All hail our new President 🎉🎉🎉

Ben Harrap@bharrap.bsky.social · 4h ago

The Statistical Society of Australia has a new President... No, it's not Randy the greyhound (although he would've done a fine job) It's me! If you want to know a little more about me, I have the blog post just for you :) benharrap.com/post/2026-08... #statssky #datascience

More continuing positions at the Australian National University! 🇦🇺🦘🐨 ⭐ Biostatistician - apply by 4 Sep 2026 23:55 AEST: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc... ⭐ Senior Data Scientist - apply by 23 Aug 2026 23:55 AEST: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/senior-... #Statistics #StatsJobs

Research Fellow (Biostatistician) - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $124,638 - $141,317 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full time, Continuing Opportunity to undertake high-quality independent research in Biosta...

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Come and work with us! If you have a PhD in Statistics (or related subject) and are looking to develop a teaching focused career in academia then please get in touch. We have a very strong teaching team here.

Richard Everitt@bayesianstats.bsky.social · 5d ago

Two year Teaching Fellow post at Warwick Stats. CLOSING DEADLINE: Monday 17 August 2026 at 11:55pm (UK Time). warwick-careers.tal....

📢🇦🇺 Australian National University is recruiting a continuing Senior Data Scientist 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 Bring your statistical expertise and help turn data into meaningful university-wide insights 📊 📅 Apply by 23 Aug 2026 23:55 AEST #Statistics #StatsJobs jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/senior-...

Senior Data Scientist - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: ANU Senior Manager 1 (Administration)Salary package: $141,637 - $148,403 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing The Position Operating under broad strategic guid...

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You thought abstract submissions for the Australian Data Science Network Conference were closing today? Nope! Like all good conferences, we're extending the deadline by one week. The final deadline is July 31st (for real this time!) adsnconf2026.netlify.app @ardc.edu.au #statssky #datascience

Australian Data Science Network Conference 2026 – ADSN2026

26th & 27th November 2026, Australian Bureau of Statistics House, Canberra

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There's eduroam at Brisbane airport!! And it works! What?! How good is that!

ANU has been to hell and back. It’s time we come together. It’s time for a BIG community block party! ANU turns 80 this year and to celebrate the campus is opening up to all. Please come along. Bring your friends, the family! There’s free face painting!! www.anu.edu.au/about/our-hi...

Got to hang with the cool ladies 🪭

Karen Lamb@kelamb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Fantastic to catch up with our phenomenal Brisbane leadership keynote speakers in Brisbane this week. Thanks again Tonya Esterhuizen and @emitanaka.org and to @nicolewhite.bsky.social for finding us great food!

Fantastic talk from @emitanaka.org on working with LLMs in #datascience at #ICOTS12. Highlights thinking of interacting with AI as a junior analyst with the statistician/data scientist in a manager/supervisor role to review/quality control output. Always enjoy hearing Emi talk! #statistics #teaching

@nicolewhite.bsky.social and @kelamb.bsky.social and co did a great job running this event. Superbly organised and really impressed how the two hub event run so smoothly. Thank you for organising the event! 👏👏👏

Matt Cooper@nzcoops.bsky.social · last mo.

The past two days at "Essential skills for statistics leadership in consultancy and research" were two of the most energising days I've had in (without aging myself) decades of research. Thank you @nicolewhite.bsky.social for reaching out to invite me and @kelamb.bsky.social for co-organising 🙌🏼🙏🏼

Get in touch with @myramcguinness.bsky.social if you're looking for an enthusiastic and experienced biostatistician 👇

Myra McGuinness@myramcguinness.bsky.social · last mo.

The curse of underfunded academic research has struck again - my position has been made redundant. Hit me up if you are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic biostatistician.

Here's the official ad: we're hiring for a continuing position up to A/Prof. It's a large stats dept with a broad view of statistics. Research areas include probability, computing, ecology, astronomy, stats education, biostats. We care about teaching quality: students are our main funding source

Pouako|Lecturer to Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor - Te Kura Tatauranga|Department of Statistics

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandTe Whare Pūtaiao | Faculty of Science is the leading science faculty in Aotearoa New Zealand and one of the largest in Au...

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Abstract submission date for #AASC2026 officially extended to July 9 (11pm GMT)! Please note that there will be no additional extensions to the abstract submission date aasc2026.netlify.app/abstracts

Thank you for having me!

Ben Harrap@bharrap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can you guess who the new #ADSN2026 keynote is? 🇦🇺 Listed in @significancemag.bsky.social's prominent Australian statisticians 💻 Developer of open-source #statistics and #datascience software 🤩 Editor of the #rstats journal You got it, it's @emitanaka.org! adsnconf2026.netlify.app/program#dr-e...

