Dr William Kay

And a huge thanks to everyone at CREEM for being so engaged and hospitable. And especially to Ben and Deena for arranging a fantastic day of meetings and activities. The most enjoyable experience as a seminar speaker I've had to date. Chapeau!

I thought this picture had uploaded with my first post. I thoroughly enjoyed engaging with colleagues and the fantastic group of PhD researchers! Extremely impressive bunch! (Very encouraging to see the overwhelming majority supporting the use of R to teach statistics to ecologists!) 🙌

A pleasure to be at CREEM, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social today and yesterday for an invited seminar on quantitative education for ecologists. My first time visiting the Observatory. An energising couple of days! @fergusjchadwick.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social @talom.bsky.social

Gorton and Denton by-election: Zack Polanski urges 'hope over hate' Zack Polanski joined candidate Hannah Spencer, a councillor and plumber, on the campaign trail.

Reform Vs Green.

Hate Vs Hope.

Hundreds and hundreds of people out on the streets today making sure hope wins.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Immigration is good for this country!
Let the truth ring out 🔔

Watching the total donations shooting up after the Xmas Day Message is so beautiful.

Thank you all! 💚🎄

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The real man of the people. A far more important, memorable, and humanitarian Christmas message than the "King's" speech. Great work @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Merry Christmas indeed. #kind2026

Exclusive: Cabinet Minister Brands Zack Polanski A 'Con Artist' In Outspoken Attack Steve Reed also suggested the Green Party leader is immoral.

A Christmas Day tale in 3 parts.

1) Steve Reed - Housing Minister - launches a Xmas Day attack.

2) It's the Labour Governments usual shit.

3) join.greenparty.org.uk

Merry Xmas!

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Cardiff University agrees to no compulsory redundancies in 2026 Martin Shipton Union members at Cardiff University have welcomed “major concessions” from management including no compulsory redundancies in 2026 in an ongoing dispute about job cuts and working condi...

Some really (and qualifiedly) good news from Cardiff UCU @cardiffucu.bsky.social :
No redundancies next year, no downgrading of professional services staff.
And all without the need for disruptive industrial action, which nobody at all wants.

nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

Today's the day! This is looking to be a very well attended session! Exciting!

Excited to host #BES2025 Thematic Session next week! The future of quantitative learning and literacy in ecology. 16 Dec 16:00-18:00 Edinburgh EICC @fiebergjohn.bsky.social @nhcooper123.bsky.social @fergusjchadwick.bsky.social @talom.bsky.social @chrissuthy.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

eight years as a statistical consultant and ecologists still manage to collect weird data that I'm not immediately sure what to do with

(it's fun though!)

Can't seem to DM you.. feel free to drop me an email (kayw@cardiff.ac.uk)

Yes, and it will be recorded. I'll DM you the details.

I'm excited to share that this Wednesday (10th Sept at 12:00 BST) I'll be presenting this year's first National Centre for Statistical Ecology (NCSE) invited seminar: "How should we train the next generation of statistical ecologists?" #ecology #rstats

~4hrs of work planned for the journey this morning with @transportforwales.bsky.social only to find, yet again, that the WiFi won't connect. Very disappointing. Appears to be a consistent issue on trains on the Holyhead line...

Very wet and early start this morning to travel to Liverpool for CETL-MSOR 2025!

The RoSE conference is now live! A marathon 13 hr day of talks all about statistics education - what more could you want? It's not too late to join - register at this link: forms.gle/ebM2kPyYAhbv.... #RoSE2025Conf #StatsEd #EduSky #statistics

RoSE Network 2025 e-Conference Statistics Anxiety Talks: - Do neurodivergent individuals have higher statistics and mathematics anxiety? Evaluating evidence from the STARs study - How do Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) impact statistics anxiety and attainment? Insights from a secondary analysis - Exploring Undergraduate Students' Expectations for Psychology Statistics Courses - The Psychological Benefits of Collaborative Mock Exams: Examining Effects on Statistics Anxiety and Academic Self-Efficacy - Who Struggles with Stats? A Meta-Analysis of the Prevalence and Predictors of Statistics Anxiety - How to tackle anxiety about statistics – the student perspective

Do your students suffer from statistics anxiety? Don't miss our free #StatsEd conference on July 31st, and learn more about who struggles with statistics and potential solutions! Register to attend here: bit.ly/roseconferen... #EduSky #statistics #teaching #mathanxiety

On the move again, this time to the Year 2 Coastal Ecology field course in Dale, Pembrokeshire.

Thoroughly enjoyed my day return to Glasgow University for @ukcots.bsky.social #UKCOTS25. Another city with stunning architecture.

Nearly there #UKCOTS2025! Looking forward to meeting everyone at the pre-conference social on Monday. Just need to make sure I make the registration desk for 8am on Tuesday...

As both an academic staff member at Cardiff University and an active seafarer (volunteer lifeboat coxswain), this is devastating news.

Sign up for the Researchers of Statistics Education Network 2025 E-Conference! Registration is open: https://bit.ly/roseconference2025 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Iddo Gal on "What research is needed in statistics education, and why?"

Good news, researchers and educators in #StatsEd! The RoSE 2025 e-conference registration has just opened up! Sign up for our free international conference happening July 31st here: bit.ly/roseconferen...

Interested in external training courses on biological data analysis (and more!)? Follow @prstats.bsky.social! I've taught on their courses and sent students to them. I'd highly recommend! I attended my first spatial analysis course with them back in 2016. Website: www.prstats.org

Online Course - Live and Online

Full course details and registration:
www.prstats.org/course/onlin...

#SpeciesDistributionModelling #BayesianStatistics
#EcologicalModelling #RStats #QuantitativeEcology
#SpatialEcology #EnvironmentalDataScience
#Biostatistics #EcologyTraining #StatisticalModelling

Live & Online

Sep 22nd–26th
Instructor: Dr. Neftalí Sillero

Key concepts, data preparation, model calibration and validation.

Registration:
www.prstats.org/course/speci...

#SpeciesDistribution #Ecology #RStats #SpatialAnalysis #ENM #SDM #EcologicalModelling #EnvironmentalScience #RProgramming

Very pleased to share the news that I'm now a Lifeboat Coxswain at @SevernRescue. This comes after 3 years of training with SARA Newport, and ~5 years of prior service as Crew with @TheMumblesRNLI @RNLI.

Cardiff University releases breakdown of academics 'in scope' for redundancy Martin Shipton Cardiff University has released to Nation.Cymru the breakdown by School of the 1,807 academics who have been told their jobs are “in scope” to be cut. The university announced in Januar...

Six weeks ago today I and 1806 other academics @cardiffuni were told our jobs were at risk of redundancy.

Six weeks on, and the University has failed to give us information promised in the consultation document which is crucial to the submission of critiques by Friday.

nation.cymru/news/cardiff...

For the urgent attention of university vice-chancellors.