William Kay
@willpkay.bsky.social
Lecturer in Statistics @CardiffUni | Lifeboat Coxswain @SevernRescue | Advanced Instructor @BSAC | Commercial Skipper @RYA | Vegan | Republican | YesCymru | Remain | Pacifist
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eight years as a statistical consultant and ecologists still manage to collect weird data that I'm not immediately sure what to do with
(it's fun though!)
(it's fun though!)
September 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
eight years as a statistical consultant and ecologists still manage to collect weird data that I'm not immediately sure what to do with
(it's fun though!)
(it's fun though!)
~4hrs of work planned for the journey this morning with @transportforwales.bsky.social only to find, yet again, that the WiFi won't connect. Very disappointing. Appears to be a consistent issue on trains on the Holyhead line...
September 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
~4hrs of work planned for the journey this morning with @transportforwales.bsky.social only to find, yet again, that the WiFi won't connect. Very disappointing. Appears to be a consistent issue on trains on the Holyhead line...
Very wet and early start this morning to travel to Liverpool for CETL-MSOR 2025!
September 4, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Very wet and early start this morning to travel to Liverpool for CETL-MSOR 2025!
The RoSE conference is now live! A marathon 13 hr day of talks all about statistics education - what more could you want? It's not too late to join - register at this link: forms.gle/ebM2kPyYAhbv.... #RoSE2025Conf #StatsEd #EduSky #statistics
Do your students suffer from statistics anxiety? Don't miss our free #StatsEd conference on July 31st, and learn more about who struggles with statistics and potential solutions! Register to attend here: bit.ly/roseconferen... #EduSky #statistics #teaching #mathanxiety
July 31, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The RoSE conference is now live! A marathon 13 hr day of talks all about statistics education - what more could you want? It's not too late to join - register at this link: forms.gle/ebM2kPyYAhbv.... #RoSE2025Conf #StatsEd #EduSky #statistics
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Do your students suffer from statistics anxiety? Don't miss our free #StatsEd conference on July 31st, and learn more about who struggles with statistics and potential solutions! Register to attend here: bit.ly/roseconferen... #EduSky #statistics #teaching #mathanxiety
July 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Do your students suffer from statistics anxiety? Don't miss our free #StatsEd conference on July 31st, and learn more about who struggles with statistics and potential solutions! Register to attend here: bit.ly/roseconferen... #EduSky #statistics #teaching #mathanxiety
On the move again, this time to the Year 2 Coastal Ecology field course in Dale, Pembrokeshire.
June 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
On the move again, this time to the Year 2 Coastal Ecology field course in Dale, Pembrokeshire.
Thoroughly enjoyed my day return to Glasgow University for @ukcots.bsky.social #UKCOTS25. Another city with stunning architecture.
June 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed my day return to Glasgow University for @ukcots.bsky.social #UKCOTS25. Another city with stunning architecture.
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Nearly there #UKCOTS2025! Looking forward to meeting everyone at the pre-conference social on Monday. Just need to make sure I make the registration desk for 8am on Tuesday...
We have almost reached #UKCOTS2025!
We hope everyone has safe travels and remember to check out the delegate information section of the website for advice on travel and social events: www.ukcots.org/delegates.html
We hope everyone has safe travels and remember to check out the delegate information section of the website for advice on travel and social events: www.ukcots.org/delegates.html
UKCOTS 25 - Delegate Information – UKCOTS 25
www.ukcots.org
June 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Nearly there #UKCOTS2025! Looking forward to meeting everyone at the pre-conference social on Monday. Just need to make sure I make the registration desk for 8am on Tuesday...
As both an academic staff member at Cardiff University and an active seafarer (volunteer lifeboat coxswain), this is devastating news.
Cardiff UCU:
“What we see with examples like this, and there are many other examples throughout the university, is the less reported side of the disastrous and unnecessary widespread cuts that Cardiff University's management have brought in this year.”
www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insi...
“What we see with examples like this, and there are many other examples throughout the university, is the less reported side of the disastrous and unnecessary widespread cuts that Cardiff University's management have brought in this year.”
www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insi...
Seafarers' health and welfare research gets the chop as Cardiff shutters SIRC
The renowned Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC) – which was set up in 1995 on the initiative of Nautilus International General Secretary Mark Dickinson who at the time ran the ITF Seafarer...
www.nautilusint.org
June 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As both an academic staff member at Cardiff University and an active seafarer (volunteer lifeboat coxswain), this is devastating news.
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Good news, researchers and educators in #StatsEd! The RoSE 2025 e-conference registration has just opened up! Sign up for our free international conference happening July 31st here: bit.ly/roseconferen...
