Karlis Kanders
@karlisk.bsky.social
data scientist, innovation and emerging tech researcher
previously studied neuroscience and complex systems
previously studied neuroscience and complex systems
Another great blog by @mastroianni.bsky.social www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-yo...
Face it: you're a crazy person
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
www.experimental-history.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Another great blog by @mastroianni.bsky.social www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-yo...
Impressive and encouraging results on applying AI for systematic reviews 🙌
👀This is impressive: Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work.
The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.
The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.
June 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Impressive and encouraging results on applying AI for systematic reviews 🙌
🚀 Check out this technical note on some early work-in-progress on accelerating evidence synthesis with AI
We're exploring OpenAlex and OpenAI LLMs to extract structured data from 1000s of research papers 🥵
medium.com/discovery-at...
We're exploring OpenAlex and OpenAI LLMs to extract structured data from 1000s of research papers 🥵
medium.com/discovery-at...
Accelerating evidence synthesis: how AI is transforming systematic reviews
Early work-in-progress in leveraging OpenAlex and OpenAI API to screen and extract structured data from research publications
medium.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🚀 Check out this technical note on some early work-in-progress on accelerating evidence synthesis with AI
We're exploring OpenAlex and OpenAI LLMs to extract structured data from 1000s of research papers 🥵
medium.com/discovery-at...
We're exploring OpenAlex and OpenAI LLMs to extract structured data from 1000s of research papers 🥵
medium.com/discovery-at...
Thank you @dealroom.bsky.social for featuring Mission Radar in the latest newsletter! ✨
Read the full newsletter here: newsletter.dealroom.co/nobel-laurea...
Read the full newsletter here: newsletter.dealroom.co/nobel-laurea...
May 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Thank you @dealroom.bsky.social for featuring Mission Radar in the latest newsletter! ✨
Read the full newsletter here: newsletter.dealroom.co/nobel-laurea...
Read the full newsletter here: newsletter.dealroom.co/nobel-laurea...
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Could seeing a heat pump in action encourage more homeowners to make the switch?
Last year, we launched Visit a Heat Pump to connect the heat-pump curious with local heat pump owners.
A year on, it's seen 1000+ bookings with 90% of visitors recommending the service. Find out more:
Last year, we launched Visit a Heat Pump to connect the heat-pump curious with local heat pump owners.
A year on, it's seen 1000+ bookings with 90% of visitors recommending the service. Find out more:
One year on, Visit a Heat Pump sees over 1,600 visitors
Our research has shown visits make a clear difference to people’s attitudes, knowledge and confidence on heat pumps
www.nesta.org.uk
May 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Could seeing a heat pump in action encourage more homeowners to make the switch?
Last year, we launched Visit a Heat Pump to connect the heat-pump curious with local heat pump owners.
A year on, it's seen 1000+ bookings with 90% of visitors recommending the service. Find out more:
Last year, we launched Visit a Heat Pump to connect the heat-pump curious with local heat pump owners.
A year on, it's seen 1000+ bookings with 90% of visitors recommending the service. Find out more:
🔍 What’s new on the Mission Radar?
In our latest innovation trends scan @nestauk.bsky.social, we tracked VC signals in low-carbon heating- and the trajectory is exciting! 1/n
In our latest innovation trends scan @nestauk.bsky.social, we tracked VC signals in low-carbon heating- and the trajectory is exciting! 1/n
May 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🔍 What’s new on the Mission Radar?
In our latest innovation trends scan @nestauk.bsky.social, we tracked VC signals in low-carbon heating- and the trajectory is exciting! 1/n
In our latest innovation trends scan @nestauk.bsky.social, we tracked VC signals in low-carbon heating- and the trajectory is exciting! 1/n
Join us this Thursday to hear from Government Office for Science on how to use machine learning to inform policy design! ✨
www.linkedin.com/posts/innova...
www.linkedin.com/posts/innova...
Expression of Interest: Innovation Data and Policy Network | Innovation Growth Lab
Join us for an engaging session on “𝗨𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻” as part of the Innovation Data and Policy Network, hosted by the Innovation Growth Lab and Nesta.
The In...
www.linkedin.com
May 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Join us this Thursday to hear from Government Office for Science on how to use machine learning to inform policy design! ✨
www.linkedin.com/posts/innova...
www.linkedin.com/posts/innova...
