Clare Griffiths
@statsgeekclare.bsky.social
Demographer, former tweeting statistician and female data lad. Attempting to make a difference in public health analysis at DHSC. I ran the UK's covid dashboard. Now seen running parkruns. DMs not available. She/her 🍉🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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📢 Now open: BSPS 2026 Call for sessions and strands. Come and join us in Canterbury. 8-10 September 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📢 Now open: BSPS 2026 Call for sessions and strands. Come and join us in Canterbury. 8-10 September 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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Not since 1998 has an entire nation simultaneously banged the table and shouted “oh for fucks sake David” #CelebrityTraitors
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Not since 1998 has an entire nation simultaneously banged the table and shouted “oh for fucks sake David” #CelebrityTraitors
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The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.
Traitors game at a work event - fabulous idea or disaster waiting to happen? Thoughts?!
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Traitors game at a work event - fabulous idea or disaster waiting to happen? Thoughts?!
Long covid prevalence is available in OHID's Fingertips tool, am not sure this data is much known about! fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/gene...
National General Practice Profiles - Data | Fingertips | Department of Health and Social Care
Data on patient demographics, satisfaction with GP services, prevalence of common conditions and general practice achievement results.
fingertips.phe.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Long covid prevalence is available in OHID's Fingertips tool, am not sure this data is much known about! fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/gene...
I am doing my own set of stickers with phrases like "please no more user research" and "can we just bloody launch something please". I love user research and testing as much as the next person but at some point you have to launch and see what happens.
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I am doing my own set of stickers with phrases like "please no more user research" and "can we just bloody launch something please". I love user research and testing as much as the next person but at some point you have to launch and see what happens.
This is an entirely logical position if you just don’t want any migrants at all - demand they speak English but refuse to teach them, send them away. 🤦🏻♀️
For the love of God just make your mind up whether migrants should be speaking English or not www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform's Dame Andrea Jenkyns considers scrapping English lessons
Dame Andrea Jenkyns says a £1m budget to teach foreign nationals
www.bbc.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This is an entirely logical position if you just don’t want any migrants at all - demand they speak English but refuse to teach them, send them away. 🤦🏻♀️
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For those who enjoyed the premature mortality piece yesterday, here is the original justification for the use of age 75.
A fairly old article on how to define premature mortality, for some reason easier to find on this random website than the National Archives… @actuarybyday.bsky.social www.atlantesanitario.it/index.php?op...
www.atlantesanitario.it
October 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For those who enjoyed the premature mortality piece yesterday, here is the original justification for the use of age 75.
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The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.
October 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.
Good to see this initiative continues
Everything you need to know about the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science, and what to expect from its fourth outing on 14 October 2025 #IDWSDS2025
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What is the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science 2025? - Significance magazine
Everything you need to know about the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science, and what to expect from its fourth outing on 14 October 2025 The...
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October 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Good to see this initiative continues
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Is 'home advantage' back? When Covid kept football fans away from matches, it didn't seem to matter whether teams played at home or away. But what happened after the crowds returned?
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Home advantage: what's changed since Covid? - Significance magazine
Football fans say a team plays better in their home stadium, thanks to the familiarity of the environment and the quantity of fans cheering them on. The August 2021 issue...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Is 'home advantage' back? When Covid kept football fans away from matches, it didn't seem to matter whether teams played at home or away. But what happened after the crowds returned?
ow.ly/IsBT50X78Zy
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Proud to have been on the steering group for this important project.
Statisticians worked with fragmented data to estimate the scale of the NHS’s biggest scandal: the Infected Blood Inquiry. In a masterclass of balancing data with quality results, their models clarified the impact.
🔗 Read more and find out what policymakers can learn: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
🔗 Read more and find out what policymakers can learn: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Policy recommendations and final case study published in the Statistics Under Pressure initiative
rss.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Proud to have been on the steering group for this important project.
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Statisticians worked with fragmented data to estimate the scale of the NHS’s biggest scandal: the Infected Blood Inquiry. In a masterclass of balancing data with quality results, their models clarified the impact.
🔗 Read more and find out what policymakers can learn: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
🔗 Read more and find out what policymakers can learn: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
Policy recommendations and final case study published in the Statistics Under Pressure initiative
rss.org.uk
October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Statisticians worked with fragmented data to estimate the scale of the NHS’s biggest scandal: the Infected Blood Inquiry. In a masterclass of balancing data with quality results, their models clarified the impact.
