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Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing:
wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr...
As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R.
Deadline Mar 18!
A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.
Beautifully put!
A major release of the nestedLogit package now on CRAN.
Enhanced plotting methods, several new vignettes...
[Work on this a tribute to John Fox, who did the heavy lifting on the package, in both theory & code]
Release notes: github.com/friendly/nes...
Docs: friendly.r-universe.dev/nestedLogit
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
Leeds United call for respect to be shown on Sunday as players break their fast, including striker Joel Piroe
#lufc
www.leedsunited.com/en/news/leed...
Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.
Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:
"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".
ANNOUNCE: Nominations are open for the prestigious ASA Statistical Computing and Graphic Award. 🎖️
It recognizes innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a significant impact on statistical practice or research.
#rstats #stats
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📢 Applications for the Summer Research Experience at Warwick Statistics is now open!
The Summer Research Experience (SRE) is an 8 week programme taking place in July and August for students not currently at Warwick.
Just deeply unserious reporting from the BBC here, both on the politics and the numbers
No mention of Trump/ICE and what deporting hundreds of thousands of people actually look like; and no scrutiny of Reform's entirely fictional/fantasy numbers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'You can’t really fix student loans without also changing something structural about higher education – and any structural change to HE requires a comprehensive funding review.'
Ultimately, this is the inescapable bottom line. 1/2
Job description British Library Advisory Council- Chair The British Library is entering a bold new era. As one of the world's leading national libraries, we hold over 170 million items and support millions of people across the UK and beyond with research, learning, and inspiration. This is a pivotal moment to join us as we begin an ambitious new chapter, expanding access, strengthening engagement, and shaping our future as a modern national library for the digital age.
OK so I know I carp on a bit about the British Library, but only because I think it’s important. They want a new Advisory Council Chair - surely someone here would be excellent in helping them get back to their core purpose of serving the research community?
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Bravo @iandunt.bsky.social. Now that change has been rung in Number 10 I very much hope the party can think again, particularly about the shabby rule-change on ILR for people already here. Britain should keep its word.
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
“Parents are being urged to make sure their children are vaccinated before the return to school after the half term break”
The bicycle is an underrated invention
Bikes allow us terrestrial folk to be more like fish in terms of efficiency when travelling, and beat pretty much every organism, as well as all powered vehicles.
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This will not surprise many parents. A lovely graph though!
#dataviz
Just because someone is rich and highly successful in business doesn't mean their brain can't be utterly melted online.
A reminder that, while some of the damage that Trump & GOP are doing might seems temporary, the damage they're doing to the planet is permanent:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively.
All due online by 2029.
Join us on 24 March for our Discussion Meeting on 'Regression by composition' (Farewell et al.), online or at Imperial College London. Explore innovative statistical modelling and join the debate!
📅 24 March 2026, 4–6pm
🎓 Introductory DeMO: 2:15pm–3:15pm
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Another exciting workshop to be held at Warwick Statistics this coming June: The ProbAI Theory of Scaling Laws Workshop from 22-24 June!
Website of the workshop: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...
Registration open until 31 March on a first-come-first-serve basis: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc....
Mistaking correlation for causation doesn’t just waste research funding, it can shape real-world health advice.
In our new blog, Prof. George Davey Smith, 2025 MRC Millennium Medal winner, explains why he encourages scientists to look for ways they might be wrong.
www.ukri.org/blog/why-evi...
So @soumayakeynes.ft.com wrote this about buying Greenland, but it turns out it already has wider application
www.ft.com/content/3fb7...
On Multiple Time Scales and Collapsibility. David Oakes. Lifetime Data Analysis. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
NOW - Musk: "My prediction is there'll be more robots than people... everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one... who wouldn't want a robot to... watch over your kids, take care of your pets... we are in the most interesting time in history." 4:08 PM Jan 22, 2026 223.8K Views
Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids?
The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.
