It’s blurry photos time! (plus a nice photo of my cat - something for everyone) Great talks at the AI for a Healthier Future event. Xujiong Ye Mike Allen Gareth Hawkes Yanda Meng Beverley Shields Dr. Cédric Mesnage Jonathan Phillips James Davies Steph Selway Helen Chapman Aline Villavicencio

Sign up here for a UKRN organised symposium on checks for reproducibility April 30th 13:00-14:30. Would Iove to get feedback on what we’ve done recently at Exeter. I promise i will start my talk with an anecdote of questionable veracity! www.ukrn.org/event/ukrn-w...

Hey everyone! The Institute for Data Science and AI at Exeter is now on BlueSky! @idsaiexeter.bsky.social

My talk on our recent Reproducibility Evaluation at the GW4 Open Research Week is now available! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DroH... @drgbuckingham.bsky.social

Great to see so many of our Institutional Leads and Local Network Leads together in Cardiff yesterday. Lots of discussion, ideas, plans and bright Welsh sunshine. Huge thanks to Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture for hosting us. #collaboration #openscience #reproducibility

Congratulations shortlisted nominees for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Prize, recognising work of early career researchers promoting robust, rigorous and reproducible UK research: - Andre Maia Chagas - Annayah Prosser - Lewis Jones - Michael Biddle - Sacha Beniamine - Zahra Rahemtulla #OpenResearch

What a terrific, engaging and fun UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) Institutional Leads Retreat in sunny Cardiff. Lots of exciting sector-leading work going on & lots more to come!

A really great institutional leads away day for the UKRN in Cardiff. Lovely to meet so many e-colleagues in person. Great discussions and exciting initiatives planned! Thanks to Cardiff and JOMEC for hosting!

You only have until Friday (14th) to get your proposals in for the Metascience conference 2025 metascience.info/call-for-pro...

The UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize is open for nominations until midnight of Sunday 26 January 2025! www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

UKRN is on here now everyone! Get following!

Had fun meeting our new Statistical Data Science MSc students today. Really excited about this programme which is a collaboration between Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics and the Humanities. Looking forward to seeing what they can do! #SDS #UniversityOfExeter

Ah nothing like sitting down after a hard day looking through badly designed studies and relaxing with a bit of telly. What's this? Eat Smart: Secrets if the Glucose Goddess. Sounds fu-

Floella Benjamin introducing Rik Mayall is very funny, and very touching, and his five mantras for a full life sound pretty anarchistic to me…

Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025

My new year's resolution is simple, automated and doable

The image this tweet conjures never fails to amuse me. Also, it's my current mood. @mattywin.bsky.social

A great day today. Great atmosphere on campus for graduation, a departmental social with lovely colleagues, and I saw an uprooted tree!

As ever, graduation was a joy. Congrats all Apploed Data Science and Statistics students! I'm so proud! #UniversityofExeter #ADSS

Storm Darragh did a number on this tree on the way into Streatham campus

I’m sighing a lot today.

In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social) We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying. 📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...

In the later stages of getting to do a dream: a fully replicable manuscript. Every single number, stat, figure, etc. in the manuscript has a complete, open and pushbutton full pipeline all the way from data collection to seeing the number on the page.

*adjusts Ronnie Barker glasses* Police have described it as a mash and grab

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 🧪🌏

Two days left to apply for this! Please share.

Real footage of a synthetic control model

It’s true, if you’re feeling worried about your R code, soothe your stress like a chamomile tea & come learn some tips about reproducibil(tea) with me tomorrow at 4:30pm #ESAus2024 😀☕️ (sorry, the pun was there & it would’ve been rude not to take it)

I'm workshopping a new questionable research practice acronymn: HOSPITALing Highlighting Only Significant P-values In The Abstract Like-the-last-30-years-of-science-reform-never-happened What do you think? #QRP #MetaScience

Introducing RegCheck: a tool which uses Large Language Models to automatically compare preregistered protocols with their corresponding published papers and highlights deviations. @malte.the100.ci @ianhussey.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci @bjoernhommel.bsky.social regcheck.app

Incredibly proud to see the work-in-progress talks from our 4th year MMath students at the seminar series. It's great to see the depth of their research, a true reflection of how much they've developed since I first taught them Mathematical Methods in 1st year🥹 Looking forward to the next seminar! 🙂

Fascinating collection of talks & interests at the Maths & Stats, Computer Science and Business school workshop for research collaboration right now. Ranging from fully applied work to pure maths in search of application. Loads of super important work happening. Lots of connections being made!

La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton

Could these *be* any nuttier?

Ok, this is great.

Lots of the students in my dataviz class speak other languages, so I wrote up a little guide about how to change the locale in #rstats to get localized month/day names with {lubridate} and other R functions datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2024-11...

Fun #dataViz!

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

Inauspicious sign at parkrun this morning

A student did their applied stats research project on The Strokes and it's taking all my academic integrity to not just give it 100% regardless of any flaws.

The brand new `legendry` package by @teunbrand.bsky.social takes ggplots2 guides to the next level 🤩 teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl...

Snowy day! Postponing lectures to another day is a good idea. Staff and students might be struggling to come in, schools are closed, and let’s not forget, some students are parents too. Stay safe and cozy! ⛄ Here are some photos of our snowy campus @uniofexeter.bsky.social

PLEASE SHARE: PhD opportunity to start September 2025! Come work on climate change and antibiotic resistance with me, Ed Feil, Angus Buckling, and others. We will use lab experiments, modelling and sequencing to look how plasmid transfer, selection, and costs of resistance change with temperature.

Ran an induction for the latest Applied Data Science and Statistics MSc cohort today. Looking forward to seeing how you all do! Former ADSS grads: let me know what you're up to!

In March 2021, just as we emerged from lockdown, I was approached to be the independent statistician for a trial (AFRI-c: check out the logo to see a typically heroic trial acronym) exploring whether air filters were effective at preventing respiratory infections (including Covid-19) in care homes.

I've had a go at starting a starter pack for #ResearchCulture, I'm pretty new here so please don't be offended if I haven't found you yet. Happy to add people to this, let me know! #Research #ResearchDevelopment #OpenResearch #ResearcherDevelopment #ResponsibleMetrics go.bsky.app/FAzhuGh

What is 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + ...? The question puzzled some of the greatest mathematicians of the 18th century and led one to claim it explained how God created the universe. www.scientificamerican.com/article/1-th... 🧪

Analysis of Russell Group UK universities finds: ✴️ Women take much longer to get academic promotions. Think of the cumulative effects of such disparities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New blog post: Seven basic rules for causal inference: pedermisager.org/blog/seven_b..., in which I state the most basic ways that causal relationships can produce correlation, and provide R code to demonstrate how each rule plays out in data.

Just used Sky Bridge to port my twitter followers over to this platform. Worked really well. Recommend! Details here. medium.com/@jamestplunk....