Have you always wanted to know more about Bayesian estimation? Or are you somewhat familiar, but would you like to delve deeper into the magical world of priors, posteriors and how to go from one to the other? Register for our summer school course: "A gentle introduction to Bayesian estimation" in which we go all the way from "What is a prior?" to informative priors and shrinkage priors, whilst also discussing correctly reporting results.

Register before 07 July 2025: https://utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/data-science/a-gentle-introduction-to-bayesian-estimation

Current EU monitoring overlooks many pollutants in Europe’s waters, focusing on an outdated list. Hundreds of harmful substances are found in European rivers. Over 450 scientists urge EU to adopt updated water pollution standards. (https://www.freshwatersciences.eu/effs/index.asp?page=NEWS&Id=6&IdItem=293&p=#Content) #ProtectWater

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨

I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.

My op-ed in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/04/elon-musk-science-royal-society-scientific-integrity
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Landmark international agreements are only worth anything if the signatories actually follow through with their pledges “More than half are either pledging to protect less than 30% of their territory or are not setting a numerical target” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/countries-biodiversity-pledges-rome-cop16-aoe

Plans to boost capacity at St Pancras are welcome. But the hurdles to run trains from London to 🇩🇪, 🇨🇭 and 🇫🇷 beyond Paris are elsewhere, as I explain in this piece for the iPaper https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/rail-routes-st-pancras-upgrade-open-up-fewer-hurdles-3548255 #CrossChannelRail

#cat #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

#animal #animals #cute #cuteanimal
#Pic #pictures #picture #pics

Syria celebrates:

Fascinating article about why people abandon areas of land, and how it can help or hinder biodiversity as nature takes over https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/nov/28/great-abandonment-what-happens-natural-world-people-disappear-bulgaria?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

En fruktansvärd tragedi. En hustru mister sin man, barn mister sin far. Allt han gjorde vara att cykla och följa trafikreglerna. Och blir då krossad av en ouppmärksam förare av en bärgningsbil.
https://cykelmagasinet.se/du-foljer-trafikreglerna-och-straffas-med-doden/

“A strain of avian influenza is showing signs of adaptation to human hosts, but there is no evidence that it can transmit from person to person.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03805-4

“A study of nearly 400,000 scientists across 38 countries finds that one-third of them quit science within five years of authoring their first paper, and almost half leave within a decade.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03222-7

Stockholm - en stad full av människor på cykel
https://cykelmagasinet.se/stockholm-en-stad-full-av-manniskor-pa-cykel/

Cautionary Tales – Tim’s Tolkien obsession and Amazon Prime’s “The Rings of Power”

Tim Harford's life has been building up to this moment. In this Cautionary Conversation, he discusses the works of his favourite author J.R.R. Tolkien and the social science at play in Amazon Prime's series The Rings of Power. What do elves and whistleblowers have i

https://timharford.com/2024/08/cautionary-tales-tims-tolkien-obsession-and-amazon-primes-the-rings-of-power/

#CautionaryTales

Interesting take on the lack of government messaging and information campaigns around the climate emergency (compare with Covid for example)….#Climate #ClimateChange https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/dear-ministers-i-am-a-climate-crisis-campaigner-nationalise-me-right-now?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

🐾🐱 The lynx is back!

The Iberian Lynx has made a remarkable recovery, moving from "Endangered" to "Vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List.

Thanks to 20 years of dedication by the EU’s #LIFEProgramme for the environment, this threatened feline is stepping back from the brink of extinction.

From only 94 individuals in 2002, the population has grown to over 1,000 due to concerted efforts in habitat restoration, prey availability improvement, and breeding programs.

More → https://europa.eu/!4CQHQR

👩‍🔬 Anaconda puts the squeeze on data scientists
— The Register

｢ "We wish to inform you that, should this situation persist … our legal team may be compelled to consider measures aligned with our prevailing pricing and invoicing policies, which could include issuing back bills for any unauthorized or excess usage of Anaconda products," ｣

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squeeze_on/

#anaconda #datascience #academia #opensource #python

I missed this last week. Lovely #GoodNews story about the ginnel gardens of Manchester.
( Note for readers: a ginnel is a back alleyway between terraced houses).

#Gardening #Manchester #UrbanGardens

‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens | Access to green space | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/12/when-its-sunny-we-get-the-barbecue-out-urban-gardeners-transform-foul-alleys-into-verdant-havens?CMP=upside_email

Why yet another IDE? @Posit created Positron to be multi-language and designed specifically for data science tasks, @juliasilge tells #PositConf2024 . Positron is "an early stage product", she notes. "There is no need to switch today".
@Posit is committed to support RStudio for the long-term and expects people to continue to use the RStudio IDE for "many many years," she added.
Positron currently supports #Python and #R but more languages can be added.
#RStats
https://github.com/posit-dev/positron