Chris Bilder
@chrisbilder.bsky.social
Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; www.chrisbilder.com
Please get the word out about the U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics @biometricsociety.org.au
Friends of Stats: The U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics needs your help. The university's Chancellor submitted a FINAL proposal today for budget cuts (budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...) that eliminates the department. 1/ #LNK #Nebraska #Huskers @amstatnews.bsky.social
Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Please get the word out about the U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics @biometricsociety.org.au
Friends of Stats: The U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics needs your help. The university's Chancellor submitted a FINAL proposal today for budget cuts (budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...) that eliminates the department. 1/ #LNK #Nebraska #Huskers @amstatnews.bsky.social
Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Friends of Stats: The U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics needs your help. The university's Chancellor submitted a FINAL proposal today for budget cuts (budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...) that eliminates the department. 1/ #LNK #Nebraska #Huskers @amstatnews.bsky.social
#LNK #NorthStar student section at state high school vball championship; they won the sportsmanship award
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#LNK #NorthStar student section at state high school vball championship; they won the sportsmanship award
#UNL Dept of Statistics seminar, The Metrics, was yesterday with > 150 individuals attending (in person and Zoom), www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUk2.... We discuss errors in stat analysis by administrators in their proposal to eliminate 6 departments. /1 #Nebraska #Huskers #LNK @amstatnews.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#UNL Dept of Statistics seminar, The Metrics, was yesterday with > 150 individuals attending (in person and Zoom), www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUk2.... We discuss errors in stat analysis by administrators in their proposal to eliminate 6 departments. /1 #Nebraska #Huskers #LNK @amstatnews.bsky.social
The UNL Academic Planning Committee (APC) report was released late Friday. There is no direct link to it from the APC or UNL web page, so here it is budgetprocess.unl.edu/sites/unl.ed.... #Nebraska #Huskers #LNK @journalstar.com @owhnews.bsky.social 1/
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The UNL Academic Planning Committee (APC) report was released late Friday. There is no direct link to it from the APC or UNL web page, so here it is budgetprocess.unl.edu/sites/unl.ed.... #Nebraska #Huskers #LNK @journalstar.com @owhnews.bsky.social 1/
Took LilK out trick-or-treating this evening. I like it when the house provides candy for the parent. I got something different this year: a free drink token for a local bar
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Took LilK out trick-or-treating this evening. I like it when the house provides candy for the parent. I got something different this year: a free drink token for a local bar
This graphic helps to explain some of the money problems at UNL (source: Flatwater Free Press); flatwaterfreepress.org/university-o... #Nebraska #Huskers #LNK
October 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This graphic helps to explain some of the money problems at UNL (source: Flatwater Free Press); flatwaterfreepress.org/university-o... #Nebraska #Huskers #LNK
Local news media coverage of the Stop the Cuts rally - www.klkntv.com/stop-the-cut..., nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news..., journalstar.com/news/local/e... #Huskers #Nebraska #LNK
'Stop the cuts': Professors hold rally against proposed $27.5 million slash in UNL budget
Groups gathered in front of the Nebraska Union as Husker football fans flooded the campus. The rally-goers held signs as they tried to get people to sign petitions.
www.klkntv.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Local news media coverage of the Stop the Cuts rally - www.klkntv.com/stop-the-cut..., nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news..., journalstar.com/news/local/e... #Huskers #Nebraska #LNK
LilC has learned how to spell and use punctuation while a student at North Star; picture is from State Cross Country today where the Gators placed 2nd
October 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
LilC has learned how to spell and use punctuation while a student at North Star; picture is from State Cross Country today where the Gators placed 2nd
I just created a new subfolder in the main research folder of my computer. The subfolder name: "BudgetProcessPaper". I don't want to write it.
October 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I just created a new subfolder in the main research folder of my computer. The subfolder name: "BudgetProcessPaper". I don't want to write it.
More news media coverage today about U. of Nebraska-Lincoln's proposed budget cuts: journalstar.com/news/state-r... #Huskers #LNK #Nebraska @amstatnews.bsky.social
UNL faculty propose alternatives to cutting programs, departments
Several faculty from the departments eyed for elimination say there are alternatives to cutting their programs that could keep positions intact while also driving new funding streams to UNL.
journalstar.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
More news media coverage today about U. of Nebraska-Lincoln's proposed budget cuts: journalstar.com/news/state-r... #Huskers #LNK #Nebraska @amstatnews.bsky.social
LilC made the #1 Doubles award stand today at State Tennis!
October 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
LilC made the #1 Doubles award stand today at State Tennis!
