Oxford lecturer and statistician who just wants to tell the world about numbers. Especially when causality is involved.
Oxford, UK
Joined May 2012
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New Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration - not yet launched - 2 postdocs, 2 senior postdocs and postdoc coordinator in Oxford. Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in group Holmes, Visscher, Evans, Nicholson, @cwcyau, @ten_photo etc, Denmark ads soon
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Keeping your eyes open can help you fall asleep faster. Here’s why sciencefocus.com/the-human-b… Delighted to provide the science behind paradoxical intention. A so called ‘sleep hack’? I don’t think so, you can’t take credit for human nature! @UniofOxford @OxSCNi @wearebighealth @NHSEngland @scotgov @ESRS_Sleep @AASMorg @ResearchSleep @BritishSleepSoc @TheSleepCharity
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In related news...I'll be hiring soon! Please get in touch if you are a looking for a post doc position broadly in the area of in AI for Health!
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We invite proposals for tutorials at #UAI2024 by March 15th.
Topics include, not limited to
- Causal Inference/Discovery
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Optimization
- Fairness, Interpretability, Reproducibility in ML
- RL
- DL
and more.
For instructions:
auai.org/uai2024/call_for_tu…
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A vehicle has crashed into a parade of shops on Oxford's Iffley Road. It is not known how the accident took place or if there were any casualties but police are on the scene. The speed limit on this road is 20mph.
ALT vehicle on side behind police tape. police car in attendance, store front destroyed.
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My favourite reviews are the ones that make you start off with your heart in your mouth
thetimes.co.uk/article/38b36…
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Thanks so much for coming!
Standing room only at our #ProportionalRepresentation event at #ldconf with
@cajardineMP
Jess Sargent of @instituteforgov
@klinaj
@thomasbrake of @UnlockDemocracy
Ian simpson of @electoralreform
@Neal_Compass of @CompassOffice
@LibDem4ER
@LibDemConf
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All over Paris car parking spaces are being upgraded to plots for trees and micro gardens - cooling the city, cleaning the air & making the streets more pleasant for people - thanks to the vision & tenacity of city's mayor...
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NIMBY Britain in one infuriating sentence.
From @s8mb’s excellent piece on the fundamental problems Britain must fix if it is to become a serious country and return to growth
thetimes.co.uk/article/why-h…
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Not sure whether the hysterical laughter I hear in my head when reading this is loudest from Douglas or Herc….
ALT Ad for P&O Ferries, reading ‘You can’t swashbuckle on a plane.’ You really, really can.
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Britons' top 3 most trusted news outlets (net score)
FT: +30
ITV: +28
Channel 4: +27
Britons' top 3 least trusted news outlets
The Sun: -53
The Star: -50
The Mirror / The Mail: both -37
yougov.co.uk/topics/politics…
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Great article from @cycloxoxford on the barriers put up to cycling in our community in @TheOxfordMail
oxfordmail.co.uk/news/235935…
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This looks like large-scale fraud and will send shockwaves through the behavioral science community.
datacolada.org/109
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on standing up to Donald Trump:
"People know that I am a conservative, but I am also always going to follow the law and follow the Constitution...and if we do not follow that, then we start going down a dangerous path."
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A genealogist will tell you how wealth became entrenched in families for literally hundreds of years. (Same for poverty.)
The current IHT regime doesn't upend that, but it helps a little. Ditching IHT would be grossly unmeritocratic. And there'd be Bertie Woosters everywhere.
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Registration for UAI 2023 is now open! auai.org/uai2023/registratio…
#UAI2023 will take place at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jul 31-Aug 4, with banquet @PhippsNews Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens!
Early bird deadline is June 22
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Luca Enriques @lucaenriques
@oxfordlaw
was a speaker @ the G7 High-Level Corporate Governance Roundtable in Niigata during G7 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors' Meeting.
WATCH
oecd.org/corporate/g7-high-l…
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Science published a hopelessly credulous news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" about one of the worst preprints we've seen in years.
This is some next-level bullshit. Over at Mastodon, a full thread: fediscience.org/@ct_bergstro…
