I'm very much looking forward to speaking at the upcoming workshop on MCMC at Newcastle. Details here: sites.google.com/vie... I will speak about MCMC with active subspaces arxiv.org/abs/2501.0...

New work on inference for partially observed (hypoelliptic) SDEs in frequentist/Bayesian regimes. Splitting schemes & controlled SMC (+ bridges) to recover the (pseudo)likelihood of interest arxiv.org/abs/2507.14535 Work led by Shu, with @adamjohansen.bsky.social and @bayesianstats.bsky.social

Starting now!

The final OWABI seminar www.warwick.ac.uk/owabi of the season will feature two selected talks and will take place live from BayesComp bayescomp2025.sg/! The talks will take place on Thursday the 19th June at 1pm UK time (note the different date and time!), and will be given by

Recently-completed Warwick PhD student Ian Roberts, with Xavier Didelot, Richard Everitt and Jere Koskela, have had the paper "Bayesian Inference of Pathogen Phylogeography using the Structured Coalescent Model" accepted in PLOS Computational Biology journals.plos.org/pl...

Cricket fans! This is the best Fantasy Cricket site: bsky.app/profile/cric...

So excited for the County Championship tomorrow.

I will be a supervisor for an upcoming PhD! (with Kirsty Hassall and Jacqueline Stroud) The opportunity is an EPSRC DLA Interdisciplinary Scholarship: "Unravelling the sound underground: Detecting and estimating earthworm abundance using low-frequency vibrations". warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Sign up to the mailing list at ivory-cuscus.lnx.war... to receive the link to the talk.

The next OWABI seminar www.warwick.ac.uk/owabi is quickly approaching, being scheduled on Thursday the 27th March at 11am UK time. Our next speaker is Meïli Baragatti (Université de Montpellier), who will talk about "Approximate Bayesian Computation with Deep Learning and Conformal Prediction".

PhD position at Surrey: Reconstructing EVolutionary histories for organisms on EArth and stars in gaLaxies (REVEAL). www.surrey.ac.uk/fee...

I will be one of the supervisors on this. Please pass on to any UK students who may be interested.

The programme will be complemented by discussion and exercise sessions so to maximise interaction among participants and speakers. Participants have the chance to present their work in short-talk sessions. To join the school, please register at warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc... (deadline 18 May 2025)

It will feature 4 lecture courses, by: Martin Hairer, EPFL (Switzerland) and Imperial (UK) Nina Holden, NYU Courant (US) Hubert Lacoin, IMPA (Brazil) Richard Nickl, Cambridge (UK) who will explore: stochastic PDEs, random planar maps, directed polymers and Bayesian inference for time evolution PDEs

The P@W Summer School - Recent Trends in Probability and Statistics will take place at the University of Warwick, 7-11 July 2025. The school will engage PhD students and researchers with cutting-edge topics at the frontiers of current knowledge in Probability and Statistics. http://warwick.ac.uk...

You can also check out out website at warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Our next talk will be on Thursday the 27th February at 11am UK time. Our next speaker is Ayush Bharti (Aalto University), who will talk about "Cost-aware simulation-based inference". To receive the link, sign up here: listserv.csv.warwick...

Big news: you can now submit your papers to the first ever international conference on probabilistic numerics (1-3 September, Southern France)! Don’t miss the chance to get in on the ground floor of this exciting new field! probnum25.github.io/submissions

Don't forget #AABI, the Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference is coming to Singapore!! Co-located #ICLR2025 Workshop Track: February 7, AoE Proceedings Track: February 7, AoE Fast Track: February 18 / March 14, AoE approximateinference.org/call/ #ML #Bayes #GenAI

Amazing opportunity: a few PhD positions in Health Analytics, Epidemic Modelling and Health Economics available with myself and colleagues from @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social, @ccmid.bsky.social and @ukhsa.bsky.social. Please apply/circulate widely!

Bayes Comp 2025 will take place at the National University of Singapore June 16-20, 2025. Registration is now open, and you are invited to submit abstracts for posters and contributed talks (dl Feb. 17). Register by March 15 for early bird rates. More details here: #Bayesian #ISBA bayescomp2025.sg

A reminder of our talk this Thursday (30th Jan), at 11am GMT. Paul Bürkner (TU Dortmund University), will talk about "Amortized Mixture and Multilevel Models". Sign up at listserv.csv.warwick... to receive the link.

Two interesting upcoming events: Data-Centric Engineering at Cambridge on 15th Jan sites.google.com/vie... and the 1st International Workshop on Bayesian Approach in Civil Engineering in Hong Kong events.polyu.edu.hk/...

Apply now for our MSc in Statistics! From 2025 entry, we've introduced an innovative structure, offering a choice between a broad Statistics MSc or specialised pathways in Data Science, Finance, and Probability. For more detail, see warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

🔊 Super excited to announce the first ever Frontiers of Probabilistic Inference: Learning meets Sampling workshop at #ICLR2025 @iclr-conf.bsky.social! 🔗 website: sites.google.com/view/fpiwork... 🔥 Call for papers: sites.google.com/view/fpiwork... more details in thread below👇 🧵

Call for Help: As AE for JSS, I am looking for reviewers for a neat paper (and #Rstats package) with low/mid/high precision float support, something of interest for (very) large models and machine learning. If you,dear reader, could review this please get in touch via email. Thanks in advance.

