Despite the evidence brought by ABC on the inefficiency of culling in massive proportions the British Isles badger population against bovine tuberculosis, the [sorry excuse for a] United Kingdom government has permitted a massive expansion of badger culling, with up to 64,000 animals likely to be killed this autumn… Since the cows are the primary vectors of the disease, what about starting with these captive animals?!
Archive for Gareth Roberts
unimaginable scale culling
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel with tags ABC, Approximate Bayesian computation, Badger Trust, badgers, Britain, British Wildlife Centre, cows, culling, Gareth Roberts, Nature, TB, tuberculosis, United Kingdom, University of Warwick on September 17, 2019 by xi'anSeries B news
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags academic journals, Gareth Roberts, Ingrid van Keilegom, JRSSB, Louvain-la-Neuve, LSE, Piotr Fryzlewicz, Royal Statistical Society, Series B, UCL, University of Warwick on January 24, 2014 by xi'anThe Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, has a new cover, a new colour and a new co-editor. As can be seen from the above shots, the colour is now a greenish ochre, with a picture of pedestrians on a brick plaza as a background, not much related to statistical methodology as far as I can tell. More importantly, the new co-editor for the coming four years is Piotr Fryzlewicz, professor at the London School of Economics, who will share the burden with Ingrid van Keilegom professor from UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve) who is now starting her third year… My friend, colleague and successor as Series B editor Gareth Roberts is now retiring after four years of hard work towards making Series B one of the top journals in Statistics. Thanks Gareth and best wishes to Ingrid and Piotr!
Roberts and Speed elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags Bill Bryson, Britain, FRS, Gareth Roberts, Royal Society, Terry Speed on May 4, 2013 by xi'anI just found out that Gareth Roberts and Terry Speed have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS). Congratulations to both for this prestigious recognition of their major contributions to Science! (Another Fellow elected this year is Bill Bryson, in recognition of his scientific popularisation books. Including one on the Royal Society I reviewed for CHANCE a few months ago.)