
Richard Wilkinson
@wilkinson_rich
Professor of statistics at the University of Nottingham.
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https://rich-d-wilkinson.github.io 03-03-2012 15:20:51
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"The burden of disease and disability from Long COVID is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease. The best way to prevent Long COVID is to prevent COVID in the first place. There is no Long COVID without COVID." Brilliant testimony by Ziyad Al-Aly, MD! #HELPLongCovid

Hello! Michael Plank and I are recruiting a PhD student to work on mathematical modelling of pertussis (whooping cough) dynamics & impact in Aotearoa New Zealand. In collaboration with the true pertussis experts Helen Petousis, Janine Paynter ⌛🔥🌡 & fully funded! findaphd.com/phds/project/m…

📢We are looking for a new Joint Editor (#Editor-in-Chief) for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A 📨Send your nominations (also self-nominations) to [email protected], including: - A brief statement outlining the reason for the nomination - A CV/bio Deadline: 4th March 2024


NEW: me for Voices of Academia... 'Most people going into universities had... an ethical sense of their future, a vocation... The university must be... a moral place, or it is nothing. As of now, it’s doing a pretty good job of looking like nothing'. voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its…


Job opportunity Sheffield NLP 🚨: I'm looking for a #postdoc (24 months) in #NLProc The (very) broad topic is on addressing LLMs limitations (e.g. hallucinations, "reasoning", interpretability etc.) If you are interested drop me an email or DM Apply: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP918/res…




Hey everyone, I finally got a new role at the Met Office. I'm scoping what a data-driven climate model might look like. So, if you're into ML and climate, foundation models or something more lightweight, get in touch. It would be great to chat.


“#LongCovid is a truly f--ked up condition that I’ve been dealing with for over 1.5 years & it has massively impacted my life… I now recognize that I was living in denial [because] of how badly I wanted #COVID to be over” - Matt McGorry justjared.com/2024/10/30/mat…



An opportunity for graduate students to study MSc Computer Science (AI & Data Science track) at Makerere University Makerere University CoCIS: the Google DeepMind Scholarships for 2025 academic year cs.mak.ac.ug/funding/schola…

Really proud of this piece. Grateful to Avalyn, Rowan and Sarah for sharing their stories. It's a national scandal that long Covid patients have been forgotten by the government, employers & society at large. The least we can do is keep talking about them theguardian.com/society/2025/m…