You are invited to submit your abstracts for Contributed Talks/Posters by 22 March 2021.

The March 2021 issue of the SJIAOS covers the themes of ‘The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ and ‘Misuse of statistics: Time to speak out’.

Stat invites submissions for its special issue "Statistical Network Analysis" (co-editors: Ji Zhu and Helen Zhang).

The International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) is pleased to announce that the first issue of the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation (JDSSV) will become available online before the summer 2021.

Read about the launch of a new online course on data science and the Committee’s partnership with the West Africa Young Statisticians Association.

The International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science Working Group is looking for volunteers to host an outreach “tea” in your local area to introduce girls and their parents to careers in statistics and data science.

We regret to announce the passing of ISI Elected Member Professor Lars Lyberg on 1 March 2021.

We regret to announce the passing of ISI Elected Member Dr. Donald A.S. Fraser on 21 December 2020.

The Guy Medal in Silver is awarded to an ISI Elected Member Håvard Rue for his substantial and significant contributions in the area of efficient and scalable computational techniques for the data analysts’ toolbox.

The Council of the European Union appointed ISI Council Member Aurel Schubert to serve as the Chair of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB) starting 1 February 2021.

The registration for the 3rd IASC-LARS School on Computational Statistics and Data Science will remain open until 16 April 2021.

The 5th Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing LACSC 2021 will be held online from 19-21 April 2021.

The webinar was held from 23-25 February 2021 and attended by 84 students from around the world.

This 6th webinar of the International Association of Survey Statisticians will take place on 25 March, 11.00 am CET. The speakers are Nicoletta Cibella and Angela Chieppa, Istat.

The International Association for Official Statistics is pleased to announce that the IAOS 2022 Conference organized in collaboration with Statistics Poland, will be held from 26-28 April 2022 in Krakow, Poland.

“Growing Team Synergy for Analyzing IoT Streams for Risk Assessment”. The webinar will take place on 23 March 2021, 16.00-17.00 CET.

The webinar, held as a side event to the 52nd UN Statistical Commission, brought together a wide range of speakers covering ethical, philosophical and official statistical perspectives.

The IAOS Nominating committee has announced the members of the 2021-2023 IAOS Executive Committee to serve under President Misha Belkindas and President-Elect Dominik Rozkrut.

The Scientific Secretary of the Bernoulli Society Song Xi Chen announced six candidates who will serve as ordinary members of the BS Council from August 2021 to August 2025.

The EVA 2021 conference will be held fully online from 28 June - 02 July 2021.

The 10th Bernoulli-IMS World Congress (BS-IMS-WC) in Probability and Statistics will be held virtually from 19-23 July 2021.

The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) is pleased to announce that the postponed 29h TIES-GRASPA 2021 conference will be held online later this year.

Due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, the 16th international conference of the Mathematics Education for the Future project has been postponed from 2021 to 2022.

The timing of ICOTS 11, the 11th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, is under consideration. IASE members are invited to express their timing preferences.

The International Statistical Literacy Project welcomes applications for the Best Cooperative Award 2021. Enter the competition by the end of March for a chance to win 1000 euros prize money!

Listen to the latest episodes with Emily Hadley, Marie McAuliffe and Tim Harford.

Good news for members with an interest in historic data! The Bank of England has recently digitized the International Abstract of Economic Statistics, which ISI published as the main abstract of International Economic Statistics before the UN was set up.

The recording of the UN Statistical Commission Side Event: Modernization of Statistical Systems with GIS is now available. Hear from guest speakers from the UAE FCSC, Australian Bureau of Statistics, and DANE.

The Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences (TSHS) of the American Statistical Association is presenting a free Zoom webinar on "Teaching statistics online during the pandemic – sharing experiences from multiple continents".