Varoon Bashyakarla

@uixar Obviously not

My book "Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks" is out today! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544184/…

🎉 We just launched #WhatTheFutureWants, an interactive exhibition that empowers young people & invites them to think about the digital world they want to live in.   This experience includes: 🧰 resources 💡 interactive activities 👀 workshops   Explore 👉 theglassroom.org/what-the-futur…

Klimaneutrales EFH in 5 1/2 einfachen Schritten! 🥰

🚨🇵🇭 2 days away from landmark elections in the Philippines, RFOB's @mariaressa joins @vbashyakarla to discuss everything you need to know going into this election. It's all on the line. "If you don't have integrity of facts, how can you have integrity of elections?"

🚨🚨🚨Data Job🚨🚨🚨 In unserem Team bei @derspiegel Research ist eine Data Science-Position zu besetzen. Über jeden 🙏Retweet🙏 freue ich mich besonders, da es sich um meine/n direkte/n Kolleg/in handeln wird. jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/917/…. Warum mir dieser Job viel Spaß macht🧵(1/x)

Very sad to hear that Sir David Cox has died. He was a giant in the field of Statistics, and a wonderfully modest and generous person. He has been a professional and person hero of mine since I was lucky enough to meet him when I was a grad student over 40 yrs. ago.

An updated version of our free online course "Statistical Learning" is now available on EdX: edx.org/course/statist… . It features new lectures on DL, Survival Analysis and Multiple Testing (with Gareth James & Daniela Witten)

@hopihoekstra @HarvardOEB @MCZHarvard "Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril." E.O. Wilson Thank you, I learned a lot from you.

Big Tech is now spending more on lobbying in the EU than the pharma industry or finance. €97 million per year. Let that sink in for a moment.

RBB-Intendantin präsentiert den Film “Wahlkampf undercover - wie PR-Profis uns manipulieren“. Am 30.08. in @DasErste 🔥

Thesis: - Doing statistics properly requires a level of training roughly akin to that needed to fly an aircraft. - Most scientists have a level of training that is closer to that needed to drive a car.

I have been longing for this day. Stay tuned!!

Join us for a two-week online 'Investigating the #InfluenceIndustry' Summer School from 9th-20th August! We are looking for journalists, researchers, academics or civil society investigators from across the world. Apply by 30th July! ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/data-pol… #OSINT

Are you an #election monitor, researcher, or digital security specialist? Get in touch with @vbashyakarla or @gp_wright from our Data & Politics team to join an online session on 'The Role of Political Apps in Digital Election Monitoring' *TOMORROW* 10:30-13:00 CEST!

📣Calling #election monitors, researchers, and digital security specialists. Interested in how political mobile apps use our personal #data? @gp_wright and I are hosting an info session about it. Tuesday, July 6 from 10:30 - 13:00 CEST. DM to join. ✉️ @Info_Activism

Data scientist @vbashyakarla will be speaking at the Africa Law Tech Festival 2021. Are you attending? Register now. 🔗 africalawtech.com/festival #AfricaLawTech

@jchitchen @Info_Activism Thank you, Jamie, and to @rightscon for the opportunity!