Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him.
Product of more than one country.
May contain nuts.
Thomas Lumley
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When Dorothy Bishop resigned from Royal Society , I voiced support for her on my personal social media - I was told by the BBC that I should not have done this as Monkey Cage sometimes worked with the Royal Society
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)
“Nobody’s on Bluesky” they all say but tell one funny anecdote about your failed attempts to file a UI claim around here and suddenly you’re on Planet Money.
⚽ Our probabilistic forecast of the #FIFA2026 #WorldCup is now presented in a nice piece published by @theconversation.com 🎉
theconversation.com/we-ran-100-0...
The other day I spent an hour explaining to a council's tourism office that they can’t just rewrite Wikipedia articles to promote local attractions and send people to their website. It was a useful conversation so I blogged about it. www.rove.wiki/blog/your-bo...
The PT cap annual cost of $65m is roughly the cost of two average kilometres of Roads of National Party Significance
And nearly all the relatively cheap RONS have already been built. Future costs will be higher because oil is the primary material cost input into road construction
Cheap as chips
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
" technically prediction markets are broader than sports" --Matt Levine
Wellington Leak Festival: starts on St David's Day, when celebration of leeks is traditional, and ends at the feast of St Oswald of Worcester, who died while washing the feet of the poor.
The bucket fountain runs throughout the leak festival and other ceremonial leaks come and go.
Hey @royalsociety.org any chance of dumping this guy from your Fellowship yet?
