AI scribes. Greta blog by @benngooch.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

100%agree. Brian's work has helped to inspire a lot of people ( including me) to try to work out how best to do this. It's so important for medical students as how you conceptualise race can influence what you do with the information.

100% agree! His work had a big influence on my teaching in pharmacology.

"There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and there are lots of ways that human-made social categories interface with biological categories." Yes! This is so much of the reason behind my book Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins www.ucpress.edu/books/where-...

A brilliant colleague who now has to leave science education research… www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

Been away from scientific research for over a year and want to get back to the bench? LMB's new Career Returner Fellowship bridges the gap for those who want to re-enter lab-based research. Applications open 13 April More info mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-... PLEASE SHARE THIS! @mrclmb.ac.uk

Do YOU live with joint pain? Do YOU experience poor pain management? Have you got 2-minutes to tell pain researchers about it? If yes 👉 forms.gle/7NTwma2gnVN1... We hope to gain insight into lived experience for those with joint pain & involve people in our #PainResearch 😃

View our recently updated curriculum that supports the teaching of clinical pharmacology, therapeutics and prescribing in medical degrees: https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bcp.70421

Post: ● The pros of teaching without powerpoint If teaching is transmission, the presentation is a vital tool. If, we see it as conversing to coordinate the meaning of content, then PowerPoint sits in the way of interaction between teachers and students. christianmooreanderson.com/pros-of-teac...

Some good news: the most effective drug ever found against sleeping sickness (curative in one oral dose!) is being rolled out:

My quote of the day Albert Camus

Academic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

Met someone who spent their career building programs to support underrepresented scientists at all career stages. We asked what he wished he knew earlier. He said he wished he knew how to make these programs sustainable, so that his life work didn't crumble with a change in leadership.

🚨TALK 🚨 How is Racialization leveraged and reproduced in genomics labs? Register to Duana Fullwiley’s online talk (Tuesday Feb 3, 18:00 GMT) to figure it out. #philsci #philsky #STS #HPbio

Biochemist Gertrude B. Elion was born #OTD in 1918. Co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine, she developed a remarkable array of important pharmaceuticals using “rational drug design” that focused on differences in the biochemistry of healthy cells and pathogens. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🦠

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

It seems bookdown is shutting down, and so I've migrated the free online version of Evaluating What Works here: dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud Hard copy also available here: www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W...

I sometimes wonder if I'm a little pedantic but this figure just published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology is just wrong. It's a mash-up of other diagrams which makes me think it's GenAI-created. But then who knows... #pharmacology #neuroscience

Is having an Irish parent the same with having Irish DNA? open.substack.com/pub/kostaska...

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

If you believe either that Franklin discovered the double helix, and / or Watson and Crick stole her data, ask yourself how you know this. Then take a read of this article.

Here is our latest pharmacology education paper: Deciphering the Language of Assessment in Pharmacology Summative Written Assessments - Pharmacology Research & Perspectives - Wiley Online Library bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Place of Pharmacology in an Integrated Curriculum – Workshop 2. IUPHAR-Education Online Meetings We have a number of short talks lined up... REGISTER NOW (Scroll down to the 18 Nov meeting iuphar.org/sections-sub...) Date: 18 Nov 2025 Time: 1-2.30pm New York; 6-7.30pm London via Zoom

Prof. Sarah Abel (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM) continues our online speaker series with the talk "Should genomic knowledge change our personal conceptions of race? (And, if so, how?)" on November 4th. You can Register to attend via zoom: hugera.org/lecture-seri...

Blast from the past! @profmarciniak.bsky.social

My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach: Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.

“For Gurdon to continue in biology would be a complete waste of time both for him and for those who would have to teach him” He proved them wrong! RIP John Gurdon www.cell.com/current-biol...

📢 Calling all pharmacology educators and academics! Our Education Grant could fund your next project! We're awarding up to £2,500 to help develop educational tools/ resources to support pharmacology teaching. ✅ Eligible:BPS member 12+ months 📅 5 November 2025 👉Apply: www.bps.ac.uk/membership-a...

Like, sorry guys, welcome to the problem of existence. Find your purpose without a system that privileges you at the cost of everyone around you. It’s genuinely liberating

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

Thoughtful piece by Abdel on social science genetics - I am definitely taken by “one person’s confounder is another person’s signal”. Also humble about dark histories here and his own perspective

As is the case for many aspects of inclusive research and education - social justice for individuals and the business case for improved working practices are two sides of the same coin.

"Hostility, exclusion and academic bullying should be formally recognised as research integrity issues because they directly impact who gets to succeed and whose voices are silenced." By @maddipow.bsky.social

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

'Language imposes structure on our thinking and forces us to project a tangled network of thoughts into a linear, logical string of words and ideas. We often do not even know what we are thinking until we express it, either in writing or in speech.' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The First Peoples in the Americas. Ancient DNA with Dr Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social is now ported to Spotify See it on YouTube here: youtu.be/TcWPRdtT2B8 Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/0F9V...

Making Science Public in a chaotic world As you know, I am now gradually moving from my old ‘Making Science Public’ blog home at the University of Nottingham to my new personal blog home here. This wasn’t easy and lots of people supported me directly or indirectly in this move (by listening to my…

Is active learning too loud? If for you the answer is yes, you might be interested in this post, the second in my series about instructor-student access friction beyondthescope.substack.com/p/access-fri...

A question for biology/biochem/biomed/pharmacology academics. Should undergrad students be able to rearrange equations? e.g. Michaelis-Menten, exponential decay.. If yes, who should teach it? cc @britpharmsoc.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @rsb.org.uk

14/ The tension between useful population-level assocations versus noisy individual-level prediction is also revelant for lots of other measurements, including epigenetic “clocks” that supposedly tell you your true “biological age.” Stay tuned for more on this... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

11/ Another reason polygenic scores will never be great for individual prediction: they are not fixed biological quantities; they are context-specific. Polygenic scores capture the observed association between genes & an outcome at a particular time & place.

5/ This is the essence of why polygenic prediction for embryo selection is largely a waste of money. Even for the most strongly determined traits, like height, you are very likely to get an outcome that is contrary to what you are trying to achieve. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Very helpful to see examples of evidence of impact

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Upcoming book from Joseph Graves: "I decided to write Why Black People Die Sooner because, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that invalidates the social racial categories that exist in Western societies, the medical community does not fully recognize the significance of this fact"

Since there is talk about bringing back ASBESTOS (this is somehow true), I thought it would be useful to describe just some what happens to you when you breath this stuff into your lungs. In short, it’s terrible. A 🧵

Meanwhile if you actually want to measure your propensity to disease and do something about it (or demand politicians do), you’d be better off looking at your microbiome, your metabolites, or - more than anything - your wider environment - rather than your genes. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...

#UKEd #EduSky This diagram didn't make the cut for the Organise Ideas book. But looking over it again, I rather like the attempt to coordinate the various theories around visual thinking/communication. It's wider & deeper than just dual coding theory. Sorry.

Important to incorporate in the medical curriculum for sustainable development #sdg