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📡 Introducing Mission Radar: our new briefing on emerging trends in clean heat, obesity and early years. This edition dives into low-carbon heating, using AI to scan for innovation in business, academia and policy. Here's what we found ⤵️ bit.ly/4kiwsdp
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May 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM
📡 Introducing Mission Radar: our new briefing on emerging trends in clean heat, obesity and early years. This edition dives into low-carbon heating, using AI to scan for innovation in business, academia and policy. Here's what we found ⤵️ bit.ly/4kiwsdp
What's on your radar? 📡
Excited to share our first Mission Radar – a quarterly look at innovation signals spotted in our foresight work at @nestauk.bsky.social
We explored innovations around reducing home carbon emissions, linked to our sustainable future mission.
www.nesta.org.uk/feature/miss...
Excited to share our first Mission Radar – a quarterly look at innovation signals spotted in our foresight work at @nestauk.bsky.social
We explored innovations around reducing home carbon emissions, linked to our sustainable future mission.
www.nesta.org.uk/feature/miss...
Mission Radar: emerging signals and innovation trends in low-carbon heating
Our first edition of the series shares innovation signals for venture funding, research funding and policy trends in low-carbon heating
www.nesta.org.uk
May 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What's on your radar? 📡
Excited to share our first Mission Radar – a quarterly look at innovation signals spotted in our foresight work at @nestauk.bsky.social
We explored innovations around reducing home carbon emissions, linked to our sustainable future mission.
www.nesta.org.uk/feature/miss...
Excited to share our first Mission Radar – a quarterly look at innovation signals spotted in our foresight work at @nestauk.bsky.social
We explored innovations around reducing home carbon emissions, linked to our sustainable future mission.
www.nesta.org.uk/feature/miss...
Looking forward to The AI Summit London 2025, and exploring opportunities for AI for social good!
invt.io/1bxb3ko7fn4
invt.io/1bxb3ko7fn4
I'm attending The AI Summit - where commercial AI comes to life
Why not join me there?
invt.io
May 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Looking forward to The AI Summit London 2025, and exploring opportunities for AI for social good!
invt.io/1bxb3ko7fn4
invt.io/1bxb3ko7fn4
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Come and join our team at Nesta! We're hiring a data scientist (maternity cover, 12-month fixed-term contract).
You will work with me and a team of other data scientists and researchers to develop AI-powered tools for supporting analysts and policymakers!
www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-sc...
You will work with me and a team of other data scientists and researchers to develop AI-powered tools for supporting analysts and policymakers!
www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-sc...
Data Scientist (Maternity Cover)
We are looking for a Data Scientist to develop innovative methods leveraging data science and AI to impact our Missions and improve the practice of policymaking.
www.nesta.org.uk
April 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Come and join our team at Nesta! We're hiring a data scientist (maternity cover, 12-month fixed-term contract).
You will work with me and a team of other data scientists and researchers to develop AI-powered tools for supporting analysts and policymakers!
www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-sc...
You will work with me and a team of other data scientists and researchers to develop AI-powered tools for supporting analysts and policymakers!
www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-sc...
Come and join our team at Nesta! We're hiring a data scientist (maternity cover, 12-month fixed-term contract).
You will work with me and a team of other data scientists and researchers to develop AI-powered tools for supporting analysts and policymakers!
www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-sc...
You will work with me and a team of other data scientists and researchers to develop AI-powered tools for supporting analysts and policymakers!
www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-sc...
Data Scientist (Maternity Cover)
We are looking for a Data Scientist to develop innovative methods leveraging data science and AI to impact our Missions and improve the practice of policymaking.
www.nesta.org.uk
April 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Come and join our team at Nesta! We're hiring a data scientist (maternity cover, 12-month fixed-term contract).
You will work with me and a team of other data scientists and researchers to develop AI-powered tools for supporting analysts and policymakers!
www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-sc...
You will work with me and a team of other data scientists and researchers to develop AI-powered tools for supporting analysts and policymakers!
www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/data-sc...
It was great to participate in the AI evidence synthesis workshop organised by ai@cam this week!
Amazing to see so much interest and activity in this space (and very impressed by the work done by the Conservation Evidence team)
Looking forward to contributing more to this topic in the near future
Amazing to see so much interest and activity in this space (and very impressed by the work done by the Conservation Evidence team)
Looking forward to contributing more to this topic in the near future
What does great evidence synthesis look like and where is #AI being successfully applied in this field? 💭
Great discussions yesterday at our AI for #evidencesynthesis workshop as we examined the strengths and limitations of current tools, areas of progress and promising applications of AI.
Great discussions yesterday at our AI for #evidencesynthesis workshop as we examined the strengths and limitations of current tools, areas of progress and promising applications of AI.
March 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It was great to participate in the AI evidence synthesis workshop organised by ai@cam this week!
