The return of Londonophobia Reflections on an ancient prejudice

“A city with all the right enemies” - delightful column this:

The return of Londonophobia Reflections on an ancient prejudice

I hesitate to say it, but Janan is right.
London rocks, in part because it pisses off all the right assholes

The return of Londonophobia - as.ft.com/r/53682c03-1...

This is such a joyful read. Simultaneously nostalgic and inspiring.

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.”

Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Love this advent calendar thread, now made perfect by including the definitive Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Annual rewatch in our house was last night.

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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

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Does global rise in diagnosed #neurodivergence reflect an increased awareness or does it indicate something else?

The 62nd Maudsley Debate, chaired by IoPPN’s Francesca Happé, aims to tackle that question. #MaudsleyDebates

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

RCPsych Awards 2025 Read more about the different awards designed to mark the highest level of achievements in psychiatry.

Lot's of other great people from @maudsleynhs.bsky.social up for awards too: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcp...

Delighted that @maudsleynhs.bsky.social's Clinical Informatics Service has been shortlisted for @rcpsych.bsky.social Digital Team of the Year. More about our team, supported by @maudsleycharity.bsky.social here www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/c...

The responses to this are just what I needed on a Monday morning. Some things are getting better!

City Hall has triggered a high air pollution alert for Tuesday 12 August as hot weather is expected to increase pollutant levels.

We're urging Londoners to look after themselves, stop their engines idling, and refrain from burning wood or garden waste.

Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

Trying to change the population is creepy and dangerous, full stop. But pronatalism is also wrong on the science, particularly the US brand of it. Here's a nice explainer on some of its more egregious logical flaws.
From @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social and @shelleydclark.bsky.social

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North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

It's not enough. But it's something. Please give if you can, and tell your reps to stop this horror. chuffed.org/project/help...

I re-read this every year and am always glad I did.

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I learned a great deal from this (very long) thread, definitely worth a read to try and understand what the new pope might mean (inc that this US pope won't/shouldn't please JD Vance and his ilk)

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Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.

And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

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Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them.
#episky #medsky #academicsky

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As someone who’s worked with, on, about NHS data, I can’t emphasise enough that it is far far from a carefully curated, nationally complete and ready to use data set. I keep reading otherwise sensible sounding pieces that comment on the uh-mazing data we can straightforwardly exploit.

A Tale of Three Artificial Intelligence (AI) Experiences in Healthcare Interactions AI tools are being increasingly used in healthcare, particularly for tasks like clinical notetaking during virtual visits. As a patient, I’ve had three recent experiences with AI-powered notetaking to...

AI can make errors when integrated into healthcare systems.

...but so do humans.

We don't have good processes to correct these errors for humans or AIs.

Some thoughts based on three different clinical encounters as a patient, where my clinician(s) used AI - or not.

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