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Particularly interesting decision given that it’s estimated that the 1918 Flu outbreak nearly killed as many American soldiers as WW1 and one of the earliest major outbreaks was in a US military base

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Loving your music related threads. Do you curate them anywhere as playlists?

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Bluesky should have an LOL button not just like. I’d hit it here

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

LOL, my first job was selling trainers, cutting keys and occasionally helping repair shoes at Tony Andrew’s in Muswell Hill on a sat. I don’t remember how much I got paid though. I think it was about £2-3 an hour though.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My whole family is with you both

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Randomly there are also Cox’s on two separate lines of my family tree.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

What a combination of jobs! We must be related…. Apparently Clerkenwell had a big Italian immigrant community based around St Peter’s Italian Church, which could even have some additional details about my family which I might go and check out one day when I’m back in London.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Still not sure who the bare knuckle boxer in our family was though….but I’m less suspicious of it as my dad has also always talked about an Italian link which I’m now pretty sure is true

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I love the Exmouth Arms, I worked /lived near it for years!! Btw in a unique twist, I’ve been doing more digging into my family’s boxing history and it actually centers around Clerkenwell and brass manufacturing, and turns out I might be a decent of Italian immigrants….

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I think we both also know Matthew Sanders?

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Serious London 80s nostalgia (also grew up in North London) now, thank you! I’m going to create a play list with these. I saw you’re also a big Gilles Peterson fan. What a DJ.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

That’s exactly what The Blues & Soul Show (aka The Blues Kitchen from Brixton) used to do and it was beautiful thing but Spotify stopped supporting that format so they haven’t done one since 2024

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

100%. And on his argument, let’s not forget that he conveniently left out that AI was created and trained on all human knowledge and learning and wouldn’t do what it does without it. The narrative and comparison is completely flawed.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

There’s an em dash in there so ChatGPT?

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🧵1/ Are you mystified by what AI means for health policy? Our new book, from @obshealth.bsky.social led by @paula171.bsky.social with Jasjot Saund, Dimitra Pantel, & myself, aims to help you make sense of this rapidly evolving, and often contested issue eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t know the specific answer to your question, and not sure if your set up allows, but if it does, have you tried GitHub co-pilot with Claude 4,5 or Gemini 3 pro? I’ve found them very helpful for debugging Issues.

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Dr Lucinda Hiam @lucindahiam.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

📄 New paper out in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine with @robaldridge.bsky.social, Rachel Burns, and analysis led by @jonminton.bsky.social ❓How does mortality compare by country/region of birth in England & Wales, 2007–2021? doi.org/10.1177/0141... 🧵⬇️

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The reasoning and thinking it showed was exciting though. Shame there was just no way to get it to create the real thing.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This week I got one LLM to undertake a complex task that none could get close to solving six months ago. At the end it said it had provided me with a link to the 200,000 rows of data output. The download was a fake link and it could not comprehend this when I fed that back to it.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I’ve spent a decent amount of time over the last nine months experimenting with LLMs and seeing how to use them in my work. The last 2 months they’ve definitely improved a lot, but I’m still amazed at how they can be simultaneously creative/useful/efficient and being fatally flawed and wrong.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 19/12/2025

Given all the recent buzz about how great ChatGPT has gotten, including its prowess with images, I figured I'd check in on its anatomical skills. Nope.

A ChatGPT diagram of a skull with some weird labels. The lower jaw is both the mandible and the occipital bone. Also, the nasal cavity is between two teeth!

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

And if you haven’t spent hours on the front line in healthcare or AI, how can you feel so confident about your positions on these topics?

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My question to @rory-stewart.bsky.social is just how much time have you spent working in public health, healthcare and AI? I agree with you on many subjects, but in these areas - where I am one of Gove’s hated experts - I often disagree (hopefully agreeably) with your positions.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

@therestpolitics.bsky.social as a Brit in the US, I very much enjoy Leading and the Rest is Politics and thought the interview with Michael Gove very entertaining. I was interested in Rory’s line of attack re Gove’s stance on Israel, focusing, in part, on how much time he’s spent in Gaza etc.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I didn’t know he was a bare knuckle boxer! One for you @oispooky.bsky.social

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I would have also liked to have seen members of the public involved in these panels too so it wasn’t just a normative process. We did this with our scientific studies (eg ucl-virus-watch.net) and their insights were always so important and pragmatic

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

😫 sorry. Found it. No idea what happened. Will reply. And thanks for checking in on me!!

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Eh? Really, where did you send it? I have 6000 unread emails on my UCL account…sorry! Love you still, promise.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Yes, it was a great event and the start of a cool collaboration!

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Can’t wait to read the book, especially as my great great grandfather (according to family legend) was something of a bare knuckle fighter around that time in North + East London! Any tips on how you think I could find out more about him and add some facts to the family history would be amazing!

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Well, I never said it was actually going to be funny and not niche

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I was going to make a joke about stepwise regression but I see you have that covered in the first paragraph

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Also make sure you remove the AI prompt responses (I’ve found them…)

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026! #EpiSky #EuroEpi2026

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

USA public health origins can be found in the marine hospital services around 1798 so quite a bit before 1918 influenza epidemic

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

That why I love the rest is history.

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Rob Aldridge @robaldridge.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Interesting to call it a journal in public health given none of them actually trained or worked in public health.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Many grant proposals are submitted against a background of 'ticking clocks' (i.e. contracts or studentships coming to an end). These aren't new calls – they're ones that people may well have already submitted 100+ page applications for. Even delays could prove extremely damaging to early careers...

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