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Nature on mirror conferences

Pointe-du-Hoc, the deadly cliff

ISBA 2026, 28 June: registration now open!

Nature tidbits [11 Dec 2025]

a journal of the invasion year

congrats, Doctor Luciano!

ChatGPT’ed Monte Carlo exam

OWABI⁷, 29 January 2026: Sequential Neural Score Estimation (11am UK time)

no love lost

as if the US didn’t already have too much ICE…

destinazione bellissima Roma

a journal of the invasion year

“We’ve been told that the killing in Iran is stopping”

registration opens for ISBA 2026 Satellite at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics,

Monte Carlo with infinite variances [a surveyal guide]

class action, really?!

Cédric, le retour ?

books of the year²⁵

f.k.a. Église Saint-Pierre d’Engranville

January session of the mostly Monte Carlo seminar (16/01, 3pm)

calle naranja en sevilla [jatp]

a journal of the four horsemen year

4th Bayesian Nonparametrics Networking Workshop [call for contributions]

naked imperialism & ultimate deligitimization

on the future of ISBA meetings (and others)

Nature tidbits [06 Nov 2025]

the childish, petty, un-presidential, hall of shame

a silent gendercide

a journal of the [end of the] chaos year

supporting public broadcasting

PM Modi sent me an email!

renewable energy [book review]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

سافرت

congrats, Dr. Robert!

more dough

mentalité de petite instit’ bornée [bienvenue à l’Académie!]

which map is it?! [jatp]

circuses and bread

Avancia, Botani, Tarantelo, Sacrima, y Sauterne

a (sunny, crisp) day at ICSDS 2025

Elo rating systems via Markov Chains

our closest enemy [verbatim]

corrida de Noël, Issy-les-Moulineaux [10K, 41’00, 701/3335, 1/38 M6M, 4´06/km]

prequential posteriors

¡Vuelo a Sevilla otra vez!

fed up with skiing??

Martin Behaim’s globe

and it is getting worse… [verbatim]

mostly Monte Carlo [last session of 2025]

journée de la laïcité (120yo)

a journal of the extremes year

the symposium is cancelled

last light in Maurienne [jatp]

Gaussian mixture via continuous sparse regularization

Karim Benabed, astrophysician

Mudejar architecture [jatp]

Back to Aussois, back to Vanoise!

anachrovers

call for posters at ISBA Satellite Meeting 2026 on information geometry, privacy, and modern Monte Carlo, Tokyo, 4-7 July 2026

اليوم العالمي للتضامن مع الشعب الفلسطيني

Un Diario del Año de les Tapes

murales de Sevilla [jatp]

Nature tidbits [23 October 2025]

statistics summer school at Warwick (July 2026)

orange the World

Kaw frogs [Wildlife Photographer of the Year]

Basilique Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Garde (1031-1230) [jatp]

Nature tidbits [30th October 2025]

estimating evidence redux

La Lézarde

a journal of the dynamite year

28ième semi-marathon de Boulogne Billancourt [1:28:59, 4’12″/km, 2040th, 1st M6M/76]

Approximate Bayesian Computation with Statistical Distances for Model Selection [OWABI, 27 Nov]

to the early Universe and back

pace makers

off to [ML@]Aussois

in memoriam

fAIrst contAIct

luz de luna sobre Sevilla [jatp]

Natural quantum MCMC

is there a doctor on board?!

finite variance goals

mostly Monte Carlo, November

happy [if responsible] stout day!

off to Sevilla [5thSYSORM]

it grows on you

trail de la Sainte Baume

Gend’butu

dough Nat’ [1 Oct 2025]

a journal of the chaos (en cuisine) year

ISBA 2026 (Nagoya, Japan, 28 June – 03 July)

Nature tidbits [25 Sept 2025]

ISBA World meeting(s) 2028

coupling-based approach to f-divergences diagnostics for MCMC

At last out!

Approximating evidence via bounded harmonic means (and HPD regions with known volumes)

open position in mathematical finance at Warwick

Scottish June

à l’ombre [cover]

le beurre et l’argent du beurre (have your cake and eat it too)[nicht den Fünfer und das Weggli]

rosumarinu Sant’ Armettu

and it got worse & worse & … [verbatim]

Thunderbird [support]

OWABI Season VII

Nature tidbits [21 Aug 2025]

bombing universities

Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris fundings

International Day for Women in Statistics and Data Science 2025

the peace of graves, the silence of ruins

it was just an accident […unlike the Trump administration returning Iranian refugees to Iran]

Entre ici, Robert Badinter

mostly Monte Carlo, the return²⁵

Amy half does Argentan [1:36:03, +29:22, 79/398, 1/21 M5+6H, 15⁰, 123D⁺]

don’t mention the children

positions at Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano [reposted]

turning sixty…

Argentan semi (39th)

human acts (book review)

the Harvard and Brown school of computer science

a journal of the cha(ca)os (and fig) year

a guest post from Julyan Arbel on ISBA on-line resources

International Safe Abortion Day

Advances in MCMC Methods [10-12 Dec, EURANDOM]

Hi! Paris, Hi! Xiao-Li

scalable Monte Carlo for Bayesian learning [book review]

Trump emmerde le Monde [cover]