It's the end of term! We wish all of our students (and staff!) a relaxing break. We look forward to welcoming you back in January.

Very excited to be seeking our 4th postdoc CINN Research Fellow. A super-rewarding research development role, with substantial research resources, datasets, conference/training travel, tech support, training. https://buff.ly/3UATDWc To find out about CINN visit our website: https://buff.ly/3CpMMZ8

Thanks to Jeremias for an inspiring talk today. The talk was recorded, and will appear on youtube under this link: www.youtube.com/play...

A reminder of Jeremias Knoblauch's talk on November 28, 11am UK time. He will speak on "Post-Bayesian machine learning". Last chance to sign up and receive the link! listserv.csv.warwick...

Applications for our Summer Research Experience in 2025 are open! If you are in the penultimate year of your undergraduate degree (or later, including MSc), you can apply to do a research project with us in over the summer. Apply here by 19th January: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

At the University of Birmingham today, speaking to CENTA PhD students about "Understanding Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence". https://centa.ac.uk/

Bayesians! Are you a member of ISBA? Are you into applications in the Social Sciences? We are starting a new ISBA section on Bayesian Social Sciences. This requires a petition, signed by at least 30 ISBA members. You can add your name here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Join us! We are currently advertising two faculty positions: Assistant Professor (Computational, Methodological or Theoretical Statistics or Machine Learning) and Assistant Professor (Mathematical Finance). www.warwick.ac.uk/st... Deadline: Jan 6th

There is funding for students/ECRs to attend with a 5th January 2025 deadline for application (the application form is here: forms.gle/PNjzrXpvpE... and can also be found on the webpage). Registration will open in January 2025.

This is a 2-week programme, funded by the ICMS, where the first week is a summer school and the second week is a workshop. More information here: bathsymposium.ac.uk/...

Two of our colleagues (Matt Thorpe and Clarice Poon) are organising an LMS-Bath Symposium on Inverse Problems and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine to be held at the University of Bath, 23rd June – 4th July 2025.

#RStats I'm so happy to finally share what we've been experimenting on at ThinkR for the past couple of weeks — A native mobile app that can run R code through #webR Read more at 👉 rtask.thinkr.fr/youve-been-w...

Sneak peak of upcoming C++ code coverage reports in #Doxide, featuring an interactive sunburst chart (using #ApacheECharts), and sortable tables (using #tablesort and Material for #MkDocs), to let you drill down into areas where further testing may be warranted. #opensource #cplusplus #cpp

I made a starter-pack for Statistics and Statistics-related groups, departments or organisations. Please share, and suggest accounts that I have missed. go.bsky.app/q6MfWL

Latest data from AllTheBacteria described in our updated preprint. All illumina WGS bacterial+archaeal sequence data to Aug 2024 consistently assembled, QC, and now AMR profiling. That's 2.4 million genomes. Gene annotations almost done , coming next. Please use! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I made a starter-pack for Statistics and Statistics-related groups, departments or organisations. Please share, and suggest accounts that I have missed. go.bsky.app/q6MfWL

📝Admissions for our STATML are now open! ⏱️Deadline: 8th Jan '25 STATML is an @EPSRC funded CDT in Statistics & Machine Learning. Studentships are fully funded for a 4-year PhD/DPhil research programme. 🔗For more info, please visit: statml.io

StanCon 2024 Oxford: recorded talks are now released! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/10/30/s...

R in Production, r-in-production.org, is a new book that will help you put R into production, coupled with (in the near future) new tools to make the process less painful. I'm working on this with @thomasp85.com , @gaborcsardi.bsky.social, and @hfrick.bsky.social.

Applications are now open for the Warwick Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistics. Follow the links below to apply, or to register for our open day on Wednesday. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc... warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

My fav starter packs so far, a thread: stats: go.bsky.app/Ki7PjpS stats: go.bsky.app/7TBN5rX causal inference: go.bsky.app/FdemGAZ package devs: go.bsky.app/N1569Qh data peeps: go.bsky.app/8TdEfdK medical stats: go.bsky.app/ArqEz36 bioinformatics: go.bsky.app/Ha64Gmv r-ladies: go.bsky.app/Vgxwa2F

Wow. This sounds incredibly helpful!

‼️ New blog post! I discuss the benefits of developing C/C++ code for R with the new #Positron IDE (from @posit.co) and provide functions to add to your user profile to automate some current pain points away! Developing C/C++ code for R with Positron Link: www.tylermw.com/posts/coding... #RStats

OK, I've taken a swing at it - a Mathematical Biology starter pack, please add (or remove) yourselves as necessary! (If that's possible? I have no idea how this works) go.bsky.app/GVkxwBv