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📢 The UK government is launching a dedicated AI for Science strategy, aiming to make the UK a global leader in AI-driven scientific breakthroughs. Professor Deane from @OxUniStats has been appointed as one of five experts advising the initiative. More: tinyurl.com/28ah5ajr

Congratulations to our postdoctoral research associate Dr Tara Trauthwein who has won this year's Rolf Tarrach Award for the best doctoral thesis at University of Luxembourg 👏 Tara's winning thesis is available to read online at orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/5…

📢 We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Lindgren (@ceclindgren) as Visiting Professor in Statistics. Professor Lindgren specialises in using biostatistics to investigate factors underlying common complex diseases. 👉 Find out more: tinyurl.com/35kxey2z

Join us! We are recruiting for an exciting new opportunity – Senior Research Fellow and Director of the CDT in Fundamentals of AI. Applications will close on 26 August. ➡️ Find out more about the role and how to apply: tinyurl.com/mrykxztw

⏰ Vacancy deadline alert! Applications for our full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics (fixed-term for ten months) close tomorrow at noon. ➡️ Find out more about the role and how to apply: tinyurl.com/mhbhwfcb

NEWS: Professor Charlotte Deane as been announced today as a senior PI on OpenBind, an £8M government-backed consortium to create the world's largest dataset for AI-driven drug discovery. ➡️ Find out more about the project at: stats.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-st…

Join us! We are recruiting for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics, on a fixed-term basis for ten months. PI: Professor Gesine Reinert Area: Characterising models for networks ➡️ Find out more about the role and how to apply: tinyurl.com/mhbhwfcb

We will be Celebrating Women in Mathematics at The Queen's College this afternoon. Join inspiring talks by Oxford women mathematicians at various stages of their careers including Head of Department Professor Christl Donnelly. ▶️queens.ox.ac.uk/events/celebra… #womeninSTEM

"PoseBusters: AI-based docking methods fail to generate physically valid poses or generalise to novel sequences" is a 2024 most popular computational chemistry paper @ChemicalScience Congratulations Martin @Buttenschoen, Garrett Morris & Charlotte Deane! pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/ar…
"Contextualising the developability risk of antibodies with lambda light chains using enhanced therapeutic antibody profiling" has been recognised as a 2024 top-20 article @CommsBio. Congratulations to @mijr12, @oliverturnbull1, and all other authors! nature.com/collections/ie…
We're recruiting a 3-year postdoc for the Novo Nordisk - Oxford Fellowship programme! Develop machine learning approaches for fragment library design and experimental optimisation in cardiometabolic drug discovery Job advert: shorturl.at/3l47e
🌍 Happy International Women’s Day! 👩🔬👩💻 We’re looking forward to a belated celebration on Tuesday 11th March with a coffee morning to recognise and appreciate all the incredible women in the Department of Statistics. #IWD2025 #WomenInSTEM #AccelerateAction #OxfordStatistics

📢 Distinguished Speaker Seminar Prof Kosuke Imai (Harvard) 📅 13 March, 4pm 🗣 Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies 🔗 Register here tinyurl.com/3mcxba25 #AI #DecisionMaking #OxfordStatistics

🐔 Calling all backyard poultry keepers in England! We want to hear your thoughts on avian influenza control measures. If you have fewer than 50 birds, please share your experiences and suggestions for future strategies. Survey 🔗 tinyurl.com/e535naw4

🚨 England’s health inequity revealed by patterns of COVID-19 testing A study with @OxfordStats in @TheLancet, part of an evaluation commissioned by @UKHSA, highlights the need for public health strategies that ensure fair access to interventions ⏬ bit.ly/4gY03ae
📢 Corcoran Memorial Lecture 2025 🗓️ 20 Feb, 4-5pm 📍 Seminar Room, Dept of Earth Sciences Hear from Prof Peter Grünwald in his talk 'E-Values, Anytime-Validity & Bayes' 🔗 Registration required: tinyurl.com/56c8uszw #OxfordEvents #Statistics #E-Values #BayesianStatistics
