Fergus Chadwick

a kid in a knight costume is asking who will join us ALT: a kid in a knight costume is asking who will join us

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️

vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

I said “you must get a lot of complaints about this” and they just stared at me blankly

After much searching I’m sad to say that the Gosset plaque in the Guinness Brewery has been covered up. But a fun trip to Dublin regardless

Evaluating the effectiveness of mitigation measures to deliver water quality improvements in agricultural catchments in Ireland at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Evaluating the effectiveness of mitigation measures to deliver water quality improvements in agricultural catchments in Ireland at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

Fully Funded PhD Studentship Alert!

Do you want to figure out how we can improve water quality? Want to learn how to develop advanced systems-thinking statistical network models?

We got you... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Deadline: 2025-03-13
DM me if you have Qs.

Great talk from @ruiborges23.bsky.social at our Maths and Stats research day yesterday

Fantastic PhD opportunity to study invasive Pink salmon with a geniune multidisciplinary team - if you have skills in fish ecology, stats and/or social science then move quickly to apply. UK and non-UK students welcome. Please forward.

...being part of the first @NETGAIN_DFA cohort, a training budget, and spending time at five different supervisor institutions (@uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social , @naturescot.bsky.social , @bioss.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social ). Get in touch with any questions! (3/3)

The PhD will be moulded around the successful candidate who will have a lot of scope to choose the direction taken, with the main criterion being that the ecology, ethics and statistics all play a major role in the final project. The successful candidate will benefit from... (2/3)

We are advertising a fully-funded, genuinely interdisciplinary @netgain.bsky.social PhD at the interface of ecology, ethics and statistics, exploring the nuances of wild salmonid conservation. Deadline January 31st. (1/3)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A load of cool projects here!!! If you’re looking for a PhD at the moment this is going to be a killer cohort to be part of!

We just posted our first round of fully funded interdisciplinary challege-led projects!

netgain.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/phd-projects/

PhDs available at: @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social, @durhamuniversity.bsky.social, @glasgowunisrc.bsky.social, @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, @ukri.org

Bridging Philosophy and Ecology: Ethical Decision-Making in Wild Salmonid Conservation at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Bridging Philosophy and Ecology: Ethical Decision-Making in Wild Salmonid Conservation at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com

I am advertising a *fully funded* and genuinely interdisciplinary PhD looking at integrating ecology, statistics and environmental ethics. The project is part of the amazing @netgain.bsky.social. Please get in touch and share with anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please add me for part 2!

Me please

Adorable black cocker spaniel sat majestically on top of a hill

Good team choice!

I’d love to be added if possible, thanks!

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I'm happy to receive suggestions for this.

Convention is not objectivity.

the mad lads actually did it

Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown. Beyond this, it’s the stuff of children’s stories. Having a queen as head of state is like having a pirate or a mermaid or Ewok as head of state. What’s the logic? Bees have queens, but the queen bee lays all of the eggs in the hive. The queen of the Britons has laid just four British eggs, and one of those is the sweatless creep Prince Andrew, so it’s hardly deserving of applause.

Had a conversation today about the royal family and it reminded me of one of my favourite paragraphs ever written: Had a conversation today about the royal family and it reminded me of one of my favourite paragraphs ever written www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

I’m not a real statistician, and you can be one too I was strolling around Cork hand-in-hand with Cara on a bright, Irish summer evening. It was the finest place on earth. I was in a suit and tie - untucked, unbuttoned and loose, except for my dress sh...

With the caveat that we can (and should) all be statisticians if we need to be! statsepi.substack.com/p/im-not-a-r...

Can I take you higher?  Maybe not, but this summer I can take you…hierarchical.👇

Did you know that I am a completely freelance statistician with no institutional support?  If you have found my freely-available work helpful then there are many ways that you can support me financially and otherwise.

That sounds great! I’m planning a kind of branching structure for the lectures, so there’s a central thread then branches with the more in depth ideas

I do like it! Hard part is knowing how to compress it/which bits to omit (and how much @rmcelreath.bsky.social is happy for people to steal for other courses!)

Bayesian friends: I have to give 5x2hour lectures to first year maths and stats PhD students on Bayesian Statistics. What would your essential content be? Which aspects of the standard Bayesian intro course do you think is a waste of time?

Hello world! I'm finally dipping my toes into BlueSky after disconnecting from the twitterverse.

Would love to connect with others in #ecology, #datascience, #rstats, undergrad teaching, and sci-tech spaces.

I’m giving my a seminar tomorrow in my department at St Andrews on how we can use information from citizen science ID guides, medical testing assays and similar to understand where and why misclassifications and misdiagnoses occur. Drop me a message if you’d like to join online or would like to chat

We are hiring in St Andrews Stats! Particularly looking for a statistical methodologist (but see advert). DM me if you have any questions www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...