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Louis Aslett

@louisaslett.bsky.social
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Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University, U.K. #academicsky #rstats Lurking here for now, may start to post in due course. Currently more active on Mastodon: fosstodon.org/@louisaslett

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Robin Ryder @robinryder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Join us! We are hiring Chapman Fellows in Statistics, within the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London, commencing September 2027. We welcome applications across the breadth of Statistical Science. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Quite a different - and, I suspect, welcome to many - tone being struck by principal Sally Mapstone as St Andrews tops The Sunday Times Good University Guide.
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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
(from www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/AIm..., links to .pdf)
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Richard Everitt @bayesianstats.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Two year Teaching Fellow post at Warwick Stats. CLOSING DEADLINE: Monday 17 August 2026 at 11:55pm (UK Time). warwick-careers.tal....
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 31/07/2026
Come to the visitor centre and learn about the science that doesn’t happen at Jodrell Bank!
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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Accidental RStudio #rstats hotkey discovery of the day Alt (Option) + Shift + Up/Down I knew it incremented numbers, but not words too!? in/out true/false - what else? Is there a list of these words somewhere?
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Robin Ryder @robinryder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I have just resigned from the board of "Statistics and Computing", along with 17 other Associate Editors. This was a difficult decision: this great journal has published many tremendous articles under the leadership of EiC Ajay Jasra, and before him David Hand, Gilles Celeux, and Mark Girolami.
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rOpenSci @ropensci.org · 29/06/2026
🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats
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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 21/06/2026
BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data
Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
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The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
See also addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...
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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In memoriam Tomáš Kalibera (1978–2026). www.r-project.org/doc/obit/tom...
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Greater Manchester still says no to #NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin Manchester showing the way England needs to go Wales and Scotland agree No to Palantir www.theregister.com/public-secto...
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Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart
Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NHS data should be driving innovation & improvement – it’s an amazing resource We just published the sequel to our 2021 "Road to Hell" paper on using NHS data for research... things are worse! Buckle up for a long 🧵about *how COMPLETELY mad* system is for accessing NHS data for research 1/20
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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 23/04/2026
Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3
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mori: Shared memory for R objects
mori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere.
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Alzheimer's Association @alzassociation.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
END ALZ Day is tomorrow. 💜 Help us start the day strong by donating now to help advance research and provide care and support while you can make 3X the impact. 👉 bit.ly/482iBV5 #ENDALZ
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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Louis Aslett @louisaslett.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
👀 My curiosity is piqued! Looks like it takes inspiration from #rstats and #python and adds in some whole new interesting ideas. When term gets less crazy will be interested to play with this.
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad. I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review. apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...
Promotional image for webRios showing the app icon and an iPhone displaying the R console. The console shows example R commands with syntax highlighting: basic arithmetic (1 + 1), a print statement saying 'Hello from iOS!', a warning message in orange reading 'Uh-oh, I'm in the Apple-verse?', an error message in red with the HAL 9000 quote 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.', and a plot command.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 14/01/2026
Thanks to claude code, I wrote my first iphone app: apps.apple.com/us/app/time-... It's what I have always wanted for a talk timer (as both a speaker and a chair). It's very minimal, designed to be read from across the room, and make it clear when you're running out of time.
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Time Will Tell App - App Store
Download Time Will Tell by Hadley Wickham on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Time Will Tell.
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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:
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Kelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 11/12/2025
Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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TIOBE Index - TIOBE
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Louis Aslett @louisaslett.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A welcome FT article: on.ft.com/442Mpiq “AI doesn’t add up if you neglect the mathematicians”
Header of a Financial Times article titled "Al doesn't add up if you neglect the mathematicians", with a famous picture depicting the Rev Thomas BayesText of the FT article highlighting the UK government neglect of mathematics at university.
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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Congratulations to Fernando Zepeda on their viva today at @warwickstats.bsky.social; I spent a very enjoyable afternoon with @louisaslett.bsky.social discussing Fernando's thesis, "Non-Reversible Extensions of the ALPS Methodology for Multimodal and Transdimensional Sampling".
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Higher education is one of the UK's most important exports. This policy would cripple many of the UK's leading universities. It's equivalent to slaughtering the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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Matti Vihola @mattivihola.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social are looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor (tenure track) in Mathematics (Probability/Mathematical Foundations of Data Science): www.ellisinstitute.fi/pi-positions.... Application instructions & form: www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2..., DL Jan 12!
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PI positions | ELLIS Institute Finland
ELLIS Institute Finland PI positions (second call, winter 2025–26)
