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Daniela Witten is frustrated with (some of) her students “outsourcing their brains to LLMs”:
For decades, the university classroom was as if frozen in time: blackboards became whiteboards and transparencies transformed to Beamer*, but that was about it. But early 2020 brought with it a series of…
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten concludes her two-part column about her experience as a journal editor. Part 1 (which you can read here) in the August 2025 issue, contains her thoughts about editors, associate editors (AEs), and reviewers. In this part, Daniela focuses on advice to authors.
Sometimes …
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten shares her thoughts on the editorial process, and some advice for associate editors and reviewers, written from the perspective of an editor and a human:
I submitted my first paper to Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (JRSSB) as a grad student.…
Our contributing editor Daniela Witten teams up with Rob Tibshirani:
This column is about the fact that statistics is hard. Of course, statistics is hard for non-statisticians: anyone who has ever taught a non-major stat class knows this to be true! But this column is about the fact that…
Daniela Witten writes:
I recently read a blog post by a (non-statistical) science professor whose opinions I respect and value. Paraphrasing a bit, the thesis was this: If you are a professor, then you should not be surprised that the majority of your trainees (PhD students and postdocs) are less…