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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 3d

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 6d

The Sierra Nevada’s glaciers—now projected to disappear by 2100 CE—have never before vanished throughout human history in the Americas.

Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3KouoUR

Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene

The projected loss of glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada is likely unprecedented in at least the past 30,000 years.

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International Society for Bayesian Analysis @isba-bayesian.bsky.social · 15d

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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Ecological Forecasting Initiative @ecoforecast.bsky.social · 17d

We will co-host the next Statistical Methods webinar on October 6 at noon US ET with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Statistical Ecology Section

Kenneth Kellner will present “The {unmarked} R package for fitting hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence”

Register at: bit.ly/3H7tri7

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EFI-ESA Stats Seminar: The {unmarked} R package for fitting hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence. After registering, you will receive a c...

This Statistical Methods seminar by the Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the Ecological Society of America Statistical Ecology Section is hosting Dr. Kenneth Kellner from Michigan State Universit...

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Adrian Raftery @adrianraftery.bsky.social · 17d

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

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Dr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · 21d

The Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is under threat of closure, with tenured faculty facing dismissal. This is a small but globally impactful department.
Please consider writing a letter of support. Your voice could make a real difference.

letter from the statistics department chair at UNL

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MC Stan @mc-stan.org · 22d

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

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Susan Vanderplas @srvanderplas.bsky.social · 24d

My University has decided to close the #Statistics department along with several others. The public comment form opened up today: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu...

Please feel free to explain how problematic it is to close a department teaching #datascience #rstats #python in this day and age.

Fall 2025 Budget Reduction Feedback Form | Academic Planning Committee | Nebraska

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Jarno Vanhatalo @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher in statistics to develop methods for analyzing large scale biodiversity and ecosystem function data at the University of Helsinki.

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to do advanced Bayesian modeling with direct link to real world applications.

Research Centre For Ecological Change @rececochange.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢 Post doc! Want to join our team?

We are looking for 3 post docs in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment, and ecological statistics for a fixed term of 2 years!

Come unravel the drivers and consequences of global change on biodiversity with us!

DL 24.9.
#universityofhelsinki

3 Post doc positions in biodiversity science, genetic indicator assessment and ecological statistics

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Sep 2

Stan / CmdStan 2.37 release!
blog.mc-stan.org/2025/09/02/r...
- sum_to_zero_matrix type sums to zero across both rows and columns
- simplex and *_stochastic_matrix types should be now faster and more stable
- new functions exposing the built-in constraint implementations
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Release of CmdStan 2.37

We are very happy to announce that the 2.37.0 release of CmdStan is now available on Github! As usual, the release of CmdStan is accompanied by new releases of Stan Math, core Stan, and Stanc3. Thi…

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · Aug 21

AI efficiency is important. The median Gemini Apps text prompt in May 2025 used 0.24 Wh of energy (<9 seconds of TV watching) & 0.26 mL (~5 drops) of water. Over 12 months, we reduced the energy footprint of a median text prompt 33x, while improving quality:
cloud.google.com/blog/product...

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats

An R package for working with generalized additive models

Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.

gavinsimpson.github.io

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Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute @canssi-incass.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Sep 18 NISS-CANSSI Collaborative #DataScience webinar is on "Statistical Ecology."

Laura Cowen (UVic) & Patrick O'Hara (ECCC & Institute of Ocean Sciences) will share new work in ecological monitoring, spatial analysis & population modelling.

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NISS-CANSSI Collaborative Data Science: Statistical Ecology - CANSSI

Date: Thursday, September 18, 2025 Time: 1:00–2:00 p.m. Eastern time Location: On Zoom Join Us Join us for the next NISS-CANSSI Collaborative Data Science W ...

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Vianey Leos Barajas @vianeylb.bsky.social · Jul 29

I hope he heals quickly! Sending lots of virtual pets and treats for a quick recovery.

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · Jul 16

We're excited to announce a second physical location for NeurIPS 2025, in Mexico City, which we hope will address concerns around skyrocketing attendance and difficulties in travel visas that some attendees have experienced in previous years.

Read more in our blog:
blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n...

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Jul 14

Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities.

Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!

Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · Jul 8

Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award

Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

grad.uwo.ca

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Alán Aspuru-Guzik @aspuru.bsky.social · Jul 4

Out in #matter !! #ElAgente is now published! Please sign up at elagente.ca as we finish the deployment to the cloud and open in alpha testing mode later this summer or early Fall.

#ChemSky #CompChemSky #AIforScience #AgenticAI #Agents #Science #Academia #Quantum #Chemistry

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Vianey Leos Barajas @vianeylb.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Vianey Leos Barajas @vianeylb.bsky.social · Jun 30

Finishing up pride month by thinking about my very gay & Jewish wedding from a week ago ✡️🌈

Tomorrow I’m back to the academic grind, trying to get those papers submitted & published before the start of the semester 😅

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Vianey Leos Barajas @vianeylb.bsky.social · Jun 24

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Vianey Leos Barajas @vianeylb.bsky.social · Jun 24

How many professors & PhD students does it take for it to count as an academic event? ✡️🕍👩🏽‍❤️‍👩🏾

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · May 31

If you missed StanBio live-stream, the full day recording of Bayesian Stan goodness is available at stanbio.org

Vianey Leos Barajas @vianeylb.bsky.social · May 30

Two great talks so far from Andrew Gelman & Arman Organisian. StanBio starts back up at 11:30 am EDT.

Live-stream available here: stanbio.org

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · May 30

Coming up soon (June 16-18)! ... calvin-regression-workshop-2025.netlify.app taught by excellent ecological statisticians (and great people) Stacy de Ruiter (Calvin College) and Leslie New (Ursinus College)

2025 Applied Regression Workshop

calvin-regression-workshop-2025.netlify.app

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