Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

I’m not sure people understand just how much higher these types of visa fees are in the UK compared to our competitors but they are egregious ripoffs that harm our science sector without affecting immigration numbers more than a smidgeon.

it is actually incredibly important we disambiguate this for as many people as possible. there is a very real risk that business owners or service providers might start policing trans use of single-gender spaces only because they think this is a legal requirement (it is not!).

Ivan Svetunkov (@isvetunkov.bsky.social) and I are organising a course in demand forecasting with R in May 2025! The course is meant for practitioners and academics alike who are interested in learning forecasting as a methodology. Come and join us! Link: www.lancaster.ac.uk/centre-for-m...

There is still time to sign up for our forecasting course. See the link below. #forecasting #datascience #machinelearning

Our inaugural SHAPE Conference is underway, exploring how the humanities and social sciences can be supported and strengthened across policy, education and R&D. We will be sharing insights and ideas from our speakers here throughout the day.

Happy eid mubarak!

Exciting news! Hexaly is the headline sponsor for #EURO2025, Europe’s leading OR & analytics conference. Join us in Leeds, 30 June – 3 July for cutting-edge insights & collaboration! https://www.theorsociety.com/EURO2025 #OperationalResearch #AI #Analytics #DecisionScience

Ivan Svetunkov (@isvetunkov.bsky.social) and I are organising a course in demand forecasting with R in May 2025! The course is meant for practitioners and academics alike who are interested in learning forecasting as a methodology. Come and join us! Link: www.lancaster.ac.uk/centre-for-m...

Me being a geek, after work, listening to Helen Castor about Richard II and Henry IV 👑👑👑 Unfortunately it's not related to forecasting.

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

On the relations between human, labor, machine, and human conditions. My skepticism towards Generative AI leads me to this book. I haven't finished yet but I bet this is a life learning process, especially in making arguments/ points of view on GenAI.

"While we’ve seen remarkable developments in machine learning over the past year, I feel that some people are starting to lose sight of basic forecasting principles." I will quote this sentence on my potentially future presentation.

A paper to read over the Xmas holiday: Wang et al. (2023) – Forecast combinations: An over 50-year review by Xiaoqian Wang, @robjhyndman.com, Feng Li, and Yanfei Kang openforecast.org/2024/12/23/a...

Newcastle University admits negligence and makes payout to PhD student over bullying supervisor and threats to undermine visa status docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Accurate

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂: daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too! #ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

Managed to writing up another blog post. It's about my presentation at Drexel University (online), where I presented my current research called forecast congruence with Nikos Kourentzes. kandrikapritularga.com/2024/12/07/p...

Ivan (@isvetunkov.bsky.social) and I just finished our first online Demand Forecasting with R. We learnt basic principles of forecasting as a set of rigorous activities - it's not merely talking about models! It was fun and pleasure to meet people across the world to join us. Happy forecasting!

Scientists who don’t understand that #science is political are dangerous. Who can participate in the Academy is political. What data we value, collect, analyze, interpret, & report on is political. I’m disappointed to see a NAS president suggesting science is & must be apolitical. That’s a problem.

Joined Twitter since 2009, and I miss the old Twitter! So much fun and informative. BlueSky feels nostalgic and is definitely a better place to be.

I’ll be giving a talk on epidemic dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social next Monday at 5.30pm, from dengue and Zika to pandemic influenza and COVID. Free and open to all: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Find out more about the new MA in Global Medical and Health Humanities in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University! www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Why zeroes happen: a post discussing what is and what isn't intermittent demand and why it is important to tell the difference: openforecast.org/2024/11/18/w... #forecasting #datascience #machinelearning

Lessons from England’s National Health Service. Tldr: the UK NHS is in principle a great model but is now precarious, undermined by austerity and redisorganisation. Primary care is critical to the whole thing but is facing huge risks. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

⤵️ My review of David van Reybrouck's "Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World" with Asian Review of Books. One of the most important books on Indonesia of the last few years and a fascinating read. asianreviewofbooks.com/content/revo...

Just launched- a new round of pump priming funding for U.K. researchers building collaborations for Horizon Europe projects. Grants of £10k, for current and future calls, based on the Commission’s priorities. Run by the BA but open to all disciplines. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/Hori...

I have been thinking converting myself from basic R plot to ggplot2.

I would dedicate my first post for this incredible book. This book explains why we, Indonesians, are so attached to our country. We gained our independence with tears and blood, and the founding fathers successfully ingrained this idea to us, even though this feeling starts to fade away.