LCD Soundsystem in the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Great concert in an amazing venue.
Brendan Murphy
@tbmurphy.bsky.social
Professor of Statistics, University College Dublin
Recently published, a paper on mortality modelling with Pedro Menezes de Araújo and Claire Gormley. doi.org/10.1093/jrss...
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A great concert from Garbage in the Iveagh Gardens tonight.
Congratulations Ryan Smith and Wenxuan Liu on graduating with their PhDs this week.
Hot off the press from the MetaBó-Bainne Study… www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The MetaBó-Bainne Study – characterisation of the milk metabolome from a seasonal pasture-based dairy system using 1H-NMR spectroscopy
This study aims to characterise the milk metabolome from a seasonal pasture-based dairy system using 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Over 41 weeks, ten dairy far…
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Back to Whelans to roll back the years with The Boo Radleys.
Another concert tonight, this time Tom Smith from The Editors in Whelans
My first concert of 2026, Big Star Quintet at the Button Factory.
Last concert of the year. Rolling back the years with Something Happens at Whelans.
Another Jerry Fish concert tonight. A much smaller band and a much smaller venue (Murray’s Bar in Macroom). Great concert as always.
Hot off the press. A preprint by @alecasa.bsky.social, Michael Fop and I. A new model for characterising and identifying adulteration in food authenticity studies. arxiv.org/abs/2512.13939
A latent variable model for identifying and characterizing food adulteration
Recently, growing consumer awareness of food quality and sustainability has led to a rising demand for effective food authentication methods. Vibrational spectroscopy techniques have emerged as a prom...
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link 📈🤖 A latent variable model for identifying and characterizing food adulteration (Casa, Murphy, Fop) Recently, growing consumer awareness of food quality and sustainability has led to a rising demand for effective food authentication methods. Vibrational spectroscopy techniques have emerged a
Tonight’s entertainment was Jerry Fish in Whelans. Excellent as always.
Moving on to Manchester. Another Black Rebel Motorcycle Club concert. Closer to the action this time.
First concert of a run of concerts. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at the O2 Academy in Glasgow. Played the Howl album and a career spanning mix.
Lots of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped this week. I don't use Spotify, but still use iTunes for most of my listening. Using code (from @andrew.heiss.phd) I was able to get my Top 40 artists for the year. I am surprised be some artists making the list.
Finally catching a wall of sound from My Bloody Valentine live at the 3Arena.
What Time is Ping? My first concert in the Cork City Hall since the Cowpunchers Ball my first year in college. I did exams here too. Tonight rocking and rolling to the Sultans of Ping.
Nice evening in the National Concert Hall for my aunt Jane O’Leary getting a lifetime achievement award.
Une autre belle victoire (3-0) pour l’OL Lyonnes ce soir contre SKN St Pölten dans la Ligue des Champions.
First stadium concert in a long time. Oasis reunion show in Croke Park.
A change of music genre this week going to a show at the Grand Ole Opry.
I am happy to report that I will be the next Honorary Officer for Journals in the Royal Statistical Society (@royalstatsoc.bsky.social). I look forward to commencing this role in January. rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Announcing new RSS officers for 2026
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Great to catch Mogwai live tonight. First time getting to hear Christmas Steps and My Father, My King live.
A new paper in Computo with Julien Jacques on variable selection and model-based clustering of multivariate data. computo-journal.org/published-20...
Model-Based Clustering and Variable Selection for Multivariate Count Data
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Hot off the press. A paper with Emiliano Seri and Roberto Rocci looking at the roles that players player in football (soccer) using a partial membership model. doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Partial membership models for soft clustering of multivariate football player performance data - Computational Statistics
The standard mixture modeling framework has been widely used to study heterogeneous populations, by modeling them as being composed of a finite number of homogeneous sub-populations. However, the stan...
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Épisode 5 de notre série "Les nouveaux visages de l’Académie des sciences" : La statistique, une science en son temps. Retrouvez la vidéo sur Youtube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AhT...
