GEM semantic analyser undergoes its 3rd rewrite in time for our Wellcome funding beginning in November. We're looking forward to welcoming Alison Hale to our team as GEM RSE. chicas.lancaster-university.uk/people/hale.ht…

Porting GEM to TensorFlow 2.0, and upgrading to tensorflow-probability 0.8.0 in the process throws an interesting warning: edward2 is deprectated and will be removed as of 2019-12-01. Why, and what replaced it? #yakshaving

My old postdoc colleague Penny Hancock speaking on using machine learning approaches to insecticide resistance in mosquitos and malaria in Africa. CHICAS Lancaster University

Epidemiology takes one to some interesting places. Today, I'm learning about catastrophe bonds with African Risk Capacity in New York.

Team member Lisa Koeppel presents work on vector-borne disease modelling at Epidemics7

My new favourite piece of software @musicbrainz Picard. Tag my music collection? Make it so!

Amazing PhD opportunities in Quantitative and Translational Global Health with LSTM and Lancaster University lstmed.ac.uk/study/courses/…

Kind of reminds me of the fuel economy gauge just after you've reset it. There's no way round fluctuating estimates early on in any data capture, but instead we need to focus on measuring uncertainty properly, and quote it transparently.

I am here to help.

Coming up for air after 12 months of COVID modelling. So many different model version run at different times on different geographies. Results comprise many files...but how to successfully catalogue and search it all? What do people use?

Our latest estimates show #COVID19 antibody levels remained high across the UK in the week beginning 26 July 2021, with around 9 in 10 adults testing positive for the antibodies ow.ly/a8BL50FTWFa

Suppose I have a matrix `foo` of dimension `[N, M]`, and I want to calculate the product of each row. Using numpy I can do ``` bar = np.prod(foo, axis=-1) ``` but how to achieve this in R? Doing `apply(foo, 1, prod)` is really slow!

We're hiring! Come and join our team to work on Markov regime-switching models for controlling and eradicating livestock diseases. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… #LURGiE

In a few hours (1pm NYC, 6pm Berlin) @HyosubEKim will present a Bayesian Toolbox, which allows you to run Bayesian versions of some of the most common statistical tests! #PyMCon Join us here: meetup.com/es-ES/pymc-onl…

Wow! bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

I found out tonight that you can turn iPlayer up to 11!

Pretty excited for IDDconf 2023! The sun is shining and there will be plenty of modelling chat for the next 3 days! See you at 12.30!

Pablo Ruiz Cuenca from Lancaster University CHICAS gives a great talk on lepto at IDD conference

An exciting £12.7M awarded to Lancaster University for developing our expertise at the interface of mathematical modelling and AI for Health, Environment, Engineering, and Cybersecurity. 10 new academic positions, PDRAs, and PhD to be advertised soon! lancaster.ac.uk/news/12-millio…

BBC Breaking News BBC News (UK) video here