Jim Rafferty

On bluesky: bsky.app/profile/jimraf… If you like 3 tweets a year about data science and political snark, see you over there.

PS, please email using the contact info on the job advert page. I will not respond to posts or messages on here.

🚨🚨 Opportunity to come and work with us! We're looking to recruit a data scientist / statistician to model adverse medicine reactions in people taking multiple medicines. Would suit someone with a background in a mathematical discipline. swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swanse…

There's just under a week left to apply for this opportunity - the deadline is the 9th June!

PhD scholarship opportunity! Come and work at @PopDataSci_SU with me and @RhiannonKOwen developing ways to analyse time series data at a population scale. swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…

New blog - parallelising for loops in R. jim-rafferty.github.io/2025/02/28/Sim…

Hey @SwanseaUni . Is this platform still in line with your values? aa.com.tr/en/europe/over…

🆕Blog series - My Journey Into Research📚 Researcher: Timothy Osborne, Research Officer & Data Scientist, @hdrukwales 💭Get to know Timothy and read about his inspirational journey into research👉popdatasci.swan.ac.uk/my-journey-int…

🌍As #WalesClimateWeek and #COP29 unfold, Professor Richard Fry, who leads the MAGENTA Project, highlights how the research is aiming to understand the impact of climate change on maternal and child health. 🎦Watch to find out more about MAGENTA or visit magentaresearch.org

Samantha Turner, Co-Investigator for MAGENTA, presented at the @ResearchWales Annual Conference 2024 on the importance of using routine data in research to further understand how prolonged or elevated heat exposure impacts pregnancy outcomes. Read more👉popdatasci.swan.ac.uk/reflections-on…

🆕New @HDRUKWales webinar series🚀 Join us for our first webinar of the series: Maternal and Child Health👶 With talks from @RDundas0, @UofGlasgow, and @SineadBr, @SwanseaUni followed by a Q&A session. 🗓️3rd October 🛜 Online 🎟️Book your place here ticketsource.co.uk/population-dat…

Developing "A common framework for health data governance standards" brings us one step closer to enabling federated analysis of health data. Read our work nature.com/articles/s4159…. Made possible with a fantastic team and our funders. @EmmaSquires9 @chrisPopDataSci

@DuhPaulie @fermatslibrary In a tweet: curvature = stuff

@fermatslibrary Does anybody have 3 days to explain this?

Einstein’s field equations with and without tensor notation

@Fatemehtrb @NEJM I don't know, but I know how well I did! 🤣

Look at the missed diagnosis rate across each one of these image Challenges @NEJM, how would an ML-based approach do in each scenario?nejm.org/image-challeng…

"This is democracy manifest." RIP youtube.com/watch?v=Peihcf…

Six obvious spammers / scammers followed me in the last 24 hours. What's going on at twitter?

"Cars kill more pedestrians than bikes." "Yes, but the bikes force cars to do that." 🤦My head is still spinning!

Really interesting vid from @gcntweet about how the built environment is for cars. Spotting lots of examples in my own area now. Also, cool to find a @SwanseaUni academic in the wild! @ianwalker youtube.com/watch?v=-_4GZn…

@EBGBeee @haroldthimbleby baby steps...

@DrJimRafferty @haroldthimbleby A grown-up electoral system - gut instinct says yes. A grown-up electorate - not so much ...

Why’s this hot news for the BBC and not the Green success?

@EBGBeee @haroldthimbleby Would reform have gotten that much support if we had a grown up electoral system?

@haroldthimbleby Much as I loathe Farage & all he stands for, Reform did get rather more votes than the Greens - more than 2x. It's the first time I've been grateful for the peculiarities of FPTP, that they've been limited to so few seats. (even tho' we both suspect there's more to it than that)