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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

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If LiverTox has gone, my reporting of ?DILI will be far less nuanced.

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Love the energy of young Shostakovich. He looks like a Harry Potter who will fuck you up

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Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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More than 500 signatures added in the past 24 hrs. Please keep signing and sharing.

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The new AMMF campaign to raise awareness of cholangiocarcinoma is fantastic and has already been picked up widely by the Scottish and UK media. The pictures of the wonderful stars are amazing (ammf.org.uk/faces-of-cho...) and everyone should watch the behind the scenes video, too! #CCAAwarenessMonth

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The authors of an editorial recommend clearer guidelines and ethical standards for the use of #AI in research, to enhance research quality while preserving human oversight and integrating “data-chaining” transparency mechanisms more broadly. nejm.ai/4a6LwHo #MedSky #ScienceSky

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Discover the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944)

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📚🧪 A recent human #omics + in vitro study revealed important findings in Metabolic-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) research. By Andrew S. Perry, Niran Hadad, Emeli Chatterjee, et al. In @cellpress.bsky.social: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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"I would like universities to commit to matching every dollar they spend on AI with a dollar spent asking critical questions about AI."

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I was told point blank multiple times in the last year that I was "missing something" about OpenAI and was "dead wrong" but not one of these people could say why. Not a single person has an argument as to how OpenAI will become a real business. They're all pie in the sky

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💯. Most aspects of the system subtly (or not-so-subtly) push you back in your lane, making interdisciplinary work very hard.

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The comments under this week's newsletter, particularly from people who changed their career in their 40s, are extremely lovely. In short: it's not too late. You can still do it iandunt.substack.com/p/happy-new-...

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Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness

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The Dimensions of dimensionality www.cell.com/trends/cogni... #neuroscience

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This is a most wonderful story to warm the coldest of hearts. Demons (probably goblins, too), AI, and memories can't be trusted but librarians definitely can.

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Have a hobby, not a side hustle and other great pearls of wisdom. Words to Live By Number 157

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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

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The Mesopotamians saw the liver as the source of happiness within the body. I've always thought they were wise! #LiverSky www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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This paper is important. It provides a really strong case for working as hard as possible to include samples from those centres that serve the traditionally underrepresented patient groups in research. If we want treatments to work on everyone, we need to ensure research includes everyone.

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A friend sent this article to me today. It feels like a good moment to remind us: the LLM outperformed physicians on STRUCTURED cases. Someday the AIs may perform better than us in the unstructured, messy, real-world patient encounter...but that day is not today.🩺🛟 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

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I will not hide my inner convictions anymore. Be the change you want to see in the world ! #AcademicSky 🧪

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A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through. 1/n

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The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

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In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

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Not sure what use the high viz clad Edinburgh Airport staff are, waving forlornly in front of the bank of non functional epassport gates are. The looks of self-loathing on their faces.

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“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.” pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...

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A clear explanation of AI's voracious thirst for human created content and knowledge. That demand is generating work for human creators, and may never be slaked. Humans are always needed and not replaced. The same may be true of computational pathology.

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Not what I booked but Avis have given us a 300hp Dodge Charger. Like the Dukes of Hazard drove. Will my aged bones cope with one go at sliding over the bonnet and in through the window?

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Wonderful to see Luke get the Emerging Leader Award from EASL, richly deserved. @boulter_lab

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The final version of our recommendations to maximise the value of tissue to guide treatment when reporting intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma have just been published @CharityAMMF @curecc ...

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This just formalises something that's been true for at least 30 years!

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I've changed my twitter handle to @TimKendall_Path

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I could be in Boston for AASLD. I won't always be a liver pathologist but I'll always be a Luton supporter so I've chosen Salford for the weekend instead. It will be memorable one way or another.

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Now that's a manuscript title to envy - 'On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit' | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core -

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An unexpected professional and personal confluence. @RachelGuest1 kindly invited me, as her guest and part of the East Lothian HPB mafia, to the Aesculapian Club dinner this evening and the wonderful Remainiacs alumnus @AlynSmith was the special guest speaker. Ich bin Europäer.

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Glorious #NP6Music themed around Elliot Smith on @BBC6Music. I found his music, too late, through @julienrbaker, yet another way she has enriched my musical life.

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.@AvantiWestCoast the train manager, Steven I think, and his staff on our delayed train that has just headed South from being held at Penrith has been brilliant. Lots of helpful updates, and very friendly. If you can work out who it is please thank him.

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My unplanned and unwelcome evening run at Frankfurt airport to get on a 2045 flight has evidently earned me praise and bonus points from my phone. It didn't track the fact I spent the entire flight coughing as a result though.

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My reports will change from 'The histological features of steatosis/steatohepatitis are not specific and clinical correlation for cause is required' to 'The histological features of steatosis/steatohepatitis are not specific and clinical correlation for cause is required'. Oh.

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Rather wonderful that @cerysmatthews on @BBC6Music has taken over @LutonTown comms this morning, presumably mindful of some sore heads in Bedfordshire!

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Unexpectedly, this paper now contains a Premier League Easter egg. #COYH

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I really never thought I'd live to see Luton back in the top division. But here we are. #COYH

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What just happened?

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