Really just inexplicably excited for this trip. We go through upstate NY! I get to sleep through most of Ohio!

Mary Ryan Baumann @ JSM26@drstatsncats.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Wrote the business justification today for taking a 22 hour train from Boston to Chicago like “I looked at return flights and they just didn’t work with my schedule” Wed-Thurs schedule: 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

Every conference is an opportunity for me to relearn that AI illustrations in presentations make me so mad I’m distracted for the rest of the talk 🙂

Yeah no JSM prep is going great why do you ask

Come work with my amazing colleagues (and me)! We have an open rank search in the Learning Sciences area, seeking scholars working at the intersection of learning sciences and AI (broadly construed). Details in the link. wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Madison/j...

#JSM2026 Jacob Bien’s JSM Scheduler is back! jsmscheduler.com

My calendar when I’m determined to finally finish an SAP

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2w ago

the beginnings of investigations are so fun!!!!!!!!

More July mornings should feel like this.

Finally made it back to work inbox 0 - just in time for the start of the academic year so I can disappoint students and collaborators anew with my response times

We're hiring in my team at @financialtimes.com - please do reach out if you have any questions. Whilst this is currently a contract role we have every hope of extending. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Baby’s first platelet donation complete 😎

To be clear, this isn’t an AI tool, it’s a form with prompts that breaks the process of composing a comment into smaller pieces with specific guidance on each piece on how to make it an effective comment. Useful!

American Astronomical Society (AAS)@aas.org · last mo.

🔭 AAS has partnered with @apsphysics.aps.org and other organizations to develop a tool to help you submit unique, personalized comments on harmful proposed changes to federal grants. Please submit a comment by 13 July! www.aps.org/initiatives/...

Wading through my inbox after a week off to catch up on grant submission admin and falling for a university IT document signature phishing test

Managed to hit the trifecta of Atlantic Canadian tourism this week: a whale, puffins, and an iceberg. And it’s not even Friday.

Wrote the business justification today for taking a 22 hour train from Boston to Chicago like “I looked at return flights and they just didn’t work with my schedule” Wed-Thurs schedule: 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

They really don’t lie when they say you can’t beat a WI summer

Never forget:

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3mo ago

Q: Does my thesis adviser pick the snake? A: No. Your adviser just tells the guy who picks the snakes how good your thesis was.

I’ve gotten no fewer than 14 spam calls in the last 24 hours what is happening???

Lighting the @nogodsnomayors.com bat signal

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is a thread for lovers of elections; French politics; & French geography. Tomorrow are France's runoffs for MAYOR elections; every city choosing its mayor. It's a window into multiparty politics, shifting coalitions, & hard math, & suspense. I'll go thru the 10 biggest cities, 1 by 1.

NEW: When a Wisconsin mayor ended his city's contract with Flock (the AI surveillance company), he was stunned to see Flock refused to remove cameras. So he covered them with plastic bags. Now local activists are taking their fight to Madison & the Dane County sheriff, wanting more cameras gone.

This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going. - Bolts

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read ...

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There is a rift in the enclose.horse community

That time once again

Mary Ryan Baumann @ JSM26@drstatsncats.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎉🎉🎉 Long-awaited: lme4 2.0-1 now handles some simple structured covariance matrices: diagonal ['true' - not just semantic splitting of `(x+y|f)` into `(x|f)` + `(y|f)`], compound symmetric, AR1 (no GPs/factor-analytic/reduced-rank/etc. yet ...)

Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2026) in Houston! We’re offering 40 full-support scholarships for underrepresented groups in data science. Includes: 🎟️ Conference+Workshop pass 🏨 Hotel stay ✈️ Travel reimbursement Apply by March 13: posit.co/blog/apply-t... #positconf2026 #rstats

Ah yes just submitted all my simulations to the cluster. Now to take a big drink of water and type condor_q …

Scrolling the SWAP and realized this is just wisco Nook Shopping

🧵Good news out of #NIH today. (1) NIH is extending #ESI and #K99/R00 eligibility to accommodate researchers whose eligibility would have ended during the previous shutdown. Take a look at NOT-OD-26-020. If your ESI status would have ended in 2025, you get an automatic extension through 2026/03/31.

I swear, senate voicemail recording times have gotten shorter

Trying to take a finicky hi-res screenshot for a manuscript while avoiding all the clutter on my desk

Hi Bluesky! It’s been a while! We’re growing the Stats team at Loyal! We’re looking for a statistician with experience in observational and late stage interventional clinical trials in human or vet med. If that is you or anyone you know please apply! job-boards.greenhouse.io/loyal36/jobs...

The year of our lord 2026 and google slides doesn’t have an equation editor???