What a lovely story 😉 in FT's latest on rapid tests

Come work with us on causal inference -- an exciting postdoctoral position in Oxford as part of a wider collaborative network tinyurl.com/apvpyfa8

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 We have announced that we are searching for a new Executive Director to carry the torch of #openness. Read more on our blog: medium.com/opendatacharte… #opengov #policy #transparency #anticorruption

Proud of this in depth reporting project out last week from @Deborah_Ashby Jon Deeks FMedSci & Royal Statistical Society working group. Thoroughgoing public reporting from RSS to help ensure testing is statistically sound - a global health issue.

Kudos to the BBC who have now rewritten this piece with much more appropriately cautious wording and conclusions. Daily testing can keep pupils in school, study suggests bbc.co.uk/news/health-57…

Very well-put arguments here for the questions that could be answered by better study design

Estimating the size of the "poverty penalty" in the UK - useful piece from Significance rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Good to see the culmination of @rydermc review of biometric technologies, out today

🥁 Our Data Services Grant Call is now live! The deadline is Thursday, 2 May 2024. Go to Smart Data Research UK's new website for the info: bit.ly/49nKUvQ UK Research and Innovation Economic and Social Research Council Professor Alison Park Joe Cuddeford @rsfrankl

Thanks to ResearchProfessionalNews for the interview with Smart Data Research UK’s Director Joe Cuddeford, discussing the launch of our data services grant call – article available to subscribers: bit.ly/48Kvhxu

If you missed last week's Institute for Government #IFGDataBites, a smart data special with Smart Data Research UK, you missed a treat We kicked off with SDR UK's Joe Cuddeford giving us an introduction to what smart data is (and what SDR UK do)

Is ill health and disability in older age inevitable? Professor Chris Whitty's keynote address on future patterns of disease is about to begin. #NTsummit Watch here: events.zoom.us/ev/AnKSi9AE2hQ…

On AI ethics - influencing its use in the delivery of public good - a new piece from our colleague Olivia Varley-Winter for Real World Data Science realworlddatascience.net/ideas/posts/20…

Getting smarter about smart data - a great piece from Elena Musi about our recent digital data dive University of Liverpool sdruk.ukri.org/2024/05/16/get… Read the full blog below

Now that a general election has been called, I thought it was worth pre-emptively laying to rest some rumours that sometimes circulate about Economic and Social Research Council rules on what ESRC-funded researchers supposedly are and aren't allowed to say during the ‘pre-election period’. (1)