Wow! Y’all, JWB, Ph.D. & I started #BlackintheIvory less than 12hrs ago. I thought we’d be the only ones to use it, but it’s caught on. And so many folx are seeing our stories. We are TRUTH tellers. I KNOW it’s painful (trust). But if you feel comfortable, please cont. sharing.

The best part of my phylogenetic tree visualization project with Amy Willis 😻 amydwillis.bsky.social: the variable names I get to use for concatenated trees 😺😻😺

StatDivLab movie night: watching Clue to celebrate David passing his General Exam! We have a competition to put together the best snacks within a $20 budget. Please comment with your vote -- I'll announce the winner in a few hours! #whodidit #snacktalk #movienight 📽️🍿🍉

Come chat with us about the statistics grad school application process and life as a grad student. Please share with your students and your network!

It's that time of the year again! Interested to learn about life as a graduate student in (bio)statistics ? Come chat with my fellow PhD students UW Statistics about graduate school applications and programs! Please register in advance & share with prospective students at all levels!

It's grad school application season. This year I'd like to highlight one of the many difficult and most ignored barriers to pursuing an advanced degree: the financial cost of applying. a 🧵 with my perspective and some suggestions for departments to alleviate this barrier 1/

Very excited for this! Join Peter Gao, Sarah Teichman, and I this Thursday at #USCOTS21 as we facilitate “Data Ethics: Why, Where and How?”, an interactive and open discussion about incorporating data ethics into undergraduate statistics curricula.

Our department is offering a pre-application review service (PARS) initiative to provide support and mentorship to PhD applicants from from historically marginalized groups. See details here: bit.ly/3AN5jJy

Join us for a virtual conversation and Q&A with current Statistics Ph.D. students from the Departments of Statistics at UW, UC Berkeley, and UMich Ann Arbor on Wed., Nov. 3, 2021 at 5:00PM (PST). See details here: bit.ly/3m5zjvb Statistics Berkeley Statistics

If you're interested in a PhD in statistics come join us at this virtual webinar with current student PhD students! Sign up at StatsPhd.com and bring any questions that you have about grad school!

UW Statistics participates in GEAR UP. See details here: bit.ly/3zvswjE Thank you Alan Min, Sarah Teichman, and the UW GEAR UP Achievers staff for putting together the camp!

Our department is offering a pre-application review service (PARS) initiative to provide support and mentorship to PhD applicants from historically marginalized groups. See details here: stat.uw.edu/pre-applicatio…

So excited to introduce 🌲groves🌳, an R package for analyzing microbial phylogenomic trees alongside microbial gene trees! Work with the amazing 💚 Sarah Teichman💚 and 💚Mike Lee 💚 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our department is offering a pre-application review service (PARS) initiative to provide support and mentorship to PhD applicants from historically marginalized groups. See details here: stat.uw.edu/pre-applicatio…