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The Middle TN Chapter of the American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social is hosting a half-day applied improv course in Nashville, Friday 8/14 8:30am-12:30pm w/lunch and parking included. No experience required; sign up by July 22 for 10% discount. www.eventbrite.com/e/fundamenta...

Fundamentals of Applied Improvisation for (Bio)statisticiansThis half-day course introduces applied improvisation as a novel way to pursue interpersonal skills as a quantitative scientist.www.eventbrite.com

Registration closes TONIGHT (Monday 7/13, at 11:59 pm CT) for "Genomic Data Analysis" & "PyMC and Bayesian Modeling" (the latter by PyMC creator C. Fonnesbeck), and on 7/20 for "Terra-Based Cloud Computing" and "Intro to Causal Inference" in Nashville www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #shortcourses

2026 Summer InstituteRegister by July 13 for courses beginning on July 20. Register by July 20 for courses beginning on July 27. Course index Monday, July 20 - Friday, July 24, 2026 9 am - noon Central Time 2525 West End ...www.vanderbilt.edu

Vanderbilt adjoint associate professor of biostatistics Chris Fonnesbeck is teaching about PyMC and Bayesian modeling both at the CQS Summer Institute (Nashville, July 20-24) and #JSM2026 (Boston, August 3). The last day to sign up for the Nashville course is July 13. www.vumc.org/cqs/cqs-summ...

Team creates premium fake people to speed HIV research news.vumc.org/2026/06/30/t... Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Zhuohui Liang is lead author, with biostatistics faculty Brad Malin, Bryan Shepherd, and Amir Asia among the co-authors of the paper @natcomms.nature.com #AI #NIHfunded

Team creates premium fake people to speed HIV researchA team created artificial records that statistically resemble those of real people living with HIV without including copies of real records.news.vumc.org

Huge congratulations to @vandyatvandy.bsky.social on being named a 2026 Chancellor Faculty Fellow! news.vanderbilt.edu/2026/06/24/2...

2026 Chancellor Faculty Fellows SelectedEleven of Vanderbilt University’s most promising recently tenured faculty have been awarded spots in the 2026 Chancellor Faculty Fellows program. This year’s recipients demonstrate exceptional and inn...news.vanderbilt.edu

The 2026 Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute will feature four short courses this July, on genomic data analysis, PyMC and Bayesian modeling, Terra-based cloud computing, and causal inference. Register by May 31 for the early bird discount: www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Congratulations to the newest Vanderbilt Biostatistics MS graduates - Yiqing Pan, Xin Wu, and Haozheng Xu! www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Congratulations to Dr. Megan Taylor Jones, graduating @vanderbilt.edu today with her PhD in biostatistics! Advisor: @vandyatvandy.bsky.social www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Upcoming presentations by Vanderbilt Biostatistics faculty include Ben French speaking Friday 4/17 on randomized trials for clinical decision support interventions. See www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... for details. Pictured: Dr. French and Dr. Amanda Mixon presenting their work in DC.

Belated congratulations to Bear (and to Vanderbilt staff biostatistician Elisa Yazdani, MS 2023, who adopted him at the start of her studies @vumedicine.bsky.social) on being chosen as Vanderbilt Health Dog of the Day! news.vumc.org/2026/03/31/v...

Interested in regression modeling? Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social will be teaching a 1-day intro to R/RStudio/Regression/rms on May 11 and a 4-day course on regression modeling strategies May 14-19. Details at hbiostat.org/course/ #Rstats #biostatistics

Study co-authored by Vanderbilt Biostatistics research associate professor (and graduate) Laurie Samuels: news.vumc.org/2026/02/25/p...

Prevalence of US youth who are overweight or with obesity raises concerns: StudyChildhood obesity, which starts early, contributes to health issues throughout life. A recent study in JAMA Network Open points to 2024 prevalence.news.vumc.org

Vanderbilt Biostatistics paid internships for undergraduates - apply by February 23 to be considered for this six-week research program. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

On Wednesday 2/25 Vanderbilt Biostatistics will host "Statistical Modeling and Inference for Gene Networks from Single-Cell Data" by Emory Business School professor Emma Zhang, who is also @emoryrollins.bsky.social as professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

New publication co-authored by a Vanderbilt Biostatistics professor. (Lots of food for thought at discourse.datamethods.org, in fact. Today the student journal club discusses FDA draft guidance on Bayesian methods, which Frank co-authored. Some comments at discourse.datamethods.org/t/fda-draft-...

Datamethods Discussion ForumThis is a place for discussions and Q&A about data-related issues and quantitative methods including study design, data analysis, and interpretation.discourse.datamethods.org

On Wed 2/18 Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting "Invariance and Inversion in Medical Machine Learning" by assistant professor of computer science Daniel Moyer. The online seminar is open to the public: www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

One week left to apply for the 2026 Vanderbilt Biostatistics Summer Internships for Undergraduates program. 6 weeks, $4000 stipend. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...

Applications are now open for the 2026 Vanderbilt Biostatistics Summer Internships for Undergraduates. Apply by Feb. 23. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... (Pictured: 2025 intern Lauryn Holmes with her final project)

On Wed. 2/11 Vanderbilt Biostatistics is hosting "Statistics in the Age of AI: Theory, Methods, and Data," an online talk by Dr. Didong Li, at 1:30 pm CT. Learn more about the presentation and Dr. Li at www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic... #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs

Congratulations to Vanderbilt Biostatistics PhD candidate Alexis Fleming on her appointment to the editorial board of Child Maltreatment, a peer-reviewed journal. At Gustavus Adolphus College and now VU, Fleming has excelled in service, teaching, and research. www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...