Congratulations to the R Core Team! 🎉🎉🎉

The R Foundation@r-foundation.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

6am AEST 🥲 Only if I was a morning person…

Gina Reynolds, Human-Data Interaction 📊🛠@ginareynolds.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Next Tuesday is a special day! The ggplot2 extenders will hear about powerhouse of R graphics, {grid}, with author/maintainer Paul Murrell. 🎉🎉🎉 #rstats #ggplot2

Next Tuesday is a special day! The ggplot2 extenders will hear about powerhouse of R graphics, {grid}, with author/maintainer Paul Murrell. 🎉🎉🎉 #rstats #ggplot2

📢 Only one month until our statistical leadership symposium in Australia! With international keynotes, invited local speakers, and contributed presentations, it's shaping up to be a great event! agbarnett.github.io/stats_leader... Register here by 30th June:

Essential skills for statistics leadership in consultancy and research

A two-day Statistical Leadership Symposium for early and mid-career researchers across Australia

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Only 6 months until the Australian Data Science Network Conference 2026! This year's theme is "From Data to Decisions", so come hear about impact 🗓️ Nov 26 & 27 🌏 Canberra, Australia 🔗 adsnconf2026.netlify.app Abstract submissions opening soon, watch this space! #datascience #stats #rstats #python

Australian Data Science Network Conference 2026 – ADSN2026

26th & 27th November 2026, Australian Bureau of Statistics House, Canberra

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Come and join our team! We are looking for: - Postdoctoral Fellow in Statistics - Research Software Engineer (#rstats preferred) This is part of the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry project (see anu-aagi.github.io). jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc... jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level A/BSalary package: $89,313 - $137,870 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full-time, Fixed Term (Up to December 2027) The Position Up to two academic positions are av...

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#rstats SSA SCV section is excited to bring a panel discussion on “where do R packages live?” May 20, 5pm AEST Sign up to join at statsoc.org.au/event-6653060 @fontikar.bsky.social

If your uni uses Canvas LMS and you need to regrade numerical answers because the original solution was wrong… yep, that usually means fixing every submission manually 😅 But you don’t have to! The canvasquiz #rstats package can now do the regrading for you 🙌 emitanaka.org/canvasquiz/a...

📈 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫! 📈 Join us at #StatLeadership2026 to hear from Dr Emi Tanaka, an academic statistician at The Australian National University with a passion for data science and open-source software, who will share strategies for managing teams in statistical research. ➡️ Register: bit.ly/esslcr

Collaborative writing in Quarto! I can maybe finally say goodbye to Overleaf!

Carlos Scheidegger@cscheid.net · 4mo ago

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

Since ANU has transitioned from Moodle to Canvas LMS, I’ve developed a set of #rstats functions to help me write quizzes directly into Canvas, and I’ve started packaging them up. It’s still a work in progress, but I’d welcome any feedback! github.com/emitanaka/ca...

GitHub - emitanaka/canvasquiz: Quiz For Canvas Learning Management System

Quiz For Canvas Learning Management System. Contribute to emitanaka/canvasquiz development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🔈 Conference alert 🔈 SAVE THE DATA Australasian Applied Statistics Conference 2026 (#AASC2026) will be held from the 30th November to the 4th December 2026 at the Mantra Mooloolaba Beach on the Sunshine Coast. See more at aasc2026.netlify.app @michaelmumford.bsky.social

Event registration and abstracts submissions are now open 🎉 We're keen to hear from statisticians and related fields about their experiences in research and consultancy, no matter their background and career stage Please share with your networks. More details and links 👇

AusHSI@aushsi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧! Calling all early and mid-career statisticians! Join us at our 𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 #statistics 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 symposium running from 9-10 July in Brisbane and Melbourne. ➡️ Register today: bit.ly/esslcr #StatLeadership2026

🎉🎉🎉 Long-awaited: lme4 2.0-1 now handles some simple structured covariance matrices: diagonal ['true' - not just semantic splitting of `(x+y|f)` into `(x|f)` + `(y|f)`], compound symmetric, AR1 (no GPs/factor-analytic/reduced-rank/etc. yet ...)

Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2026) in Houston! We’re offering 40 full-support scholarships for underrepresented groups in data science. Includes: 🎟️ Conference+Workshop pass 🏨 Hotel stay ✈️ Travel reimbursement Apply by March 13: posit.co/blog/apply-t... #positconf2026 #rstats