Taylor Swift is currently not the most frequent visitor to my social media feed. She has been overtaken. This has never happened before. The person responsible? HEY JUDE! Come on England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Bring it home* (*then bring me home with it please). ⚽️➡️🏡

I (ironically) fell over on the way to the physiotherapist today and grazed my face, knees, and hands. But NEVERMIND, I have a new podcast episode out with the HSJ www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-download... talking ambient scribes, responsibility, and the single patient record. Give it a listen!

The HSJ Download Podcast: Who is responsible when AI goes wrong?

Ben Clover, Ella Devereux and Joe Talora are joined by Dr Jessica Morley to discuss how best to regulate AI in healthcare.

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Yesterday, the 4th of July, I was going to go to the office and work. Instead, I spent four hours with a complete stranger rescuing a stranded baby seagull in 100 degree heat. We named him Gus the Gull. Avian Independence Day.

I live in apartment 404. The amount of nerd joy this brings is me is frankly excessive.

Claude personally attacking me as I prep for fellowship interviews “The worry has been louder than the reality all afternoon. Go and take a break.”

Do vaccines save lives? Yep! Does antivaxx BS kill? Yep. 👇 Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study

The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.

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AI in health care... it's a big topic with all too many pitfalls. We were fortunate to be joined by leading AI researcher @jessrmorley.bsky.social, in conversation with @theasrstein.bsky.social to round off the #RapidEvaluation conference. Watch the conversation: 📽️ buff.ly/PyilMYJ

My entire social media feed is filled with Europeans in America for the World Cup crashing out due to culture shock, and I must say it is very validating given the last 2.5 years of my life 😂

The @bmj.com asked for my opinion on the single patient record as the NHS modernisation bill heads into its second reading. So here is my opinion www.bmj.com/content/393/... That the NHS needs better information continuity is undeniable, but the programme is also at risk of repeating past mistakes

On Monday the HSJ named me as the "arguably the single most influential voice on ethics and AI policy" on their list of top 50 influential people for NHS tech in 20216 www.hsj.co.uk/news/the-50-... is (a) very kind; (b) most likely untrue. BUT FWIW here are my current top 10 AI messages 🧵:

petition re NHS data and Palantir Here's a petition to the new Health Sec act.38degrees.org.uk/act/to-the-n...

To the new Health Secretary: Get Palantir out of our NHS!

I just the petition calling on the new Health Secretary to get Palantir out of our NHS!

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💬 Getting the ick with chatbots? Our research in Nature shows that models trained to adopt a warm and friendly tone are more likely to make mistakes when answering your questions. Small changes in tone can undermine accuracy across architectures, particularly when users express vulnerability.

I have - and I quote - “an impressively bad strain” in my trapezius and I’m not allowed to stay up until 2am typing everyday. Apparently that’s bad for me. Who knew. So if people could avoid doing daft things with data or AI for the next week or so - I would really appreciate it.

Just tried to unlock my US-based flat with the key to my parents’ London-based house. I don’t know, but it is possible that I need more sleep.

New BMJ Editorial out today from @rocher.lc and me: www.bmj.com/content/393/... - Biobank's response to the news that researchers have accidentally uploaded data to GitHub multiple times is insufficient & risks trust in the UK's health data ecosystem. Everyone needs to feel responsible for privacy.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

Finally, after putting it off for ages, I have a new website. It has all my pubs, the links & slides for my thinking Critically About AI lectures, links to as many podcasts/conference presentations I could find. Most importantly, it has sparkles, friendship bracelets, & Taylor lyrics www.drjrm.org

The good thing about going home for flyby visits is that I get to go home, the bad thing is that then I have to come back. I love what I do for work. Yale is wonderful. The DEC is great. But leaving England and 98% of the people I know & love behind repeatedly has not got easier

⏰ NEW PRE-PRINT ⏰ "Whose Knowledge Counts? Epistemic Capture and the Power to Define the Function of Data-Driven Health" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Book chapter for forthcoming edited volume "Patients, Power, and AI"

Forever discovering new problems for which Taylor is the solution. Today it was rescuing a mouse from my flat with a water glass and a Swiftie sticker book.

Flying home to England on Friday for a mixture of work and family fun. Am very much looking forward to it for all the usual reasons, but also - and here is the novelty - for *the weather*. This is not something I ever thought I’d say about England and yet, here we are.

Trying to write fellowship applications. Losing will to continue typing. Need immediate injection of Taylor, tea, and friendship bracelets.

The thing about being an academic is that you can never really escape the essay crisis, but your (by which I mean my) ability to cope with an all-nighter declines year-on-year.

a kitten is sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table .

ALT: a kitten is sitting next to a cup of coffee on a table .

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Continually having to prove that I'm human in order to read articles about AI is becoming exceptionally annoying, and ironic.

Changing the song lyrics from “never ending story” to “never ending snow storm” and staying here for the foreseeable.

American professors, who wants to come to Oxford for a year or two? Get in quick - deadline soon. www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/vacancy-geor...

New paper out today in Public Health! 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... AI's lackluster impact on pop health is not a technical issue - it's a design one. It has been given the wrong function, is being built on unsuitable infrastructure, & is too often too distant from patients/practitioners

Closing the AI benefits gap: Systems design for population health equity

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently failing to live up to its potential. Its champions promise that it will make healthcare more effective, effi…

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Third Lecture in my Thinking Critically About AI in Healthcare series Recording: youtu.be/G_tnE3ycM1M Slides: www.canva.com/design/DAHBD... This week looking at the "last mile problem" i.e., why do we keep building models that succeed technically, but fail to help clinically.

Thinking Critically About AI in Healthcare L3

YouTube video by Jessica Morley

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Second lecture in my Thinking Critically About AI Lecture Recording: youtu.be/6cIirLgH_rw Slides: www.canva.com/design/DAHAY... Outline: This week talking about why individual empowerment is the wrong mechanism of change to attach to AI.

Thinking Critically About AI Lecture 2

YouTube video by Jessica Morley

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Me: excited because >500 people registered for my lecture series on AI Me five minutes later: why has nobody turned up to my meeting? Oh, it’s because I only invited myself ….

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