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Our 5th Prime Minister in 6 years must be elected NOT selected #GeneralElection2022

"He was given to stretch himself at full length on the rug while he talked ... such an irregularity was likely to confirm the notions of his dangerously mixed blood and general laxity." Same.

#PhD projects with Stats for bios, Sarah Booth, Mark Rutherford and others. #LongCOVID, radiotherapy side-effects, prognostic models. 2 places for students from LMICs. Email supervisors to chat. le.ac.uk/study/research…

Come work with me!

7 PhD projects available in biostats. Prognostic models, #MachineLearning, making research more generalisable to ethnically diverse populations, #cancer. Links in thread.

Looking for an #RShiny developer for two year project developing app for geostatistical methods. Quite flexible in who I'm looking for, dedicated software developer or infectious disease PhD with an interest in software. Happy to discuss further. #RStats jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/7677…

JOBS | Software Developer, #RShiny for geospatial modelling, FT or job share funded by Wellcome Trust fixed-term contract for 2 years closes 30 April Tim Lucas Biostatistics: Uni of Leicester jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/7677… #RStats

"He believes I ... will come forth when the need is greatest. In all my glory,” he said. “Beh,” said the brown goat behind him. Excellent Ursula Le Guin dialogue.

Our Journal of Statistical Software paper presenting the {disaggregation} #RStats paper is finally out! Hooray. And thanks Anita Nandi for doing it all. jstatsoft.org/article/view/v…

RIP Mechanical Turk as a source of training data or evaluation. The title of this paper is *chef kiss*

New position with me and David Redding. Developing spatial statistical models for disease mapping. Combining disaggregation regression and maxent style feature engineering. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/7685…

JOBS | Research Associate in geostatistical methods for disease mapping. FT or job share. Funded by Wellcome Trust for 24 months. Closes 31 Aug Stats for bios Biostatistics: Uni of Leicester jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/7685…

Nice extension of the temporal recalibration approach to competing risks settings, allowing more up-to-date estimates of cumulative incidence functions. Useful when developing prognostic models, particularly for longer-term risks. Led by Sarah Booth, thanks to all co-authors.

Just launched: new public outreach YouTube Channel looking at how we can use maths to explain the spread of diseases! 🧮➡️🦠 youtube.com/@epiwithemma83…

Shiny is now a popular way to make methods more accessible. But apps are often difficult to maintain, opaque wrt citations and reduce reproducibility. Enter shinyscholar! A template that provides these things for you to then extend and populate. github.com/simon-smart88/… #RStats

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to work with me, Tim Lucas and Alison Fairbrass . Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for this position. #ResearchAssociate #Statistics #Epidemiology #climatechange jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

2 year postdoc at Biostatistics: Uni of Leicester w/ me. Developing spatial mapping methods to be more predictive. Applications in Lassa fever and other zoonotic/vector-borne diseases. Happy to chat, but I'm more likely to see if you email than dm. #RStats #malaria jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/7685…

Come and join Tim Lucas and me on a stats/epi/eco modelling mission! 2 year post-doc based the University of Leicester and associated with Natural History Museum Science at the Natural History Museum