‘Even when they do diagnose accurately, models replace only a small share of a radiologist’s job. Human radiologists spend a minority of their time on diagnostics’ This is very good from @deenamousa.com on how AI actually plays out in public services www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isn...

An incredible #biotech story - How Bioxodes is using tick saliva to create an ICH stroke treatment breakthrough www.buzzsprout.com/2467194/epis...

An actually thoughtful and insightful discussion of BlueSky culture and what makes it distinct, from @himself.bsky.social : open.substack.com/pub/programm...

Cambridge Sincerely yours - a fellow of Cambridge university

Endorse this view. Really entertaining, relatable, teaching friendly application of statistics.

I’ve been trying to think if you could do this here and…not really. eg W Didsbury was some of the fastest gentrification I’ve seen, but it was visible in independents and pub upgrades, not supermarkets. The tiny cramped Tesco remains. Chorlton has an M&S food. But Booths is the preserve of Cheshire

So @petersinger.bsky.social and I just published a piece about the "$6 revolution" in generic GLP-1 drugs in Canada's @theglobeandmail.com. You can also read the original, longer version, on our Substacks. (see below) www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Why do so many migration regulations have little effect, or even the opposite of their intended effect? A magisterial post launching the new blog of Hein de Haas, the great sociologist and geographer of development. —>

Slightly diminish a book: Murder on the Gatwick Express

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is a brilliant writer. He’s written for Dangermouse, Private Eye, @almurray.bsky.social and many more… He’s struggling to find work at the moment. AI isn’t helping. If you need a writer have a look at his website and please repost. www.mathew-owen.co.uk Thank you

The story of the weekend looks like about 3000+ people protesting asylum, 2000+ counterprotestors while 210k people do parkrun

Well that’s what happens when you raise taxes on.ft.com/3Jtbo70 Tariff revenue will cut US deficits by $4tn over next decade, fiscal watchdog says

A must-read, must-share piece - clearly deconstructing the shoddy science of the Geiers (who are inexplicably in charge of studies at HHS). Consider this an early warning for what lies ahead. 🛟🩺🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Universities should bring back crafts on.ft.com/473wX80 | opinion

I’m hardly lazy but walking close to a km to get to a gate is just savage so City wins, even though more tourists than in the past and I don’t want to buy a Faberge egg on my way to Berlin so stuff the 5th Avenue retail concepts

🚨 What would a Miran Fed actually look like? We read his various manifestos so you don't have to. www.ft.com/content/cc45...

God this is good

I have been waiting so I can share this with the non-weekend-socials people. It is revealing, terrifying, instructive, important, original - rare enough qualities amidst the clickbait that passes for journalism at the moment. Rarer still, it is splendidly written.

Essay which clearly outlines the scientific and ethical problems with selecting embryos for polygenic traits. Scientists associating themselves with embryo selection companies, and those who’ve previously defended sociogenomics but are staying silent on these companies, come in for criticism here

It explains so much of why she is so badly equipped to lead the Conservatives in 2025: she just visibly has an understanding of politics that is “when something is bad, it is socialist”.

1/Kevin Hassett had long ago discredited himself as a scholar by parroting claims about the economy he knew to be false. Even so, parroting the lie about rigged statistics, is a new low. The academy should ostracize him the same way a fabricator of research should be ostracized.

‘The media cliché that 9/11 “changed everything” offered a convenient excuse for unprecedented violations of fundamental constitutional principles – the unchecked expansion of executive power, the utter disregard for habeas corpus and defendants’ rights in general.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.

Bye bye free to air ITV4 coverage of the Tour de France. www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs8...

The principle of knowing what you're trying to achieve is the same. Re: rail, that's why the Swiss approach of starting with the timetable you wish you had and working backwards is much better than starting with what you want to build. That's my blog today. www.freewheeling.info/blog/swiss-hs2

@nedboulting.bsky.social just finished your book on holiday. what a wonderful, whimsical, well-written ode to bike racing and Le Tour in particular Looking forward to next year. Protip: new podcast should be like TMS but for cycle racing "and Delphine has just dropped off a lovely millefeuille..."

Sisyphus strikes again

lovely article for these times

Martin Wolf's columns are magnificent when he is angry. This is a brilliant and incisive polemic at a frightening time for the US and the world www.ft.com/content/acf6...

Even though they may be seem hard to find, I look for the positive things in life science and medicine every day. You might not know they are occurring by scrolling through the social media platforms.

A massive thank you from Lizzie, David, Pete (who'll be there if he can be) and me. The response to this new venture has been overwhelming. Please sign up here (entirely for free) to make your support known. Let's get this up and running. neverstraysfar.com

An enthralling conversation with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social on uncertainty in science and his new book PROOF, with some emphasis on things we learned from Covid, and much more. video, audio, transcript; all open-access erictopol.substack.com/p/adam-kucha...

Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

“ordinary Americans have already — and for years — been buying vast amounts of complex exposure to private equity risk. They’ve just been doing so (without realising it) through their boring old life cover and fixed annuities.” Really great piece on the PE-insurance nexus.

Hopefully this link now works - sportingchanceprizedraw.com/charities/at...

An afternoon with the queen of psychedelics. In warm remembrance of Amanda Fielding. A recent Substack. open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...

On a VC watchlist

If we don’t watch TV together, can we still live together? https://on.ft.com/4kBqhSm

Brilliant Father’s Day gift from the exam doing pair @nedboulting.bsky.social

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I heard this morning that my informatics colleague Dr. Atul Butte passed after a battle with cancer. He was a giant in the field & inspired many of us over his distinguished career. He was a passionate champion of the power of big data & his impact on our field is immeasurable. RIP Atul & thanks.

Extremists have eviscerated the National Institutes of Health, responsible for 80% of the *world’s* grant investment in biomedical research The losses are incalculable, but here are several of them Thank you @propublica.org for documenting this —>

A beautiful and moving story

Really good Big Read today. on.ft.com/45SGQEI Vietnam risks being the trade war’s biggest loser. Does it have a plan B?

This is an excellent listen

It’s obvious now that many elements of US democracy are or were performative; committees, hearings, briefings, all just play acting. Ideology over evidence How do we know if our own systems are built on sand? How do we strengthen & protect?

A fascinating, and accurate, piece of research which gives the lie to the (now) common complaint that the civil service is too slow/seeks to frustrate the delivery of ministers’ objectives open.substack.com/pub/ukcivils...

God only knows what we’d be without you. #RIPBrianWilson

I regret…..I went too far