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Chris Bilder @chrisbilder.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Friends of Stats: The U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics needs your help. The university's Chancellor submitted a FINAL proposal today for budget cuts (budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...) that eliminates the department. 1/ #LNK #Nebraska #Huskers @amstatnews.bsky.social
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Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
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Adam Johansen @adamjohansen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Two assistant prof. vacancies at Warwick Statistics: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre... (deadline 25 January 2025 at 11:55pm). CSML applications very welcome!
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Assistant Professor x2 (104176-1125) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor x2 (104176-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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David Picard @davidpicard.eurosky.social · 07/11/2025
I hadn't had a good laugh like that in ages. Big thanks to the economists at the federal reserve.
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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The detectCores() apocalypse is creeping up on us 👻🐛 As more people are getting access to 128+ CPU cores, code spinning up parallel cluster with detectCores() workers fails - not enough #RStats connections available Friends, do *not* default to detectCores(), bc www.jottr.org/2022/12/05/a...
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Please Avoid detectCores() in your R Packages
The detectCores() function of the parallel package is probably one of the most used functions when it comes to setting the number of parallel workers to use in R. In this blog post, I’ll try to explai...
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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We are 5! 🎈 THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org
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Louis Aslett @louisaslett.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Postdoc, Newcastle University (UK). PINCODE researches Monte Carlo Fusion methods: this postdoc will help developing #rstats packages that bring this methodological work to life, as well as opportunities to contribute to further methodological development. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ807/r...
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Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics at Newcastle University
Apply for the Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Louis Aslett @louisaslett.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Postdoc, Newcastle University (UK). PINCODE researches Monte Carlo Fusion methods: this postdoc will help developing #rstats packages that bring this methodological work to life, as well as opportunities to contribute to further methodological development. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ807/r...
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Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics at Newcastle University
Apply for the Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨 Big news for the R Community! The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested $450,000 in the R Foundation to strengthen R’s sustainability, security, and modernization. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/sovere... #rstats #opensource #datascience
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The Sovereign Tech Fund invests $450,000 in R Foundation to Enhance R’s Sustainability and Security – R Consortium
R Foundation embarking on a crucial project to modernize R’s core infrastructure, improve its maintainability, and fortify its supply chain.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢 I've decided to do regular 2-3 mins video updates of latest authoritarian antics of Trump administration on YouTube & TikTok. Have been inspired by reading how many people get their news there and how dominated it is by the right. www.tiktok.com/@profchristi... www.youtube.com/@ProfChristi...
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Professor Christina Pagel
I'm Professor Christina Pagel at University College London. My research is in health systems. I'm passionate about science, public health, supporting diversity in the sciences, and protecting liberal ...
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This only happens to you once
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International Society for Bayesian Analysis @isba-bayesian.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Proposals for contributed talks & posters are now being accepted for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting! The world meeting will take place in Nagoya, Japan between 28 June and 3 July, 2026. Proposals may be submitted here: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...
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Sam Power @spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Some fun news: We're hiring! Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol. Closing date 13 October 2025; link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 19/09/2025
We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q
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Susan Vanderplas @srvanderplas.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My University has decided to close the #Statistics department along with several others. The public comment form opened up today: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu... Please feel free to explain how problematic it is to close a department teaching #datascience #rstats #python in this day and age.
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Fall 2025 Budget Reduction Feedback Form | Academic Planning Committee | Nebraska
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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model. Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I’ve just gone and re-read the Zen of Python and I reckon Tidyverse in R does a much better job of living up to these principles than trying to do stats in Python! especially readability > density, errors should not be silent, and don’t guess in the face of ambiguity mail.python.org/pipermail/py...
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"The Python Way"
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Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New blog post #Python needs its CRAN brodrigues.co/posts/2025-0...
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
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I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.
The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.
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Owen Biesel @owenbiesel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The matrix product (3 4 \\ 8 7) (7 2 \\ 4 9) = (37 42 \\ 84 79), with the entries from the first matrix colored red (along with the matching tens digits in the product) and the entries from the second matrix colored blue (along with the ones digits in the product).

Shown with the "Well yes, but actually no" Pirate Captain meme.
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 07/08/2025
Universities for North East England (UNEE) has issued a statement on the Global Talent Fund. More information can be found on our website: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
A statement from Universities for North East England
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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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