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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

not there listening to this but wish I was because I see a lot of good people burning out trying to make bad plans work instead of just saying, stop, no, this is a bad plan and we need to start again.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Five years since the abolition of PHE, how are all my public health folks doing?

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tfrost21.bsky.social @tfrost21.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A fun user research testing session on the new fingertips tool under the watchful gaze of @statsgeekclare.bsky.social

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Congrsts to Andre Loranger on being appointed as the new UK National Statistician, coming over here from Canada to fix our numbers, after a lengthy extension to the transfer window for statisticians. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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André Loranger appointed as new United Kingdom National Statistician

André Loranger has been appointed as the National Statistician for the United Kingdom

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Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Over the long period of WFH 20-21 I wrote ~60% of my org’s 77 page Strategy document through multiple drafts and restructures and revisions. When we started spending more time in the office I had to work weekends if I wanted to get any serious drafting done

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wisevis @wisevis.eu · 25/08/2026

Silly question. It's not about saving one's job. Tie people to the rails and that creates a market with a huge potential, saving many jobs and creating many more, with clear trickle-down effects.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

All the leaving collections are bankrupting me!

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At some point people will realise that Twitter/X stopped being for asides to your mates in about 2011

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Do you use Health trends in England fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-repor...? We are looking to replace it with a new integrated service for public health data and we're running a survey with users at the moment to understand what they currently use it for. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Health trends in England

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you MUST message me about a national emergency DON’T SAY I “should not undertake any activity that could start a fire” SAY “do not do anything that could start a fire” You’re not drafting legislation, you’re talking to people many of whom have a reading age of 6.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

These students were in years 7 and 8 during peak Covid. Contrary to current narrative, schools didn’t easily pivot to online learning across the board and surprise surprise the impacts of that are coming out strongly in widening inequality in results now.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just used an Oyster card today that I last used in 2013!

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

100% this! Ditto specific training to use your website means the design of your website is crap.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

London transport gurus! Is there any advantage these days to using contactless over oyster?

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Andrew @akbrown.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've got tickets to see @perennialtheband.bsky.social bring their sound (the *Perennial Sound*) and energy to The Cav in October. Can't wait! #GigGang @statsgeekclare.bsky.social

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 19/06/2026

Crofton Park (Lewisham) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 44.9% (-7.5) 🌹 LAB: 44.5% (+13.9) ➡️ RFM: 4.3% (-0.8) 🔶 LDM: 3.5% (-2.9) 🌳 CON: 2.4% (-3.1) 🙋 Ind: 0.3% (New) Green HOLD. Changes w/ 2026.

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Huddersfield Town @htafc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Wishing everyone taking part in #P4PMND’s ride from Ipswich to Huddersfield all the very best of luck as they raise money for those affected by MND, in honour of #htafc’s Marcus Stewart 💙 Please donate what you can Terriers⬇️ A safe journey, riders! 👏🚴 🔗 p4pmnd.co.uk #htafc

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 17/06/2026

🚨 | The Combined Authorities (Mayoral Elections) Order 2026 has passed through Parliament. This means the Supplementary Vote system has returned for Combined Authority Mayoral Elections, and would apply should a Mayoral By-Election be triggered in Greater Manchester.

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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Imagine wasting your remaining political capital (and everyone's time) on a social media ban for under-16s.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I like how Bluesky has introduced group DMs, facing down the critique that Bluesky is anyway a group DM.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hivemind! I am looking for a pub in Leeds that will be showing the England match on 23 June and won't be too busy... is this is even vaguely likely to be possible? And if so any recommendations as to where this holy grail may lie?

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

There were no youth clubs when I was a teen, I am now 51. Youth clubs are not going to solve whatever the perceived issue is.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 26/05/2026

Otherwise, the article was perfect

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Found these on my camera roll from 2020 when someone made a tool to turn your tweets into Guardian op-eds. They made me giggle so I’m sharing them again (all correct opinions still obviously) 🤣

Is there anything better on a Monday morning than your laptop deciding to configure Windows updates?

Anyone advocating for permanently sticking with BST should be made to spend a week in winter getting two secondary-age kids off to school.

I will take some convincing that admin data can replace the census.
Just as you are unlikely to find me saying they can provide the richness of data, particularly on inequalities, we get from social surveys.

I seem to remember as a kid in the 80s being told to turn off my TV and do something less boring instead.
All that's changed is adults now tell their kids to turn off their phones instead.

