An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it. Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device. The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Today I gave a talk about the societal and pedagogical impacts of AI in medicine, within the XXII Conference of SIPEM (Italian Society of Medical Pedagogy) in Verona, Italy. I focused my talk on unfair AI, right of rebuttal, and the large scale risks of biased LLMs

A few days ago I was invited to give a speech at the XXI conference of the Associazione Italiana Documentalisti Brevettuali (AIDB), a non-profit organization about patent Research and documentation. I focused on our patents in biomed (THAITI in particular) and the importance of fairness of AI

In March the Kansai University Hospital and Ca' Foscari created a joint Academic Hub. A few days ago I have been invited to give a talk, about my research activity, in an Hub-related event called BioMed 2025. I could showcase our research on digital pathology, interpretable AI, and drug discovery

Today, #IEEECIBCB2025 has started in Tainan, Taiwan. This year I had the honour of serving as a member of the evaluation committee in a IEEE CIS student competition. Interesting experience indeed! Tomorrow I will give a talk about AI ethics, Interpretable AI, and myocardial strain clinical exams

New paper out! With the European Institute of Oncology (IEO), we studied the role of quiescent cells in melanoma for relapse and metastasis formation. Thalia, Leone and I created multiple models of proliferation, confirming the importance of non proliferating cells in fitting with experimental data

These days I'm partecipating with other members of the EUTOPIA Universities Alliance to the Research Days workshop organised and hosted by Warwick University. The goal of this exciting experience is to build consortia and apply to one, or more, joint European projects focused on human centric AI

Yesterday I had the honour to partecipate at @cgnobilephd.bsky.social's final event of her Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship at Turin University. I felt rather misplaced among top researchers from UNITO, @ub.edu, @upc.edu, @tilburguniversity.bsky.social and @tue.nl! A great experience indeed #MSCA

Yesterday I had my first experience at Montecitorio, the lower house of the Italian Parliament. I have been invited to attend an event about the Italian Strategy for national security. I really appreciated the lectio by Prof. Iannantuoni, that could be summarised as: "give room to young minds"

I have been appointed vice coordinator of CONVECS – COmuNità VEneta per il Calcolo Scientifico. Funded by the Veneto Region, CONVECS involves 5 partners (UNIPD, UNIVE, UNIVR, INFN, IUAV) with the goal of establishing a regional infrastructure for HPC, enabling computationally intensive research

Today I gave an invited talk for the opening of the PhD program in Strategic Innovation for Sustainable and Smart Ecosystems (SIS2E) at UNIMIB. I talked about AI in medicine, the dangers of high risk applications, and the recent assaults from lobbies to the GPAI code-of-practice

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk about my work as Rector's Delegate for Digital Innovation & Integrity in Research at the "Festa dell'innovazione 2025", organised by the newspaper @ilfoglio. In my speech at Old Procuratie I discussed systemic risks and biased information #foglioinnovazione

I recently participated to ASCLEPIO AI, an event organised by the main Italian associations of scientific journalism (FAST, UGIS) dedicated to AI in medicine. I gave a talk about the right to an explanation, the danger of hallucinations, biases, etc. Thanks Rossella Guido for the kind invitation!

Enea, Chiara and I are in Trieste for the evo*2025 conference. Today I give a talk about time travel in global optimization, fun stuff! #evostar

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

I had the privilege to attend the Ministerial Dialogue on Scientific Diplomacy at UNESCO. There's agreement on the most compelling issues: climate change, misuse of biotech, unfair AI, disinformation, space regulation. Althogh some powers push in other directions, we need more science in diplomacy

The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats.  It’s between democracy and oligarchy.  The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re being shafted.  Know the truth.

"Apocalypse Cow" by Lack of Bits on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/aWx7doiYmkHt...

We need a new free speech movement. And universities should sue the Trump regime for abridging the First Amendment rights of their institutions and their students. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-a-new-free-speech-movement

Read the full article: academic.oup.com/ehjdh/advanc...

On my way to Hannover for the VW workshop on Trustworthy AI ✈️

My illegal Pinkerton is driving me to my illegal hotel while the hallucination machine in my phone summarizes the emails my coworkers wrote using their hallucination machines. My burrito travels separately in its own limo. This is innovation and normal.

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

If Trump simply ignores high court rulings, is that the end of law? My latest for The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/trump-lawless-president

Let's kickstart this feed with a generative drawing created by Enea using my S24