June 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Good news, researchers and educators in #StatsEd! The RoSE 2025 e-conference registration has just opened up! Sign up for our free international conference happening July 31st here: bit.ly/roseconferen...
Interested in external training courses on biological data analysis (and more!)? Follow @prstats.bsky.social! I've taught on their courses and sent students to them. I'd highly recommend! I attended my first spatial analysis course with them back in 2016. Website: www.prstats.org
www.prstats.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Interested in external training courses on biological data analysis (and more!)? Follow @prstats.bsky.social! I've taught on their courses and sent students to them. I'd highly recommend! I attended my first spatial analysis course with them back in 2016. Website: www.prstats.org
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Online Course - Live and Online
Full course details and registration:
www.prstats.org/course/onlin...
#SpeciesDistributionModelling #BayesianStatistics
#EcologicalModelling #RStats #QuantitativeEcology
#SpatialEcology #EnvironmentalDataScience
#Biostatistics #EcologyTraining #StatisticalModelling
Full course details and registration:
www.prstats.org/course/onlin...
#SpeciesDistributionModelling #BayesianStatistics
#EcologicalModelling #RStats #QuantitativeEcology
#SpatialEcology #EnvironmentalDataScience
#Biostatistics #EcologyTraining #StatisticalModelling
May 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Online Course - Live and Online
Full course details and registration:
www.prstats.org/course/onlin...
#SpeciesDistributionModelling #BayesianStatistics
#EcologicalModelling #RStats #QuantitativeEcology
#SpatialEcology #EnvironmentalDataScience
#Biostatistics #EcologyTraining #StatisticalModelling
Full course details and registration:
www.prstats.org/course/onlin...
#SpeciesDistributionModelling #BayesianStatistics
#EcologicalModelling #RStats #QuantitativeEcology
#SpatialEcology #EnvironmentalDataScience
#Biostatistics #EcologyTraining #StatisticalModelling
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Live & Online
Sep 22nd–26th
Instructor: Dr. Neftalí Sillero
Key concepts, data preparation, model calibration and validation.
Registration:
www.prstats.org/course/speci...
#SpeciesDistribution #Ecology #RStats #SpatialAnalysis #ENM #SDM #EcologicalModelling #EnvironmentalScience #RProgramming
Sep 22nd–26th
Instructor: Dr. Neftalí Sillero
Key concepts, data preparation, model calibration and validation.
Registration:
www.prstats.org/course/speci...
#SpeciesDistribution #Ecology #RStats #SpatialAnalysis #ENM #SDM #EcologicalModelling #EnvironmentalScience #RProgramming
May 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Live & Online
Sep 22nd–26th
Instructor: Dr. Neftalí Sillero
Key concepts, data preparation, model calibration and validation.
Registration:
www.prstats.org/course/speci...
#SpeciesDistribution #Ecology #RStats #SpatialAnalysis #ENM #SDM #EcologicalModelling #EnvironmentalScience #RProgramming
Sep 22nd–26th
Instructor: Dr. Neftalí Sillero
Key concepts, data preparation, model calibration and validation.
Registration:
www.prstats.org/course/speci...
#SpeciesDistribution #Ecology #RStats #SpatialAnalysis #ENM #SDM #EcologicalModelling #EnvironmentalScience #RProgramming
Very pleased to share the news that I'm now a Lifeboat Coxswain at @SevernRescue. This comes after 3 years of training with SARA Newport, and ~5 years of prior service as Crew with @TheMumblesRNLI @RNLI.
April 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Very pleased to share the news that I'm now a Lifeboat Coxswain at @SevernRescue. This comes after 3 years of training with SARA Newport, and ~5 years of prior service as Crew with @TheMumblesRNLI @RNLI.
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Six weeks ago today I and 1806 other academics @cardiffuni were told our jobs were at risk of redundancy.
Six weeks on, and the University has failed to give us information promised in the consultation document which is crucial to the submission of critiques by Friday.
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
Six weeks on, and the University has failed to give us information promised in the consultation document which is crucial to the submission of critiques by Friday.
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
Cardiff University releases breakdown of academics 'in scope' for redundancy
Martin Shipton Cardiff University has released to Nation.Cymru the breakdown by School of the 1,807 academics who have been told their jobs are “in scope” to be cut. The university announced in Januar...
nation.cymru
March 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Six weeks ago today I and 1806 other academics @cardiffuni were told our jobs were at risk of redundancy.
Six weeks on, and the University has failed to give us information promised in the consultation document which is crucial to the submission of critiques by Friday.
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
Six weeks on, and the University has failed to give us information promised in the consultation document which is crucial to the submission of critiques by Friday.
nation.cymru/news/cardiff...
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For the urgent attention of university vice-chancellors.
This story is apocryphal, but I can’t stop thinking about it
March 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
For the urgent attention of university vice-chancellors.
