Happy New Year, everyone! 2025 is over (along with the short break we had), and 2026 has arrived. What do I expect from it? Well, I can give you a few hints: The smooth package for R/Python/other languages. I’ve been working on this with several great friends/colleagues, and there will
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Good news, everyone! I’m leaving Lancaster University for good. It’s been a great 12 years of my life, but it is time to move on. Let me explain what’s happening. Some of you have seen one of my previous posts about the Lancaster University crisis (this one), so you might
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Some of you know that the UK education sector is in crisis. The blame is often placed on Chinese students, who have stopped coming to the UK for increasingly expensive education. Personally, I believe the real cause of the crisis is that incompetent senior managers adopted an unsustainable strategy of
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Good news! Springer has finally published a monograph that my father and I have worked on for the last couple of years. The topic is Complex-Valued Econometrics. You can read more about it here.
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Good news! I’ve been promoted to the position of “Senior Lecturer” (also known as “Associate Professor”, and I’m sometimes joking that SL is actually a “Senile Lecturer”) in my university. More opportunities, more responsibilities, and a higher salary. Not a professor yet, but it’s a small step in that direction.
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