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We are also recruiting for our YSS committee 2026. Join us to share your passion in statistics and data science 🔥!

The last day of RSS Conference 2025 featured Statisticians for Society, presentations from Young Statisticians’ Meeting 2024 and effects of environment on mental health. The day came to a smooth and successful close. 😤⭐

Huge thanks to RSS team & G-Research for their support 🙌

In the "Learn from my mistakes" session, three successful statisticians (Richard Samworth, Fiona Underwood and Lucy Teece) shared their career stories and the lessons they have learned from varied experiences, offering valuable perspectives to those on their own career journeys.

Day 3 of the RSS conference close with fresh insights and discussions💡

We had three prize winners (Nick Zhang, Erin Russel and Jiayao Shao) of the Research Students’ Conference (RSC) in Probability and Statistics 2024 giving high-quality presentations of their research ideas 🏆

It me!
Thank you @statsyss.bsky.social for the generous invite - and to the audience for laughing along with my mistakes and anecdotes ☺️

Packed conference room. Richard Samworth at the podium

Lucy Teece at the podium with a slide saying "Learn from my mistakes"

Packed room for "Learn from my mistakes" career session organised by @zakvarty.bsky.social for @statsyss.bsky.social
Featuring the excellent Richard Samworth, Fiona Underwood and @stateecetics.bsky.social #RSS2025Conf

The second day of the RSS Conference wrapped up successfully with the pub quiz night! 🍻 We thank those for attending and participating in the quiz. 😺

We also thank Phastar for their generous support at the pub quiz night. 🎉

Co-organising with the Teaching Statistics section, four experienced educators in the data sciences (Claire Rebello, Elinor Jones, Ioanna Papatsouma, Sophie Lee) shared their passion for teaching and highlighted the varied opportunities available across different sectors. 📝

In the "Statistical Storytelling: Significance prize winners" session, we are grateful to have three finalists of the Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing 2025 competition delivering engaging presentations based on their articles. 🚀

In the "Plotting your path" session co-organised with Celebrating Diversity SIG, three inspiring female statisticians (Sarah Lotspeich, Kimberley Kavanagh and Christl Donnelly) shared their journeys and encouraged female students & professionals to pursue their paths confidently. ✨

Welcome to all our delegates for day one of RSS International Conference 2025!

We really enjoyed Christl Donnelly's opening keynote on policy engagement and will shortly be heading off to the famous Playfair Library for our Welcome Reception!

We are here at RSS Conference 2025!

At our pre-conference workshops, we are grateful to have lively career talks, resources sharing and workshops on consultancy ✨. Thank you for attending the workshops, and see you at the quiz night 📢!

Calling the world's early career statisticians and data professionals!

Would you like to win a trophy + publication in Significance + a slot at our 2025 conference?

Enter the Significance magazine writing competition by 30 May

significancemagazine.com/enter-our-20...

Taking place between 3 and 4 pm, Prof Jane Hutton will share her perspective on a boarder area and put a particular emphasis on the Lucy Letby trial 📖.

Register here (rss.org.uk/training-eve...) for online attendance and here (rss.org.uk/training-eve... for attendance at UCL.

It's happening tomorrow 😤🔥💯!

YSS and the Statistics and the Law section are organising a talk (online/in-person at UCL) by Prof Jane Hutton on the reward challenges of expert witness work as a statistician ✨, contributing to civil and criminal courts and serving society 🤝.

Chaired by our president Sir John Aston, our next Discussion Meeting will discuss our journal paper on the statistical aspects of the Covid-19 response.

Download the pre-print and sign up to attend either in-person (London) or online 👉 rss.org.uk/training-eve...

Special thank to the Celebrating Diversity SIG for their support 🤠✨! We will organise other panel discussions moving forward on professional developments topics, focusing on different diverse groups.

We are open to your opinions and suggestions 🤗💪.

Although the focus of the session will be on female professionals with family caring duties, we believe that others will be benefited by learning how these professionals overcame challenges 🏔️, progressed their career 📝 and supported their family members and loved ones 💞.

This session will bring together three women from the various sectors (industry, academia and government) in statistics and data science. 👩‍🏫👩‍💻

We invite you to learn from their insights and ask them questions you have in mind. ℹ️🎈

The first YSS event in 2025 will happen next week (3 March 3-4 pm) ✨

The online panel session will include discussions of maintaining work and family balance for female professionals, ahead of the International Women's Day (8 March) 👩!

Register here: rss.org.uk/training-eve...

Enter our 2025 writing competition - Significance magazine We’re excited to launch this year’s Significance Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing, a chance for emerging statistical storytellers to shine   Do you have an interesting tale to...

Significance magazine is accepting entries for this year's Early-Career Writing Award 🏆

Part of our Statistical Excellence Awards programme, it celebrates career young writers who can tell a great story with data

Enter by 30 May 👇

Applications are open for our William Guy Lectureships!

The theme is Statistics and AI - its role in daily life, ethical issues, & environmental impact.

If you're a data professional with a passion for inspiring the next generation about stats submit a talk proposal!

rss.org.uk/news-publica...

YSS is now officially on Bluesky 🎊! We are thrilled to join this space and connect with you all over here🎈.

We will continue to share updates for young statisticians to support your unique learning & career journeys over here. Follow us to learn more 👩‍💻✍️🔥!