Pedro Pinto da Silva

Very excited about starting my Enrichment Scheme at @turinginst next October! I'll be continuing my research on modelling the onset and propagation of urban traffic congestion, so that we can build better monitoring systems and make more informed planning decisions! 🌆🚦🚘

The Turing student poster showcase is in progress! Attend and support the students if you can: alan-turing-institute.github.io/student-poster…

It was a pleasure to welcome the January students with the wonderful @mooniean over "7 Tips for an Enriching experience at the @turinginst "

Woah, version 0.11 of #osmnx is out and it includes my second and larger contribution to the package. Cleaning street intersections now returns a new graph. Props to @gboeing for leading this amazing project and for his patience in walking me through the PR process.

Absolute banger performance by the @TheMidnightLA this evening at @RoundhouseLDN!!

Great 2-day training expertly led by Allegra Via through the ELIXIR-IIB Training Platform! One of the many workshops sponsored by the @turinginst! elixir-iib-training.github.io/website/

Lawrence Yeo @moretothat is quickly becoming one of my favourite bloggers! His description of Socrates' life, character and legacy was vivid, insightful and gave me the giggles. On the London tube. During rush hour. Lit. moretothat.com/socrates/

Guatemala's war and genocide victims to its younger generations. The Q&A session was brilliantly led by one of the programme directors (whose name I can't seem to find on the website and) whose closing remarks I now wish I had captured a verbatim. Inspiring to say the least.

It was a truly humbling experience to watch Jayro Bustamante's latest masterpiece "La Llorona" this evening at #BFILondonFilmFestival and hear firsthand from the director about the censorship attempts and other challenges that had to be overcome in order to tell the story of ...

There's nothing quite like taking a long dip in the Atlantic, only to go back roasting on the fine white sand, under the scorching sun off the coast 🇵🇹. #PhDweekoff

A critical question: would you work with people who are incapable of admitting their own mistakes?

The father of INLA (Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation), Håvard Rue, is speaking today at #ECASLisbon19! Do you agree that the "SPDE" approach is the future of Gaussian fields?!

Awesome workshop today on spatial and spatio-temporal area-level Bayesian models (BYM) for disease mapping, by Patrick Brown from @UofT. Slides, data and code: pbrown.ca/teaching/portu…

What a great event and opportunity to showcase our talent it was! Even the 🌞came out shining over the Tyne .🙌 #phday

@waudberry_7 That's Ronaldo today for me mate

Your own personal Jesus

On session 4 of bayes babies today we tackled exercise 5.1 from Ben Lambert's book. Happy to see how well everyone's progressing! Also, I'm trying to convince everyone to do a short blog post with their own solution. So, here's mine bit.ly/2MwYLKb

Because the PhD life it's not all just about the work, we played our first intra-CDT 5s football match today @ccbdcdt ! Everyone got to score, celebrate and it was a whole lot of fun! #phdlife #phdchat #beactive #teambuilding

Major thank you to all that helped make this possible @PaulWatsonNcl @jen_wood6 @stevemcgough @MattForshaw Phil Blythe Elena Gorman @ccbdcdt 🙌

Very excited about starting my Enrichment Scheme at @turinginst next October! I'll be continuing my research on modelling the onset and propagation of urban traffic congestion, so that we can build better monitoring systems and make more informed planning decisions! 🌆🚦🚘

Why does Google keep suggesting me to get to work during the weekend?

The Bayes Babies way!