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Maria Cuellar

@mcuellar.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. of Criminology, Statistics & Data Science @Penn. Research in statistics+law, causal inference, and forensic science.

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I had the pleasure of speaking to students at both Duke University and Wake Forest University about the existential crisis that many of them are feeling right now: In the age of AI, is my degree worthless? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTx...
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Existential crisis! Is my degree worthless?
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Maria Cuellar @mcuellar.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hi bluesky! I was wondering whether you know of any papers that discuss how much easier it is to do a replication study with agentic AI (eg Codex/Claude Code). In the absence of code, it seems like that's a great way to test whether the models reported in a paper were the ones that were fit, etc.
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Maria Cuellar @mcuellar.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I’m honored and humbled to give a plenary talk at ACIC this year with such an impressive group of speakers.
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Maria Cuellar @mcuellar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
An important scholarship during these challenging times for government statistics!
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Alex Sundermann, DrPH @sundermannaj.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Trump’s cuts to university funding mean fewer spots, rescinded offers, and grad programs slashing positions. Students are being stranded with no backup plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
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As Trump Goes After Universities, Students Are Now on the Chopping Block
Uncertainty about how much money colleges and universities stand to lose has led some schools to reduce the number of doctoral students, in some cases reneging on offers.
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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Use this form to alert the ASA-George Mason University Project on the Health of the Principal Statistical Agencies about developments that may impair fed statistical programs’ capacity to produce relevant, objective, & accurate statistics for the public good amstat.jotform.com/250561574825...
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Maria Cuellar @mcuellar.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Who said making a tenure portfolio couldn't be fun? (or, showing off my D3 and hyperlinks skillz). web.sas.upenn.edu/mcuellar/vis...
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Network | Maria Cuellar
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Maria Cuellar @mcuellar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We just published an exciting paper. Due to the statistical flaws in validity studies, we don't know the error rates in firearms casework, i.e. the discipline doesn't have a scientific basis. @amandaluby.bsky.social @srvanderplas.bsky.social @mrosenblum.bsky.social academic.oup.com/lpr/article/...
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Methodological problems in every black-box study of forensic firearm comparisons
Abstract. Reviews conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (2009) and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2016) concluded t
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mrosenblum.bsky.social @mrosenblum.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Excited to share our hot-off-the-presses forensics paper @amandaluby.bsky.social @mcuellar.bsky.social @srvanderplas.bsky.social
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Methodological problems in every black-box study of forensic firearm comparisons
Abstract. Reviews conducted by the National Academy of Sciences (2009) and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2016) concluded t
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Posit @posit.co · 06/12/2024
We are excited to announce posit::conf(2025)! Join fellow data enthusiasts & developers for an unforgettable three days of learning, connection, and inspiration. Learn more and register at posit.co/blog/positco... #datascience #rstats #pydata #quarto #tidyverse #posit
Registration for posit conference 2025 Now open. Atlanta, Sept 16-18
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Maria Cuellar @mcuellar.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
New preprint is up! arxiv.org/abs/2312.00032 Work with Heike Hofmann (one of the best statistical programmers out there) and Sheng Gao (an expert in clustering, now working in finance). Funded by CSAFE. I loved @bwaber.bsky.social 's comment about the work, below:
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Edward McFowland III @emcfowland.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
The Harvard Data Science Initiative has launched its application for the 2024–2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Share with anyone who is a good fit; and have them reach out if their interest aligns with mine (e.g., causal inference, fairness, model validation, anomaly detection, GenAI, etc.).
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HDSI Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The 2024-2025 application is now open, please use this link to apply! Overview of the Fellowship Program The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is seeking applications for its flagship Harvard Dat...
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Toni Whited @toniwhited.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
📉📈 Some thoughts about my experiment using a data editor. First, he is awesome: careful and timely. A big round of applause to Adam Spencer. We want well-documented code and data packets. We encourage authors to follow these guidelines social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_REA...
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A template README for social science replication packages.
The template README provided on this website is in a form that follows best practices as defined by a number of data editors at social science journals.
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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
We are searching for an Associate or Full Professor of Computational Social Science (broadly defined) to join our department at LSE If you'd like any more information, please feel free to reach out to me. Polisky
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Associate Professor/Professor in Computational Social Science
http:jobs.lse.ac.uk Vacancies
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Maria Cuellar @mcuellar.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Hi, I’m here in the blue space. What’s going on?
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