Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 14/04/2026My super smart quantum physicist boyfriend is doing a reddit AMA this afternoon. Check it out if you're curious about medical applications of quantum technologies. www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/Je9... 010
Reposted by Alex HillSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu... 28806313
Reposted by Alex HillSam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Really nice to see this being used - a real blast from the past. If anyone is keen to help get this back on CRAN or do other work on it that would be amazing! 152
Reposted by Alex HillData & Statistical Science for Health, LSHTM @lshtm-dash.bsky.social · 03/11/2025🥼 Join our #healthdata seminar, which will introduce the target trial emulation framework #TTE for emulating randomised clinical trials #PublicHealth 🗓️ Thursday 6 November, 10:00-11:00 GMT 📍 LSHTM | Online Details ⬇️ www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e... 022
Reposted by Alex HillDavid Hodgson @dchodge.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Want to understand serological data better? We've compiled a suite of tools which can help you out 🔗 seroanalytics.org These tools are free, open source, peer reviewed and have comprehensive documentation. Big thanks to @alexlizhill.com, @jameshay.bsky.social and others for their contributions!seroanalytics.orgSeroanalytics 041
Reposted by Alex HillDavid Hodgson @dchodge.bsky.social · 30/09/2025🚀 New tool: Reversible Jump MCMC running in your browser! Built an interactive widget for fitting mixture distributions when you don't know how many components you need. Check it out: dchodge.github.io/rjmc-widget-...dchodge.github.ioDynamic Mixture Model Analysis 295
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 26/09/2025This is the picture my four year old brought home for me today. Me: lovely honey, who's it a picture of? Her: that's me in the pink dress, and that's a dead guy *spotting my horrified look* Her: don't worry, he was bad 020
Reposted by Alex HillAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025I'm giving a free public talk asking 'How certain is certain enough?' at @lshtm.bsky.social on Monday 24th November at 5.30pm, as part of the Global Health Lecture Series. From epidemic response and clinical trials to online misinformation and AI, I'll look at how truth emerges – and why it falters.lshtm.ac.ukHow certain is certain enough? | LSHTMWhen faced with a new health threat, there are three crucial questions we must consider. What is going on? What can we do about it? And how can we communicate these things effectively? This talk will 14217
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 24/09/2025The US Department of Health announcing they've found the cause of autism has a similar vibe to the time the Egyptian army announced it had a cure for AIDS. Crazy to watch US governmental institutions deteriorate at such a rapid pace. www.bbc.com/news/blogs-t...bbc.com#BBCtrending: Egyptian public sceptical about military’s HIV ‘breakthrough’The Egyptian army says it has invented a device that can remotely detect and treat HIV and hepatitis. 010
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 24/09/2025Another triumph for human tenacity, intelligence and compassion over the brutally indifferent force that is evolution. 0185
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 24/09/2025Every debate at HowTheLightGetsIn festival on transhumanist themes: Transhumanists: We should reduce suffering by all means available to us Audience: *shaking heads in disapproval* Opponent: This feels icky to me Audience: *loud applause* 1120
Reposted by Alex HillDavid Hodgson @dchodge.bsky.social · 23/09/2025🚨 New paper out in PLOS Computational Biology! 🚨 We're excited to share our new paper, serojump, a new probabilistic framework and R package for inferring infections and antibody kinetics from longitudinal serological data. 📄 Full paper: tinyurl.com/re7du3t2 R package: seroanalytics.org/serojumpseroanalytics.orgA serological inference package using reversible jump mcmcThe `serojump` package provides tools for fitting serological models to antibody kinetics data using reversible-jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (RJ-MCMC). It enables researchers to model the dynamics of... 2195
Reposted by Alex HillShengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025💡 Open science: A team of researchers at Shandong University has attempted to replicate Oprea (2024 AER). The results do not replicate. Oprea 2024 reported an online lab experiment, and found that prospect theory anomalies occur not only for lotteries, but also for deterministic 'mirrors'. 26810
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 13/04/2025"[A]ll civilisation involves an ever-increasing foresight for others, even for others as yet unborn". - Havelock Ellis, 1911 040
Reposted by Alex HillThomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/04/2025For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview: Say hello to plumber2 🎉 plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even moreposit-dev.github.ioWhat the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)What the package does (one paragraph). 314137
