Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided 12502204
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This year's commentary on bacteraemia and C. difficile infection is out now. Loads of interesting stuff in it as usual. The report itself has been split into two now with bacteraemias and CDI reported separately. E. coli first - it continues it's upward trend www.gov.uk/government/s... 231
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - NatureEmerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ... 8553276
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Great talk from Andrew Pollard at UKHSA annual conference. Vaccines as social justice. Don't know if it will be available externally, but seriously good. Effect of SureStart on child health amazing. 000
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Nice new article on #cdif from colleagues. Looks at possible explanations for why there have been rises in CDI rates in England in recent years. No great surprises in risk factors - age, comorbidities cancer and prior abx all raise risk of CDI. But, ... 1/2 www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...eurosurveillance.orgFactors driving increases in Clostridioides difficile infection rates in England: a national case−control study, 2019 to 2024BACKGROUND Numbers of Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI) in England have risen since 2021, but for unclear reasons. AIM This study’s objective was to understand factors driving CDI increases, a... 111
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Well, this is utterly fucking terrifying. 010
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026ELECTRIFICATION: Really striking chart showing that three-quarters of final energy demand can now be electrified "economically" (ie at lower lifetime cost) – and 90% electrification is technically possible From the latest @ember-energy.org slidedeck by @kingsmillbond.bsky.social and colleagues 217177
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialVincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin... 1642197
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/09/2026Solar panels are now China’s top source of power capacity, surpassing coal in a key milestone for the country’s green energy boom.bloom.bgSolar Surpasses Coal as China’s Top Source of Power CapacitySolar panels are now China’s top source of power capacity, surpassing coal in a key milestone for the country’s green-energy boom. 720990
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialRebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Great piece on the efforts to reduce action on climate change. One of the arguments I find the most frustrating is those pointing out the small % of global emissions we account for - if everyone in a small or medium country thought like this, a huge proportion of the world would just do nothing. 46425
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Great to see this published. Last year we (UKHSA) launched sentinel surveillance of C. difficile using WGS. The idea was to select sentinel trusts that would be most likely to detect the emergence of subtypes. This paper describes the identification of the set of NHS trusts. doi.org/10.1038/s414...doi.orgNovel surveillance design exploiting network analysis for efficient, rapid detection of emerging Clostridioides difficile strains - Nature CommunicationsUsing network analysis for inter-hospital spread and algorithmically optimising sentinel site selection, the authors design a surveillance system to rapidly detect emerging nosocomial pathogen strains... 010
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the world will not be substantially improved by ai-enhanced shopping trolleys. 000
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I no longer think of it as my garden, it's more like kindling now. 000
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Did Tolkien actually ever go camping? I suspect he didn't and if he did, he would have reconsidered the logistics of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings 100
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialThe Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026New research article #Streptococcus anginosus group as a cause of serious streptococcal infection in the UK: a retrospective population-based surveillance study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA 155
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Managed to snap a hummingbird hawk moth in my garden yesterday. Very pleased with this. 131
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Me: whatever you're doing, stop it. Child 1: who? Which one of us? Me: whoever feels the most guilty! 001
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126037997
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Is net negative an option? Could we try that? Asking on behalf of a planet I know. 000
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialSignificance magazine @significancemag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026In 19th century Vienna, a young physician named Ignác Semmelweis discovered that doctors' dirty hands led to deaths. So can modern statistical techniques on Semmelweis's own data show us just how important this was? significancemagazine.com/the-semmelwe... 033
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Rain! It actually rained! Want a whole month of it now. 010
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026Today, almost all new electricity is coming from clean energy Once clean-energy growth consistently exceeds demand, fossil-fuel power will start to decline Source: IEA 1433991
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialSPROCKET Hub @sprockethub.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Are you or do you know 14-18 years-olds with complex health needs in London, looking for a paid, rewarding opportunity? A few spaces left in our Young Person PPI advisory panel 1119
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 02/07/2026Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India 211156449
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Turns out the foil in which your butter is wrapped is ferromagnetic and if you leave it on your induction hob while cooking, then bad things can happen. 010
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov 181474576
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23 16531841761
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialDirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 21/06/2026BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comProf Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's dataProf Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data. 419383
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This is awesome. Hope the UK levelling off at the end of the time series is just a blip. 000
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Well this is heartbreaking. I'm pretty confident I saw this tree as a kid and I've always loved the Robin Hood story. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak diesNottinghamshire tree, one of Europe’s oldest and largest, fails to produce leaves after being stressed by series of hot, dry summers 000
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialArthur Turrell @arthurturrell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Come and work @downingstreet as a data scientist! We're hiring for a data scientist working on health and education. You'll be right at the heart of UK policy making and (IMO) working with the best tech stack in the UK public sector. Link: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...civilservicejobs.service.gov.ukQuick Check Needed 2817
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Right, less than a week to go. Glad all of that fits. So psyched. 000
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Youlgreave is lovely but, seriously, pack the beta blockers for the driving😨 000
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Amazing day at the Roaches. Reckon I can see Jodrell Bank from here. Eldest's first trad climb. #traddad #climbing 010
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialGreg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026UKHSA: Incubation and infectious period, asymptomatic or presymptomatic transmission and transmission route in human-to-human spread of hantavirus infection: a systematic evidence summary @ukhsa.bsky.social assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a0af6... 176
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Oh, that's sad. I loved Richard's BMJ column, it was always beautifully written. 010
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Cheesecake for a 5am breakfast because it was so damn cold and those bloody owls were making a racket. Camping is harder than I remember. 220
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It's not AI, it's linear regression. But it is a really appalling and interesting story. 000
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialMike Coston @fla-medic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026AFD Blog `#UKHSA Update On #Hantavirus: 2 Nonsymptomatic Passengers Self-Isolating at Home' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/05/ukhs...afludiary.blogspot.comUKHSA Update On Hantavirus: 2 Nonsymptomatic Passengers Self-Isolating at Home#19,146 The UK's Health Security Agency has published an update this afternoon on the current status of British nationals aboard the m/v ... 024
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Petition to pass legislation to enforce synchronisation of wind turbines as it's infuriating to watch the blades go around at different speeds. 010
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Bloody love English hedgerows at this time of year - they all just seem to froth and overflow with green abundance. 010
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialPeter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber. 321349
Reposted by @simonthelwall.bsky.socialDr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Solar gain. 282
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The photography here is outstanding. Love this. www.ukclimbing.com/articles/in_...ukclimbing.comIN FOCUS: Lena DrapellaThe second instalment of our In Focus series, where climbing photographers share some of their favourite images, and revisit the stories, decisions, and circumstances behind them. 000
simonthelwall.bsky.social @simonthelwall.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Me explaining weekend plans to the youngest "no, don't walk away, I've not finished being boring yet" 030
