Maria Christodoulou
@melasnous
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Statistical consultant at Oxford University Statistical Consulting, evolutionary biologist, and botanist. Views expressed here are my own. She/her.
Joined March 2014
Congratulations to our brand-new Chartered Statistician – Mariagrazia Zottoli! Mariagrazia is part of our Statistical Consultancy team. https://t.co/0rtwv1cvIp
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: @lbozhilova is amazing and you should all follow her. I’m always too shy to ask my questions in seminars.
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And we finished with a cool down doodle of randomly generated concentric circles! Thank you to all our wonderful participants for their creativity and their patience with all my heartbreaking rolls! If this sounded fun, join us next month! Sign up here:
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Next up was a grid game with different frames and objects drawn in, randomly selected through dice rolls by yours truly. Well, lady Probability seems to have it out for me today because I kept rolling the numbers for hearts and tears… heartbreaking grids ahead 😢💔❤️🩹
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We then did the islands doodle. This involved using dice rolls to determine when to draw islands and when to draw outlines, and then what to place on our archipelagos. I was completely sabotaged by probability on this one as I kept rolling 3s for everyone…
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We then did some contour doodling using dice rolls, which helped us choose when to draw an outline or when to draw, and I will quote @Lycomorpha for the technical art term, “a blob”…
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We started off with some warm up space filling doodles, which are my absolute favourite as it’s completely impossible to get wrong. Trust me, I’ve tried. Here we have @Lycomorpha getting started with one of them!
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I was responsible for the important bits: biscuits! Behold my exceptional collection!
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So how does one go about running an arts workshop you ask? Well, right now we’re getting all ready over here @RisingSunArts, with @Lycomorpha unpacking ALL of the pencils and markers…
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It’s almost time for our dice doodle workshop! Join us @RisingSunArts from 2 pm today! We have pencils, we have dice, we have sass, and we are not afraid to use them…
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We’re back for another fun workshop! @Lycomorpha will bring all the pencils, and I will bring all the randomness!!! Join us @RisingSunArts tomorrow at 14.00
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This is today and the excellent @Lycomorpha will be there with their handmade watercolour paints! #Reading #Christmas
And tomorrow, it's our annual Christmas Art Market - the perfect place to buy handmade gifts from the local artists and makers that made them! https://t.co/oM68M1udJv
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We’re finally back with our Perceptions of ageing #SciArt workshop tomorrow @RisingSunArts in #Reading! @Lycomorpha and I are so excited to be back in such an amazing venue!
Saturday 1pm-3pm brings a Sci-Art workshop exploring perceptions of ageing with bookcrafts with artist-scientist Immy Smith and biostatistician Maria Christodoulou. No previous art or science experience is needed to attend! https://t.co/GVRbkArGnK
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NEW EPISODE of #ScienceInContext is out now! @SabineLvE speaks with @ruth_mccabe of @UniofOxford about: ➡️Contributing to the Infected Blood Inquiry ➡️The scale of HIV and HepC infections ➡️ Mini models and filling gaps in data One to watch #InfectedBloodInquiry 👇
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This is precisely why I find teaching statistics to non-mathematicians so rewarding, anyone can learn it, they just need the right support. And the added bonus is they ask the most extraordinary and unexpected questions!
Prepping for maths taster for Y12/13 students later on modelling drug dosage regimen. I might ask “why do I sign up to this stuff when it’s hard work and little recognition?” But I know why: I love it. Sharing richness of maths and that with right support *anyone* can “do maths”.
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This 👇. Also, follow @DrAlexBest
There is so much to dislike about the 'academia is a calling' discourse. 1. It is utterly exclusionary. It is often shorthand for "I'd do this job even if I weren't paid." Lucky you to have such security. Most of the population could not afford to do that.
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Happy International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science 🥳 Huge thanks to all who spoke at or attended our celebration this afternoon @OxfordStats #IDWSDS2022
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A bit more than one week to go until the exciting talk about QUARTO @nrennie35 will deliver at @rusersoxford 🎉
Very excited to announce the kick off of the new academic year on 17th October with @nrennie35 giving a talk on #QuartoPub Title: "What can I do with Quarto? An introduction to reproducible research and reports" Come and join us! Sign up here:
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Am looking at moving to #quarto - but does anyone know if there are templates for: 1. Posters (A1 / A0 size) 2. Theses that can be easily modified? I'd like to suggest it for students to use, but I'd need some template examples to work from before customising one for our students
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The “Data Horror Stories Song”, inspired by a tweet by @rogierK and commissioned by @LisaDeBruine Any of these ever happened to you? #rstats #Statistics #DataScience
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