Last concert of the year. Rolling back the years with Something Happens at Whelans.

Another Jerry Fish concert tonight. A much smaller band and a much smaller venue (Murray’s Bar in Macroom). Great concert as always.

A latent variable model for identifying and characterizing food adulteration Recently, growing consumer awareness of food quality and sustainability has led to a rising demand for effective food authentication methods. Vibrational spectroscopy techniques have emerged as a prom...

Hot off the press. A preprint by @alecasa.bsky.social, Michael Fop and I. A new model for characterising and identifying adulteration in food authenticity studies. arxiv.org/abs/2512.13939

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A latent variable model for identifying and characterizing food adulteration (Casa, Murphy, Fop) Recently, growing consumer awareness of food quality and sustainability has led to a rising demand for effective food authentication methods. Vibrational spectroscopy techniques have emerged a

Tonight’s entertainment was Jerry Fish in Whelans. Excellent as always.

Moving on to Manchester. Another Black Rebel Motorcycle Club concert. Closer to the action this time.

First concert of a run of concerts. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at the O2 Academy in Glasgow. Played the Howl album and a career spanning mix.

And the Top 20 songs...

Lots of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped this week. I don't use Spotify, but still use iTunes for most of my listening. Using code (from @andrew.heiss.phd) I was able to get my Top 40 artists for the year. I am surprised be some artists making the list.

Finally catching a wall of sound from My Bloody Valentine live at the 3Arena.

Fantastic concert from Mono on their Oath Tour.

What Time is Ping? My first concert in the Cork City Hall since the Cowpunchers Ball my first year in college. I did exams here too. Tonight rocking and rolling to the Sultans of Ping.

And of course for the Turnip Fish…

Nice evening in the National Concert Hall for my aunt Jane O’Leary getting a lifetime achievement award.

Une autre victoire pour l’Ol Lyonnes ce soir

Une autre belle victoire (3-0) pour l’OL Lyonnes ce soir contre SKN St Pölten dans la Ligue des Champions.

Congratulations on the ERC. Well done!

First stadium concert in a long time. Oasis reunion show in Croke Park.

A change of music genre this week going to a show at the Grand Ole Opry.

Announcing new RSS officers for 2026

I am happy to report that I will be the next Honorary Officer for Journals in the Royal Statistical Society (@royalstatsoc.bsky.social). I look forward to commencing this role in January.

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Great to catch Mogwai live tonight. First time getting to hear Christmas Steps and My Father, My King live.

Congratulations. Well deserved. Always great to work with you.

A new paper in Computo with Julien Jacques on variable selection and model-based clustering of multivariate data. computo-journal.org/published-20...

Partial membership models for soft clustering of multivariate football player performance data - Computational Statistics The standard mixture modeling framework has been widely used to study heterogeneous populations, by modeling them as being composed of a finite number of homogeneous sub-populations. However, the stan...

Hot off the press. A paper with Emiliano Seri and Roberto Rocci looking at the roles that players player in football (soccer) using a partial membership model.

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If you feel like letting go (hold on)

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CASI 2025 is up and running! #casi2025

Épisode 5 de notre série "Les nouveaux visages de l’Académie des sciences" : La statistique, une science en son temps.

Retrouvez la vidéo sur Youtube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AhT...

Found a copy of these yesterday. Blast from the past.

Delighted to be named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (@amstatnews.bsky.social). Thanks to my colleagues, collaborators, friends and family who supported me throughout my career. Looking forward to continuing to develop the subject of statistics and its application going forward.