25 years on, London stands with New York, with love and solidarity. Drone artwork by Studio Drift.
Trish Greenhalgh
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
DEI hire. Prof of Primary Care, Uni of Oxford. Researching digital health/ inequities, covid prevention (masks/ air quality). Wild swimmer. Mum to Rob (marine bio) & Al (doc). She/her. https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=QDCqsJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
There have been a few cancer stories in the press of late so I hope you enjoy my summary of some of the ways that immunology is transforming cancer care 🧪🧵
How Immunology is Transforming Cancer Care
A summary of recent highlights and emerging directions in immunotherapies and cancer care
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Just saw a story that says ‘doing X triples the risk of developing Y.’ Sounds bad, right? Better stop doing X. Risk should never be communicated like this, without a statement of baseline risk. If it was initially one in three, gulp!! One in three million, so what?
AI is being used to fabricate quotes and attribute them to real people, Yair Rosenberg reports. Here's what he did when it happened to him:
Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said
The chatbots are lying about me.
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Sign the thank-you letter to RNLI for rescuing people at sea. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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This has been a fantastic project to be involved in. The toolkit is freely available for anyone who wants to find out more about what research is, & how to get involved as a participant, or in helping design research ( #PPIE #Co-production). Useful for autistic & non-autistic people, & researchers.
Autism@Manchester@autismmanchester.bsky.social · 2w agoWe're delighted to share with you our new, free resource: the Autism@Manchester Research Involvement Toolkit, which we co-produced with #autistic contributors and researchers www.autism.manchester.ac.uk/research/pro... Interested in research? Takes a look at any or all of our 4 modules -
1. Earlier today, AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who spent the past three years working at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned from Anthropic, warning that both companies are racing toward superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.”
Please share! We're looking for a social psychologist who is interested in applying the approach to the mathematical modelling of epidemic spread.
John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2w agoApplications now open for our Leverhulme *funded PhD studentship* on Rethinking Epidemic Models: Integrating Human Behaviour and Psychology Based at @sussex.ac.uk & working with colleagues at Northeastern University London Utrecht University/RIVM Please share! www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Looks like firing all of the tenured air traffic controllers and replacing them with 20 year old Twitch streamers is really paying off.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d agoA Prime Air Boeing 767 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport and crossed in to the road.
Descartes. Imagine where we’d be without all that tiresome mind-body dualism.
Ehud@duhe.bsky.social · last wk.If you were allowed to *remove* a single "great" philosopher from history, whom would you pick?
#AcademicSky 👉🏻 Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same? 👇🏻
Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same?
Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition.
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“Trump’s life … illustrates the typical trajectory of a malignant narcissist. Instrumental lying for personal benefit … ultimately gives way to massive self-deception. … ‘Pathological narcissists … can become dangerously psychotic.’ “And that’s where he is, and we are, today.”
A note on the president’s psychosis
Trump lives in his own world—not a good place for someone with nuclear weapons to be
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Very sad. We will miss him greatly. Full length obituary to follow but, for now: www.linkedin.com/posts/eupha_...
In memoriam: Anthony Staines, a public health leader who never lost sight of the people Public Health serves. It is with great sadness that the European public health community learned of the death… ...
In memoriam: Anthony Staines, a public health leader who never lost sight of the people Public Health serves. It is with great sadness that the European public health community learned of the death o...
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1st September, 6 pm Sydney time (9 am UK time):
Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · last mo.Looking forward to going to Australia soon to deliver the Ian Webster Oration at UNSW on why we need a new philosophy of inquiry for researching health systems. Come in person if you're Sydney-based. Watch online if you're not! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unsw-icfhs...
Dolly Parton's $1M seed $ via the Dolly Parton research fund spurned 37 research papers on the mRNA Covid vaccine. This is one of them. That $1M provided the pivotal support for developing the vaccine & assessing the antibody response. My kind of philanthropy. 🧪 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report | NEJM
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in late 2019 and spread globally, prompting an international effort to accelerate development of a vaccine. The candidate va...
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Virologist/molecular biologist Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal altered the trajectory of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. First to clone HIV-1 & complete its genetic mapping, directly leading to life-saving antiviral drug cocktails. Most-cited female scientist of the 1980s. Born #OTD in 1946. #WomenInSTEM
A 2,000 foot chunk of glacier snapped off and dropped 4,000 feet in Nepal. The flash flood killed 98 people. 391 tourists are missing. 47 Americans unaccounted for. 19 bridges gone. This isn't a natural disaster. This is climate breakdown.
Applications now open for our Leverhulme *funded PhD studentship* on Rethinking Epidemic Models: Integrating Human Behaviour and Psychology Based at @sussex.ac.uk & working with colleagues at Northeastern University London Utrecht University/RIVM Please share! www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...
Another take on e-cigarettes, from Martin McKee who knows stuff.
Martin McKee@martinmckee.bsky.social · 2w ago🧵1/8 I see the usual enthusiasts are pushing the new Cochrane review as a boost for e-cigarettes in quitting. Really? All it does is compare them with nicotine replacement in short-term trials. Lots, including the important bits, it doesn’t say.
The first AI war.
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦@andrewchak.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat do you use AI for? looking up recipes? Polishing your writing? russia is using AI to murder civilians in Ukraine. The crossing of a threshold where robots kill people has taken place, the implication for humanity couldn’t be more far reaching www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
A Message from the Family of Dolly Parton youtu.be/9govup-IG3c
A Message from the Family of Dolly Parton
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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