Heiko Dunkel at the Greifswald Science slam: "Why Matthew studies Mathematics - Implicit Egotism among Academics"

youtu.be/ejdDMFJk6y0?...

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🏛️ Faculty of Economics & Statistics, UIBK @econstatuibk.bsky.social‬ @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social‬

‼️ Three job openings for Full Professor positions

- Data Science

- Microeconomics

- Behavioral Economics

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Do you like situational awareness of infectious diseases (who doesn't). Do you like thinking about modelling with this aim in mind? Do you feel like its a bit of a niche and hard to find people to talk to about it?

We have a forum: community.epinowcast.org for you.

Graphic #rstats reminder that vaccines work 📊
www.databrewer.co/R/gallery/gg...

Happy π day!

Calculating the circumference and area of a circle with Lego.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDnA...

Michael Höhle‬ ‪@mhoehle.bsky.social‬
A Lego proof of (a+b)^3 = a^3 + 3·a^2·b + 3·a·b^2 + b^3.

youtu.be/Clz1Ud06EPQ

(inspired by the fantastic "The Book of Numbers")

Math is beautiful.
youtu.be/kaYQg6AteQ0

My colleague Joscha Diehl in Greifswald is hiring an AI/XR research assistant. Applicants from Poland are particularly encouraged to apply: bazaogloszen.nauka.gov.pl/oferta/assis...

Part 2 of the collaboration with Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder is now out. It covers how we first learned the distances to planets, stars, and galaxies far, far away.

youtu.be/hFMaT9oRbs4

Enjoying the free time from classes to finally write a blog post again:

Risky Risk Results - mhoehle.github.io/blog/2025/02...

The work was inspired by a #Numberphile episode about calculating the probabilities of winning in the Game of Risk. @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social #rstats #probability

New video! Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos: youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U

I'm teaching an applied regression course this fall. Any recommendations on good up2date (e)-books covering the use of mixed models with R? (I guess I'm looking for the successor of Pinheiro and Bates with a little less math..)

Interesting read, where the authors show, that a previous claim in a publication by Whitehouse et al. about an inferior fit of our pomp rotavirus model is simply due to different scaling of the data. Will be interesting to see if a correction will follow.