Fantastic title for a fantastic talk! Isobel Abell gave an insightful presentation on model complexity from a decision-making perspective— only problem is that I now have Avril Lavigne stuck in my head #CANZIAM #ANZIAM23

Analysing “model sloppiness”, Sarah Vollert explores what parts of models are important to keep, and which can be removed when modelling coral growth at #canziam ANZIAM 2023

Congratulations Sarah Vollert for being the joint winner of the TM Cherry Award! ANZIAM 2023

Sarah Vollert Strengths- could explain Bayesian computation methods to a 4yr old Weaknesses- incapable of standing still Sarah was awarded the TM Cherry award for best student presentation at #ANZIAM23!

Celebrate International Women's Day #IWD2023 & Women in Data Science (WiDS) Day with us! We'll introduce you to 25 of Australia's Rising WiDS Stars as they share their journeys in #DataScience. 🗓Weds, 8 March australiandatascience.net/wids-2023/ #WomenInSTEM #WiDS2023 #WomenInScience

I was going to ask people to refer to me as a ✨star ✨ because of this tweet, but #ChatGPT said no

Guess who just finished their PhD final seminar! Congratulations Cailan Jeynes-Smith! Thanks for teaching me that you can write your thesis doc in the last few months, that bagels are the highest form of motivation & that you can "accidentally" jigsaw-procrastinate for hours.

If you’re planning conservation and want to do a fast preliminary risk analysis, come chat with me at #ESAus23! I’ll trade food webs for interactive tools forecasting how conservation actions could change future abundances for all species (using maths wizardry) Ecological Society of Australia

I’ve had the time of my life in Darwin at #ESAus23 and #MODSIM2023 these past few weeks 🐊 Massive shoutout to my incredible Airbnb gang from Applied Mathematical Ecology Group AMEG for making it so unforgettable Kaitlyn Brown @LuzVPascal1 Scott Forrest

It only took 8 months longer than I thought it would, but the first paper of my PhD is now preprinted! A method for generating stable & coexisting ensemble ecosystem models without the computational cost: arxiv.org/abs/2307.11365

Life lesson: if you ask "what's the deal with the mic" at a conference poster session, be prepared to answer "what's the deal with your research". 🎤 Fantastic to meet Olly Dove at #ESAus23 and learn about this awesome podcast. Check out my 2 secs of fame below 👇👇

New preprint on value-of-information (VoI) analysis: We introduce uncertainty and risk metrics, and mathematically connect VoI to optimal design! Led by Morenikeji Deborah Akinlotan, joint w/David James Warne Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Sarah Vollert @iadinec Ryan Heneghan Hui Xiao arxiv.org/abs/2309.09452

Silly hats, a silly picnic, and 5 people who are no longer doing silly statistics 💃 Stoked to finish Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛'s Statistical Rethinking course, completing the 10-week course in a record-breaking 52 weeks! Taking suggestions for the next statistics/ecology course to tackle

🎉 QUT PhD student Sarah Vollert giving a fantastic talk at ASC2023 on model sloppiness. Her talk was the antithetical of 'sloppy' 👏

It was a pleasure to present alongside these superstars at ASC2023 ! While daunting to travel alone to my first stats conference, I’m blown away by how friendly the Statistical Society of Australia community is. I’m happy to report that I wasn’t eating lunch in a corner by myself. #ASC2023

Now published in Ecological Indicators: Value of information: how to compute risk and uncertainty metrics + the mathematical link to optimal design! Led by Morenikeji Deborah Akinlotan , w/ David James Warne Kate Helmstedt @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Sarah Vollert @iadinec Ryan Heneghan Hui Xiao doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

An absolutely fantastic conference, only made better by the suspicious number of Australians in attendance! #bioinference2024