Research impact? #highered #university

One path to a successful career as a columnist is to be repeatedly wrong. Not to have unique takes on matters of opinion, but confident declarations proven wrong by events. If you can condescend to people proven right no matter how often you are wrong, the most prominent media would like to pay you.

Join us at the SEFARI Science for Life Lecture 2025! Giving life to your science so it impacts the transformation of agriculture, environment and society by David G Farquhar FRGS 🗓️Friday Oct 24th ⏰12:30 - 3:30pm 📍Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue Register by 17th Oct: tinyurl.com/mv3smw57

Wikipedia: ▫️Free ▫️Sources at the bottom ▫️Full edit history ▫️Discussion page to check controversies ▫️Openly stated editing policies Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!" AI: ▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

960+ people. 4 days. 1 unforgettable conference. Thanks to everyone who made #RSS2025 such a standout event! Our president John Aston shares some reflections, including a timely reminder that transparency is key to trust in official stats 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

We're heading to the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social International Conference this week in Edinburgh! 📊 Our team are contributing to the exciting programme by leading 11 sessions, giving 11 talks, and presenting 2 posters.🎤🗣️ Hopefully see you there! #RSS2025Conf #RSS2025 #Statistics

BioSS researcher Dr Ana Couto worked with a team of international scientists who tracked over 100 marine species of large vertebrates to identify the most critical locations for conservation in the global ocean. 🌍🌊 Read more here: www.bioss.ac.uk/case-studies... #conservation #marinebiology

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Registration is now open to attend the one-day workshop on “Statistical Challenges in the Agri-Environment Sector” organised jointly by the BIR (British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society) and NABES (UK Network of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statisticians).

I'm not saying you can't generate a hypothesis from data. I'm just saying that generating a hypothesis from the entirety of human knowledge that preceded your data is a much safer bet.

Our Iain McKendrick is at the Royal Highland Show 2025 to launch a new public information film. It warns about the risks from bringing animal and plant products into Scotland. 🧀🥩✈️ 🎦Watch here: www.epicscotland.org/resources/an... @epicscotland.bsky.social @planthealthscot.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

The latest Household Costs Indices (HCIs) are out: www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl... March HCI inflation: 2.6% (same as CPI) But the detail matters: Non-retired: 2.8% Retired: 2.1% Renters: 3.6% Owners: 1.8% 📑Read more in our policy briefing rss.org.uk/RSS/media/Fi...

Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/28/e...

Congratulations to joint @srucnews.bsky.social / @bioss.bsky.social PhD student Claire Stainfield and senior statistician Dr. Thomas Cornulier who both delivered amazing talks at last week's 2025 Pint of Science UK festival in Aberdeen! #pint25 #scicomm #pintofscience #bioss #sruc

Scotland's National LIDAR scan underway! @RESAS funded

🚨WEBINAR🚨 The #PrePAREDProject will host a webinar on 21st May from 12-12:30pm. This webinar summarises the findings from Report 006: ‘Similarity assessment of offshore wind farms within UK marine habitats’ and will host a live Q&A. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eae7d8...

Check out this exciting new BioSS paper! 📣🐑 #animalhealth #parasitology #sheep #newpaper

Welcome to BioSS, Grant, we're delighted to see you here too!

I've never experienced anything like this in my life, where people keep telling me that "we have to use AI or else we'll be left behind" but they don't actually tell me exactly what problem they are hoping to solve with the "AI" or how we would know it was useful. But we must use it! Apparently.

Finding a problem for your data is just like finding data for your methodology. All parts of the scientific process - problem formulation, data design and collection, analysis and inference, conclusions and dissemination - should be done by a collaborative team, working together from the outset.

Yet ANOTHER right-wing populist finds themselves on the wrong side of the law. Contrarian grifters: "The global system is conspiring to prevent these people from taking up their rightful place as the leaders of nations. Everyone else: No, far-right populism just tends to attract criminals.

News of a meeting free for members of the International Biometric Society: Probabilistic risk analysis and Bayesian decision theory, for an overview of the theory of Bayesian risk-based decision theory with application in epidemiology and environmental sciences (e.g. forestry). (1/2)

València International Bayesian Summer School (VIBASS 8) 7-10 July 2025 vabar.es/events/vibas... Includes a basic course on Bayesian learning (12 hours) and the special topic is on Bayesian modelling with brms.

As I said -- only a matter of time before news orgs lashed out at Apple's lackluster (and evidently dangerously wrong) AI summaries of their work. This is shambolic and the BBC has every right to be furious about it.

Another exciting trip into London today for the International Biometric Society British and Irish Region AGM which will be the start of my two-year term as President!

