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Alistair Bailey
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Developing micromixers for Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry Proteomics. Occasional immunopeptidomics researcher at the University of Southampton. https://ab604.uk/ #rstats 🤖 My proteomics literature bot: @protpapers.bsky.social
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June 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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#30DayChartChallenge Day 6: Florence Nightingale.

A hexagonal density plot England of measles vaccination coverage for 5 year olds. There was one measles related death in England in 2024.

Vaccines work.
#30DayChartChallenge Day 6 Florence Nightingale theme. A hexagonal density plot, where each hexagon show the vaccination coverage for local authorities in England for 5 year olds in 2024 and the colour indicates the coverage percentage. Where reported, the the lowest coverage was 75% and the highest 100%. One acute measles-related death was reported in 2024 in a young person who was known to have other medical conditions.
April 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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For #30DayChartChallenge Big or Small, I couldn't resist re-creating the FT Alphaville chart on US tariffs: on.ft.com/4cddkuC. See the article for their interactive version.

All the tariffs are big, but some are bigger than others!

Code and country data is in my repo: github.com/ab604/charts...
Scatterplot of April 2025 US tariffs for 196 countries plotted against a guess of how the tariff was calculated using the trade balance for each country divided by their import amount in dollars divided by 2. For example, China has a balance with the USA of 295 billon and the US imports 439 billion worth of goods, which gives a guess tariff of 34% which is the same as the actual tariff. All EU countries have 20% tarriff imposed. This re-creates an interactive chart by FT Alphaville: https://on.ft.com/4cddkuC and the code and data I used for each country are at: https://github.com/ab604/charts-2025
April 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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For #30DayChartChallenge Circles, I chose the Moon.

I made a webpage that updates each day with an image of the moon phase as it appears from Southampton in the UK.

Today it is a waxing crescent moon, 19% of the way through it's cycle.

The wepage is at ab604.github.io/moon-phase/
Image of the moon phase on the 3rd of April 2025 in Southampton in the UK where it is a waxing crescent moon, 19% of the way through it's cycle. It shows a pale yellow crescent on a black background. The image is from a webpage that updates each day with the current moon phase: https://ab604.github.io/moon-phase/
April 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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For slopes #30DayChartChallenge I've made a simpler version of the Our World in Data graphic about cervical cancer and the Human papillomavirus: ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccinat...

Good news, vaccines work and prevent cancer!

Source article DOI is 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02178-4
Line chart for four cohorts of women screened for cervical cancer from 1989 to 2019. It reproduces an Our World in Data chart that shows how in England, younger cohorts vaccinated at school against the Human papillomavirus show dramatically lower rates of cervical cancer than older cohorts who were not vaccinated, when they reached the same age. Vaccination programmes for girls began in 2008 in England and then 2019 for boys. The DOI for the source data article used by Our World in Data is 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02178-4
April 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Trying the #30DayChartChallenge for the first time. I'm going to focus on my research interests, so here's plots of UK lung cancer diagnoses between 2000 and 2021 showing how most people who get lung cancer are smokers, and how England has the largest proportion of cases.
Stacked bar plots showing that England accounts for the majority of lung cancer diagnoses across all age groups in the UK and how in most age groups, people diagnosed with lung cancer are usually smokers. The data is for 45,563 patients diagnosed in the UK from January 2000 to December 2021. Source data from DOI: 10.21037/tlcr-24-241, Made by: Alistair Bailey, Code: https://github.com/ab604/charts-2025
April 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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And I like the light on the sea at this time of day.
Sea foam on the beach at Southbourne at sunset. The foam is blurred due from long exposure.
March 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Beautiful sunset at Bournemouth this evening.
Photo of the sunset from the beach at Southbourne looking towards Bournemouth. Red sky fading to blue with the sea and sand.
March 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I've fixed that now. Thanks again. I noticed it's wrong on the YouTube site, but comments are off so I'm not sure how to tell them.
October 9, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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2024 marks 50 years since construction began on Southampton's Itchen Bridge. Explore previously unseen photos from then and now curated by our Ignite intern & the UoS Library Digital Scholarship Team: ab604.github.io/itchen-bridge/
#UoS #HistoricSouthampton
October 8, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Saw an Allogator on my way to work today #Pareidolia #badpuns
An fallen tree with an old branch sticking ou that looks like an alligator with it's mouth open
October 2, 2024 at 7:47 AM