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ishg.ie @ishg.ie · Sep 9

Excitement is building for our conference on Friday! Please register asap if you have not done so. See ishg.ie/conference/ for details on speakers, registration, directions and more!

Conference – ISHG

ISHG 2025 will be held on the 12th September 2025 in the Iontas Theatre in National University of Ireland Maynooth

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Aug 27

Looking forward to this conference!

Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Aug 17

Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Jul 15

My thanks also to various mentors along the way especially John Haslett, @tbmurphy.bsky.social, and Simon Myers. Thanks also to my anonymous external assessors, whoever they may be!

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Jul 15

I'm delighted to say that I was promoted to Associate Professor in UCD this month. The process involves quite a bit of investment, but encouragement and support from colleagues - especially Heads of School Ted Cox (former) and
@nialfriel.bsky.social (current ) - made it possible.

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CRT Foundations of Data Science @crt-datascience.bsky.social · Jul 7

🎓 More graduation joy from CRT! A huge congrats to Matt Nagle, Thais Pacheco, and Prabhleen Kaur, who successfully completed their PhDs at @ucddublin.bsky.social 👏Hats off as well to their supervisors! Wishing all three graduates the very best in their next adventures #CRT #UCD @researchireland.ie

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Jul 6

"It is, for me, the act of writing about a book that causes it to stay read." Very well put point. Using AI for coursework will have a hugely negative effect on student learning.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Jul 6

Mark O'Connell: Using ChatGPT to write an essay is a bit like using a fork lift to lift weights

Just as you can’t get someone, or something, to work out for you, there is nobody and nothing that can think on your behalf

www.irishtimes.com

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · May 13

How fair is a coin toss actually? | Newstalk www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

How fair is a coin toss actually? | Newstalk

Have you ever wondered how fair the coin toss actually is?Research has shown that perception of ...

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Seán Moncrieff @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social · May 13

On the show today: Are you too old for this?; @profmeredithjones.bsky.social on no-eyelash men; @jokerrigan1.bsky.social on Fairy Forts; Banning smartphones; @feljin.ie on the public toilet crisis; World news; @mststats.bsky.social on is coin tossing fair?

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · May 12

CASI 2025 is up and running! #casi2025

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Mar 27

Tradeoffs between such considerations exist and this paper uses a bespoke simulation study to quantify them, using realistic and relevant parameter settings. We think it will be of huge benefit to ecologists who wish to study social interactions of wild animal populations.

Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Mar 27

During a research visit to Zurich with Damien a related question arose: in order to get enough data how should a study be designed? Should the researchers follow a few animals for a long time or many animals for a shorter time? How often per day should locations be recorded?

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Mar 27

There are many challenges in monitoring wild animals and Prabhleen's PhD focussed on statistical investigations into how much data is needed to infer an accurate picture of a social network.

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Mar 27

Happy to see our paper on "Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis" published this week rdcu.be/efjkF Great work from Dr Prabhleen Kaur as part of her PhD on animal social networks with @ucdwildlife.bsky.social and @damienfarine.bsky.social

Using an agent-based model to inform sampling design for animal social network analysis

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Mar 17

#stpatricksday #parade dino floats! Got a sneak preview of these yesterday at Dublin Zoo

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Mar 17

#stpatricksday #parade

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Feb 7

Always annoyed when a journal allows submission of latex source and even builds the pdf on its system, but then requests a word document after acceptance...

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Jan 24

Ah nuts... down with a crash

Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Jan 24

#StormEowyn vs our garden wall. Wall is swaying, doesn't look good.

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Jan 10

Yes! I remember that's how he beat Mr Freeze at least once. Who despite having a PhD isn't referred to as Dr.

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Jan 10

As we near the end of this cold snap I can't help but wonder: how does Batman operate his various gizmos while wearing gloves?

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thoroughly enjoyed my brief visit to Derry city this week to examine a PhD thesis in Ulster University. Couldn't leave without walking the walls and seeing the sights.

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Dec 17

Just completed a survey on AI use in research training and innovation in UCD. Very concerning none of the questions mention the huge environmental impact of AI tools such as LLMs like chatGPT, Gemini, etc.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Dec 17

We’re heading for the second biggest fiscal disaster in the history of the State

The idea that the Green Party was making us all go too far too fast is the exact opposite of the truth

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Dr. Michael Salter-Townshend 📊🖥️🧬 @mststats.bsky.social · Dec 9

Went for a 7 foot #christmastree this year so I wasn't looking forward to lugging it home over the shoulder like usual. Wheelie bin to the rescue! Couldn't have been easier and no needles all over the car. The tree sellers were kind enough to wrap our sons up as well...

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