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Adam KucharskiNew LSHTM/MRCG job opportunities in epidemic preparedness & response:
Research software engineer in outbreak analytics at MRCG, deadline 22 Dec: https://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=MRC-MRC-2022-11
Assistant Professor in Molecular Epidemiology with UK-PHRST, deadline 6 Jan: https://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=EPH-IDE-2022-56
Research assistant in pandemic response planning, deadline 20 Jan:
https://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=EPH-IDE-2022-59
Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Software Engineer (The Gambia)
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to...
Finnish Center for AIWe are hiring! 19 funded positions for postdocs & PhD students in reinforcement learning, probabilistic methods, simulator-based inference, privacy and federated learning, and multi-agent learning. Apply by Jan 15 (postdoc) / Jan 29 (PhD) at https://fcai.fi/we-are-hiring
Aki VehtariLooking also for doctoral students
- Bayesian workflows for iterative model building (Proj. 7, Aalto)
- Evaluating and improving posterior inference for difficult posteriors
(Proj. F9, FCAI/Aalto/Helsinki)
- Workflows for better priors (Proj. F19, FCAI/Aalto/Helsinki)
All topics and how to apply for doctoral student positions
https://hict.fi/open-positions/
The postdoc job thread https://bayes.club/@avehtari/109507485235631287 has the topic abstracts. The doctoral student salary is also competitive.
Helsinki ICT network: Doctoral student positions in computer science--Open positions - Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in ICT
The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology (HICT) is a joint initiative by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities within this area in Finland. The network involves at present over 80 professors and over 200 doctoral students, and the participating units graduate altogether more than…
Peter Tennant, PhD
Gertjan HulsterWhen we started with the filming of 'Why we cycle' dutch friends said: 'I cycle because it is hard to drive around here.' But why did they chose to live here, when there are tons of cities around where the car is a very real option to move around? Well, because this is such a nice livable city. So my conclusion: People love driving but they long for places with few cars.
We've got institutional experience in running distance learning, so remote learning for MSc courses wasn't a huge pivot. I'd like to see more of a move away from intensive mode face to face teaching as the default towards blended learning that means synchronous learning activities are about doing things as a group. And I think that was one thing QUT was doing well when I left there. So swings and roundabouts and institutional inertia and all that. Teaching has been fun these last few years.
Every institution has its strengths and weaknesses when it comes to teaching, but I do appreciate that LSHTM has a lot of good researchers who are given the opportunity to become better teachers through things like the postgraduate certificate in learning and teaching and that once you're at Research Fellow/Assistant Prof level you're expected to be organising either an MSc module or a short course.
It's always interesting to see people at different stages of their journey learning new things. Had a chat with a PhD student who was sitting in on the sessions (we probably need to move a lot of our service teaching material on to the TED system LSHTM has) about their pivoting from being a doctor to being an epidemiologist, looking at relationship between tuberculosis and heart disease. He'd asked about whether ggplot2 can do dendrograms so I pulled up some of my work to show him.
Had my last teaching session for a while on Friday. 14 students learning about data wrangling with tidyverse and visualisation with ggplot2 in an optional R session at the end of a medical stats module on statistical computation run by Antonio Gasparrini.