Louis Aslett

Oh no! Lose British spelling?! 😜

Awesome! Thanks, looking forward to that 😃

👀 My curiosity is piqued! Looks like it takes inspiration from #rstats and #python and adds in some whole new interesting ideas. When term gets less crazy will be interested to play with this.

Yes, swipe up to force exit after a session, then reopen app. Thanks, this is an amazing v1 and so smooth in all other testing so far!

Been loving testing this. Small thing, it’s not saving all deps on pkg install. For example, install {mlmc} which pulls in {Rcpp}, load {mlmc} package and functions run fine. However, force quit the iOS app and upon reopening {mlmc} still there, but `library(mlmc)` gives an error that Rcpp missing?

Promotional image for webRios showing the app icon and an iPhone displaying the R console. The console shows example R commands with syntax highlighting: basic arithmetic (1 + 1), a print statement saying 'Hello from iOS!', a warning message in orange reading 'Uh-oh, I'm in the Apple-verse?', an error message in red with the HAL 9000 quote 'I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.', and a plot command.

webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad.

I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review.

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Thanks to claude code, I wrote my first iphone app:
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It's what I have always wanted for a talk timer (as both a speaker and a chair). It's very minimal, designed to be read from across the room, and make it clear when you're running out of time.

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind

Actual academics:

“… the agency’s overall budget will rise in line with inflation at 2 per cent …”

Inflation is not 2% and hasn’t been for a very long time. So UKRI funding continues to fall in real terms, with even more accelerated decline for curiosity-driven research, would perhaps be a more accurate portrayal.

Back in the top 10, baby!

Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜

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Header of a Financial Times article titled "Al doesn't add up if you neglect the mathematicians", with a famous picture depicting the Rev Thomas Bayes

Text of the FT article highlighting the UK government neglect of mathematics at university.

A welcome FT article: on.ft.com/442Mpiq “AI doesn’t add up if you neglect the mathematicians”

Congratulations to Fernando Zepeda on their viva today at @warwickstats.bsky.social; I spent a very enjoyable afternoon with @louisaslett.bsky.social discussing Fernando's thesis, "Non-Reversible Extensions of the ALPS Methodology for Multimodal and Transdimensional Sampling".

Higher education is one of the UK's most important exports. This policy would cripple many of the UK's leading universities. It's equivalent to slaughtering the goose that lays the golden eggs.

We @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social are looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor (tenure track) in Mathematics (Probability/Mathematical Foundations of Data Science): www.ellisinstitute.fi/pi-positions....

Application instructions & form: www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2..., DL Jan 12!

Friends of Stats: The U. of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics needs your help. The university's Chancellor submitted a FINAL proposal today for budget cuts (budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...) that eliminates the department. 1/ #LNK #Nebraska #Huskers @amstatnews.bsky.social

Two assistant prof. vacancies at Warwick Statistics: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre... (deadline 25 January 2025 at 11:55pm). CSML applications very welcome!

Note that optically that’s also the gentle presentation of the numbers … a 10% reduction requires an 1/(1-0.1) = 1.111 => 11.1% pay increase to restore. For a 22.1% reduction that’s a 1/(1-0.221) = 1.284 => 28.4% pay increase to restore.

I hadn't had a good laugh like that in ages. Big thanks to the economists at the federal reserve.

Please Avoid detectCores() in your R Packages The detectCores() function of the parallel package is probably one of the most used functions when it comes to setting the number of parallel workers to use in R. In this blog post, I’ll try to explai...

The detectCores() apocalypse is creeping up on us 👻🐛

As more people are getting access to 128+ CPU cores, code spinning up parallel cluster with detectCores() workers fails - not enough #RStats connections available

Friends, do *not* default to detectCores(), bc www.jottr.org/2022/12/05/a...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

We are 5! 🎈

THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org

Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics at Newcastle University Apply for the Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Postdoc, Newcastle University (UK).

PINCODE researches Monte Carlo Fusion methods: this postdoc will help developing #rstats packages that bring this methodological work to life, as well as opportunities to contribute to further methodological development.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ807/r...

Come work with Murray Pollock, Hongsheng Dai, Gareth Roberts and myself on this exciting project!

Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics at Newcastle University Apply for the Research Associate/Assistant in Statistics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Postdoc, Newcastle University (UK).

PINCODE researches Monte Carlo Fusion methods: this postdoc will help developing #rstats packages that bring this methodological work to life, as well as opportunities to contribute to further methodological development.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ807/r...

🚨 Big news for the R Community!

The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested $450,000 in the R Foundation to strengthen R’s sustainability, security, and modernization.

Details: r-consortium.org/posts/sovere...

#rstats #opensource #datascience

Professor Christina Pagel I'm Professor Christina Pagel at University College London. My research is in health systems. I'm passionate about science, public health, supporting diversity in the sciences, and protecting liberal ...

📢 I've decided to do regular 2-3 mins video updates of latest authoritarian antics of Trump administration on YouTube & TikTok.

Have been inspired by reading how many people get their news there and how dominated it is by the right.
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Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

This only happens to you once

Proposals for contributed talks & posters are now being accepted for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting! The world meeting will take place in Nagoya, Japan between 28 June and 3 July, 2026. Proposals may be submitted here: forms.gle/dVTUrdEuVF6g...

Some fun news: We're hiring!

Lectureship (analogous to Assistant Prof.) in Statistical Science and AI, in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol.

Closing date 13 October 2025; link below!

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