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My new favorite example of why the mean is unreliable in the presence of outliers is definitely that the average president has been convicted of .74 felonies

I know the numbers look bad, but maybe the problem isn't that there's sexism in science, but rather than women just prefer not to change their names to Michael?

Anyway I'm defending on Tuesday 🧑‍🏫

(1/3) Outstanding IMS Bulletin piece by Daniela Witten: imstat.org/2024/05/15/wri… I'd add: Profs should not be intimidated if your advisees are more talented in some areas (e.g. more mathematically 'gifted', better at programming, etc) than you are in your *current* career stage.

Thrilled to share the culmination of 4 years of #Fiberseq research enabling the accurate quantification of chromatin accessibility across the 6 Gbp diploid human genome with single-molecule and single-nucleotide precision. See thread for the main findings biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wonderful collaboration with Daniela Witten & William Stafford Noble led by Mitchell R. Vollger enabling the accurate quantification of single-molecule and single-haplotype chromatin architectures, and the first ever intuitive measurement of chromatin accessibility (i.e. percent actuation).

Not with #islr #islp …. Free pdf download at statlearning.com

⭐️ Big news! HHMI is investing $300+ million in 26 new #HHMIInvestigators from 19 US institutions. These top scientists will drive groundbreaking research in diverse fields, from neuroscience to immunology to structural biology & beyond. Welcome to HHMI! hhmi.news/4df2eVs

Is the #ICML2024 acronym being changed to International Conference of Men Learning?

I could not ask for a better statistical family 🥹 #jsm2024

just a quick question for moms of young babies in academia…... how

One more time for the people in the back: AI is a software wrapper around machine learning, machine learning is fancy words for statistics, thanks for coming to my TED talk

I’m tired of Big Parm selling us tasteless processed powder to put on our pastas and vegetables. It’s time to Make America Grate Again 🧀

We’re seeking a new chair to lead a dedicated team of faculty, staff, and students who are passionate about developing and using rigorous quantitative methods to improve the well-being of communities in the United States and around the world. bit.ly/3MmZHwE

Join "Valid Inference with Double Dipping" on Dec. 16 w/ the next Distinguished Speaker, Daniela Witten! Learn techniques for making valid statistical inferences when the same data is used to both generate & test hypotheses (known as "double dipping"). bit.ly/sh-witten

“Energised and inspired to kick off another academic semester!”

Exciting life update: A year from now, I will start as Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at University of Washington!! Looking forward to this next step in my career

n = 3?! What kind of huge effect size does this have ?!?

I call this, "Phases of a Faculty Meeting"

I'm thrilled to share that I've started as an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of ICS (UCIbrenICS). This would not have been possible without my mentors Daniela Witten, Jacob Bien, Abhi Datta, and Nilanjan Chatterjee!