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 04/04/2025I'm writing a series of blog posts on the subject of women and free love, partly out of my interest in the history of free love, partly out of a sort of affectionate prurience about sex-positive women of yore. This first one is about free love in the 1800s and the first woman to run for president.alexlizhill.comWomen and Free Love: Part OneFree love, women's suffrage, and Mrs Satan 070
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 17/03/2025Wild that Gen Zs appear to think Chappell Roan has written the first ever lesbian country song. Sorry KD Lang! Not to mention Melissa Etheridge, Brandi Carlile, Melissa Ferrick etc 030
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 13/03/2025One of my least popular views is that women will not truly be emancipated until bionic wombs are readily available. 170
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 13/03/2025As great as IVF is, the process of retrieving eggs still feels v inefficient: you have to incubate the eggs inside yourself, inject hormones for a fortnight and hope that the oocytes mature at a similar rate. Maturing them in vitro would be a huge improvement. worksinprogress.co/issue/fertil... 060
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 13/03/2025I was gifted this mug that I feel sure is offensive to women but I can't quite figure out why, or indeed, what it means at all. Are the economists the ones supplying the curves? Very confusing. 120
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 07/03/2025Looking at the Mary Wollstonecraft memorial but shaking my head so everyone knows I disapprove of the naked lady. 110
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025I really don't have a fixed opinion on trans women competing in women's sports - I think both sides are arguable - but the majority of the public are against it and that's clearly a reasonable position to take, so I don't know why it's the hill so many left/liberal politicians want to die on. 630
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025The first time I read The More Loving One by W.H. Auden, I imagined it must be a sort of metaphor or allegory about loving a person, and struggled to understand it. When I read it as straight-forwardly about relating to nature and the whole indifferent universe, I get a lot more out of it. 020
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025@dchodge.bsky.social and I developed an app using WebR and React, to see how this stack compares to RShiny. Looks quite promising I think! The app wraps the SeroSim R package by @jameshay.bsky.social for simulating serosurvey data: serosim.seroanalytics.orgserosim.seroanalytics.orgSeroSimWeb interface for serosurvey data simulation 062
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025Happy World Book Day! I'm about to absolutely humiliate all these other preschool parents with my superior fancy dress skills, honed over 2 decades of partying. 110
Reposted by Alex HillAlice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 05/03/2025In the run up international women’s day, it’s worth recalling that less than 60 years ago, men tried to stop Kathrine Switzer from completing the Boston marathon. They wanted it to be high status, only for men. A low status woman would be polluting. We have come far! 🙂 2569
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 05/03/2025The water was out on my road for about half a day last week due to a burst pipe. My neighbours were outraged at the inconvenience and like, I agree we should hold utility companies to high standards, but all I could think was how amazing it is that we have clean water on demand 99.999% of the time. 120
Reposted by Alex HillSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 01/03/2025Just a little thread on (some) of my favourite charts I've made. 🧵 925657
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 04/03/2025I have become horribly addicted to rage/doom-scrolling since Trump was sworn in, and desperately need to replace this with something more productive. Can anyone recommend a good book? 350
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 04/03/2025I don't think about food until my body absolutely forces me to (like, I haven't eaten in hours and am starting to feel faint) and even then it's like, ugh, I guess I have to eat something now. This would have been way more pathological in the past: I would not have survived as a hunter-gatherer! 250
Reposted by Alex HillAveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Many countries worry about declining birth rates, but in English-speaking nations, it seems to be more of a preoccupation of the right, with the left reluctant to discuss the issue. We think that's unfortunate, so we gathered thinkers from the centre/left to reflect on the issue 8399
