James Grant

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

very cool!

Oooh that's lovely, and makes me wonder how you could produce something showing the correlation with height above sea level 🤔😊

Rocky coastline of Greek island

Recharged after a much needed week of sun and rest ☀️🇬🇷 Even managed to clear the email backlog in a morning. 📤

STEMMing the Leaky Pipeline: A “Pride in Science” special - Lancaster University As a part of Pride month, the Research and Engagement Team in the Faculty of Science and Technology interviewed LGBTQ+ members of research and academic staff from a range of departments to get their i...

A great chat about all things LGBTQ+ & STEM is written up in this @lancasteruni.bsky.social blog - was really interesting to reflect on how LGBTQ+ identities have interacted with our careers, and the role of visibility and allyship in building inclusion further. www.lancaster.ac.uk/sci-tech/abo...

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 🏳️‍🌈

Covariance Decomposition for Distance Based Species Tree Estimation In phylogenomics, species-tree methods must contend with two major sources of noise; stochastic gene-tree variation under the multispecies coalescent model (MSC) and finite-sequence substitutional noi...

New out on arXiv today: arxiv.org/abs/2506.16425

This paper on statistical properties of estimators in phylogenomics is the last from George's soon-to-be-submitted thesis. It was great to supervise as it was a wonderful example of the research being driven by George's curiosity and original ideas.

Refuse to be invisible! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Now is the time to make our voices heard, sharing our experiences in the EHRC Consultation which affects LGBTQ+ people.

We've created a handy guide to help plan your response, get started now and share this post.

www.lgbt.foundation/EHRC

Come back to me when the AI can fold the laundry 😅

Are there more autistic people now? Why is the number of autism diagnoses changing? And what does it mean for autistic people?

This BBC article does a better than average job of reporting the difficulties in measuring trends conditions like autism with highly variable diagnosis rates - kudos!: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today is revision lecture day which means quadruple checking I go through the solutions to LAST year’s exam, not THIS year’s as I had a nightmare about last week 😂

A screengrab of the BBC website showing three stories from the past two days of men murdering women, and one from a week ago.

I am so incredibly tired of this ongoing attack on trans people. Cis men are murdering women in plain sight. If gender-critical women turned their attention to dealing with men, women might be safe. I'm not worried about loos or changing rooms. I am worried about literally everything else.

The core trilma here remains the same - the govt needs to accept one of three things: high student migration, higher domestic student fees (or higher taxes to fund universities) or university bankruptcies. Those are the only options, given where we are. Pick one.

Today EPSRC has published an independent analysis of diversity data, by @royalstatsoc.bsky.social and input from the Alan Turing Institute.
The project investigates potential bias in the EPSRC peer review process using structured data analysis and textual analysis of reviewers’ comments and scores.

Outside work I'm a big fan of books, coffee, dogs, running, and general nerdy/queer fun stuff 😀

I'm a statistician by training and always interested in how data-driven models and systems can be explained clearly to the public.

I'm a small part of some great EDI initiatives at the Royal Statistical Society and at Lancaster and keen to share and learn from others' inclusion expertise here.

Hi Bluesky 🦋 👋

I'm hoping to (re)connect with the Stats, ML/AI, and EDI in STEM/Academia communities here, so here's a cringey bio

I'm a Lecturer (Assist Prof) at Lancaster Uni, with a background in reinforcement learning theory, and interests in fairness & reliability in human-AI decision-making.