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So excited for you Laura B. Balzer as you embark on this next step. We are going to miss you here at UMass Amherst SPHHS, as you've given so much to our program, our students and the university as a whole. It's been an honor being your colleague for the last 5 years.

The Majumder Lab is hiring! Are you a prospective postdoc interested in machine learning & pandemic preparedness? Or a Boston-area under/grad student looking to study misinformation on social media? Apply today to work with us (& please retweet widely): airtable.com/shre9V9QeJUZ36…

These surveillance system reporting delays are why systems like the German Hospitalization Nowcast Hub, run by Johannes Bracher (@[email protected]) et al, are valuable. covid19nowcasthub.de

So whatever your views on COVID, I'd encourage you to try it. Put pen to paper and convert your implicit mental model of COVID into a tangible prediction about the future. You don't have to show anyone, but it might give you something useful to reflect on in future. 4/4

During my PhD, I got alot of unhelpful advice Now I'm a PhD supervisor, I know 💯 what I needed to hear 4 things every PhD student should know 🧵 #phdchat thoughtsofaphd PhD_Genie The PhD Story Happy PhD Supervisor PhDiva Refocused

covidestim is back with weekly estimates for the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic since the introduction of the Omicron variant. Estimates run 8 Dec 2021 - present. Check out current estimates at covidestim.org; estimates to be updated weekly based on most recent data available.

I am delighted to share that I’ve been promoted to full professor at UMASS Amherst! That, and the end of my sabbatical leave, seemed like a good time to reflect a little on my work and field so far and how I plan to move forward....

Excited to announce that the UMass Amherst Dept of Biostats and Epi is searching for 2 (!!) new Biostat faculty this year. Tremendous opportunity to join a highly collaborative and supportive program, with a rare hard-money Biostat position. Please RT! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…

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…

(Now that faculty aren’t coming into the office anymore) Will universities ever recover? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/10/06/now…

In what kind of an environment is your institution, and are people generally "around" on campus these days, or does it feel like nobody's there?

Here's another new UMass Amherst TT faculty opening, with a focus in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, w/in the Dept of Biostats and Epi. This position has... - 9 mo. hard money salary 💰 - support from UMass Institute for Applied Life Sciences Come join our team! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…

We are hiring *at least two* tenure track faculty in statistics this year! Come be my colleague! mathjobs.org/jobs/list/20907

With 2 TT positions in Stats and 2 in Biostats UMass Amherst this hiring season, I'm excited for the growth in our Five College Stats community! Five College Stats biostat: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/… stat: mathjobs.org/jobs/list/20907

We’re excited to collaborate with Lehigh University computational scientist @tomcm39, leader of the Computational Uncertainty Lab, UMass Amherst’s Evan Ray, a biostatistician developing infectious disease forecasting models, & Georgia Tech biomedical engineer & lecturer Todd Fernandez.

It was great to have you up here, Spencer J. Fox! Looking forward to the next visit.

I’m excited to announce that I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab! I feel like most ads focus on the research/project/PI, so here’s a thread about what YOU will get as part of the position. iddjobs.org/jobs/remote-op…

Excited that these two meetings on forecasting (one general, one specific to infectious diseases) are finally happening, 13-16 March, having been years in the making and delayed multiple times due to the pandemic royalsociety.org/science-events… and royalsociety.org/science-events… 1/5

Join our upcoming scientific meeting on the topic of #forecasting and methodologies used across different scientific disciplines, with Professors Sebastian Funk (Sebastian Funk (@[email protected])), Nicholas Reich (Nicholas G. Reich), Steven Riley (Steven Riley) & Rachel Lowe (Rachel Lowe): ow.ly/uAmj50MWQOw

Scientific Meeting: Forecasting natural and social systems, 13 - 14 March 2023 The Royal Society Nicholas G. Reich #forecasting royalsociety.org/science-events…