Place your bets: sea level rise from Antarctic ice sheet collapse

2015-03-03882B_cover_6-690x320I have a few bits of happy news! The BBC’s program Climate Change by Numbers on which I was one of the main scientific consultants has won the AAAS Science Journalism Award in the “in

Mind Your “p”s, RRs, and NNTs: On Good Statistics Behavior

P is for pandemonium. And a bit of that broke out recently when a psychology journal banned p-values and more, declaring the whole process of significance testing “invalid”. There’s a good roundup of views about this development from statisticians over at the Royal … Continue reading »

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Open to positive feedback

I’m extremely happy to say that on the 1st October I’ll be taking up a lectureship at the Open University!

I’ll be sad to leave Bristol. I’ve spent all my years as a climate scientist there, ever since those running …

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