubt any french would give up their sovereignty to appease the US.
Also, if it goes on like it's going, the US will have less and less weight going forward.

CALL FOR FACULTY PROPOSALS

Do you have a project that could offer a comprehensive #research & #training experience to a postdoc in #statisticalsciences?

Submit your proposal to the CANSSI Distinguished #Postdoctoral #Fellowships program by October 1:

https://loom.ly/GvcQVII

A European court? The judgment is based on European laws. You are being disingenuous here.

Defamation is not protected by the 1A.

When you don't comply with a court judgment, it's not a 1A-related issue. By the way, defamation is not covered by the 1A.

If there is a country that doesn't fear retaliation to uphold its principles, that's France.