Technologically advance a band: Led Jetliner

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This system is just monstrous.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

Viewpoint: Transgender and gender-diverse individuals face barriers to equitable #cancer care due to their underrepresentation in #oncology research and inadequate inclusion in cancer registries. ja.ma/3KbFmN4

We cooperated with RTE PrimeTime over the last year on this very significant story about RTB data exposing the movements of Irish people, including military and political personnel. Link to this morning's preview piece is here --> www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER. And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin. Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

Since folks often ask for examples of how I politely push back when doctors don't understand the clinical significance of "shit that should be taken more seriously in people with a specific condition", I'll share the reply I wrote:

In our World Patient Safety Day blog we call for action to address the persistence of avoidable harm and share resources specific to this year’s theme “Safe care for every newborn and child”. Please review and share widely.

you know what, in the spirit of this, just throwing this out there: are there any people who know detailed history of the secularization of the Teutonic Order-State under Albert, Duke of Prussia? I need it for a half-written fantasy book.

"Mass Psychogenic Illness" at Heathrow Airport-NOT! by David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social virology.ws/2025/09/12/t... Image is screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update

Hope you all like tofu! 🍲

In my experience, the general public often don't understand the extent to which critical infrastructure systems rely on very small groups of highly-trained individuals. In addition, some of these controllers will have lingering cognitive effects. 7news.com.au/news/covid-o...

“During COVID” = September 2025 7news.com.au/news/covid-o...

Just a reminder that all of this investment could have gone into something that actually benefits society, instead of an entirely predictable time bomb for the economy. This was a choice.

Today I introduced smallpox eradication in the vaccines class I’m co-teaching w/ @jackiantonovich.bsky.social A public health hero I learned about prepping for this class is Benjamin Rubin. He developed the bifurcated needle, & waived all royalties for needles manufactured under contract w/the WHO.

What an exhausting time to be literate.

Slightly diminish a book The Two Musketeers ⚔️

Thys meetinge koude have been a Renaissance Faire

Another great review:

If you're in #iopsych in #Healthcare please consider participating in this study!

“…our results suggest that anti-phishing training programs, in their current and commonly deployed forms, are unlikely to offer significant practical value in reducing phishing risks.” —“Obvious” solutions often fail. *Especially* training. This is why it’s important to actually test interventions.

My forthcoming book shows how prior authorization is a key vehicle for coverage denials, which cause administrative burdens for patients and their physicians as they appeal. At @msnbc.com, I wrote on dangers of CMS's decision to extend this model to traditional Medicare www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

I agree with this. A solid understanding of stats is incredibly useful for navigating the world (and knowing when you’re being bullshitted) in 2025.

I remember getting my first COVID vaccine in December 28, 2020. I teared up with relief because my city had bodies stored in refrigerated trailers and we had kids dying from COVID in our PICU. I got a COVID and a Flu vaccine today. I am still verklempt and grateful.

@biologyopen.bsky.social combines paying reviewers with contracts requiring high quality reviews with a deadline, turnaround dropped from 35 to 7 days with no decrease in quality. Contracts are the difference? Sorry this wasn't mentioned at the meeting journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fa...

“This is certainly one possible response to the epidemic of mass shootings… If I had to guess what kind of shot we would make sure schoolchildren got, I would have guessed wrong. I am always guessing wrong. I am always guessing that we want children to live.”

Inspiration for the sci-fi writers among you:

I’ve taken care of many people with shingles and it is miserably painful and sometimes pretty dangerous and sometimes cause serious long term pain (“post herpetic neuralgia”) which I do not recommend

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!

There is just one coffee pot (the other two are decaf and hot water) and TEN milk pots. This is not a good ratio 🤣 #PRC10

there you go #PHLaw Amidst the catastrophes as a field that public health is experiencing in the US, I still can't help but love and appreciate #StatePublicHealthLawInnovation #PublicHealthLaw

Yet another long @npr.org segment on COVID today that completely ignored #LongCOVID. As a lifelong public radio fanboy, I have been consistently disappointed by the intentional downplaying of this threat to public health. I expect better from an organization with their mission.

AHRQ is absolutely not duplicative. Work it funds would be completely unfundable anywhere else in government.

You can never defeat Sauron by being Saruman. A lesser evil is no inspiration to the good *or* the bad among us.

Just finished this great book about the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC by @marynmck.bsky.social. Worth a read! #MedSky #IDSky #BookSky

Some of you will think I’m kidding but this is literally the most Army thing ever.

This is why I call COVID an airborne heart attack virus. After my 2nd COVID infection, I started having heart pain while pushing my toddler in their stroller. Before I turned 40. I’m an ER doctor. I know what “heart pain” sounds like. It was terrifying to experience it so young.

They work close to home too—which is convenient because the surge is definitely here.

Me: Hey, ChatGPT—Design me a way to kill grandparents and burn out clinicians at the same time, while also increasing the cost of insurance. Cursed stochastic plagiarism parrot: Okay, here you go!

States are going to have to stop relying on the feds for this kind of decisional infrastructure. They should act alone, if they have to. But logistically & economically it’d be best for states to band together & make collective decisions with broader reach. A sort of “United States,” if you will.

I’ve been gifted with something I didn’t know I needed. In the last 24 hours, I’ve received texts from two colleagues about how much I helped them because of the way I approach my work.

At least we’re making everything dependent on the murder-suicide computer.

X is *totally* useless to me because I left it long ago, but while BlueSky has been nice for social interaction and keeping up with the news, it hasn’t been much better than my deleted Twitter account for professional interaction and science-sharing in my field.

One of the greatest achievements of humankind.

Academics who publish books might want to check this out. The class doesn’t currently seem to include the authors of journal articles. (Journals have ISSNs vs. ISBNs or ASINs, as required.) Maybe we need another lawsuit for that.

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

“We’re working on it.” That’s fine. Pull it, keep working, and when it’s not going to kill anyone’s child when used exactly as designed, you can bring it back. Until then, you are liable for the damage you do, just like somebody who’s still working on their driving and drives into a house.