Well, it turns out Dynamic workflows in Opus 4.8 can burn 7.7m tokens in 53m. Definitely something to use sparingly!

Damn, using Opus 4.8 in dynamic workflows is spendy. $75 in 6m.

There's not a Rodney Mullen clip that hasn't inspired me. What a beautiful human.

My context brings all the boys to the yard.

New publication out now: We identified the key “active ingredients” behind effective communication partner training for people with brain injury Access here for free: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AcquiredBrainInjury #SLT #Rehabilitation #BehaviourChange

Behaviour Change Techniques and Mechanisms of Action: Identification of the Active Ingredients in Communication Partner Training for People With Acquired Brain Injury

Background Cognitive-communication disorders (CCD) are common after acquired brain injury (ABI) and can have a negative impact on a person's life. Training a communication partner can improve the co...

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Playing with Gemma 4 skills. Incredibly impressed at what's possible locally on my phone.

We want to believe we know what's going on when we prompt - see the cheat sheets that suggest we can prompt to adjust parameters (no, mentioning temperature is not the same as adjusting the temperature) www.anthropic.com/research/rea...

Reasoning models don't always say what they think

Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought

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Finished teaching. In teams of 8-10, students learn question frameworks, reusing existing search elements, SRAccelerator / Rayyan, summarisation and data extraction using LRM+RAG, MMAT2018, SWIM and PRISMA. Between 2weekSR tools and priority screening, you CAN teach students to do systematic reviews

This week I presented some of my PhD research at the #UKSBM2025 Annual Scientific Meeting. Fantastic experience and great to hear about so much exciting research!

Very powerful video shared by @francesmair.bsky.social in her #UKSBM2025 plenary on the challenges of managing multiple health conditions, particularly on the poverty line. We have to tackle poverty&inequality to improve our public health. youtu.be/uJiVUPFFXBw?...

Juggling multiple health conditions: Roberts story

YouTube video by SysteMatic

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20 years of UKSBM (that's the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine)! 🥳 I was lucky enough to be at a fair few of these. Here's to the next 20 #UKSBM2025

Hopefully UKSBM can move their society accounts over here in the near future. I don't really want to 'join the conversation' on Meta and X thanks... #UKSBM2025

Great call to action in community pharmacy research from Ade Williams @adewilliams.bsky.social #UKSBM2025

UK Universities Funding "The 'solution' used to be growth – reckless growth. Now it seems it is downsizing – reckless downsizing. In both cases, this is for the business model’s sake, and for the increasing number of business partners — not for students...and not for staff." #UKHE #AcademicSky

UCU Edinburgh@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · last yr.

The latest from our Joint Unions Finance Working Group looks at the 'logic' behind the huge cuts being proposed at the University of Edinburgh www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/tlwewp3...

Despite drawbacks, several good points here: (1) Dundee University is genuinely fighting for its life; (2) some uni management teams in some unis are out of control; (3) the multiple UK govts don't even have a clue what's going on, no controls and no plan... (1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Nigeria currency crisis leaves Dundee University fighting to survive

Profuse spending left the institution ill-prepared for a sharp drop in foreign students after Nigeria, a fertile recruiting ground, devalued its currency

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This article misunderstands how you can effectively use LLMs for academic writing. The error is common among my colleagues. I teach my students to write using LLM+RAG and writing style prompts. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/11/g.... Comment is in the image

Will the use of generative AI shift higher education from a knowledge-first system to a skills-first system? - HEPI search.app/DvsRQJAR5r58...

How to trash a University's reputation And demotivate the people you need to help you succeed nation.cymru/opinion/how-...

How to trash a University's reputation And demotivate the people you need to help you succeed

Leighton Andrews Hey, please come to the ‘reshaped and reduced Cardiff Business School’! It’s not the most obvious marketing slogan, is it? Nor is it a motivating mantra for our academic staff, whatev...

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This is why @kityates.bsky.social post is so relevant today kityates.substack.com/p/science-is... and why my dystopian piece is perfectly plausible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-dystopia...

A dystopian but possible future: the Fall of British Science 2028-2033

In which I think about how a UK populist government could undermine science as a way of prompting discussions about how to protect it.

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Paul Nightingale@paulnightingale.bsky.social · last yr.

This is a very clear articulation of the National Conservative position on universities. If you work in one, you really do need to watch it all the way through. It builds out from Nixon's line - "the professors are the enemy" youtu.be/0FR65Cifnhw

Pubmed is back! Obviously the DNS server issue has been resolved. Nevertheless, I've created an account on Europe PMC and implemented my saved searches... better safe than sorry. Scientists are so dependent on NIH services, we should start to support more decentralized/federated infrastructure! 🧪

Marianne Musinszki@mariannemusinszki.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm from Germany, and here both are down since yesterday. Just tried again - no matter what system/ browser (tried Linux, Windows, Android phone with firefox, duckduck, chrome) Glad to have Europe PMC, but what a concerning development.

PubMed down .... Here's my post on what to do

Hilda Bastian@hildabast.bsky.social · last yr.

Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @plos.org discusses the lines we need to fight to hold – and alternatives we can rely on internationally: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w... #medlibs

Freaking out that PubMed is down. An incomprehensible act of vandalism. Trying not to join the dots to RFK's bizarre ideas.

It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.

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...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

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Looking for an NIHR pre-doctoral fellowship opportunity in trials methodology? Feel free to contact me!

The first consultation for the Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative is now live. If you're interested in the future shape of global evidence synthesis do take a look and have your say! evidencesynthesis.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...

Challenged myself to write a single prompt for gpt4o that makes a game - came up with this after lots of iteration - now got a challenge going at work - who can make the best game from a single prompt (prompt in the alt text) #gamefromaprompt

I was removed from my position as a Biomedical Librarian at the NIH Library by a 10 pm Saturday night email. I had worked there for 5.5 months. Still figuring out what to say and how to say it, but feel free to get in touch. Also would appreciate any leads on jobs or side gigs. Love you all.

"You want to stop, but the amount of time and energy you’ve put into this makes it hard to quit."

Elden Ring or Tenure-Track Professor?

1. You’ve invested an enormous amount of time and energy, and you still have no idea what is happening. 2. Everybody you meet speaks in half riddle...

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