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RSS Celebrating Diversity @rssdiversity.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🚀 The RSS presents "Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication" on Jan 28, 2026! 📊 Learn to make your data accessible for audiences with visual & auditory impairments with experts from BBC News, ONS & more. 🔗Event details: bit.ly/Stats4Every1 #StatsSky #DataVis #RStats #InclusiveStats

An informational flyer for the Royal Statistical Society's 'Statistics for Every Body' online event. The flyer includes a summary of the inclusive data communication topic, headshots and affiliations of key speakers, and practical information like the event date (Jan 28, 2026), time (12:00-13:30), and how to register: bit.ly/Stats4Every1

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James Grant @jamesagrant.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Recharged after a much needed week of sun and rest ☀️🇬🇷 Even managed to clear the email backlog in a morning. 📤

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James Grant @jamesagrant.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A great chat about all things LGBTQ+ & STEM is written up in this @lancasteruni.bsky.social blog - was really interesting to reflect on how LGBTQ+ identities have interacted with our careers, and the role of visibility and allyship in building inclusion further. www.lancaster.ac.uk/sci-tech/abo...

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STEMMing the Leaky Pipeline: A “Pride in Science” special - Lancaster University

As a part of Pride month, the Research and Engagement Team in the Faculty of Science and Technology interviewed LGBTQ+ members of research and academic staff from a range of departments to get their i...

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James Grant @jamesagrant.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Gutted to miss this one due to holidays, but strongly recommend to those able to get to it in Edinburgh and looking forward to reading the book @kevinguyan.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈

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James Grant @jamesagrant.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

New out on arXiv today: arxiv.org/abs/2506.16425 This paper on statistical properties of estimators in phylogenomics is the last from George's soon-to-be-submitted thesis. It was great to supervise as it was a wonderful example of the research being driven by George's curiosity and original ideas.

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Covariance Decomposition for Distance Based Species Tree Estimation

In phylogenomics, species-tree methods must contend with two major sources of noise; stochastic gene-tree variation under the multispecies coalescent model (MSC) and finite-sequence substitutional noi...

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LGBT Foundation @lgbtfdn.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Refuse to be invisible! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Now is the time to make our voices heard, sharing our experiences in the EHRC Consultation which affects LGBTQ+ people. We've created a handy guide to help plan your response, get started now and share this post. www.lgbt.foundation/EHRC

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James Grant @jamesagrant.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This BBC article does a better than average job of reporting the difficulties in measuring trends conditions like autism with highly variable diagnosis rates - kudos!: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Are there more autistic people now?

Why is the number of autism diagnoses changing? And what does it mean for autistic people?

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James Grant @jamesagrant.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Today is revision lecture day which means quadruple checking I go through the solutions to LAST year’s exam, not THIS year’s as I had a nightmare about last week 😂

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 16/04/2025

I am so incredibly tired of this ongoing attack on trans people. Cis men are murdering women in plain sight. If gender-critical women turned their attention to dealing with men, women might be safe. I'm not worried about loos or changing rooms. I am worried about literally everything else.

A screengrab of the BBC website showing three stories from the past two days of men murdering women, and one from a week ago.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 06/03/2025

Today EPSRC has published an independent analysis of diversity data, by @royalstatsoc.bsky.social and input from the Alan Turing Institute. The project investigates potential bias in the EPSRC peer review process using structured data analysis and textual analysis of reviewers’ comments and scores.

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James Grant @jamesagrant.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Hi Bluesky 🦋 👋 I'm hoping to (re)connect with the Stats, ML/AI, and EDI in STEM/Academia communities here, so here's a cringey bio I'm a Lecturer (Assist Prof) at Lancaster Uni, with a background in reinforcement learning theory, and interests in fairness & reliability in human-AI decision-making.

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