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Alex Hill

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Former logician. Aspiring health economist. Research fellow @lshtm-gheco.bsky.social. Thinking about philosophy, public health, econ, stats, feminism, & lots of other things! alexlizhill.com

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 14/04/2026
My 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...
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 09/12/2025
Big 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...
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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Really 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!
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Data & 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...
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David Hodgson @dchodge.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Want 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!
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Seroanalytics
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/10/2025
In my blonde era
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David 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-...
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Dynamic Mixture Model Analysis
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 26/09/2025
This 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
 Child's drawing of two stick figures - a girl in pink dress with brown hair, and a man all in black with no arms or legs and a sad face
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I'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.
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How certain is certain enough? | LSHTM
When 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
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 24/09/2025
The 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...
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#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.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 24/09/2025
Another triumph for human tenacity, intelligence and compassion over the brutally indifferent force that is evolution.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 24/09/2025
Every 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*
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David 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/serojump
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A serological inference package using reversible jump mcmc
The `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...
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Shengwu 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'.
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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
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 08/04/2025
For 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 more
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What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
What the package does (one paragraph).
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 04/04/2025
I'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.
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Women and Free Love: Part One
Free love, women's suffrage, and Mrs Satan
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 17/03/2025
Wild 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
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 13/03/2025
One of my least popular views is that women will not truly be emancipated until bionic wombs are readily available.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 13/03/2025
As 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...
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 13/03/2025
I 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.
Mug with a picture of a graph that resembles a woman dressed like a stripper, with words: economists do it with models because there's no shortage of demand for the curves that the supply.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 07/03/2025
Looking at the Mary Wollstonecraft memorial but shaking my head so everyone knows I disapprove of the naked lady.
Silver statue of a tiny naked woman on top of what looks like a mound of shaving foam. Inscription reads: for Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025
I 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.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025
The 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.
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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.org
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SeroSim
Web interface for serosurvey data simulation
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025
Happy 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.
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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
In 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! 🙂
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 05/03/2025
The 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.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 01/03/2025
Just a little thread on (some) of my favourite charts I've made. 🧵
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 04/03/2025
I 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?
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 04/03/2025
I 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!
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Aveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Many 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
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Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Enjoying 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...
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What 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...
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Nathan @handle.invalid · 15/02/2025
Whatever you think about Government aid, if you want to give money directly into the hands of poor people, I recommend @GiveDirectly.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 14/02/2025
The "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...
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 11/02/2025
I 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
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Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 05/02/2025
New 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...
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Trump Has Put George W. Bush’s Lifesaving Legacy in Danger
PEPFAR is a critical part of U.S. soft power in Africa.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 30/01/2025
I 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.
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Olimpia 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
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 30/01/2025
How 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.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 30/01/2025
odin 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!
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Global 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
Members of GHECO retreat 2025
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Excited 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/
Book covers and quotes from proof.kucharski.io
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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 20/01/2025
My 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.
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Why it's okay to use ChatGPT, in 4 graphs
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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Today 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:
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 14/01/2025
Novel 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
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 20/12/2024
This 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.
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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 20/12/2024
Mother and Child at Breaking Point (1970), by Maureen Scott
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