Governments need to "get their mojo back" "I don’t know any government in the global north that has ever been penalised by the bond markets through a smart strategic investment strategy" Brilliant piece about @mazzucatom.bsky.social by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries? The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport. [1/7]

I've written an essay in today's FT Weekend about why - and how - people are shaking off the feeling of being "frozen" in front of a "tusnami", and beginning to fight for the future they want. as.ft.com/r/cfa87609-8... (some free clicks here!)

Refreshingly sound analysis from a former bond trader: if only Andy Burnham and the Labour government would listen. vincegomez.com/articles/the...

😡😡😡”The analysis done by private firms was sometimes so poor that NHS radiologists had to read scans again, raising questions about the benefit of outsourcing.” The government promised “the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation”. They must deliver it now.

I have been forwarding this edition of @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter to everyone I know. The impact of Musk and Trump's cuts to USAID didn't hit right away, but they are hitting now. And in Somalia and the DRC it looks a lot like racist culling. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-question...

the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...

Would a Burnham led government tax wealth not work? Reverse NHS privatisation? Make Meta, Twitter and TikTok responsible for their content? End child poverty once and for all? Or are lobbysits and Labour Together embedded too deep? My analysis, as someone who knows Andy and the Labour Party well.

More and more jobs are absolutely going to be cut as AI continues to improve and specialise. It's happening right now www.reuters.com/business/wor.... The political conversation about how we choose to react to this really needs to step up, whether that be UBI or something more drastic

This could be as bad as 1929, and maybe very much worse www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...

While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

Farage received a £5Million bribe to stand for parliament in Clacton so that a crypto billionaire would personally benefit from him being in power. And Farage didn’t declare it. Then he lied about it. Corrupt AF. Just go straight to a criminal investigation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On Anarchism.

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

We are excited to release the weights of @msftresearch.bsky.social's COLIPRI, our 3D vision–language encoder for chest CT scans, on @hf.co 🤗 Model: aka.ms/colipri Demo: aka.ms/colipri-demo Paper: aka.ms/colipri-paper Why does COLIPRI matter? 🧵0/12 👇

🩻Excited to share our latest preprint: “Data Scaling Laws for Radiology Foundation Models” Foundation vision encoders like CLIP and DINOv2 have transformed general computer vision, but what happens when we scale them for medical imaging? 📄 Read the full preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.12818

The world’s first multimodal, bilingual radiology dataset could reshape the way radiologists and AI systems make sense of X-rays. PadChest-GR, developed by the University of Alicante with Microsoft Research, has the potential to advance research across the field for years to come. msft.it/6013SLDYZ

"Socialism” Professor and ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton says that socialist policies are the only way to ensure that wealth generated from AI is fairly distributed #Peston

Happy to announce a collaboration with the Mayo Clinic to advance our research in radiology report generation! newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/m... Tagging some of the core team: @valesalvatelli.bsky.social @fepegar.com @maxilse.bsky.social @sambondtaylor.bsky.social @anton-sc.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered how to train an autoregressive generative transformer on text and raw pixels, without a pretrained visual tokenizer (e.g. VQ-VAE)? We have been pondering this during summer and developed a new model: JetFormer 🌊🤖 arxiv.org/abs/2411.19722 A thread 👇 1/

A common question nowadays: Which is better, diffusion or flow matching? 🤔 Our answer: They’re two sides of the same coin. We wrote a blog post to show how diffusion models and Gaussian flow matching are equivalent. That’s great: It means you can use them interchangeably.

Hey folks, we have a final request for comments for our JuliaHealth Mini-Symposium draft submission! 🧪 🛟🩺 Have any final thoughts? Click on the link to learn more! We will be submitting December 1st! Let's bring #julialang to health research, together! #medsky #AcademicTwitter #publicHealth

I'm not sure I agree with this take. Good news shouldn't be restricted to only those who can afford it. That's why if you can afford it, it's important to back independent news organisations which are run off donations and declare how they are funded.

BayesFlow is a library for amortized Bayesian inference with neural networks. ⋅ Multi-backend via Keras 3: Use PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX. ⋅ Modern nets: Flow matching, diffusion, consistency models, normalizing flows, transformers ⋅ Built-in diagnostics and plotting 🔗 github.com/bayesflow-or...

We know that diffusion models learn interesting representations during training, but can we increase their generation performances by distilling representations learned by self-supervised encoders? 👀 The REPA article by Sihyun Yu et al. shows better FID + faster convergence arxiv.org/abs/2410.06940

I am utterly delighted by this subversive use of the Bluesky label feature, where you can subscribe to a custom app that then adds visible labels to profiles This one shows you which posh expensive private school British public figures attended, plus their current fees bsky.app/profile/dadd...

I’ve created a starter pack! Follow us if you want to know more about what we’re up to at Microsoft Research Health Futures 🩻⚕️🏥 Get in touch if you think you or someone else should be added!

We have to stop treating planet as a dumping ground. "Generative AI applications alone could add 1.2 million to 5 million metric tons of this hazardous trash by 2030." #PlanetaryBoundaries #PublicHealth www.scientificamerican.com/article/gene...