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Relatable! That or a sudden pressure to change your password, while projected in front of a packed classroom!

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The Royal Statistical Society isn’t just for statisticians – we also support data analysts and data scientists. Join today and get involved: rss.org.uk/membership/j...

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Excellent example @adamjkucharski.bsky.social - and access to Epiverse makes this easier to understand and examine different scenarios. ‘Or parallel epiverses?’ even!

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SPOTTED: Check and balances on the US constitution

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Love this quote by Jacob Bronowski about the idealised view of the scholar. Then I think about Elon Musk, FRS

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

My HRB funded #HipFORGE project is getting a revival for next few months as we maximise it’s longer term impact by creating tools for health professionals & people with hip fracture to support a focus on quality of life after injury. No footprint here on BlueSky yet so see 📎 @noca-irl.bsky.social

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One of the big announcements at the French AI Summit is a foundation for public interest projects. So far €400m raised towards it with a hope of increasing this fivefold on.ft.com/4hGNBwe

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The @royalstatsoc.bsky.social is looking for nominations for the next President of the society. Please please please help us to nominate a diverse set of outstanding candidates for the selection committee to consider. 🙏 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

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The 2nd conference of the Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Population Biology @smtpb.bsky.social will be in Chicago @nitmb.bsky.social June 2-6. Applications are now open, both to attend (junior applicants can apply for financial support), and to present, at www.nitmb.org/modeling-and...

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Achnambeithach from my memories album. A year between Scotland visits feels like a long time, but it’s only 3 months until I pass through Glencoe on my way to the islands once again 💙 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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It took me a long time to realise this wasn’t talking about data leaving the UK under cover of darkness. Terrible headline. Interesting article, no mention of the fallout of sacking 1,000 employees 15 years ago.

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Galveston biolabs disclose mishaps that potentially exposed workers to infectious diseases -a good practice to be so open houstonlanding.org/galveston-bi...

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In 2004, it took the world about a year to add one gigawatt of solar power capacity. By 2023, the same amount was added, on average, every single day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org

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Presidents in the movies were great. Even if it was 20 years ago! Glad we learned from this as a society.

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The NTSB will be conducting a thorough investigation into last night’s collision of an American Airlines plane with an Army helicopter. It will determine whether recent changes within the FAA or the Dept of Defense ordered by the Trump administration contributed in any way to this horrific accident.

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The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

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Today the New HTA Regulation comes into force. The comparative evidence for all new medicines for cancer and advanced therapeutic medical products will now be assessed jointly between EU&EEA countries. #EUHTAR @heames.bsky.social www.ncpe.ie/new-european...

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NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

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If you see the headline regarding the first birdflu death in US today, please know that 2700 people have already died from seasonal influenza in the 2024/25 season. What you can control is making sure you are up to date with your seasonal flu shot. It's not too late. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

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Join a supportive and focussed team as an Assistant Professor (fixed term, 4 years) using OpenSAFELY to model respiratory viruses and assess socioeconomic inequality. Closes Jan 12. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Fascinating piece this on one of those slow moving issues that could creep up on you. Ireland is now about 50% richer per capita than Northern Ireland. In Ireland most people like the idea of reunification — but don’t want to pay higher taxes to fund it on.ft.com/4fTa4VG

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We did a thing: arxiv.org/abs/2412.15012 Lots of simulations comparing various missing confounder approaches in a drug-safety problem. Not comprehensive, of course, but a honest effort by a group of people with different expertise and preferences for the results. (funded by FDA SENTINEL)

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Amazing - what a feat!

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Does anyone have an starting point for an automated #rstats or #python (because that is what I am most comfortable with) solution for avoiding manually getting the popup tooltip raw numbers in the Tableau NZ respiratory disease dashboard - Virus Detected tab, www.esr.cri.nz/digital-libr...

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A cautionary tale for the rest of the world that should be studied for decades. The country that imposed economic sanctions on itself.

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If you give an analyst tabular relational data, they’re going to build a world model, part 1

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People tell me they know which number is bigger and I explain why they're wrong

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"The 2030 climate targets won’t be achieved unless Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael decide to go harder on climate action over the next five-years than the Green Party was seemingly able to convince them to go over the last five"

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