Ben Stevenson

Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Auckland, NZ.

[AWMS @AWMSociety]

Last week 24 students attended the Spatially Explicit Mark Recapture workshop hosted by Murdoch University and AWMS. Joanne Potts @AnalyticalEdge and Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson were brilliant instructors, and pulled together an amazing array of lectures, and worked examples!

[Royal Statistical Society @RoyalStatSoc]

Congratulations to David Borchers of @univofstandrews who is the recipient of our 2024 Barnett Award for environmental statistics, for the development of new and accessible methodologies in wildlife monitoring & conservation

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

@BruceEdmonds @GenomicsVC @ajordannafa I don't think so. Sounds like the same logic people use when they see a large p-value and claim it provides evidence for the null hypothesis.

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

Obrigadu, Tiago!

[Tiago André Marques @TiagoALOMarques]

Today was farewell day: @bc_stevenson whom was visiting me at @CEstatisticAUL for a fortnight moved to his next sabbatical stop. Great to have Ben around, chat about work and everything else. Looking forward to catching up at some point. To do: find joint project 4 collaboration

[Department of Statistics, University of Auckland @StatsUoA]

🥳Congratulations🥳 to Zoe Luo for successfully defending their thesis “Two-phase subsampling for DNA sequencing with application to endangered species". #AcademicChatter #PhD Well done Zoe!

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

Congratulations Matt, amazing work!

[Matt Kirk @MattK_recycled]

Very honoured to have won the interactive data viz prize during this year’s Ihaka lecture series competition!

Special thanks to @bc_stevenson and Rachel Fewster for teaching the amazing STATS 399 class, and for encouraging me to submit.

#Ihaka2023dataviz

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

A true work of art!

[Department of Statistics, University of Auckland @StatsUoA]

📢 #Ihaka2023dataviz - a category of its own... 📢

Unfortunately, we couldn't showcase all the submissions, but one we couldn't not show was this from our own @bc_stevenson entitled "Don’t count your grobs" 💚🐔🐤🐔💚

Read about the submissions here https://t.co/xidIaSqLbS

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

@andrewtychen

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

@TiagoALOMarques Good socks! I fit right in.

[Department of Statistics, University of Auckland @StatsUoA]

📢 We're hiring📢 #statsed #datacience Professional Teaching Fellow in Data Science (Statistics). https://t.co/xoKRrtqWt2 via @SmartRecruiters

[Department of Statistics, University of Auckland @StatsUoA]

✨Student Spotlight✨ Rishika (@RishikaChopara ) started her PhD in 2021 developing goodness-of-fit tests for spatial capture-recapture models. If you were at @ #euring2023 then you'll have heard all about it! In her spare time she loves #crochet #crossstitch & all things #crafts

[Department of Statistics, University of Auckland @StatsUoA]

If you didn't make it to Prof. Russell Millar's fabulously fishy inaugural lecture this evening keep an eye out @ https://t.co/9Nm6b6XZiO for the recording and read his first paper that whetted his appetite for modelling fish 🐟📜https://t.co/6jAv3lNLdS

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

@WeinNicole Congratulations, Nicole!

[Department of Statistics, University of Auckland @StatsUoA]

How to get academics out of their offices? Free food! Hot Cross buns courtesy of our very own departmental bakers @kirkiekiwi, @tslumley, @bc_stevenson, @beatrixjones3, @cmjonestodd, Emma Lehrke, Kathy Ruggiero, & Peter Mullins.

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

@millerdl You have had twitter for 42% of my life

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

@uberhyped @jsdelean @InvasionEcology Congratulations, Meryl!

[Department of Statistics, University of Auckland @StatsUoA]

🎉Congratulations 🎉 to @RishikaChopara for best stats presentation and Godrick Oketch with an honourable mention at the New Zealand Mathematics and Statistics Postgraduate conference last month! #phdchat #PhD 📷L-R, Godrick, Jason Li, Alec van Helsdingen & Rishika.

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

@millerdl Agreed!

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

@millerdl ... And of course they are properly invited to be a reviewer rather than doing the review "for me" (although I'm not sure if that's what is being suggested in the message)

[Ben Stevenson @bc_stevenson]

@millerdl I do this with PhD students, but not because I am "too busy"! It takes me longer to make it a worthwhile "teaching opportunity" than it does to just review the paper.