Dear all,

we are writing to announce that the deadline for the nominations to the Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award has been moved to July 15, 2025. The award aims at recognizing outstanding junior Bayesian researchers based on their overall contribution to the field and to the community. There will be six winners in total who will be invited to present their work in two special webinar series and receive three years of free ISBA and j-ISBA membership.

To encourage scientific exchange and strengthen research connections between geographies, three prizes will be awarded to researchers based in time zones UTC+0 to UTC+13 [e.g. Africa + Asia + Europe + Oceania] and three to those based in UTC-12 to UTC-1 [e.g. North America + South America]. We welcome nominations of junior researchers working in the broad spectrum of topics in Bayesian statistics, including but not limited to methods, theory, computation, machine learning, data science, biostatistics, econometrics, industrial statistics, environmental science, and software.

Ph.D. students and early career researchers who received their Ph.D. after January 1, 2020 are eligible for nomination. Candidates who were nominated in previous years may be nominated again if they received their Ph.D. after January 1, 2020. In exceptional cases, applicants who are more than five years past their Ph.D. may still be considered if they experienced a significant career break within five years of earning their degree (such as breaks due to illness, caring for a sick family member, pregnancy-related leave, or parental leave).

A nomination may come from any ISBA member, including the nominee themselves. A nomination is to be submitted electronically and should contain:

• Nominating letter in support of the candidate

• CV of the candidate

• One manuscript or alternate form of exposition (e.g. software documentation) of scientific work most representative of the candidate’s achievements; the submitted work should also be available as publication or in a public repository such as arXiv, bioRxiv, CRAN, Bioconductor or GitHub.

Submit here.

If you are unable to use Google Forms, please email your nomination to jisba.section@gmail.com.

We look forward to receiving your applications!

 

The j-ISBA (junior section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis) Board