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YSS is now officially on Bluesky 🎊! We are thrilled to join this space and connect with you all over here🎈.

We will continue to share updates for young statisticians to support your unique learning & career journeys over here. Follow us to learn more 👩‍💻✍️🔥!
The last day of RSS Conference 2025 featured Statisticians for Society, presentations from Young Statisticians’ Meeting 2024 and effects of environment on mental health. The day came to a smooth and successful close. 😤⭐

Huge thanks to RSS team & G-Research for their support 🙌
September 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Day 3 of the RSS conference close with fresh insights and discussions💡

We had three prize winners (Nick Zhang, Erin Russel and Jiayao Shao) of the Research Students’ Conference (RSC) in Probability and Statistics 2024 giving high-quality presentations of their research ideas 🏆
September 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Thank you @statsyss.bsky.social for the generous invite - and to the audience for laughing along with my mistakes and anecdotes ☺️
Packed room for "Learn from my mistakes" career session organised by @zakvarty.bsky.social for @statsyss.bsky.social
Featuring the excellent Richard Samworth, Fiona Underwood and @stateecetics.bsky.social #RSS2025Conf
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Packed room for "Learn from my mistakes" career session organised by @zakvarty.bsky.social for @statsyss.bsky.social
Featuring the excellent Richard Samworth, Fiona Underwood and @stateecetics.bsky.social #RSS2025Conf
September 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
In the "Plotting your path" session co-organised with Celebrating Diversity SIG, three inspiring female statisticians (Sarah Lotspeich, Kimberley Kavanagh and Christl Donnelly) shared their journeys and encouraged female students & professionals to pursue their paths confidently. ✨
September 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Welcome to all our delegates for day one of RSS International Conference 2025!

We really enjoyed Christl Donnelly's opening keynote on policy engagement and will shortly be heading off to the famous Playfair Library for our Welcome Reception!
September 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We are here at RSS Conference 2025!

At our pre-conference workshops, we are grateful to have lively career talks, resources sharing and workshops on consultancy ✨. Thank you for attending the workshops, and see you at the quiz night 📢!
September 2, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Calling the world's early career statisticians and data professionals!

Would you like to win a trophy + publication in Significance + a slot at our 2025 conference?

Enter the Significance magazine writing competition by 30 May

significancemagazine.com/enter-our-20...
May 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It's happening tomorrow 😤🔥💯!

YSS and the Statistics and the Law section are organising a talk (online/in-person at UCL) by Prof Jane Hutton on the reward challenges of expert witness work as a statistician ✨, contributing to civil and criminal courts and serving society 🤝.
May 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Chaired by our president Sir John Aston, our next Discussion Meeting will discuss our journal paper on the statistical aspects of the Covid-19 response.

Download the pre-print and sign up to attend either in-person (London) or online 👉 rss.org.uk/training-eve...
February 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The first YSS event in 2025 will happen next week (3 March 3-4 pm) ✨

The online panel session will include discussions of maintaining work and family balance for female professionals, ahead of the International Women's Day (8 March) 👩!

Register here: rss.org.uk/training-eve...
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February 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Significance magazine is accepting entries for this year's Early-Career Writing Award 🏆

Part of our Statistical Excellence Awards programme, it celebrates career young writers who can tell a great story with data

Enter by 30 May 👇
Enter our 2025 writing competition - Significance magazine
We’re excited to launch this year’s Significance Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing, a chance for emerging statistical storytellers to shine   Do you have an interesting tale to...
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February 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Applications are open for our William Guy Lectureships!

The theme is Statistics and AI - its role in daily life, ethical issues, & environmental impact.

If you're a data professional with a passion for inspiring the next generation about stats submit a talk proposal!

rss.org.uk/news-publica...
February 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
YSS is now officially on Bluesky 🎊! We are thrilled to join this space and connect with you all over here🎈.

We will continue to share updates for young statisticians to support your unique learning & career journeys over here. Follow us to learn more 👩‍💻✍️🔥!
February 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM