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The Government has agreed an unlocking of the National Training Fund for Budget 2025, which has built up a surplus of nearly €2bn. €1.5 billion will be spent over 6 years to plug university core funding gap, launch a major third level capital programme, and skills programmes.

Reasons authors give for not sharing data when their paper says "data available upon request" nature.com/articles/s4159…

Just got back from the wonderful Bayesian Methods for the Social Sciences conference in Amsterdam. Many thanks to all the speakers, the participants, and the local organizing team! It was an exciting, thought-provoking event. I'm already looking forward to BMSS3 in 2026!

I'll second this! Massive thank you to @EJWagenmakers, @MarsmanMaarten and Hendrik Godmann. It was an excellent event. Unconfirmed rumours are that it will be held in Dublin next time... No pressure then...

Reminder: we currently have a PhD offer to work on phylogenetic reconstruction of animal communication. Joint supervision between Emmanuel Chemla (Linguistics, ENS Paris) and myself (Statistics, Imperial College London); the PhD candidate will be based in Paris.

"...mathematics, physics, basic computer science, applied mathematics. Those are things that would be necessary to understand and develop the next generation of AI system" Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 UCD Maths and Stats UCD Research

We are delighted to announce our invited speakers are: Nial Friel, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University College Dublin. Órlaith Burke, Global Innovation Director, Accenture. Owen McGrath, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick.

Today we welcome Prof Andrew Parnell Andrew Parnell who has been appointed as Met Éireann Professor of Weather and Climate Research at University College Dublin. Andrew will lead a new research programme to develop weather and climate services for Ireland using #AI & #DataScience.

💙💛 UCD sets out its path to 2030 with the launch of our new strategy Today UCD President Professor Orla Feely launched our Strategy to 2030, Breaking Boundaries. It sets the course for the next stage of our university’s development and growth. 🧵👇 For full details of our

Bayesians! Are you a member of ISBA? Are you into applications in the Social Sciences? We are starting a new ISBA section on Bayesian Social Sciences. This requires a petition, signed by at least 30 ISBA members. You can add your name here: docs.google.com/document/d/1a6…

We are so proud of all these exceptional scholars - but particularly excited that 4 out of 5 awards go to wonderful women in our College UCD Social Sciences. Many congratulations to everyone and we look forward to seeing the fruits of this fantastic work!! Go n-éirí an t-ádh libh!

Thanks for organising a great event. I enjoy it a lot!

The The Irish Times came to talk to me about the 100th anniversary of the leaving cert, that we have coming up in 2025, our textbook and exam collection. Hazel Murray irishtimes.com/video/video/20…

Massive welcome to our new president - John Aston! We're very excited to work with him at this pivotal moment both for the Society and the data professions and disciplines as a whole. Find out more about him in our interview 👉 ow.ly/N2FE50UBKyW

We're hiring! Join us in UCD Maths and Stats UCD Science 3 Ad Astra Assistant Professorships: 1. Applied Mathematics and Meteorology 2. Foundational Statistics for AI (joint with UCD Computer Science) 3. Foundational ML and AI (joint with UCD Computer Science) ucd.ie/mathstat/vacan…

We in University College Dublin are currently recruiting 50 early-career faculty through our Ad Astra Fellows programme. The positions span all our six Colleges, and align with our Strategy to 2030: Breaking Boundaries. Full details at ucd.ie/adastrafellows…

🦸‍♀️🧮 Ireland's Maths Superwomen! To celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Dr Christiana Pantelidou, PhD from the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics, has launched a nationwide outreach project highlighting Irish women's achievements in mathematics.

Congratulations to the Research Ireland Ulysses Programme 2025 project teams! 🇮🇪🇫🇷🇪🇺 Exciting projects from Prof Claire Gormley UCD Maths and Stats, Dr Kevin Daly UCD School Ag & Food & Dr Georg Pesch UCD Chem Eng: ➡️ucd.ie/research/news/… France in Ireland 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 SEAI ADEME Claire Gormley Georg Pesch

📰Zero-inflated stochastic block modelling of efficiency-security trade-offs in weighted criminal networks 🚨Lu, Durante & Friel develop a Bayesian zero-inflated Poisson stochastic block model (ZIP–SBM),to identify groups of criminals with similar patterns doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa…

Your fitness tracker gives you a daily “readiness” or “recovery” score — but how accurate are those numbers? Our new article in TheConversation explores the science (and the guesswork) behind wearables' health scores. 📲 Read here: theconversation.com/how-trustworth…