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📢 REMINDER! 📢
Less than two weeks to go for the "Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication" on January 28, 2026!
🔗Get full event details and register here: bit.ly/Stats4Every1
#StatsSky #DataVis #RStats #InclusiveStats
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An informational flyer for the Royal Statistical Society's 'Statistics for Every Body' online event. The flyer includes a summary of the inclusive data communication topic, headshots and affiliations of key speakers, and practical information like the event date (Jan 28, 2026), time (12:00-13:30), and how to register: bit.ly/Stats4Every1
🚀 The RSS presents "Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication" on Jan 28, 2026!
📊 Learn to make your data accessible for audiences with visual & auditory impairments with experts from BBC News, ONS & more.
🔗Event details: bit.ly/Stats4Every1
#StatsSky #DataVis #RStats #InclusiveStats
We are delighted to announce that the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social international conference in 2027 will take place at ICC Wales in Newport. Put the dates Monday 6 - Thursday 9 September 2027 in your diary! #RSS2027Conf rss.org.uk/news-publica...
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Call for abstracts for the first ever @rainbowr.org conference is still open! We're looking for talks that either
🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats
🏳️🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data
Get in your abstracts before December 1st.
conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html
#queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
Thanks very much @liambrierley.bsky.social & @statsrhian.bsky.social for organising and great hosting!
20.11.2025 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you ever so much to our fantastic speakers Dr Matthew Voigt (Michigan State University) and Dr Lexi Webster (University of Southampton)!
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You can now watch "Trans Lived Experiences in Data", a seminar jointly organised with @rainbowr.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFd3...
20.11.2025 12:12 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
event flyer, details via http://bit.ly/rsscdnov
Speakers:
Dr Matthew Voigt (Michigan State University) – Solving for X: The Unknowns of Gender and Sexuality in Tertiary STEM Education
Dr Lexi Webster (University of Southampton) – Let’s Talk About Sex (Data)
event flyer, details via http://bit.ly/rsscdnov
Event details:
Identities and challenges in lived experiences of trans and gender diverse people, through contemporary data and statistical analyses
💻 Live on the RSS Celebrating Diversity YouTube channel
event flyer, see details via http://bit.ly/rsscdnov
rainbowR event: Trans Lived Experiences in Data 🏳️⚧️
We are partnering with the
@rssdiversity.bsky.social Celebrating Diversity SIG to host an online event next week. More info below!
📅 19th Nov 17:30–18:30 (GMT)
👉 bit.ly/rsscdnov
📚 It's story time at #RSS2025Conf!
Join us for the *Hidden Figures in Statistics* session to hear interesting stories about historic data professionals from diverse backgrounds
🧍🏼♀️🧍🏾👨🏽🦽🧕🏽🧓🏿🤱🏻
🕞 15:30-16:50
📍 Lowther
#StatSky #RSSConf2025
Have you considered how your #AI could be more socially responsible?
Join our #RSSConf2025 session today:
⚖️ *Socially responsible AI & Inclusion*
🕜 13:40-15:00
📍Sidlaw
TLDR:
Speakers consider different aspects of inclusion within the wider context of AI & SR
#StatSky #SRAI #RSS2025Conf
We've got 3 sessions at #RSSConf2025 today - how will you decide?!
🧠 *Neurodiversity in Statistics and Data Science*
🕜 13:40-15:00
📍Menteith
TLDR:
Learn what neurodiversity is (and isn't) & how our panellists navigated their journey through statistics and data science
#StatSky #RSS2025Conf
Members of the RSS celebrating diversity group posing behind a conference poster with Skye the unicorn
We've managed to snap pics of some brilliant statisticians and data professionals at #RSS2025Conf - lured in by #UnicornSkye🦄 's beauty!
#RSSConf2025
Members of the RSS celebrating diversity group posing behind a conference poster with Skye the unicorn
We've managed to snap pics of some brilliant statisticians and data professionals at #RSS2025Conf - lured in by #UnicornSkye🦄 's beauty!
#RSSConf2025
📢 Statisticians at #RSSConf2025:
Join us on Platform5 at 12:50 for the Celebrating Diversity Networking Lunch 😋
Meet members of @rssdiversity.bsky.social & network with attendees interested in the RSS’ equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility work
Abstract for Plotting your path: Women in statistics and data science share their stories session. This session promotes practical advice from women in statistics and data science. We discuss issues such as how to achieve a work-life balance, how to identify opportunities available when returning from a career break, how to explore flexible working arrangements and other issues that statisticians and data scientists may face in their day-to-day lives.
#RSS2025Conf sessions for today:
📈 *Plotting your path: Women in statistics and data science share their stories*
🕦 11:30-12:50
📍Fintry
TLDR;
Practical advice from women in #Statistics and #DataScience
Jointly organised with @statsyss.bsky.social
#RSSConf2025 #StatSky
😱 We haven't named the mascot!
Please send any stats-related punny names and we'll pick one at the Welcome reception tonight 🦄
@royalstatsoc.bsky.social #RSS2025Conf #RSSConf2025
We're on our way to @royalstatsoc.bsky.social conference in lovely #Edinburgh 😍
Follow along for updates direct from the conference!
📸 Find us in the ICC for a pic with our new mascot 🦄
#RSS2025Conf
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Gutted to miss this one due to holidays, but strongly recommend to those able to get to it in Edinburgh and looking forward to reading the book @kevinguyan.bsky.social 🏳️🌈
23.06.2025 13:44 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0We're excited to host @kevinguyan.bsky.social in a joint event with @rssdiversity.bsky.social
🏳️🌈Rainbow Trap: How Inclusive Statistics Still Box Us In🏳️🌈
📅7 July
📌 @bayescentre.bsky.social
⏰6pm-7.30pm
🎫Book your place: rss.org.uk/training-eve...
We are delighted to organise this @kevinguyan.bsky.social talk in Edinburgh jointly with @rssedinburgh.bsky.social
➡️Rainbow Trap: How Inclusive Statistics Still Box Us In⬅️
📅7 July
📌 @bayescentre.bsky.social
⏰6pm-7.30pm
🎫Book your place!
rss.org.uk/training-eve...
Join us for our AGM today!
⏰12-12:45 #RSSCelebratingDiversity
rss.org.uk/training-eve...
Hi 🦋!
We are delighted to contribute to the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social efforts to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in both the society and the disciplines of statistics & data science as a whole.
Join our welcoming community for updates on activities and useful info on the topic!
