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...

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?...

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

Social care and implementation researchers at ARC South London have produced a new guide to designing and conducting implementation research within social care. #ImpSci 👉 arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insight...

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

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/...

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-...

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...

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! 🧪

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

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...

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."

Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Metascience and AI news (part 1): we're launching a new metascience and AI fellowship programme, in partnership with @SloanFoundation.bsky.social to study and develop the uses of AI in research! Apply by 10/4; info webinar 28/2 www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Among world’s top researchers 10% publish at unrealistic levels, analysis finds www.chemistryworld.com/news/among-w...

Bit of a write up in @digitalhealth2.bsky.social of my @healthfoundation.bsky.social remarks on the need for proper evaluation of AI models in health www.digitalhealth.net/2025/02/ai-c...

Ottoline Leyser warns of long-term public spending pressures and expects university “consolidation process” [and] that research budgets “will be tight” in the coming years, given growing pressures on public spending www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Currently low response rates from CTU Directors (n=5), Programmers/Data Managers (n=0), & QA Managers (n=3) working in clinical trials. We need to know what these groups think the challenges are for greener trials. forms.office.com/e/fkeLD8HbMA Please complete &RT @ukctunetwork.bsky.social

We’ve got our own HE funding crisis in the UK but this is an order apart - even if some great scientists move to Europe it’s a real threat to scientific/economic progress generally. American retreat in every sphere, from global networks only now realising how reliant they are on US participation

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I cannot fathom the effect of this cut on overheads. It's going to be brutal. Given the benefits funding brings (www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...) this seems like a wild act of self harm.

3 more years of austerity for higher education www.timeshighereducation.com/news/public-...

On #nationaILEGOday I should out myself as a Lego Serious Play certified facilitator

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u... “... always a ready excuse for the OfS not focusing on innovation... —... now the need to deal with the financial troubles of some providers paying the price for weak financial management" says ex minister partly responsible for the mess we're in

What's going to happen to health equity research in the USA? www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Article on Trump’s NIH freezes:

Analysis of 113 university accounts reveals almost a third have posted a deficit, and one in four reported a negative cash flow www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

UKRI prepares ‘response plan’ for university closures: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Just waiting for the flourishing to kick in.

Are you planning an early phase dose finding trial (with dose [de]escalation strategies)? This SPIRIT Extension will help you to develop a robust protocol. www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

Are you planning, conducting, or reporting an early phase dose finding trial (with dose [de]escalation strategies? This CONSORT Extension will help you produce a transparent and adequately reported trial results report. Use it throughout the trial cycle! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A match NOT made in heaven? This review shows that human–AI combinations performed worse than the best of humans or AI alone, although when humans outperformed AI alone, there were performance gains in the combination, but when AI outperformed humans alone, there were losses

"The University will not renew its 'big deal' subscription to Elsevier, which expires on 31 December 2024." Well done Sheffield! Here's hoping others follow suit next year... www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...

I really like "Why Hypothesis Testers Should Spend Less Time Testing Hypotheses" by @annemscheel.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1177/1745...

This article, by Erika Patall, discusses how meta-analyses and syntheses contribute to open science, which is somewhat related to your question: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finally, and humbly, I wrote a bit about the role of meta-analyses and syntheses in theory development, as a part of this article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...