Reposted by Alex HillMichael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Enjoying this discussion of the famous von Neumann quote "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them": math.stackexchange.com/questions/11...math.stackexchange.comWhat are some interpretations of Von Neumann's quote?John Von Neumann once said to Felix Smith, "Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." This was a response to Smith's fear about the method of characteristic... 3141
Reposted by Alex HillNathan @handle.invalid · 15/02/2025Whatever you think about Government aid, if you want to give money directly into the hands of poor people, I recommend @GiveDirectly. 2121
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 14/02/2025The "woke grant" database is predictably idiotic, includes papers about diversity in beetles, cis-regulatory gene pathways, and brain trauma. US gov characterises the included grants as advancing "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda". www.astralcodexten.com/p/only-about... 162
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 11/02/2025I am so excited for the results of this ongoing trial for a novel treatment of hyperemesis gravidarum (severe pregnancy sickness) 👀 GDF15 has been identified as the major determinant of HG and this is the first trial of a GFD15-blocker in pregnant women: www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN76681798 110
Reposted by Alex HillLauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 05/02/2025New op ed from Tom Wein, @garrisonlovely.bsky.social and I on PEPFAR and giving up the legacy of US power in Africa: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/05/p...foreignpolicy.comTrump Has Put George W. Bush’s Lifesaving Legacy in DangerPEPFAR is a critical part of U.S. soft power in Africa. 0206
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 30/01/2025I hadn't really been exposed to "hipster skepticism" on AI until joining Bluesky - now I see it's very prevalent on the left! Seems like a very bad idea to make AI skepticism a partisan signalling issue. 0121
Reposted by Alex HillOlimpia Lamberti @olimpialamberti.bsky.social · 30/01/2025🌍🚺 A silent epidemic in women’s health 🐌 On #WorldNTDDay, we celebrate the fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases & highlight Female Genital Schistosomiasis, an overlooked disease affecting millions of women. 📰 www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @theguardian.com #BeatNTDs #EndTheNeglect #FGS 072
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 30/01/2025How long is too long for a blog post on an obscure topic? Asking for... me, who has written a ~4500 word essay on the life and work of Victoria Woodhull (the first woman to run for US presidency). Have lost all perspective on what is interesting to other people. 020
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 30/01/2025odin and monty are exciting new tools - a DSL for ODE based models and an MCMC sampler (includes Metropolis-Hastings and HMC) written in R and compiled to C for performance. Very user friendly compared to other options out there imo! 062
Reposted by Alex HillGlobal Health Economics Centre @lshtm-gheco.bsky.social · 29/01/2025🎉 Bringing you our new Bluesky account all the way from Windsor While we’re enjoying our retreat, why don’t you follow the new #GHECO account? It's the perfect place to get all the latest health economics news & updates in @lshtm.bsky.social 0184
Reposted by Alex HillAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Excited to officially announce my new book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty, out in March (UK) and May (US) and available now to pre-order: proof.kucharski.io It digs into the ideas we can use to weigh evidence and converge on truth under pressure - and what happens when they fail... 1/ 611028
Reposted by Alex HillRuben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 20/01/2025My first time acting as a recommender for the ERROR project. Huge props to the authors @erichehman.bsky.social et al. for exposing themselves to this detailed post-pub peer review and to Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org for his detailed review and reproduction. 13010
Reposted by Alex HillAndy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Why it's okay to use ChatGPT, in 4 graphs 711630
Reposted by Alex HillCaleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Today I'm amusing myself with the 1921 UK House of Lords debate (only men present of course) against an amendment that would have made lesbianism a crime. The amendment was roundly voted down thankfully, and the arguments are pretty amazing. Some highlights: 813872
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 14/01/2025Novel threats made by my 4 year old recently, in order of increasing insanity: I will pluck out your eyelashes; I will cut off your mouth; I will pull out my heart and throw it at you 350
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 20/12/2024This is such an important point when communicating health research: average effects aren't super predictive at the individual level unless variance is also small. And the standard error is often confused for the population variance. 2246
Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 20/12/2024Mother and Child at Breaking Point (1970), by Maureen Scott 130