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Darren Wilkinson

@darrenjw.bsky.social
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Professor of Statistics, Bayesian, computational systems biologist and functional programmer, darrenjw.github.io

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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource
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Journal of Open Source Software
Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period www.ukri.org/news/open-le...
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Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community
UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.
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Sam Duffield @samduffield.com · 30/01/2026
New open source: cuthbert 🐛 State space models with all the hotness: (temporally) parallelisable, JAX, Kalman, SMC
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Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The first data science book that has a chapter on monads reproducible-data-science.dev Learn how to build robust #DataScience pipelines with #RStats, #Python , #Julia and #Nix !
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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
BBSRC and EPSRC join MRC "pausing" funding grant apps www.timeshighereducation.com/news/three-u...
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Three UK research councils suspend funding opportunities
Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts
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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 04/01/2026
Hivemind question: Palmer Penguins is doing great work avoiding overuse of Fisher's iris data. What other "dataset substitutions" do you like? Or just generally other cool, real, open datasets that are good for teaching because established methods work pretty well on them?
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It's not something I've looked into deeply, but I do look at the close relationship between discrete and continuous (space and) time in these notes, so you may find them relevant.
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Alan Pope @popey.me · 01/01/2026
I made a (sort of) "Tinder for Git" site to help developers find 'good first issues' in open-source projects. It's early days, but it could be helpful. gitafix.com/
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I used to teach a course quite close to this. Notes here: darrenjw.github.io/work/teachin...
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
LOL! Imperative programmers are just determined to burn the whole world down! 😜
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Some lecture notes on spatial and temporal modelling, illustrated using R - darrenjw.github.io/spatio-tempo... - #rstats #rspatial #quarto
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Spatial and temporal statistics
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The "netcontrol" #rstats package was recently removed from #cran - I have some instructions for installing the archived version: darrenjw.github.io/work/docs/ne...
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netcontrol for R
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Stochastic Gray Scott diffusion via the spatial chemical Langevin equation.
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The Pennine Way is quite beginner-friendly, and intersects Hadrian's wall. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennine...
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Pennine Way - Wikipedia
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.
Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession
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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse www.bbc.com/news/article... BBC News has seen the complaint that the Guardian reported on Sunday. Main additional info seems to be that Helen Margetts and Cosmina Dorobantu left positions at the ATI last month. #govtech #techpolicy #AIpolicy
Others who have worked with the Turing Institute told the BBC there are concerns within the wider research community about its direction.

In July, professors Helen Margetts and Cosmina Dorobantu, long-standing co-directors of a successful programme which helped the public sector use AI, quit their positions at the charity.

Former chief technology officer Jonathan Starck left the organisation in May after eight months.

