Shih Ching Fu (he/him)

Grandpa Simpson saying “8i saved my files on the computer which was the style at the time” and a picture of him yelling at a cloud labelled “onedrive”

It was a better time

Course Coordinator - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $121,598 – 137,870 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full-time, Continuing (flexible arrangements, job share, or part time hours will be consider...

🚨 #statssky job alert 🚨

ANU's Statistical Support Network is hiring! Looks like a mix of statistical consulting and developing educational materials.

IMO the best part would be working with the wonderful Professor Alice Richardson!

jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/course-...

Want a 2.5 minute primer on the ingenuity of randomised controlled trials?

Of course you do.

Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]

Funny Numbers

xkcd.com/3184/

An honour to be on ABC #Radio National with Robyn Williams on The Science Show sharing my #research, #teaching, as a #femalescientist inspired by pioneering #womeninscience - #BridgetOgilvie

🎙️Listen here (from 44:33):👂🏻
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

#rinawong #DrRina #rinafu

I ll be on ABC National #Radio today with Robyn Williams on The Science Show, 12 pm local time, on digital live radio, tune in!
#DrRina #rinawong #rinafu #scicomm #community #STEMEducation #lecturer #scientist

Opinion: The fact that now-established academics survived a system built on overwork does not make it fair or well designed. We must change it, says Yu Tao #academicsky #ECRs
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/lets-not-pass-down-pain-we-endured-early-career-researchers

Course Coordinator - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $121,598 – 137,870 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full-time, Continuing (flexible arrangements, job share, or part time hours will be consider...

Have you got a PhD in Statistics (or related field) and experience in Statistical Consulting? A continuing position at the Australian National University is now open 🇦🇺🦘🐨.

Would love to get an #rstats person if possible ☺️

Apply by 18 Jan 👉 jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/course-... #statssky #statsky

Doug Altman was an internationally renowned statistician who served as The BMJ’s chief statistical adviser.

Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Colour as Strategy and Aesthetics: What the Bureau of Meteorology’s Radar Teaches About Data Visualisation An ill-fated radar redesign reminds us that colour decisions are never cosmetic, they define how data is read and believed.

Insightful post by @darraghmurray.bsky.social about the public backlash when the Australian Bureau of Meteorology changed the color palette for rain radar data:

thedatavist.substack.com/p/colour-as-...

#dataviz #cartography 📊🗺️

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

ABC Careers - Job Details - Election Researcher Apply now Job no: 505156 Work type: Contract Full Time Location: Sydney Categories:

We're looking for an Election Researcher to help prepare election materials & cover election results. You’ll help manage key databases, produce research materials, and dive into electoral research. This is a unique elections and data role at ABC News

Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...

We wrapped up #ASC2025 yesterday, yet I still can't wipe the smile off my face. It was a great week of talks, science, and statistics, but my highlight was meeting the wonderful community we have in #statistics. I hope everyone had a great time in #Perth. I'm looking forward to #ASC2028 in Adelaide.

It was great to finally meet you in person; once I was certain it was actually you!

Title slide with text: A guide to writing good code for the busy scientist Black text over stripey pale brown-green background

If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:

daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...

All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏

#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub

Two New tidymodels Packages Two new tidymodels packages focus on supervised feature selection.

We’ve released two new tidymodels #rstats packages for feature selection: filter and important.

tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

I'm looking forward to #ASC2025 hosted at @curtinuniversity.bsky.social from 1-5/12: 8 keynotes, 4 streams, 250+ delegates, ~90 early career & student statistician talks. Full program: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75429/.... I'm speaking & on LOC so I'll be #superbusy! #statistics #conference

Over the moon to receive the #Premier's Science Award -STEM Educator of the Year -Tertiary. Truly humbled. Thanks to my family, peers, mentors for journeying with me, my #students for making the #educator I am today.
#WASciAwards #rinawong #STEMEducation #DrRina #rinafu #DrRina

Wonderful evening at the Premier 's Science Awards as a Finalist. Catching up with colleagues, 2024 winner Dr Alexandra Yeung, Dr Kat Ross, Cass Rowles and Prof. David Blair.

Truly amazing - #biomedical engineer Dr Daniel Timms invented the world's first total #artificial #heart. A powerful story of love, grief, #resilience. Really privileged to meet Dr Timms and to hold this precious, #revolutionary invention in my hands. Thank you to the #ASMR.

Where do data come from & other difficult questions your children might ask Join us to learn about data cleaning and management in the Mayi Kuwayu study.

Come along to my slightly silly and hopefully informative talk on how data go from some scribbles on a paper questionnaire to a nice, clean dataset

Thanks to the ARDC for having me!

#databs #rstats

📅 Nov 5 at 12pm AEDT
📍 Online webinar
🔗 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/where-do-d...

A "methods primer" article in the journal "BMJ Medicine", titled "Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors"

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse The tidyverse is a popular meta-package comprising several core R packages to aid in various data science tasks, including data import, manipulation and visualisation. Although functionalities offered...

I wrote a paper about "Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse" 📝

TL;DR to follow in future 😊

arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382

Quarto 1.8 – Quarto Quarto 1.8 improves brand support, introduces brand extensions, adds HTML accessibility checks, and gives access to execution context.

Quarto 1.8 is available! 🎉

New features include: ✨ Light & dark mode support for brand colors and logos 📦 Brand extensions for sharing across projects ♿ HTML accessibility checks with Axe-core 🔧 Access to execution context from code cells

Full details: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own

It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries

benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

#statssky #episky #academicsky

IDWSDS Thriving in Your Environment

Join us tomorrow for the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science conference in a panel "More Than Code: The People, Purpose, and Power of R-Ladies+" with Dionne & Felicia (Melb), Kristy & Giorgia (Syd), organised by Hunna Watson!

🔗 www.idwsds.org
🕓 12-1pm AEDT

#rstats #rladies

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

The published version is out now doi.org/10.3847/1538... (#ApJ open access)