Olivia Varley-Winter

Senior data policy manager @SmartDataRes
Ex: @turinginst, @RoyalStatSoc, @opendatacharter, @ODIHQ,
est. @AdaLovelaceInst @NuffieldFound

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

Delighted with my new role and team relationships as senior data policy manager @SmartDataRes!
I'm also enjoying reconnecting with friends after a couple of years on partial leave with my new(ish!) kiddo.
DM me here or on LinkedIN to share particular policy insights with us.

[Stian Westlake @stianwestlake]

Now that a general election has been called, I thought it was worth pre-emptively laying to rest some rumours that sometimes circulate about @ESRC rules on what ESRC-funded researchers supposedly are and aren't allowed to say during the ‘pre-election period’. (1)

[Smart Data Research UK @SmartDataRes]

Getting smarter about smart data - a great piece from @ElenaMusi2 about our recent digital data dive @LivUni https://t.co/jMDP9scSuk

Read the full blog below

[Smart Data Research UK @SmartDataRes]

On AI ethics - influencing its use in the delivery of public good - a new piece from our colleague @ovarwin for @rwdatasci https://t.co/myRIQFT05p

[Smart Data Research UK @SmartDataRes]

Thanks to @ResProfNews for the interview with Smart Data Research UK’s Director @Joecuddeford, discussing the launch of our data services grant call – article available to subscribers: https://t.co/tmT3ItNGAR

[Smart Data Research UK @SmartDataRes]

🥁 Our Data Services Grant Call is now live! The deadline is Thursday, 2 May 2024. Go to Smart Data Research UK's new website for the info: https://t.co/Yj9KgPqSe8 @UKRI_News @ESRC @parkali @Joecuddeford @rsfrankl

[Nuffield Trust @NuffieldTrust]

Is ill health and disability in older age inevitable?

@CMO_England's keynote address on future patterns of disease is about to begin. #NTsummit

Watch here: https://t.co/fh5Zs1EGp9

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

Good to see the culmination of @rydermc review of biometric technologies, out today

[Ada Lovelace Institute @AdaLovelaceInst]

📢As biometrics move into more aspects of our lives, Ada has conducted a three-year programme of research with experts, regulators and the public.

Our new report identifies the need for comprehensive legislation and enforcement on the use of biometrics.

https://t.co/EQDgX5zKcK

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

@tom_swing @LinaDencik Congrats @LinaDencik 😊

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

At risk of being banal: data needs to be there, supporting social perception and reform. No such thing as neutral open data : but it brings in common tools, standards and so on that get behind the doing of it.

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

Feeling proud that Data Driving Reform is @opendatacharter's new strategy 😊.

& am inspired to say so by @BootstrapCook's (& now @ONS!) work towards a #VimesBootsIndex, which is thought provoking in the best possible way.

[Stian Westlake @stianwestlake]

Estimating the size of the "poverty penalty" in the UK - useful piece from @signmagazine

https://t.co/uQy3mEYkWH

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

Asked the multiple births foundation. "somewhere in the region of one in 150,000 to 160,000" said they 🐣🐣🐣

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

Q: if you're getting pregnant, what's the chance of conceiving identical (monozygotic) triplets? @wendyvarley wrote in 2012 about this loved by media "200m to one" statistic. https://t.co/huQZ29ieTJ

[The Mirror @DailyMirror]

Couple welcome '200m to one' identical triplets and now have 4 kids under two https://t.co/uZqROFhr5k

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

@naticarfi great news for the ongoing leadership at @opendatacharter 👏

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

Very well-put arguments here for the questions that could be answered by better study design

[Dr. Deepti Gurdasani @dgurdasani1]

Let's looks at the highly flawed study that is being cited as showing no difference between LFD testing and isolation of contacts in schools. This is simply incorrect, and the premise of the trial as reported in the preprint out now is rather shocking from an ethics perspective🧵

[Jon Deeks FMedSci @deeksj]

Kudos to the BBC who have now rewritten this piece with much more appropriately cautious wording and conclusions. Daily testing can keep pupils in school, study suggests https://t.co/RlI4zyf1J8

[Olivia Varley-Winter @ovarwin]

Proud of this in depth reporting project out last week from @Deborah_Ashby @deeksj & @RoyalStatSoc working group. Thoroughgoing public reporting from RSS to help ensure testing is statistically sound - a global health issue.

[Jon Deeks FMedSci @deeksj]

Today @RoyalStatSoc publishes its Diagnostic Tests Working Group Report

This has been initiated to learn from the challenges and mistakes observed in the evaluation of new tests for SARS-CoV-2.

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You can access the 90-page report here.
https://t.co/nlwtV7eBhf

[Open Data Charter @opendatacharter]

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 We have announced that we are searching for a new Executive Director to carry the torch of #openness.

Read more on our blog: https://t.co/XKTzJbcZ2Q #opengov #policy #transparency #anticorruption