🔗 Read more and find out what policymakers can learn: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
🔗 Read more and find out what policymakers can learn: rss.org.uk/news-publica...
A fairly old article on how to define premature mortality, for some reason easier to find on this random website than the National Archives… @actuarybyday.bsky.social www.atlantesanitario.it/index.php?op...
www.atlantesanitario.it
October 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
A fairly old article on how to define premature mortality, for some reason easier to find on this random website than the National Archives… @actuarybyday.bsky.social www.atlantesanitario.it/index.php?op...
Tbf there are numerous good reasons for this… I’d be worried if they didn’t report on homicide and if anything gun deaths are under not over reported given just how preventable they are.
Nice chart from @ourworldindata.org showing the contrast between what Americans die of (heart disease and cancer) v what the US media reports on (homicide and terrorism). This naturally leads to it being trickier to build a fact based world view
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
October 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Tbf there are numerous good reasons for this… I’d be worried if they didn’t report on homicide and if anything gun deaths are under not over reported given just how preventable they are.
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Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space
Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space
Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship
In a lifetime studying the behavior of chimpanzees, Jane Goodall became something of an authority on the aggressiveness of alpha male adults. Now, in an interview released just days after her death, the famed primatologist reveals what she would do with Donald Trump, Elon Musk and other human beings she saw as showing similar traits: launch them on a one-way trip into space.
The insight into Goodall’s thinking comes in the Netflix documentary Famous Last Words, recorded in March and kept under wraps until her death last week at the age of 91. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space
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ICYMI: From CMO of England (& colleagues inc @statsgeekclare.bsky.social ), #our #health as a nation. Some will reinforce, some will suprise, should make us all think/question. Very much welcome the narrative, alongside the numbers www.gov.uk/government/p...
September 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ICYMI: From CMO of England (& colleagues inc @statsgeekclare.bsky.social ), #our #health as a nation. Some will reinforce, some will suprise, should make us all think/question. Very much welcome the narrative, alongside the numbers www.gov.uk/government/p...
John Bibby and his contributions to Radical Statistics;
Why are some people missing from UK surveys?;
Unsettled populations: Service administrative data and people outside the sampling frame;
Unknown knowns: The non-enforcing of gambling legislation in Ireland
www.radstats.org.uk/editorial-is...
Why are some people missing from UK surveys?;
Unsettled populations: Service administrative data and people outside the sampling frame;
Unknown knowns: The non-enforcing of gambling legislation in Ireland
www.radstats.org.uk/editorial-is...
Editorial, Issue 137
Radstats’ annual conference took place at Manchester Metroplitan University on the 1st of March 2025, and we thank all of those involved in its organisation, as well as those who presented and part…
www.radstats.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
John Bibby and his contributions to Radical Statistics;
Why are some people missing from UK surveys?;
Unsettled populations: Service administrative data and people outside the sampling frame;
Unknown knowns: The non-enforcing of gambling legislation in Ireland
www.radstats.org.uk/editorial-is...
Why are some people missing from UK surveys?;
Unsettled populations: Service administrative data and people outside the sampling frame;
Unknown knowns: The non-enforcing of gambling legislation in Ireland
www.radstats.org.uk/editorial-is...
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BBC Radio 6 Music
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Now Playing
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Joe
September 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Lauren Laverne
Now Playing
Inspiral Carpets
Joe
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This is the best present you could ever give an autistic person who likes data and it's interfering with my ability to watch Taskmaster
New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...
Health trends and variation in England 2025: a Chief Medical Officer report
An overview of the health of England’s population, including trends over time and geographical variation.
www.gov.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is the best present you could ever give an autistic person who likes data and it's interfering with my ability to watch Taskmaster
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Warning: this is a dangerous report
You will be drawn into its pack of "aha"moments and, without noticing, it'll be two hours later :-)
You will be drawn into its pack of "aha"moments and, without noticing, it'll be two hours later :-)
New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...
Health trends and variation in England 2025: a Chief Medical Officer report
An overview of the health of England’s population, including trends over time and geographical variation.
www.gov.uk
September 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Warning: this is a dangerous report
You will be drawn into its pack of "aha"moments and, without noticing, it'll be two hours later :-)
You will be drawn into its pack of "aha"moments and, without noticing, it'll be two hours later :-)