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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 22h

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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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 23h

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

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 4d

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

Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 4d

four NIH institute directors fired www.science.org/content/arti... #nih

After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired

Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

www.science.org

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to the winners!

Institute of Mathematical Statistics @instmathstat.bsky.social · 5d

The 2026 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Awardees have been announced:

imstat.org/2025/10/02/2...

Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 2026 IMS Lawrence D. Brown PhD Student Award: Recipients Annouced

imstat.org

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 13d

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

Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 7d

So Christian...

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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...

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 7d

A practical explanation of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

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

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

www.nytimes.com

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 11d

🧪 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

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 10d

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?

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.

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 10d

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

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 11d

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11d

Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."

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International Society for Bayesian Analysis @isba-bayesian.bsky.social · 13d

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...

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 16d

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

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...

www.tandfonline.com

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Adrian Raftery @adrianraftery.bsky.social · 16d

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.

Home - BSS-ISBA

bss-isba.github.io

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 18d

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...

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. | Statistical Modeling, C...

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 18d

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

Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 18d

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.

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 18d

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.

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Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute @canssi-incass.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 18d

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

Defamation is not protected by the 1A.

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 18d

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.

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 18d

Well, it seems you're unfamiliar with France.

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 18d

The first time she sets foot in Europe she might get arrested for not complying with the court judgements.

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 18d

She would be in trouble the first time she sets foot in Europe, though

The main point is that she's not bright. Attacking Macron's wife in this way shows poor and evil judgement.

Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 19d

Well, they can sue them in France; it's likely less effective if Candace doesn't travel to France or Europe at all. It would be different for me.

Also, they can probably get more money in the US than in Europe.

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 19d

John Stewart is always the best in capturing the hypocrisy of the government

youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?...

Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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