I am excited to announce that I have been awarded an Honorary Mention in the 2021 Tjanpi Award for best paper in Environmental Statistics. Special thanks go to my co-authors Gentry White, Chris Drovandi, Dan Pagendam, and Jeff Baldock, without those, this wouldn’t be achieved

Remember how we were asked to focus less on COVID case numbers? And that deaths and hospitalisation data mattered more? Well, here are the COVID death data for Australia.

(1/3) Congrats to Quan Vu for winning the inaugural Tjanpi Prize for best paper in Environmental Statistics for this work developing methods for non-stationary multivariate spatial data www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/ss_newpaper/SS…

(2/3) honorary mention to Mohammad Javad Davoudabadi for his paper using state space models to understand carbon sequestration sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

(3/3) Tjanpi is the Pitjantjatjara word for Triodia, a long-lived grass with a central role in supporting diverse forms of life in Australia’s arid regions. We hope the awardees will similarly be central to diverse research activities in environmental science. But less spiky :)

Join us in the most beautiful and biodiverse City in the world!!! ...statistically speaking that is... Early bird registration deadline soon!!! esa_stats CREEM_cake Ecological Forecasting Initiative David Warton SEEC

Looking forward to Methods in Ecology and Evolution workshop on reproducible coding at The International Statistical Ecology Conference in Cape Town!!! Bob O'Hara isec2022.org #rstats #OpenScience #reproducibleresearch Rstats

Looking forward to #ISEC2022 round tables: "Integrated population models: brainstorming towards the organisation of a "best practices" workshop" led by Chloé Nater Register now!!! isec2022.org/registration/

✨ New Award ✨ We are excited to be partnering with Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) to deliver an award for New Developers of Open Source Software in Ecology.  Applications close 4 September. To find out more: ecolsoc.org.au/awards/ardc-aw… 📷️: Bruce Webber

Over the last 5 years I've been writing a book, and the e-book version is out now! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… Complete with code boxes, maths boxes, ninjas and the odd Australianism which I hope won't get lost in translation. Solutions and supporting code in ecostats package on CRAN

Another something I often tell biology students moving into statsland: "If you can’t produce a graph of the raw data that visualise the key pattern your analysis tells you is there, maybe there is a problem with your analysis!" - taken from link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… David Warton book

"Wiggly models" is a very good chapter name.

A joy to meet Dieter Hochuli, co-author of 'A Guide to the Creatures in Your Neighbourhood': a wonderful project across art, nature, storytelling & wellbeing. Gonna get sketching.#shirtloadsofscience 🐞🦉 🎧Apple: apple.co/3pnIx6A 🎧Android: bit.ly/GuidetoCreatur…

Professor Julie Simpson announced as Moran Lecturer at ASC&OZCOTS2023! asc2023.org/keynote

Thanks everyone for your generous response - a quick update that the print version is now available too

The Tjanpi Award for Best Student Paper in Environmental Statistics is closing tomorrow 5 PM - open to students as of June 30 this year who are SSA members, send your best paper published in last 12 months to [email protected] with letter of support from supervisor

📣 We are pleased to welcome Maeve McGillycuddy as a member of the Stats Central team! She will be partnered with UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, as well as contributing to our general statistical support services

How to model the arrival of bluebottles to the beach? Exciting job opportunity for a data scientist. #bluebottlewatch external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5149…

👨‍💻 Fast, approximate maximum likelihood estimation of log-Gaussian Cox processes: doi.org/10.1080/106186…; Gordana Popovic David Warton

This Saturday - will we give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples a seat at the table by voting Yes? Or will we leave them to pick up the crumbs that fall from that table. The Australian people must decide.