What's new in JAGS 5.0.0 part 2: Reproducibility martynplummer.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/w...
Martyn Plummer
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Statistics. Computing. Cancer Epidemiology. Public health.
R-universe now provides binaries and check results for Windows-ARM64 of all CRAN and BIOC packages: contributor.r-project.org/windows-arm64/
R on ARM64 Windows
R on Windows ARM64
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JAGS 5.0.0 is released martynplummer.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/j...
Registration is now open for this workshop! website: sites.google.com/view/newcast... registration: webstore.ncl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Non-Equilibrium Sampling: DiffusionsFlowsParticles | Newcastle University WebStore
The Second Sampling Workshop at Newcastle!This three-day workshop will bring together researchers at the forefront of modern sampling techniques and relate
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Sam Power@spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 2mo agographic design remains my passion sites.google.com/view/newcast...
Emily Wilson showing the world what an academic peer review sounds/reads like. This is pure Reviewer 2 energy. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Here’s what the guys who “would have” perfectly controlled COVID delivered when given an opportunity to prove their real world mettle and competence.
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 4w agoIt’s going to be a covid alternative universe where Jay Bhattacharya “would have” tamed COVID, but for YouTube and villains at the NIH.
Instead of having students produce academic essays with GenAI and then critique the essays in the name of AI literacy, just have them read Ben’s thread.
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3w agoThe anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.
It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.
Michael E. Carter@deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · last mo."The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.
“I’m here to tell you that there’s something very valuable in struggle. That there’s something very valuable in friction. Friction is good.”
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · last mo.A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!
The 2026 laureates are Brian Ripley, Martin Maechler, Kurt Hornik, Peter Dalgaard, and Luke Tierney who have made the longest sustained contribution to #RStats. Half of the $1m prize money is awarded to the laureates and half to the rest of the Core Team.
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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Warwick Statistics is recruiting a Tutor. This is a one year fixed-term role for the academic year 26-27. Closing Deadline: Thursday 9th July 2026 at 11:55pm (UK Time) warwick-careers.tal....
With friends at the University of Warwick (in particular, Rocco Caprio and @adriencorenflos.bsky.social), we've recently arXived some work (arxiv.org/abs/2605.30253) on a method for approximate inference known as "Coordinate Ascent Variational Inference", or "CAVI" for short. Let me explain:
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Super excited to get this at my door today! Ursula Laa and my book on exploring high-d data and models is in print! Book website is www.routledge.com/Interactivel... if interested I think my 30% discount code might work for you - msg me. Time to update dicook.github.io/mulgar_book/ too! #rstats
When I started legal blogging I thought it would be a little bit of contract law or libel law, and the occasional judicial review with constitutional implications. Now: a constant stream of constitutional crises, fundamental human rights abuses, and war crimes and other crimes against humanity.
Going beyond the spherical cow approximation. The paper we all needed. 🎢 ⚛️ 🧪 ♾️ 🐄
Higher multipoles of the cow
Editor's Note: The spherical cow is a useful approximation familiar to physicists. But what does it leave out? How can you systematically improve on this approx
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#rstats RIP, John Fox @yihui.org just published this lovely tribute to John Fox and his work yihui.org/en/2026/02/j...
R.I.P., John Fox - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉
Last November, I learned the very sad news from Michael Friendly that John Fox had passed away. That brought my memory back to 2006 when I emailed John for the first time asking for his help on a &hel...
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I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is the original is like this 👇
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Next month the Cambridge Philosophical Society is hosting an event to celebrate David MacKay and his work on the tenth anniversary of his passing. The organizers are soliciting notes sharing how his work has impacted people -- you can submit at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....
A tribute to David MacKay
“I didn’t know David personally but was a great admirer of his work.” “David seemed to have infinite patience.” “He treated the audience with respect, trusted them with complexity, and showed that r...
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