Prof. Ian Vernon
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Professor in Bayesian Statistics, Durham University. Works on UQ for galaxy formation, epidemiology, systems biology, geology and nuclear physics.
Durham, England
Joined April 2010
This is the only thing you need to understand about inheritance tax on farmland https://t.co/0PmQtchH6y
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Political history lesson anyone?
#THREAD How much do you know about the political, social and economic conditions under which Hitler rose to power? Trump may not be āAmerica's Hitlerā, but the similarities between early twentieth century Germany and the USA at the beginning of the twenty-first are undeniable.
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@sp_monte_carlo LOL! You are so polite. I refuse to review ML conference papers. It is abundantly clear that they are all a total scam. We all know it, but most people are too polite to say it out loud. To be clear, I don't think regular journal publishing is great, but that's another story.
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Words well said by an extremely experienced and well-known Republican operative.
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Statement on Washington Postās refusal to endorse presidential candidate.
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NZ's initial pandemic response was an elimination strategy: we knew the health system was under-resourced for mass outbreaks. There was very real hardship in NZ. But there was terrible mortality in the UK, US, Italy, & others. After 2 years NZ had lost just 53 people. 1/2
Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.
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Very moving testimony from Prof @Kevin_Fong who saw the devastation from Covid first hand. Our hospital staff are utter heroes. Political decisions made during this time were very poor. Lest we forget.
Prof @Kevin_Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.
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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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Highlights segment about #MECFS on BBC Breakfast. Dr William Weir and @BinitaKane talk about the history of #MECFS how it has been psychologised and the frustrating lack of progress. There are now millions of patients with Long Covid and we have no treatments.
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A work of art
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YouGov predicting the biggest Conservative wipeout in their history? It's the end of the Tories (and I feel fine).
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if this is real, itās a campaign killer
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The national service nonsense does give me the opportunity to tweet one of my favourite recent bits of polling when Ipsos actually ran the famous "Yes Minister" questions as a randomised experiment, and showed that it worked.
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RISHI SUNAK HAS CALLED A GENERAL ELECTION FOR 4 JULY. It's the end of the Tories (and I feel fine).
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For M.E. Awareness Week, I have written a poem. I wrote this poem when I was in a flare up and finally felt well enough to read it out yesterday. Please SHARE this. Living with this disease at the moment is HARD. #pwME #MedTwitter #MEAwarenessHour
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This is the remarkable moment that @NathanielD93744 crossed the finish line for the London Marathon playing his trombone. What makes this moment even more extraordinary is that Nat has stage four cancer, which is killing him. Follow Natās journey/donate: https://t.co/1CHzD0BIQK
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"Research into [#MECFS] is lagging decades behind because society doesn't take it seriously enough" Professor Chris Ponting Highlights also include the brief introduction not available in the videos being shared.
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What you should know (A THREAD) I became ill with M.E. at 15, due to a virus. I disappeared from my life. Since 2006, I have spent 1825 days in hospital. I was bed bound for 12 YEARS and housebound for longer. I've had 4745 blood thinning injections. (1) #PwME #MedTwitter
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@BlackKnight10k Finland is the happiest country on earth. When asked, 96% of Finns agree āitās important to collect tax to maintain the welfare stateā. Individual tax records remain public, which helps facilitate the mediaās commentary on income & wealth distribution. https://t.co/bQjcxp4Jji
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