We are delighted that enabling a strong and diverse profession is one of the main goals of this Strategy and our SIG is highlighted as one of the 2024 priorities rss.org.uk/RSS/media/File…

'Since Covid, people around me finally understand what I do for living' - meet epidemiologist and Significance editorial board member Sandra Alba ow.ly/Lzc250RmaAX

🏆We've extended the deadline for our TQV award - celebrating orgs which go above and beyond by voluntarily applying the Code of Practice to their work

Presented with Office for Statistics Regulation & Civil Service World

Apply by Sunday 12 May

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Excited to speak at PyData Lancaster tomorrow with Emily Winter.

Registration/details: lnkd.in/eu8P9ufU

We'll talk about some recent work on public understanding of algorithmic fairness - looking at responses to various presentations of bias and fairness statistics.

Passionate about stats & sharing knowledge?

Apply now to become one of our next cohort of Statistical Ambassadors

From media interviews to public outreach, our ambassadors promote the importance of statistics in everyday life 🌟

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📢📢📢Our new Celebrating Diversity Special Interest Group is looking for committee members, do apply via the link below by 6 May ⬇️

🔊CALL FOR MEMBERS!
We are seeking volunteers to join the committee of our Royal Statistical Society Special Interest Group
Deadline is ▶Monday 6 May 2024◀
Further details:
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On the way to Sheng Siong supermarket, I met a white-throated kingfisher in Upper Thomson Street. The bird was very approachable so I think it's my best photo so far for this species... シンガポールのアオショウビン。

How is your article not written when you've tried everything from announcing you'll write it, to telling people you'll write it, to complaining about having to write it?

Common flameback @ Hampstead Wetland Park. ズアカミユビゲラ。

So incredibly grateful and honored to have been invited to deliver the Stephen E. and Joyce Fienberg Lecture at CMU Statistics & Data Science. Steve was a friend and a mentor, and this meant the world to me. 🥰🥲

It was a great honor to receive the 2024 Distinguished science alumnae award from the first female Dean of the College of Science at Purdue Dr. Lucy Flesch.

Tonight was all about celebrating science at a place where I started my education and research in the US.

Boiler up!

The Isle of May…

Morning and still present for its fourth day, the Isle of May Hoopoe :)

Light at the end of the tunnel

📣UK government statisticians you have until close of play on Monday to apply for our Campion Award

Celebrating the role official statistics plays in answering some of society’s most important questions

In partnership with UK Statistics Authority & Civil Service World

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The Dove, No. 1, 1915 by Hilma af Klint, pioneer whose paintings were among the first of Western art not reflecting real scenes #WomensArt

statistics is a bizarre mix of maths,
engineering and philosophy. one moment you’re staring at algebra, next moment you’re trying to write code, then you worry about “what does it mean to say something causes another thing” and “how can we find truth in an uncertain world”

Join us for this event this afternoon on-campus, or online at youtube.com/@RSSMerseyside where we'll welcome speakers from Institute of Population Health, UofG Maths and Stats, and more to discuss the stats around clean air and health!

Why don't skyscrapers have a 13th floor? What annoys medical statisticians? And what's the best way to measure household inflation?

All these questions, and many more, answered in the freshly-published May issue of Significance: ow.ly/9Jc150RbfiE