Message from our PresidentDear Members, I recently attended the 9th Bayesian Statistical Brazilian Meeting in Maresias, BR and it gave me a wonderful opportunity to meet the Brazilian Bayesian community and the Brazilian local chapter, ISBrA and to discover how active, how lively, and how diverse it is. The exceptional quality and the wide range of talks and posters during this meeting was astounding, with an incredible proportion of enthusiastic students engaged in Bayesian spatial statistics, MCMC, Bayesian nonparametric statistics, or Bayesian analysis of skewed distributions, to mention a few directions. As my first glimpse of a local ISBA chapter, this was a highly rewarding moment and I would like to encourage other local chapters to stem in a near future. As a final bonus, this meeting kept well the fine Bayesian tradition of seaside meetings, by picking an idyllic location on the São Paulo coastline. I thus congratulate very sincerely the organisers and the participants to the 9th EBEB meeting for contributing so positively to the advancement of Bayesian Statistics and to the visibility of ISBA.
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