public statistics; geometry of longitudinal population coverage; the quantitative epistemic #dataethics Much better on trains than in real life #SARS2recidivist
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Jun 13
Looking at the birthday honours, trying to infer who is being appointed to the ethics and integrity commission
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Jun 12
Soccer-loving statisticians! We have a ton of free-to-read articles for you, about everything from Panini stickers to penalty shootouts...
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Jun 12
This week these pretty things arrived - my rendition of the story of school and trust governance over the past 20 years or so is finally here
who has the power? who makes the decision? how other voices are heard and how account is rendered
hachettelearning.com/school-…
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Jun 11
Frustration when someone introduces their contribution by saying it does not fit with those going before, they are not part of the community. As if they had been invited without being included
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Jun 11
🚨Out today in @Nature our new paper uses deep learning to map four decades of global human migration.
By building the first comprehensive dataset of global annual flows (1990-2023), we reveal that migration has nearly tripled since 2000.
🔗nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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The EIC has recently been busy holding verbal sessions for our Ombudsman Review.
Thank you to those who have contributed so far, including Des Collins and Danielle Holliday, the lawyers behind the landmark Corby toxic waste case, who shared their expertise with us last week.
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Apr 22
Yesterday I understood the Royal Society would publish its report Bodmer 2.0: science for society. They did not. And we await the launch of the year of trustworthy information...
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Jun 4
Sadly when the report emerged two weeks ago it was not worth the wait, more make science great again than science for society
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Come and work @downingstreet as a data scientist! We're hiring for a data scientist working on health and education. You'll be right at the heart of UK policy making and (IMO) working with the best tech stack in the UK public sector. Link:
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From Palantir to rolling out digital ID, the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s new report finds major barriers to the Government’s plans for digital transformation.
Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/com…
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The UK Knowledge Exchange Hub is seeking an outstanding academic to become its next Scientific Director. to shape the national agenda for mathematical sciences knowledge exchange with business, industry, charity and government.
Click for more details 👇
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29 Mar 2025
A bit surprised to see the DG ESE at ONS is being advertised. Obviously things have been tought with the LFS, but I thought that predated Mike Keoghan's tenure. Progress has been slow on resolving that and the focus on mandatory response as a solution odd
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May 29
Two 'independent' members (both have a recent connection to the work of UKSA) have been appointed to the regulation committee which oversees the work of OSR, to add technical expertise / resilience while they prevaricate about appointing new non-executives
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Jun 1
And the statistics regulator has published a prospectus to evaluate its strategic commitments, a sort of registered report, with the caveat that some data is not ready. Some of it is just about monitoring activity, which will help with stakeholder mapping
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Jun 1
I’m hosting a hackathon with @ElevenLabsDevs and the UK Government @i_dot_ai.
We will spend two days building with the actual people in central government deploying AI for everything from Education to the Prime Minister himself.
Don’t miss it.
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Jun 1
We publish comprehensive searchable data on our grants on Gateway to Research, as is only right for a public funder.
But might there be merits to also publishing a thematic list of funded projects?
A quick post from me about transparency and scrutiny.
magicsmoke.substack.com/p/wh…
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Tomorrow, Question Time is in Dulwich for an AI special
Joining Fiona on the panel are Darren Jones, Julia Lopez, Mo Gawdat, Laura Gilbert, and Victor Riparbelli
Join #bbcqt, 9pm on @BBCiPlayer, @BBCSounds, and @BBCNews, 10:40pm on @BBCOne
Apply to be in the audience here: eu.castitreach.com/ag/mentor…
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May 27
#booker The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby, published just a few weeks ago - a biography of Demis Hassabis' work around artificial intelligence
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May 27
Some of the more recent friction is familiar but I had not realised that was the start of actual action despite so many words before then. So government is first mentioned as the Bletchley AI Summit is planned in 2023 (and the Alan Turing Institute not at all)
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May 27
This feels very strange as they insist on staying in London but record no engagement with UK institutions (beyond the ill-feted NHS projects soon after the care.data fiasco). Although the achievement is significant there is hard work and a lot of failure
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