Being hit by an SUV increases the likelihood of death or serious injury
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2025/being-hit-suv-increases-likelihood-death-or-serious-injury

So, when will lawmakers catch up on this? How many more studies are EU politicians still waiting for?

If you are interested in learning at the intersection of data science and activism, I can highly recommend this online course. I’ve worked closely with Alexandre, who runs to course, and learned so much from him. He embodies a really are mixture of technical expertise and social awareness.

https://www.schoolofma.org/programs/p/early2025-data-cyborgs

Great to see Naomi Alderman bigging up the Open University in the Observer's On My Radar column this morning...

As the holder of both an OU first degree & a later MA (done like Alderman while I was working) I completely endorse this message.... a great British institution that has done so much to democratise university education.

#universities #OpenUniversity #education

Genuary 2025 Day 9: The textile design patterns of public transport seating 🎨

#Genuary #Genuary2025 #RStats #GenerativeArt #Genuary9

A few of the outputs from some parameterised mapping functions I've been working on recently 📊

#RStats #ggplot2 #RSpatial #DataViz

A crash course on urban accessibility with R
"The workshop will also illustrate how to calculate different measures of inequality of access to opportunities and accessibility poverty, which are crucial to assess the accessibility impacts of transportation projects from a transportation equity perspective. The course is based on the book “Introduction to urban accessibility: a practical guide with R” (Pereira and Herszenhut 2023)."

#RStats #GIS #Inequality #Transport
https://ipeagit.github.io/access_workshop_eit_2024/

Mucosal ("sterilizing") Covid vaccine trials are kicking into high gear.

Tens of thousands of next generation trial volunteers will be needed in the US soon. And we've got the first details for a Project NextGen "mini-efficacy" trial...

The first step for human challenge trials of intranasal etc vaxes is underway in the UK...

All this & more in my latest nextgen vax update @PLOS ...1/2

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/08/31/mucosal-covid-vax-trials-kicking-into-high-gear-update-20/

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19

The nurturing psychological action of accomplishing something new is a superpower of our minds. Our minds want to reward us for learning. It's so important to gift yourself this!

It's been a hard few months. But also in that time I've learned to bake bread, how to make a fancy skirt, tried a new swimming stroke. I swear I can FEEL my brain healing as I do these things. Good, engaged, small learning breaks chronic stress cycles and pulls you into mindfulness.

I'm very sorry to hear this:

Professor Peter Higgs died on Monday 8 April.

I always felt that as long as Peter Higgs was with us in Edinburgh, we were better off as faculty in a chaotic world.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system