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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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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Fully funded PhD position starting in September in @ucddublin.bsky.social #hiring The stipend is €25K per year, with additional funds for travel, fees, etc. I'm looking for someone for a project in statistical genetics, exploring complex factors of disease risk.

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1779460769201.pdf

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The closing date for these positions is Monday at 12pm!

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We're #hiring! We have three new Assistant Professor positions in Statistics @ucddublin.bsky.social See www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... and search for job references: - Permanent (ref. 019430). - Temporary 5-year (ref. 019431). - Temporary 5-year in the area of Machine Learning (ref. 019429).

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 02/12/2025

If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch. Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate

At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

There's lots of interesting reading in vol 122 No 48 of @pnas.org. There's a focus on canine genetics, with several really interesting articles in there. Two of these report results on introgression between domestic dogs and wild relatives (wolves and dingoes) using MOSAIC maths.ucd.ie/~mst/MOSAIC/

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MOSAIC

MOSAIC is a tool for modelling multiway admixture using dense genotype data. See our 2019 paper in Genetics for details or start with this post for a short and simple lay summary.

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Genuinely impressed with the food policy for #PopGroup 59! This should be default for all conferences and events @popgroup2026.bsky.social

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ishg.ie @ishg.ie · 09/09/2025

Excitement is building for our conference on Friday! Please register asap if you have not done so. See ishg.ie/conference/ for details on speakers, registration, directions and more!

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Conference – ISHG

ISHG 2025 will be held on the 12th September 2025 in the Iontas Theatre in National University of Ireland Maynooth

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I'm delighted to say that I was promoted to Associate Professor in UCD this month. The process involves quite a bit of investment, but encouragement and support from colleagues - especially Heads of School Ted Cox (former) and @nialfriel.bsky.social (current ) - made it possible.

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CRT Foundations of Data Science @crt-datascience.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🎓 More graduation joy from CRT! A huge congrats to Matt Nagle, Thais Pacheco, and Prabhleen Kaur, who successfully completed their PhDs at @ucddublin.bsky.social 👏Hats off as well to their supervisors! Wishing all three graduates the very best in their next adventures #CRT #UCD @researchireland.ie

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"It is, for me, the act of writing about a book that causes it to stay read." Very well put point. Using AI for coursework will have a hugely negative effect on student learning.

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Seán Moncrieff @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

On the show today: Are you too old for this?; @profmeredithjones.bsky.social on no-eyelash men; @jokerrigan1.bsky.social on Fairy Forts; Banning smartphones; @feljin.ie on the public toilet crisis; World news; @mststats.bsky.social on is coin tossing fair?

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Happy to see our paper on "Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis" published this week rdcu.be/efjkF Great work from Dr Prabhleen Kaur as part of her PhD on animal social networks with @ucdwildlife.bsky.social and @damienfarine.bsky.social

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Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

#stpatricksday #parade dino floats! Got a sneak preview of these yesterday at Dublin Zoo

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Always annoyed when a journal allows submission of latex source and even builds the pdf on its system, but then requests a word document after acceptance...

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

As we near the end of this cold snap I can't help but wonder: how does Batman operate his various gizmos while wearing gloves?

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Thoroughly enjoyed my brief visit to Derry city this week to examine a PhD thesis in Ulster University. Couldn't leave without walking the walls and seeing the sights.

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Just completed a survey on AI use in research training and innovation in UCD. Very concerning none of the questions mention the huge environmental impact of AI tools such as LLMs like chatGPT, Gemini, etc.

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Went for a 7 foot #christmastree this year so I wasn't looking forward to lugging it home over the shoulder like usual. Wheelie bin to the rescue! Couldn't have been easier and no needles all over the car. The tree sellers were kind enough to wrap our sons up as well...

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Conor Buckley @conorbuckley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you or a member of your family use a bike to commute, please read this before you vote on Friday. #ge24. Thank you, Irish Cycling Campaign 🙏

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm on the way to spend a few days in Oxford this week to build some sims to explore intense selection and highly skewed numbers of progeny in a heavily inbred population...

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The best thing about freezing weather is you can just run everywhere without getting sweaty. I reckon I've saved close to half an hour today!

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Great to see and proof the deposit return scheme is really working: "Now most bottles found on the shore are either old with a pre-tethered cap, or milk bottles".

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