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Its frustrating since there are a lot of statistical misunderstandings found in even the most prestigious medical journals, so they become enshrined as "correct" but contradict the expert statistician's understanding.
statsepi.substack.com/p/how-bad-st...
statsepi.substack.com/p/how-bad-st...
How bad statistical practices drive away the good ones
I am interested in research integrity and reproducibility.
statsepi.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Its frustrating since there are a lot of statistical misunderstandings found in even the most prestigious medical journals, so they become enshrined as "correct" but contradict the expert statistician's understanding.
statsepi.substack.com/p/how-bad-st...
statsepi.substack.com/p/how-bad-st...
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"Education Is Not A Product. The Students Are Not Customers. The Professors Are Not Tools. The University Is Not A Factory."
March 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
"Education Is Not A Product. The Students Are Not Customers. The Professors Are Not Tools. The University Is Not A Factory."
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I just a BBC Radio Wales interview for Cardiff UCU.
Cardiff Uni needs to work in true social partnership with the Union, and draw on its millions in available ££ to fund a more gradual recovery which doesn’t destroy 400+ jobs & irreparably harm the University/Wales.
✊👇
youtu.be/tqjaFuFdESM?...
Cardiff Uni needs to work in true social partnership with the Union, and draw on its millions in available ££ to fund a more gradual recovery which doesn’t destroy 400+ jobs & irreparably harm the University/Wales.
✊👇
youtu.be/tqjaFuFdESM?...
Dr Andy Williams from Cardiff UCU on the struggle to save 400+ jobs at Cardiff Uni. 10.03.25
YouTube video by Llantwit1977
youtu.be
March 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I just a BBC Radio Wales interview for Cardiff UCU.
Cardiff Uni needs to work in true social partnership with the Union, and draw on its millions in available ££ to fund a more gradual recovery which doesn’t destroy 400+ jobs & irreparably harm the University/Wales.
✊👇
youtu.be/tqjaFuFdESM?...
Cardiff Uni needs to work in true social partnership with the Union, and draw on its millions in available ££ to fund a more gradual recovery which doesn’t destroy 400+ jobs & irreparably harm the University/Wales.
✊👇
youtu.be/tqjaFuFdESM?...
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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but are we supposed to be celebrating the news that after Cardiff University gives up on training nurses, the Welsh Government scales up its recruitment of nurses from other countries that *can* be bothered to train nurses on our behalf?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Indian nurses to help fill 2,000 NHS vacancies
The arrival of 200 Indian nurses in Wales is welcomed - but a union warns of far greater shortages.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but are we supposed to be celebrating the news that after Cardiff University gives up on training nurses, the Welsh Government scales up its recruitment of nurses from other countries that *can* be bothered to train nurses on our behalf?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dystopian mismanagement. "There is no trust left. Even before the hammer fell, a survey found that only 31% of staff said they trusted the University Executive Board to be honest in their communications. People are also terrified."
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
voice.cymru
February 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Dystopian mismanagement. "There is no trust left. Even before the hammer fell, a survey found that only 31% of staff said they trusted the University Executive Board to be honest in their communications. People are also terrified."
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Also shocking is Cardiff Uni’s VC plunging into partnership with Kazakhstan - a regime with an appalling human rights record
This is what the neoliberalisation of the HE sector results in: amoral institutions, led by sociopaths, no longer capable of fulfilling their civil society role
This is what the neoliberalisation of the HE sector results in: amoral institutions, led by sociopaths, no longer capable of fulfilling their civil society role
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…
voice.cymru
February 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Also shocking is Cardiff Uni’s VC plunging into partnership with Kazakhstan - a regime with an appalling human rights record
This is what the neoliberalisation of the HE sector results in: amoral institutions, led by sociopaths, no longer capable of fulfilling their civil society role
This is what the neoliberalisation of the HE sector results in: amoral institutions, led by sociopaths, no longer capable of fulfilling their civil society role
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What’s equally shocking to me is Cardiff Uni’s Vice Chancellor eager to plunge into partnership with an authoritarian regime with an appalling human rights record.
This is what the neoliberalisation of the HE sector results in: amoral institutions incapable of fulfilling their civil society role
This is what the neoliberalisation of the HE sector results in: amoral institutions incapable of fulfilling their civil society role
World Report 2024: Rights Trends in Kazakhstan
www.hrw.org
February 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
What’s equally shocking to me is Cardiff Uni’s Vice Chancellor eager to plunge into partnership with an authoritarian regime with an appalling human rights record.
This is what the neoliberalisation of the HE sector results in: amoral institutions incapable of fulfilling their civil society role
This is what the neoliberalisation of the HE sector results in: amoral institutions incapable of fulfilling their civil society role