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Dr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Interesting maybe.... But correlation does not equal causation, and as with a lot of these things, I'm left with wondering why, seeing as this is about humans, with the power of speech, yet again we have a man not just asking women (and men: they're involved!) why they haven't had children.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

When I rule the world, men will no longer be allowed to explain birth rates and fertility with charts. Honestly, lads, if you want to know why women are having fewer babies, do some qualitative research. Ask some women and find out.

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Ceona @ceona.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Mayor stood for council as well so will be him winning that seat and being immediately vacated.

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Dreadful exploding 3D pie charts are available here councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/mgElectionAr...

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Lewisham Council results starting to trickle in - two Green councillors elected in New Cross Gate.

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If your name wasn't near the front of alphabet you had less chance of being elected yesterday. 📊 For wards with 3 candidates standing per party, we can compare alphabetical name ordering with vote ordering by party If no name bias we'd expect all squares to have the same number of candidates. But…

A set of 6 'bias matrices' arranged in two rows of 3. Each matrix comprises a 3 by 3 grid along 2 axes: Horizontal, rank of votes received within party (1st, 2nd, 3rd); vertical, alphabetical rank of candidate name within the party they are standing for (1st corresponding to names near the top of the alphabet, 3rd near the bottom of the alphabet).

The 6 matrices show respecictively:

Top-left (greys) - counts for all parties with 3 candidates submitted;
Top-centre (blues) - counts of Conservative candidates where 3 Conservative candidates were standing.
Top-right (reds) - counts of Labour candidates where 3 Labour candidates were standing.
Bottom-left (greens) - counts of Green Party candidates where 3 Green candidates were standing.
Bottom-centre (cyans) - counts of Reform UK candidates where 3 Reform candidates were standing.
Bottom-right (oranges) - counts of Conservative candidates where 3 Conservative candidates were standing.

All grids show a strong name bias with higher numbers of candidates both first in terms of party votes and first alphabetically; higher numbers of candidates 2nd and 2nd; 3rd and 3rd.

The effect is strongest for Labour and the Greens and weakest (but still dominant) for the LibDems and Reform.

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

European Commission has updated its follow buttons. ✅ Mastodon and Bluesky are in; ⛔ X, Facebook, YouTube are out. (Only when you scroll all the way down, FB and YT are still there, but no longer X.) commission.europa.eu/index_en

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In the 2023 mayoral by election Labour got 49.8% of the vote, down from 59.1% in the first round vote in 2022...

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Panic over x

An instagram post from Lego, where they’ve updated the ages on their boxes to say 4-100+ to celebrate Sir David Attenborough turning 100

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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 08/05/2026

A useful concept in outbreaks is the "reasonable worst case", which is not the worst that can happen but is significantly worse than the current trajectory. The current trajectory is that this is a very distressing situation for those involved that we can take meaningful steps to avoid in future. >

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Local election results are trickling in and we're already seeing the chaotic effects of First Past the Post. In Wandsworth, the Tories are the biggest party and are one seat away from a majority on just 31% of the vote. Meanwhile, Labour got 34% of the vote - and fewer seats.

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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Lib Dems extend their 40 year actual (36 year majority) control of Sutton Council for another four years, scooping up 51 of the 55 seats - the Tories are wiped out. But, if I look at my own ward of Cheam, it is Reform splitting the Tory result that has allowed the Lib Dems to prosper…

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

As far as I can tell the Arts Council does not have an X account, although Number 10 Downing Street does.

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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A European semi-final, for a local club from south London Hard to overstate what it means

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Today is the anniversary of my HIV diagnosis. I was 30 and had lost many friends to AIDS. The doctor told me that with treatment I could expect to live another twenty years. That was 28 years ago. HIV changed. Tell everyone.

Me dressed up (in LA). This may be the most handsome photo of me that there is.

A recent studio photo, taken by Paul Madeley. I’m wearing a bright blue suit and a smile.

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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We are proud to announce the 2026 RSS medal & prize winners: Peter McCullagh, Christl Donnelly, Maria Skoularidou, Finn Lindgren and Sophie Carr—recognised for outstanding contributions to statistics and data science. Read more about the winners and their work: rss.org.uk/news-publica...

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Royal Statistical Society announces 2026 honours

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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Future generations will end up thanking this one for this, if perhaps for little else. A huge endeavour over time by many. My parents died of smoking-related disease, only managing to stop smoking far too late for them, addicted to the product that helped speed their demise.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“Fires in the underground are really unlikely if you extract Kings Cross from the statistics, so no need to ban smoking on the Tube.” “Collapsing slag heaps are really rare if you exclude Aberfan, so absolutely no need to monitor or clear them.”

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

The Artemis rocket launches with a chyron below that says: Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood leaves BBC after 28 years.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Greater Manchester Police statement: "We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting."

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