Paper on state-switching step selection functions (HMM-SSFs) published in Movement Ecology (rdcu.be/ddHru)! We model behaviour-dependent movement and habitat selection, with some new extensions and inferential tools. Applied to 🦓. With Len Thomas and Théo Michelot

Fantastic to see that Jane Wadsworth now has an entry on the MacTutor history of maths website. An inspirational medical statistician who studied here in St Andrews. @StA_Maths_Stats mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wa…

It has been our pleasure today to welcome Prof Colin Torney UofG Maths and Stats to give the JJ Valletta memorial lecture "From machine learning to migration".

Next week I'll be talking about the R package hmmTMB, and illustrate with analysis of animal tracking data! Click the link to register.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Now in Annals of Applied Statistics: "Continuous-time modelling of behavioural responses in animal movement" We use stochastic differential equations to model baseline behaviour, and detect behaviour change after animals are exposed to human disturbance doi.org/10.1214/23-AOA…

Congratulations Fanny Empacher !

Very well deserved recognition to one of our research groups, in inter-disciplinary partnership with colleagues at School of Biology and St Andrews CompSci. Well done to everyone CREEM_cake!

Looking forward to visiting University of St Andrews and talking about Bayesian nonparametrics!

The pipes are calling! We are advertising two lectureships in statistics: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/70… Teaching-and-research or teaching-focussed. Lovely living and working environment, friendly and collaborative group, excellent students. #statsjobs #academicjobs

Please join our Stats Seminar 2-3pm Wed, Jan-24 to hear our own Fergus Chadwick (University of St Andrews) on "Do identification guides hold the key to species misclassification by citizen scientists?". DM Giorgos Minas or email [email protected] your affiliation to join.

Curious about the use of GPU computing for massively faster fitting of statistical models (especially state-space models)? Nice paper by my fabulous PhD student Cal Fagard-Jenkin, with some "getting started" components. Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoi… Code github.com/calliste-fagar…

Well done Felix!

PhD📢: Fully-funded studentship University of St Andrews "Estimating spatial and temporal patterns in density of harbour porpoises in the North Sea using datasets from passive acoustic ocean observation networks with data flow to EU Digital Twin Ocean database" stats.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2024/02/…

Very proud to have been given the student nominated "outstanding innovation in teaching" award today 😊

Many congratulations to my fantastic PhD student cfj who today submitted his thesis on "GPU-accelerated computational statistics in ecology". Way to go, Cal!

Come work with us! We're recruiting a chair / reader in statistical ecology vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/28… CREEM_cake @StA_Maths_Stats University of St Andrews National Centre for Statistical Ecology #statsjobs #ecologyjobs

A group of our PhD students taking a break from their weekly reading group/chat. Interested to join them for a PhD in Stats? We are a vibrant community in a friendly environment. See details at bit.ly/StAndrewsPhDSt… We accept UK and overseas students. Scholarships available.

Interested in an academic position in statistical ecology at St Andrews? Closing date coming up soon: 23rd October...