Dave Vanness

The soaring costs of public universities is a political decision. When these schools predominantly served white students, they tended to be free (UC, CCNY, etc.) But as the number of students of color has increased, funding for the public universities has decreased. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities thehill.com/homenews/617...

Why I’m going back to academia Working at a research institute left this scientist wishing he could spend more time with students. @khazaei_hamid #AcademicChatter https://bit.ly/4k4Fiyu

To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

10-24-26. Happy Pythagorean Triangle Day to those who celebrate, and who doesn't? (Its little sibling, 5-12-13, is perhaps better known.)

#WomeninStatistics Dorothy Swaine Thomas, called the ‘flapper’ statistician because her bobbed hair, short skirts, & smoking scandalized male peers, was b #OTD 1899. Made ASA Fellow 1942 for pioneering work in statistical (vs "case study") sociology.

We are hiring two (2!) tenure-track assistant professors. The searches are topically constrained but open to a variety of approaches and disciplines. Please circulate. (I am not on either search.) usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

New from @gallup.com: 8 in 10 employers prefer to hire candidates with a college #degree. This study also states that, quote: "nearly half of employers (48%) expect #AI to make #college degrees more important over the next five years." 👇 news.gallup.com/poll/715601/...

Such a well-deserved honor. A gentleman and a scholar in the best sense of each. www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/article...

I will be looking for a PhD student in Bayesian statistics (in collaboration with Paul Bürkner), located in Prague. Forward to students if you have somebody who could be interested. www.martinmodrak.cz/grammo-call/

Can't vote in Wisconsin anymore, but this answer won David Crowley a donation!

Something to chew on for the nativists www.nber.org/papers/w35900

The hardest part may be determining which ones are useful, and for what purpose.

Can confirm! I received such a scam email using a real person's identity (and a gmail account) and promising me a spot on their podcast. I have reached out to them by their known academic email - will be interesting to see what I hear back, as I strongly suspect they know nothing about this!

When candidates call for a tuition free AND debt free college education they are calling for a policy that is more generous than Finland’s. In not saying it a bad idea. Just that we should keep in mind that students borrow even in tuition free social democracies like Finland.

Wow good for her.

Who's a pair of scissors? I'm a pair of scissors!

The fact that there are apparently senior military officers in the chain of command who didn't immediately resign rather than carry out this order is extremely alarming.

Dammit. I guess I have to watch baseball again.

One thing they don’t teach you at Professor School is how lovely it is to meet up with all your students years after and hearing about all their success. 🥹

The Justice Department is threatening an antitrust lawsuit against the American Bar Association (which ED is trying to derecognize as an accreditor) over its requirement that most first-year law school classes be taught by full-time faculty. The handling attorney at DOJ is an adjunct at Catholic.

We need a Milwaukee-Cleveland World Series for so many reasons, but a big one is the national spotlight it would put on the "Welcome to Cleveland" sign a guy painted on his roof that lies in the MKE approach path

I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription is @mcopelov.bsky.social on the drums!

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This post has scored a 6 on the "Adam Driver More GIF" scale.

Oh, look. A spotted eagle ray.

University of Washington is hiring: Assistant Professor in Statistics #assistantprofessor #mathsky #statistics

Medicare was created because high-quality insurance for older and disabled Americans was completely unaffordable. Well, guess what... now it's completely unaffordable for just about everyone.

Medicare was created because high-quality insurance for older and disabled Americans was completely unaffordable. Well, guess what... now it's completely unaffordable for just about everyone.

JOB: The @psumbiome.bsky.social mission is to accelerate microbiome science by bringing curiosity and creativity to the vital next steps of the field. This mission requires fast paced execution; and we celebrate meaningful work from self-starters. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_St...

Holy shit.

Catching up with Mark Lilla “Such a regime could attain its ends by making only a small number of opponents suffer physically while leaving the rest in psychological torment, wondering if or when the blow will fall.” www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

TANSTAAFL

#WomenInStatistics Hilda Geiringer-von Mises b #OTD 1893 (d 22 March 1973) IMS Fellow. A first-rate mathematical statistics scholar, she is also a ‘missed genius’. A refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe she was denied a permanent faculty position at US research universities because of her gender.

Nothing came out of the Trump-Xi summit. It also sucked all the oxygen out of the room. Yet, other really important TRADE STUFF did happen this week. ICYMI, here is some of it (1/N): (photo credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Does the @nytimes.com use the phrase "bring journalists to heel" - or is that just for universities?

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

Me on my last day as a professor.

Me on my first day of grad school. www.thefarside.com/2026/09/23/0

Wow.

If you are visiting Canterbury, forget about Thomas a Becket and the Cathedral! Here is the blue plaque marking the birthplace of William Seeley Gosset (aka Student) in 1876

SO SO great to join the amazing @kairyssdal.bsky.social on Marketplace! This time, we previewed the upcoming US-China summit between Presidents Trump and Xi. Have a listen 🎙️: www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

We have a three-faculty cluster hire in research methods, two in my department (qualitative and quantitative methods) and one in a sister department (education data science methods). apply.interfolio.com/192264