Brian Habing

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

I wrote the Foreword to EM5 as @ncme38.bsky.social President when it went to press. I thanked the herculean service of 103+ members over seven years, and Susan Trent, in Steve Ferrara's memory, who helped make this freely accessible to all to download, read, and cite: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.

"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

A corollary to this principle is that finding a single hallucinated citation should lead to an automatic rejection. Automatic. This should be a matter of policy.

And this is one of easier AI-related problems for our journals!

The editor of the ASA’s journal "Statistics and Data Science in Imaging" invites submissions for a special issue on spatial statistics in imaging with the support of the ASA Statistics and the Environment and Statistics in Epidemiology sections. Learn more: magazine.amstat.org/...

Is being in those colors on the @sc.edu campus begging to be tipped over? Would any self-respecting campus disciplinary group be able to bring itself to find against someone who did? (Brilliant plan to sell ad space quickly? Or fireable offense?)

I could never remember how to spell Bonferroni's name (is it a double n? double f? double r? double other n?). The trick is to remember he was raised by Pirates.

Google AI says that isn't true. But how trustworthy are these LLMs anyway?

The image shows the entrance to a beige concrete building marked with the words "McCausland College of Arts and Sciences." The facade features large rectangular windows at the top. Several people are walking in front of the entrance, engaged in various activities such as talking, holding books, and walking with backpacks. The foreground includes some greenery, with trees and bushes partially framing the building. The scene conveys an active, campus-like environment.

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#OTD 1893 Karl Pearson publishes a letter in Nature suggesting the method of moments for estimating parameters of asymmetrical frequency distributions. He trained as a physicist & borrowed the concept from physics, but it was first used by Chebyshev in his 1887 proof of the central limit theorem

University of Nebraska now spends more on administrators and managers than on faculty At first glance, they look like raises. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a music professor’s salary jumped $13,000 in the past decade.

On the business of universities, and one in particular making cuts.

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NCME responds to the IES RFI. We ask IES to invest in professional standards, NAEP, high-quality research, training grants, a robust infrastructure for high-quality measurement in education, and more. @ncme38.bsky.social
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The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

YouTube video by Chris Bilder Nebraska Board of Regents meeting on 10-3-25: Testimony from members of the UNL Dept of Statistics

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...
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#OTD 1937 Olimpiy Kvitkin (b 30 Oct 1874) chief Soviet statistician was shot on Stalin's orders. Labelled an "enemy of the people" for producing politically inconvenient data, his census data contradicted Stalin's official state numbers & showed the effect of the 1932-3 famine (Holodomor).

#OTD 1759 William Playfair b (d 11 Feb 1823) A Scottish engineer he invented or improved numerous statistical graphics methods still used today, including line, area, bar & pie charts. 1/3

USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.

The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.

UNL proposes $27.5 million in ‘devastating’ cuts, six program areas for elimination • Nebraska Examiner University of Nebraska-Lincoln administrators mapped out $27.5 million in proposed cuts that faculty say will be “devastating."

The University of Nebraska is looking to cut six programs, including the Department of Statistics and 12 of its positions.
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If you are an alum or friend of the Department, some thoughts on giving feedback to the powers that be are at: bsky.app/profile/chri...

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Discussions about recommended elimination of U. of Nebraska-Lincoln (@unlincoln.bsky.social) Dept of Statistics:

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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/

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I'm very interested in reading the article... but Generative Language Models as GLMs a few days after I apologized to a class on behalf of the field for having General and Generalized LInear Models both as names kind of hurts.

In real life I wonder how much those of us teaching in the data fields should avoid a lot of really interesting data sets because of what might be read into our choosing them. (2 of 2)

For a stats parody, I'm imagining a cohort of 4 students - a classical frequentist, a Bayesian, a bootstrapper, and a machine learning fan - each with phone ready for their profs to bring up any of the other 3 in a class where the they weren't explicitly mentioned in the course description. (1 of 2)

It's official....#ENAR2026 Distinguished Student Paper Awards competition is OPEN! Accepting student manuscripts thru 10/1. You can't win, if you don't apply. More details at enar.org @amstatnews.bsky.social

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