Fascinating insights from our @kateywhyte.bsky.social & Esther Jones on their SEFARI nnovative Knowledge Exchange funded project “Careers and skills for a future climate”, joint work with @jameshuttoninst.bsky.social @skillsdevscot.bsky.social #ClimateXChange #BerthaPH #CREW_waters #rowett_abdn

We're delighted to welcome everyone to our annual meeting in Edinburgh today. Our Helen Kettle introduced us all to a themed session on "Mathematical Modelling".

Very grateful that our Head of Consultancy Professor Iain McKendrick was given the chance to tell our #BayesCentre partners more about the work of BioSS yesterday as part of ⚡#BayesLightningTalks⚡

Join us for an afternoon celebrating Statistical Consultancy - after all, statistical methods are meant to be applied! And application is not always easy... This event is also the AGM of the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/statistica...

🚨#PhD opportunity!🚨 We are looking for a PhD student to work on modelling West Nile Virus in the UK, working with our @daveewing.bsky.social, and supervisors at @ukceh.bsky.social & Lancaster Uni. 📆Deadline: 6th January Info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/hi... To apply: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Our own @altealorenzo.bsky.social will be talking about the work of the "Celebrating Diversity" RSS group that she chairs as part of the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social #MembersWeek Showcase: Statistics for the Public Good. 📅Tomorrow 15th November 2024 ⏰1.00- 2.30PM Register: ⬇ rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Our David Ewing and @altealorenzo.bsky.social have been working hard at the ICMS follow-up #RewildingMaths workshop at the London Mathematical Society. Great discussions and paper writing! ✍️

That's a lot of logistic regressions.

📢Less than 1 week to go until the closing date for this opportunity to join our animal and plant health teams! This is a permanent position based in Edinburgh. Apply now! ✍️ www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/st... #StatsJobs #MathsJobs #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs

Ah yes, the greatest data-analysis time saver of them all: Not giving a shit about whether you've done it correctly

🚨TWO NEW VACANCIES!🚨 We are recruiting for two positions in mathematical modelling and statistical inference. Both are permanent roles based in #Edinburgh. 📅Deadline: 25th Nov -Position 1: bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/re... -Position 2: bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/re... #statistics #maths #statsjobs #research

We are recruiting for several positions at the moment, across a range of career stages and areas of research. All are permanent positions. 📖Check out our vacancy pages to learn more: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies #StatsJobs #AcademicJobs #MathsJobs #ResearchJobs

By far the most sensible suggestion I've seen on the NHS Ideas For Change site from the 1250 contributions to date... change.nhs.uk/en-GB/ideas/...

📢Just 1 week left to apply for this position in our Ecology and Environmental Sciences team! #statisticalecology #statistics #statsjobs

🚨NEW VACANCY!🚨 We are recruiting for a Statistician or Modeler specialising in Ecology and Environmental Science. This is a permanent, full-time position, based in Aberdeen. 📅Deadline: 28 October 👉More info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/st... #statistics #statsjobs

Scrap the REF "With pressures on both university and government finances, we can no longer afford an evaluation exercise which costs half a billion and fails to deliver clear benefits." #UKUnis #AcademicSky #HigherEd

This applies to all academic research, and goes back to a time when "Applied Statistics" was first viewed as something that could be done by anyone with SAS/SPSS on their PC. It helps if people see statisticians as vital collaborators in the research process, rather than as service providers.

Brilliant talk by @elmosmoe.bsky.social @scottishaialliance.bsky.social at the #glasgowAIethics symposium, highlighting their important engagement and public literacy work to help people navigating through the hype and noise #SRAI

🚨Course alert 🚨 Want to get started in data science and #rstats ? We have two exciting courses on offer between now and the end of the year! 🌟Getting Started in R (online) 🌟Basic Statistics in R (in-person) More info and registration👇 www.bioss.ac.uk/training/cou...

Why should editors insist on expert statistical review? Obvious: To stop authors from publishing flawed statistical methods and polluting the literature. Less obvious: To stop statistical dilettantes, disguised as expert reviewers, from polluting the literature, even when the authors know better.

@altealorenzo.bsky.social presenting on Mary Eleanor Spear and her contribution to data visualisation for the Hidden Figures session at #RSS2024conf, celebrating the contributions that don’t always get celebrated or taught

If you don't have access to expert medical statisticians to help design studies, develop analysis plans, and execute more advanced models, that's your institution's fault. If you still don't understand what a p value is, that's YOUR fault. Try acting like your research could matter, please.

Great explanation behind the James-Stein estimator, an old result that is deeply related to machine-learning shrinkage estimators: www.econometrics.blog/post/not-qui... #EconSky

The Two Cultures aren't prediction vs explanation, or industry vs academica. Instead: One is a culture of experts that know how to generate and cautiously interpret data to help learn useful things about the world The other is a culture of novices performatively analyzing data in service of hype