Can someone please tell me what game John Ioannidis is playing, and also, what are the rules?

Congratulations to Eric Wilcots, who's been named Dean of UW-Madison L&S. He's the first African American to hold the position, and we couldn't be happier to move forward under his energy and leadership. @uwmadison bit.ly/3dbYYvj #WeAreLS

A stat-graph problem! answer might be trivial? Suppose a two block stochastic blockmodel on n nodes that is below the reconstruction threshold. an oracle puts every node into one of n/k "pre-groups" of k nodes. no group has nodes in both blocks. can you reconstruct? idk.

SURF: from @fchen365 and Sündüz Keleş, Statistical Utility for RBP Functions, a method for joint analysis of CLIP-seq and RNA-seq data. It uses annotation of alternative exon usage and similar events to predict functional roles for RNA binding proteins genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

American Statistical Association Board issues Statement on President Trump’s Memorandum Regarding the Decennial Census calling "for this administration to allow the US Census Bureau career professionals to conduct a fair & impartial census and ..." CountOnStats ASA

The third phase of the ENCODE project presents an online registry of over 1,200,000 human and mouse candidate functional elements that regulate genes, and the findings are presented in a collection of papers. See the collection here. go.nature.com/2DlgiRe

Suffering from overconfident softmax scores? Time to use energy scores! Excited to release our NeurIPS paper on "Energy-based Out-of-distribution Detection", a theoretically motivated framework for OOD detection. 1/n Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2010.03759 (w/ code included)

Would you want your whole face to be seen while wearing a #mask? Brazilian artist Jorge Silva Roriz paints parts of customers' faces onto white protective masks, ensuring that details like facial hair color and skin tone would be closely matched to his customers' faces.

Looks like I am doing an excellent job in the end (of my PhD) 😃

I’m going to begin today with a bold claim: Being an applied statistician is a lot like being an ethnographer.

Graduate school is a dangerously vulnerable place this vulnerability can enable tremendous growth choose your community and your mentors carefully. Be kind to yourself and each other Mentors, it is an honor to support people in this stage. and this is painfully easy to forget.

an alternative way to imagine PCA:

the best matrix movie ever!

The mathemagics of PCA

"We seeking a hard working post-doc..."

"As someone who studies Twitter data, should I start using Twitter?" --a statistician friend

📣Out now: New work from Yini Zhang Fan Chen & Jo(sephine) Lukito on network amplification on Twitter! The paper examined how elites amplify politicized information and how this varies based on partisan identity of the influencer. Read here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…