Darren Wilkinson
@darrenjw
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Professor of Statistics, Bayesian, computational systems biologist and functional programmer. Now mainly on other social media sites.
North East England
Joined March 2009
I am pleased to announce that together with some friends, we are organising a workshop on Non-Reversible MCMC Sampling, taking place at Newcastle University from 8–10 September 2025. Details can be found at the workshop website https://t.co/flt2eoYHV1.
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🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 The Alan Turing Institute has visibly struggled, and is now at a critical juncture. The Secretary of State has intervened. What happens next? A new report for @britishprogress by me and @jujulemons sets out a plan: 🧵
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Published (advance access) in #Bayesian Analysis: Bayesian Inference on the Order of Stationary Vector Autoregressions -
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Vector autoregressions (VARs) are a widely used tool for modelling multivariate time-series. It is common to assume a VAR is stationary; this can be enforced by imposing the stationarity condition...
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Next month on Wednesday November 6 I will be offering my comprehensive hierarchal modeling course at a steep discount in an effort to raise funds for World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders, particularly their ongoing work in Gaza and Lebanon.
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“We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis.”
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We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled
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📢 Hi friends! We’re launching a weekly online seminar on Monte Carlo methods, starting on October 1st with Prof. Persi Diaconis. Join us every Tuesday! For more details, visit our website: https://t.co/5AmhPmte7C or subscribe to our mailing list https://t.co/PdpquTV40Z. Welcome!
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Upcoming Seminar Presentations All seminars are on Tuesdays [ 8:30 am PT ] = [ 11:30 am ET ] = [ 4:30 pm London ] = [ 5:30 pm Paris ] = [ 0:30 am Beijing + 1d] Subscribe to our mailing list and...
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jax-smfsb: a JAX port of my code for high-performance stochastic systems biology modelling, simulation and Bayesian inference - on PyPI for pip installation -
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Python+JAX code relating to the textbook, Stochastic modelling for systems biology, third edition
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My first YouTube video is now live! ABRACADABRA! The magic of martingales This looks at the time taken for random sequences of events to occur, eg a monkey typing the complete works of Shakespeare, or abracadabra, coin flips to get 2 heads in a row, etc https://t.co/7N9prqBqHe
Planning on launching my first ever YouTube video on my channel tomorrow, Saturday 17th August! First, need a thumbnail. Referencing the monkey typing abracadabra result from the Williams book "Probability with Martingales". Thoughts? Looks like a decent YouTube thumbnail?
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As part of this port, I packaged up my python #SBML shorthand translation scripts into their own separate package on PyPI, which may be of interest independently of the #smfsb package:
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SBML-shorthand conversion tools
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For those who know my book, Stochastic modelling for systems biology, third edition, but prefer #python to #rstats, there is now a full python/numpy port of the #smfsb R package on PyPI:
pypi.org
Python code relating to the textbook, Stochastic modelling for systems biology, third edition
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We finally have a paper for @blackjax_mcmc 🥹 Still the codebase I'm most proud of. https://t.co/WMDDlfFxXa
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We're thrilled to announce a £1m grant as part of a new £10m national research hub from @EPSRC to develop new mathematical foundations for #AI. This puts us at the forefront of advancing responsible AI: https://t.co/MPSb8FWwS2
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🎥 Exciting news! Video recordings from the Bayes@CIRM School we organized @_CIRM in Marseille Calanques 🏖️ are now available! Dive back into inspiring talks by @martacatal, @fabri_mealli, Nicolas Chopin & Sylvain Le Corff. 🎥 https://t.co/HiZgat1Stl 🔗 https://t.co/oZEczM78D3
bayesatcirm.github.io
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Really not keen on Threads. Let's see if BlueSky is any better:
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We mourn the loss of Prof Nick Higham FRS, leading British numerical analyst and former president of @TheSIAMNews. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues @ManUniMaths
https://t.co/O1nPGLJ7i8
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https://t.co/I2e9tEfoA1 This is a really interesting paper by David Donoho on what has driven the rapid explosion of AI research and how this has been (incorrectly) perceived by the public. Spoiler: The maturity of Data Science has been the driver of this change! 1/4
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A purported `AI Singularity' has been in the public eye recently. Mass media and US national political attention focused on `AI Doom' narratives hawked by social media influencers. The European...
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