Alex Hill
@alexlizhill.com
Former logician. Aspiring health economist. Research fellow @lshtm-gheco.bsky.social. Thinking about philosophy, public health, econ, stats, feminism, & lots of other things!
https://alexlizhill.com
https://alexlizhill.com
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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!
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 45 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring WHO TB Burden Data: Incidence, Mortality, and Population!
📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-11-11
📰 https://samabbott.co.uk/getTBinR/index.html
#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-11-11
📰 https://samabbott.co.uk/getTBinR/index.html
#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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!
Reposted by Alex Hill
🥼 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...
🗓️ Thursday 6 November, 10:00-11:00 GMT
📍 LSHTM | Online
Details ⬇️
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
November 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🥼 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...
🗓️ Thursday 6 November, 10:00-11:00 GMT
📍 LSHTM | Online
Details ⬇️
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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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!
🔗 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!
Seroanalytics
seroanalytics.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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!
🔗 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!
Reposted by Alex Hill
🚀 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-...
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-...
Dynamic Mixture Model Analysis
dchodge.github.io
September 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🚀 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-...
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-...
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
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
September 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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
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
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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.
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
www.lshtm.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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.
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...
Crazy to watch US governmental institutions deteriorate at such a rapid pace.
www.bbc.com/news/blogs-t...
#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.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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...
Crazy to watch US governmental institutions deteriorate at such a rapid pace.
www.bbc.com/news/blogs-t...
Another triumph for human tenacity, intelligence and compassion over the brutally indifferent force that is evolution.
In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Another triumph for human tenacity, intelligence and compassion over the brutally indifferent force that is evolution.
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*
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*
September 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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*
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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🚨 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
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
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...
seroanalytics.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨 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
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
Reposted by Alex Hill
💡 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'.
Oprea 2024 reported an online lab experiment, and found that prospect theory anomalies occur not only for lotteries, but also for deterministic 'mirrors'.
April 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
💡 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'.
Oprea 2024 reported an online lab experiment, and found that prospect theory anomalies occur not only for lotteries, but also for deterministic 'mirrors'.
"[A]ll civilisation involves an ever-increasing foresight for others, even for others as yet unborn". - Havelock Ellis, 1911
April 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"[A]ll civilisation involves an ever-increasing foresight for others, even for others as yet unborn". - Havelock Ellis, 1911
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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
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
What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
What the package does (one paragraph).
posit-dev.github.io
April 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
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
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.
This first one is about free love in the 1800s and the first woman to run for president.
Women and Free Love: Part One
Free love, women's suffrage, and Mrs Satan
www.alexlizhill.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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.
This first one is about free love in the 1800s and the first woman to run for president.
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
March 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
One of my least popular views is that women will not truly be emancipated until bionic wombs are readily available.
March 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One of my least popular views is that women will not truly be emancipated until bionic wombs are readily available.
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...
worksinprogress.co/issue/fertil...
March 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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...
worksinprogress.co/issue/fertil...
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.
March 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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.
Looking at the Mary Wollstonecraft memorial but shaking my head so everyone knows I disapprove of the naked lady.
March 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Looking at the Mary Wollstonecraft memorial but shaking my head so everyone knows I disapprove of the naked lady.
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.
March 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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.
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.
When I read it as straight-forwardly about relating to nature and the whole indifferent universe, I get a lot more out of it.
March 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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.
When I read it as straight-forwardly about relating to nature and the whole indifferent universe, I get a lot more out of it.
@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
The app wraps the SeroSim R package by @jameshay.bsky.social for simulating serosurvey data:
serosim.seroanalytics.org
SeroSim
Web interface for serosurvey data simulation
serosim.seroanalytics.org
March 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
@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
The app wraps the SeroSim R package by @jameshay.bsky.social for simulating serosurvey data:
serosim.seroanalytics.org
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.
March 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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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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! 🙂
They wanted it to be high status, only for men.
A low status woman would be polluting.
We have come far! 🙂
March 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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! 🙂
They wanted it to be high status, only for men.
A low status woman would be polluting.
We have come far! 🙂