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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 3d

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 3d

If you would like to propose a mini-course that I would like to teach, you can do that using email listed here: icmu.ua/en/programme...

The mini-course organizers are especially keen to add more courses in the areas of Applied Mathematics and Statistics

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 3d

In another display of incredible resilience, Ukrainian mathematicians in 2022(❗) opened a new International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine (ICMU): icmu.ua/en

It was pleasure to give an online mini-course on Bayesian Statistics to Ukrainian students and scientists: icmu.ua/en/events/in...

International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine - ICMU

ICMU supports top-level research in mathematics, with special emphasis on training younger generations of scientists and the development of mathematics in Ukraine.

icmu.ua

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 9d

Russian soldiers proudly call their campaign to hunt Ukrainian civilians with the help of drones "human safari." Yes, you've read this correctly: deliberately hunting *civilians* using drones

Tochnyi @tochnyi.info · 10d

🚑🚨New Interactive Map: Human Safari Russian drones stalk Kherson daily — indiscriminately hunting civilians. Since 2023, over 3,000 casualties have been recorded.

Explore how these war crimes has developed over the years in our interractive map🗺️ maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/

Tochnyi » The Human Safari

An interactive map of the atrocities caused by the Russian Human Safari in Kherson, Ukraine.

maps.tochnyi.info

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · 23d

Closing a Department of Statistics, in this day and age, is incredible and shortsighted. Please, read below. I encourage everyone from all over the world to submit their feedback here

apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu...

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 28d

Don't miss UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program if you are looking for postdoc opportunities: ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...

How to apply

ppfp.ucop.edu

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · 29d

Yes, the E in EMPATHI would be a deal breaker right from the start.

Not sure how long the strategy of concealing equity in structured population phrasing and replacing covid with influenza is going to work, but it seems that is what NSF and NIH now wants us to do 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Michele Guindani @mguindani.bsky.social · Aug 21

“University of California scientists helped create the Internet, wet suits, artificial intelligence and a lung therapy that has saved an untold number of premature newborns.”

www.latimes.com/california/n...

The 'death knell' of America's top public university?

Your morning catch-up: UC fights the Trump administration, voters in deep-red NorCal are fuming about Newsom’s maps, and more big stories.

www.latimes.com

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psathyrella.bsky.social @psathyrella.bsky.social · Aug 16

In a new preprint we use deep learning on lineage trees to infer the functional form of the relationship between affinity and fitness that controls antibody evolution in germinal centers: arxiv.org/abs/2508.09871 🧵

Inference of germinal center evolutionary dynamics via simulation-based deep learning

B cells and the antibodies they produce are vital to health and survival, motivating research on the details of the mutational and evolutionary processes in the germinal centers (GC) from which mature...

arxiv.org

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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · Aug 16

Screenshot of cases from the U.S. CDC’s website showing the number of national measles cases indexed by rash onset date.

Are they going down?

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Daniel M. Parker @dmparker.bsky.social · Aug 15

preliminary work from us on seroepidemiology of #Aedes borne disease in East #Ethiopia. Long story short - LOTS of exposure to #dengue and #chikungunya. There have been outbreaks, but looks endemic to me. More work needed on that. There might be Zika transmission too: : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

High seroprevalence of antibodies to Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika viruses in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional survey in 2024

Author summary Mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika pose growing public health challenges in many parts of Africa, but limited surveillance makes it difficult to assess their t...

dx.plos.org

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Duncan MacCannell @drm.bsky.social · Aug 5

✨ Looking to add something special to your decor?

This is your last chance to order FREE Scientific Superhero posters for your home, office, university, or lab from CDC-INFO on Demand.

The last day to order is August 15, 2025 before they shut things down.

www.cdc.gov/advanced-mol...

AMD Posters for Genomic sequencing, bioinformatics and epidemiology. These posters won a ClearMark award for their design and clarity.

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MIDAS Network @midas-network.bsky.social · Aug 11

The California Department of Public Health is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 4th Annual Western States Modeling Symposium, to be held virtually on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, from 10am PT.

Register: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · Aug 7

not sure if @juemos.bsky.social got tagged correctly, so tagging him here again

Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · Aug 7

That's us 🤓 @dmparker.bsky.social and company

Special thanks to ‪@juemos.bsky.social (not a co-author, unfortunately for us), whose joke about our work in progress at the time (when we were prepping to apply for NSF PIPP II competition) inspired the title of the paper! 🚽

arxiv.stat.ME @arxiv-stat-me.bsky.social · Aug 7

Isaac H. Goldstein, Daniel M. Parker, Sunny Jiang, Aiswarya Rani Pappu, Volodymyr M. Minin
The signal is not flushed away: Inferring the effective reproduction number from wastewater data in small populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03959

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · Aug 1

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www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Death toll from Russian strike on Kyiv rises to 26, including 3 children – photos

The death toll from the Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of 30-31 July has risen to 26, including three children. Another 159 people have been injured, including 16 children.

www.pravda.com.ua

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · Jul 20

This is the second time the Austrian Journal of Statistics has done something like this to support Ukraine. Back in 2023 the journal ran the special issue "Recent Trends in Probability and Statistics in Ukraine":

www.ajs.or.at/index.php/aj...

Vol. 52 No. SI (2023): Recent Trends in Probability and Statistics in Ukraine | Austrian Journal of Statistics

www.ajs.or.at

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · Jul 20

Austrian Journal of Statistics has a special issue this year highlighting research in the Department of Probability, Statistics and Actuarial Mathematics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 🇺🇦 Legends like Gnedenko, Gikhman, and Skorokhod worked there

www.ajs.or.at/index.php/aj...

Vol. 54 No. 1 (2025): Special Issue by the Department of Probability, Statistics and Actuarial Mathematics at TSNU of Kyiv | Austrian Journal of Statistics

www.ajs.or.at

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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · Jul 7

BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference - Nature Methods

BEAST X advances Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic analysis by incorporating a broad range of complex models and leveraging advanced algorithms and techniques to boost statistica...

www.nature.com

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · Jul 5

Related: @tslumley.bsky.social have just posted his view of asymptotically unbiasedness: bsky.app/profile/tslu...

Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · Jun 25

What does "asymptotically unbiased" mean?
notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/06/25/t...

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Volodymyr Minin 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @vmminin.bsky.social · Jun 23

First, it is fantastic to discover you on here, Ken!

The dates really confused me. I look at the calendar --- it is 2025. I look at the flyer --- @kenriceken.bsky.social is talking about his 2017 paper. I google the paper --- JRSSA website site says the paper was published in 2018 😅

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Mine Doğucu @minedogucu.com · Jun 21

💜 LA

Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · Jun 21

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @hsph.harvard.edu · Jun 16

During Pride month, we're highlighting LGBTQ leaders in public health history.

Alan Hart, born in 1890, was a physician, researcher, radiologist, and novelist. 🧵 1/3

Alan Hart
Pioneered the use of chest x-rays to diagnose tuberculosis
LGBTQ leaders in public health history

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Jun 11

What's happening in LA? Here's what I see.

scienceforeveryone.science/p/a-quick-re...

A quick report from Los Angeles

Immigrants and the rule of law in the world's 4th largest economy

scienceforeveryone.science

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Bloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social · Jun 11

I wrote a full response to this here, which explains why there remains a discrepancy between outgroup- and date-based rooting that still makes it impossible to reliably root the tree: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

The Data are Insufficient to Confidently Root the SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenetic Tree

Abstract. Several years ago, I published a paper that described the discrepancy between outgroup and date-based methods for rooting the SARS-CoV-2 phylogen

academic.oup.com

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