Rob Aldridge
@robaldridge.bsky.social
Public health physician, infectious disease epidemiologist and Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at IHME, University of Washington. I use data to investigate and improve the health of the public.
I didn’t know he was a bare knuckle boxer! One for you @oispooky.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I didn’t know he was a bare knuckle boxer! One for you @oispooky.bsky.social
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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November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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
😫 sorry. Found it. No idea what happened. Will reply. And thanks for checking in on me!!
October 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
😫 sorry. Found it. No idea what happened. Will reply. And thanks for checking in on me!!
Eh? Really, where did you send it? I have 6000 unread emails on my UCL account…sorry! Love you still, promise.
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Eh? Really, where did you send it? I have 6000 unread emails on my UCL account…sorry! Love you still, promise.
Yes, it was a great event and the start of a cool collaboration!
October 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Yes, it was a great event and the start of a cool collaboration!
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!
Any tips on how you think I could find out more about him and add some facts to the family history would be amazing!
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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!
Any tips on how you think I could find out more about him and add some facts to the family history would be amazing!
Well, I never said it was actually going to be funny and not niche
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Well, I never said it was actually going to be funny and not niche
I was going to make a joke about stepwise regression but I see you have that covered in the first paragraph
October 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I was going to make a joke about stepwise regression but I see you have that covered in the first paragraph
Also make sure you remove the AI prompt responses (I’ve found them…)
October 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Also make sure you remove the AI prompt responses (I’ve found them…)
Helen wrote an interesting piece over on LinkedIn about fake citations. The comments were also thought provoking www.linkedin.com/posts/helen-...
The problem of fake academic citations: a scholar's concern | Helen Pineo posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Fake academic citations are a problem, but I'm not sure what the real problem is. While reading existing research about residents' experiences of temporary accommodation, I came across a nice article ...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Helen wrote an interesting piece over on LinkedIn about fake citations. The comments were also thought provoking www.linkedin.com/posts/helen-...
USA public health origins can be found in the marine hospital services around 1798 so quite a bit before 1918 influenza epidemic
August 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
USA public health origins can be found in the marine hospital services around 1798 so quite a bit before 1918 influenza epidemic
That why I love the rest is history.
July 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
That why I love the rest is history.
Interesting to call it a journal in public health given none of them actually trained or worked in public health.
February 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Interesting to call it a journal in public health given none of them actually trained or worked in public health.
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I was very happy to discover @onisillos.bsky.social on here. Keeping me grounded to my London routes too.
January 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I was very happy to discover @onisillos.bsky.social on here. Keeping me grounded to my London routes too.
I’m willing to place a bet that, unlike Barry Marshall, his self experimentation will not result in a Nobel prize.
January 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I’m willing to place a bet that, unlike Barry Marshall, his self experimentation will not result in a Nobel prize.
We had a similar event at UCL in 2014 and it was wild for a while. It even made the news. We didn’t have onions though www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#Bellogate trends after pranksters target UCL students' email
Students take to Twitter after being subjected to thousands of spam messages from membership lists and porn sites
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December 30, 2024 at 3:57 AM
We had a similar event at UCL in 2014 and it was wild for a while. It even made the news. We didn’t have onions though www.theguardian.com/education/20...