I’m a Dr.! (phD) 📜👩🏼‍💻

I thought this was just going to be cute (it was) but it was also poetic and moving

(4/4) We need more research to examine the mechanisms which link between physical and mental health, but we also need healthcare systems to better integrate physical and mental health care.

(3/4) People with multiple physical illnesses, or illnesses like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or heart disease might be particularly vulnerable to developing depression.

(2/4) In our study, we found that middle-aged people with physical illnesses had an increased risk of depression in the next ten years, and some groups more than double the risk of developing depression compared to people without physical illness.

Some thoughts and takeaways from this paper:

(1/4) Health systems tend to treat physical and mental health as two totally separate things, but people often have both and experience them as interconnected.

Cluster and survival analysis of UK biobank data reveals associations between physical multimorbidity clusters and subsequent depression - Communications Medicine DeLong et al. investigate several clustering techniques to identify patterns of physical multimorbidity. They find several clusters which align to known body systems and use survival analyses to deter...

📣 🗞️ 👉 Just in time for Mental Health Awareness Week 🧠
🎉Our study is now published in Nature Comms Medicine!

⚡ We look at whether certain patterns of physical conditions affect the risk of developing #depression

📜 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🖥️ Post: www.ed.ac.uk/news/multipl...

New Python package for scalable association rule mining!

We propose a novel neurosymbolic method for scalable rule mining from tabular data that can be used for both knowledge discovery and fully interpretable inference.

🧩 github.com/DiTEC-projec...
📜 arxiv.org/pdf/2504.19354
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Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.

Cloudflare have developed a way to trap bots scraping the internet for AI data in a honeypot labyrinth.

Hilariously, they used AI to generate realistic-looking webpages that have many many many links and can trap AI scraping bots in place:

There is something inhuman in quantifying and optimizing things that I can not pinpoint. It is not only that we miss-quantity the unquantifiable or misrepresent the intangible to pursue as goals, but deeper. It is depressing to think every human institution rests on quantification and optimization.

Go catch @neuralnoise.com in London!

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning...

RL is so back!

(well, for some of us, it never really left)

awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

The inspo I needed this morning 🫶

🔥 Can AI reason over time while following logical rules in relational domains? We will present Relational Neurosymbolic Markov Models (NeSy-MMs) next week at #AAAI2025! 🎉

📜 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13023
💻 Code: github.com/ML-KULeuven/...

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All That Glitters is Not Novel: Plagiarism in AI Generated Research Automating scientific research is considered the final frontier of science. Recently, several papers claim autonomous research agents can generate novel research ideas. Amidst the prevailing optimism,...

I've become a superpredictor just through this rule of thumb: future AI will improve faster than you think, but current capabilities are always exaggerated. Another example from @danishpruthi.bsky.social

Sex redefined - Nature The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.

This excellent Nature paper from 2015 discussed multiple ways that sex is not binary, and why the idea of two sexes is simplistic. Required reading right now - please share! www.nature.com/articles/518... 🧪👨‍🔬🧬🖥️

I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.

Recs for VSCode extensions that auto-format code?

OMG. You cannot make this up.

February 8, 2023: “Alphabet stock plunge erases $100 billion after new AI chatbot gives wrong answer in ad”

February 6, 2025: “Google edits Super Bowl ad for AI that features false information”

Exponential progress, my eye.

Screening performance and characteristics of breast cancer detected in the Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence trial (MASAI): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, non-inferiority, ... The findings suggest that AI contributes to the early detection of clinically relevant breast cancer and reduces screen-reading workload without increasing false positives.

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I came to the reply section for the same exact thought

I am prepared to buy MORE LEGO to assist the Danish economy should it prove necessary.

The enigma machine 😳 and the cofee machine 😌

Exciting new partnership in AI & Life Sciences announced today in Brussels

A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva Author summary Survival in extreme environments for prolonged periods is a challenge that only a few organisms, are capable of. It is not well understood, which molecular and biochemical pathways are ...

This explains how Avatar Aang was preserved in an iceberg for 100 years journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

But this one’s my fav 💗 shows a drug mechanism-of-action in terms of the types of data you can get in pre-clinical research v. during clinical trials 💉

We gave MARS💊👽 (arxiv.org/abs/2410.05289) a makeover with better figures. Look how much better this one is already!!

My first morning run in London 🎡 , ready to start at the Alan Turing Institute this week 🙌🏼