And some of its remaining staff describe a toxic internal culture.
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"ChatGPT will apologize for anything - even advice it definitely didn't give". Is ChatGPT... British?!
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Little summer holiday project: learn enough about fluid dynamics to implement a 2d simulation from scratch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYos...
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2d incompressible fluid flow
YouTube video by Darren Wilkinson
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Probably two different issues at play here. Turing hero- worshiping is probably a bit nationalistic, but I think the call for spending on defense related research is more a reflection of the current geopolitical landscape.
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Yes. There are a bunch of issues with the Turing, but it's not clear (to me) that this is a better path forward.
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New report: britishprogress.org/reports/refo...
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Reforming the Alan Turing Institute
The UK's national AI institute has lost its way. Major reform is needed to turn it into a vital asset for defence and national security.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Going to the hospital because I broke my wrist smashing the endorse button: www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...
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I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me
I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Yes, Haskell is great, but as well as the critical mass issue that Scala has, it has the additional, more fundamental issue that I don't think lazy languages are ideal for scientific and statistical computing (controversial, I know).
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José A. Alonso @jalonso.eurosky.social · 04/07/2025
Reflections on Haskell and Rust. ~ Sibi Prabakaran. academy.fpblock.com/blog/rust-ha... #Haskell #FunctionalProgramming #Rust
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Reflections on Haskell and Rust
Haskell vs. Rust: A production-level comparison of two languages.
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Actually, I think I misinterpreted your question. I much prefer strongly typed functional languages (especially Scala 3), but although Scala is popular for big data analytics, there isn't really a critical mass of people using it for serious statistical computing and machine learning.
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Let's just say that they both have their areas of strength and weakness. But the point I make in the podcast is that they are actually both very similar when considered in the space of all programming languages.
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I was interviewed recently for the Durham maths student podcast, @chalkboardultra.bsky.social, episode 39: open.spotify.com/episode/06jx... - good fun.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 04/07/2025
Did you know? 100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the #ShippingForecast for the very first time, produced by the Met Office for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. More than just a lifesaver, it’s become a beloved part of Britain’s cultural identity. Learn more: bit.ly/4kg877D 🛳️🌊
Met Office graphic with the heading 'DID YOU KNOW?' and an illustration of a light bulb. Text reads: '100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the very first Shipping Forecast, produced by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.' Includes the hashtag '#WhenItMatters'. On the right, a photo shows rough ocean waves under a cloudy sky.
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AI in the Biosciences (AIBIO UK) BBSRC Network @aibio-uk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📢 UKRI is seeking feedback on a new draft research data policy to update expectations for sharing and managing research data. More info and feedback details: engagementhub.ukri.org/ukri-openres... Existing policies remain in effect: www.ukri.org/manage-your-... #ResearchData #UKRI
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Developing UKRI's research data policy - UK Research and Innovation - Citizen Space
Find and participate in activities run by UK Research and Innovation
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Desi R Ivanova @desirivanova.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I’m teaching a grad course for the first time (a bit terrifying 😅) and I’ve decided to write a short blog post after each lecture, that will highlight a key takeaway from it and reflect on what can be improved. First one ⬇️
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
#python #jax #sysbio #scicomp #opensource
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
'I can't make money without breaking the law and therefore you should let me break the law' is one helluva flex. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
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OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Published (advance access) in #Bayesian Analysis: Bayesian Inference on the Order of Stationary Vector Autoregressions - doi.org/10.1214/24-B...
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Bayesian Inference on the Order of Stationary Vector Autoregressions
Vector autoregressions (VARs) are a widely used tool for modelling multivariate time-series. It is common to assume a VAR is stationary; this can be enforced by imposing the stationarity condition whi...
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Salar Rahmanian @salarrahmanian.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Created a Starter pack for all #Scala programming language enthusiasts, developers and users. Please share. If I missed anyone please let me know so I can add them to the list! I wasn't able to add some people assume that's their #Bluesky settings that prevents me adding them. go.bsky.app/APytbWH
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Mathieu Alain @miniapeur.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Bayesian statistics and bayesian machine learning starter pack go.bsky.app/HiwtzcZ
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
UK Uni Funding Crisis "Among academics, morale is reportedly at an all-time low. The prospect of further job losses follows on from years of falling pay, heavier workloads, often precarious working conditions, and pension reductions – which have led to waves of strikes." #UKHE #AcademicSky
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The UK universities in financial crisis
Spiralling costs and fewer international students is leaving universities in serious financial trouble
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Chad Scherrer @cscherrer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I got a Probabilistic Programming starter pack going. Hit me up if you're involved with #probprog R&D and want in! go.bsky.app/JfvubEf
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com
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Richard Everitt @bayesianstats.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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
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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
New here? Interested in AI/ML? Check out these great starter packs! AI: go.bsky.app/SipA7it RL: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS AI and news: go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS You can also search all starter packs here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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Leo 🏴‍☠️ @leostera.com · 31/10/2024
ok folks let’s build a starter pack for FP — who’s missing here? go.bsky.app/Tkj4hAZ
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Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
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
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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Next month on Wednesday November 6 I will be offering my comprehensive hierarchal modeling course at a steep discount in an effort to raise funds for World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders, particularly their ongoing work in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
I wasn't serious
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
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
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Scrap REF to ‘save £450m’, says think tank - Research Professional News
UK Day One suggests “new, low-bureaucracy system” would improve research quality
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
jax-smfsb: a JAX port of my code for high-performance stochastic systems biology modelling, simulation and Bayesian inference - on PyPI for pip installation - pypi.org/project/jsmf...
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jsmfsb
Python+JAX code relating to the textbook, Stochastic modelling for systems biology, third edition
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
And yet, it may be better for certain family members to leave their dishes near the dishwasher in preference to them packing them in the dishwasher in the style of "rabid raccoon"...
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Darren Wilkinson @darrenjw.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Add me please. TIA.
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