Flatwater Free Press article: As UNL proposes steep budget cuts, statistics faculty ask leadership to check their math flatwaterfreepress.org/as-unl-propo... #Huskers #LNK #Nebraska #UNL @amstatnews.bsky.social
As UNL proposes steep budget cuts, statistics faculty ask leadership to check their math - Flatwater Free Press
A growing chorus of university voices is raising doubts about the data and metrics that UNL used to identify its proposed budget cuts — one of the largest single-year cuts in more than a decade.
flatwaterfreepress.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Flatwater Free Press article: As UNL proposes steep budget cuts, statistics faculty ask leadership to check their math flatwaterfreepress.org/as-unl-propo... #Huskers #LNK #Nebraska #UNL @amstatnews.bsky.social
UNL cuts diminish us all; emergency fund could bridge gap nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/10/15/u...
UNL cuts diminish us all; emergency fund could bridge gap • Nebraska Examiner
It’s always stirring to watch Interstate 80 swell with fans on a Saturday. But this fall, the university that the Big Red faithful pass on their way to Memorial Stadium teeters on a slope to academic ...
nebraskaexaminer.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
UNL cuts diminish us all; emergency fund could bridge gap nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/10/15/u...
Interested in understanding problems with U of #Nebraska Lincoln's metrics to decide which programs to cut? See Apdx C from the Dept of Statistics report! Some metrics can be 0/0! @srvanderplas.bsky.social
srvanderplas.github.io/2025-stat-ap... #LNK @journalstar.com @owhnews.bsky.social
srvanderplas.github.io/2025-stat-ap... #LNK @journalstar.com @owhnews.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Interested in understanding problems with U of #Nebraska Lincoln's metrics to decide which programs to cut? See Apdx C from the Dept of Statistics report! Some metrics can be 0/0! @srvanderplas.bsky.social
srvanderplas.github.io/2025-stat-ap... #LNK @journalstar.com @owhnews.bsky.social
srvanderplas.github.io/2025-stat-ap... #LNK @journalstar.com @owhnews.bsky.social
Article from @JournalStarNews about the faulty data, faulty analyses, and faulty conclusions used for U of #Nebraska-Lincoln budget cuts - UNL relied on statistics to choose programs to cut. Statistics faculty say the analysis was done poorly. journalstar.com/news/state-r... @Huskers
UNL relied on statistics to choose programs to cut. Statistics faculty say the analysis was done poorly.
The data-driven process used by UNL to determine which departments to cut is flawed, says the faculty of the Department of Statistics — one of the programs on the chopping
journalstar.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Article from @JournalStarNews about the faulty data, faulty analyses, and faulty conclusions used for U of #Nebraska-Lincoln budget cuts - UNL relied on statistics to choose programs to cut. Statistics faculty say the analysis was done poorly. journalstar.com/news/state-r... @Huskers
Here's a video from the October 10th hearing about the proposed elimination of the Department of Statistics: youtu.be/v_J96zYjF_Q. Check out www.SaveOurStats.com for more information about the issues.
UNL Department of Statistics presentation for the Academic Planning Committee on October 10, 2025
YouTube video by Chris Bilder
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Here's a video from the October 10th hearing about the proposed elimination of the Department of Statistics: youtu.be/v_J96zYjF_Q. Check out www.SaveOurStats.com for more information about the issues.
Faulty data, faulty analyses, and faulty conclusions - This was the theme discussed by UNL Dept of Stats faculty yesterday during Nebraska Board of Regents meeting regarding the @unlincoln.bsky.social Budget Reduction Process: youtube.com/watch?v=IqBM...
@owhnews.bsky.social @journalstar.com 1/
@owhnews.bsky.social @journalstar.com 1/
Nebraska Board of Regents meeting on 10-3-25: Testimony from members of the UNL Dept of Statistics
YouTube video by Chris Bilder
youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Faulty data, faulty analyses, and faulty conclusions - This was the theme discussed by UNL Dept of Stats faculty yesterday during Nebraska Board of Regents meeting regarding the @unlincoln.bsky.social Budget Reduction Process: youtube.com/watch?v=IqBM...
@owhnews.bsky.social @journalstar.com 1/
@owhnews.bsky.social @journalstar.com 1/
A pause in the budget reduction process at @unlincoln.bsky.social is needed - omaha.com/news/state-r...
UNL programs up for elimination ask chancellor for delay; hearings on cuts begin
University of Nebraska-Lincoln programs slated to be cut asked that the process be delayed to ensure they were afforded a full and fair hearing before the Academic Planning Committee.
omaha.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
A pause in the budget reduction process at @unlincoln.bsky.social is needed - omaha.com/news/state-r...
With our students to Save Our Stats today at the City Campus Union @unlincoln.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
With our students to Save Our Stats today at the City Campus Union @unlincoln.bsky.social
Excellent "Save Our Stats" logo created by one of our graduate students in the Department of Statistics at @unlincoln.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Excellent "Save Our Stats" logo created by one of our graduate students in the Department of Statistics at @unlincoln.bsky.social
LilC first place for NorthStar #1 doubles at Bell West Invite today!
September 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
LilC first place for NorthStar #1 doubles at Bell West Invite today!