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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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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 15/03/2026

Ha, what a blast from the past! So nice to hear 😊

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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

Not saying the Trump coin is a good sign, but we do always have the living head of state on our coins in the UK.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 02/10/2025

I think this kind of translational work is one of the best use cases for AI

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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 · 30/09/2025

This is so cool! Javascript FTW 😍

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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

At least one person on the panel would not have shared your ick!

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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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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 · 15/04/2025

I know of one account! From a feminist called Finn Mackay (who calls it 'sex dysphoria' for reasons they outline in their book). As someone who has body dsymorphia it sounds quite closely related, phenomenologically. Book is Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 15/04/2025

Amazing. How exactly could this be done while also respecting the previous clause (no ideological tests as hiring criteria?!)

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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

Congrats sis, sounds cool!

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 13/03/2025

Yeah if you read it as there's demand for curves supplied by models, it doesn't really sound like an explanation as implied by the "because".

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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 · 12/03/2025

Yep you can just upload the docs or share a link to them. It's really good at this sort of thing.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 12/03/2025

I think any decent LLM will do this. I get ChatGPT to write R for me and it does very well.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 08/03/2025

I feel like the guardian piece makes them sound too ideologically coherent. Seems more like collective psychosis?

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 07/03/2025

No way, me too! We must have been neighbours. "The rude woman" 😆

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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

Amazing anecdote. I lol-ed!

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

Completely agree. I'd also be commissioning way more research into pediatric transition outcomes, since the debate seems to hinge on empirical questions about harms/benefits to recipients.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

Daughter chose Mog the forgetful cat, an absolute classic, and I made this pretty epic tail:

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

Yeah, the observational data is hard to judge. Apparently intersex athletes are something like 100 times overrepresented in elite sports, but non-athletes are also just much less likely to have been tested for DSDs. And of course trans is different from intersex.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

Agreed, and neither should trans inclusion in sports be pushed for broader ideological reasons, if it harms another underprivileged group (cis women). Big if! I don't know that it does. I think it should be judged on its own merits.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

That's fair, although I guess I differ in thinking that the burden of proof should be to show that there is no advantage/my prior would be that there is one. I expect if the general public were shown clear evidence that trans athletes have no advantage over cis women, then they'd be won over.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

You could equally well make an argument (as many do) that adherence to unpopular positions like this radicalises the general public against broader queer acceptance.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

This is kind of lazy. Banning drag queens would be insanely authoritarian. We already have sex based inclusion criteria for sports, this is just a question of how we make those precise.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

Agree the case for advantage might differ a lot by sport, and it matters whether the advantage is confirmed or not.

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

Thanks, will have a watch!

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

This is also why I don't think it should be a big issue to fight the public on. It's not very consequential either way? But agree the case could vary a fair bit by sport. Are there sports currently that are mixed sex by default?

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Alex Hill @alexlizhill.com · 06/03/2025

Maybe it's because I'm not a sports fan that I don't understand the passion this inspires in some people. I'd just survey the public and go with the majority.

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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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