Amazing to see so much interest and activity in this space (and very impressed by the work done by the Conservation Evidence team)
Looking forward to contributing more to this topic in the near future
Amazing to see so much interest and activity in this space (and very impressed by the work done by the Conservation Evidence team)
Looking forward to contributing more to this topic in the near future
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Oligarchic control and subservient justice & security systems are lessons Russia has for Americans, & another is the neutering of the Russian Duma, which abdicated most of its powers to Putin and soon had the rest taken away. The GOP looks ready to become Trump's United Russia.
February 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Oligarchic control and subservient justice & security systems are lessons Russia has for Americans, & another is the neutering of the Russian Duma, which abdicated most of its powers to Putin and soon had the rest taken away. The GOP looks ready to become Trump's United Russia.
💡 Last autumn, @helloaidank.bsky.social had a spark of an idea: a gen AI chatbot to support heat pump installations.
Fast forward, and it’s amazing to see how that idea has grown into an actual feature on a real-world platform. Excited to see what's next! 🚀
www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...
Fast forward, and it’s amazing to see how that idea has grown into an actual feature on a real-world platform. Excited to see what's next! 🚀
www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...
How could generative AI change the heat pump skills sector?
Partnering with Renbee, we designed a chatbot to provide clear, practical advice for queries on heat pump installation
www.nesta.org.uk
December 12, 2024 at 6:24 PM
💡 Last autumn, @helloaidank.bsky.social had a spark of an idea: a gen AI chatbot to support heat pump installations.
Fast forward, and it’s amazing to see how that idea has grown into an actual feature on a real-world platform. Excited to see what's next! 🚀
www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...
Fast forward, and it’s amazing to see how that idea has grown into an actual feature on a real-world platform. Excited to see what's next! 🚀
www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...
Reposted by Karlis Kanders
saw this piece being shared around on the bird site and sharing it here cuz it's so good genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
November 5, 2024 at 3:11 PM
saw this piece being shared around on the bird site and sharing it here cuz it's so good genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
🙌 New blog alert! It was great to collaborate with Rinske Jongma over this summer on using generative AI for summarising political speeches.
medium.com/discovery-at...
medium.com/discovery-at...
How to use AI to summarise decades of political discourse
Using and evaluating large language models and chain-of-thought prompting for summarisation
medium.com
November 8, 2024 at 10:10 AM
🙌 New blog alert! It was great to collaborate with Rinske Jongma over this summer on using generative AI for summarising political speeches.
medium.com/discovery-at...
medium.com/discovery-at...
I'm looking forward to participating in the Policy Live event this Thursday! 🙌
I will present highlights from our latest report on innovation trends around technologies for supporting development of young children! 🐣
www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...
I will present highlights from our latest report on innovation trends around technologies for supporting development of young children! 🐣
www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...
September 9, 2024 at 9:10 AM
I'm looking forward to participating in the Policy Live event this Thursday! 🙌
I will present highlights from our latest report on innovation trends around technologies for supporting development of young children! 🐣
www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...
I will present highlights from our latest report on innovation trends around technologies for supporting development of young children! 🐣
www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...
Reposted by Karlis Kanders
What would it take to improve the UK's trajectory to 2040?
A new report series from UK 2040 Options brings together innovative policy ideas in areas critical to the country’s future – economic growth, health, education and net zero.
Read the ideas: options2040.co.uk/ideas-to-pro...
A new report series from UK 2040 Options brings together innovative policy ideas in areas critical to the country’s future – economic growth, health, education and net zero.
Read the ideas: options2040.co.uk/ideas-to-pro...
Ideas to propel us to a better 2040
Our analysis on the challenges and bold solutions required to tackle economic growth, health, education and net zero
options2040.co.uk
September 4, 2024 at 8:47 AM
What would it take to improve the UK's trajectory to 2040?
A new report series from UK 2040 Options brings together innovative policy ideas in areas critical to the country’s future – economic growth, health, education and net zero.
Read the ideas: options2040.co.uk/ideas-to-pro...
A new report series from UK 2040 Options brings together innovative policy ideas in areas critical to the country’s future – economic growth, health, education and net zero.
Read the ideas: options2040.co.uk/ideas-to-pro...
Happy to share a new report on innovation trends in early-years digital technologies!
Our @nestauk.bsky.social study points to a burgeoning ecosystem of tech and AI that could enhance the way we support child development.
www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...
#tech #children #parenting #childcare
Our @nestauk.bsky.social study points to a burgeoning ecosystem of tech and AI that could enhance the way we support child development.
www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...
#tech #children #parenting #childcare
Innovation Sweet Spots: digital technologies for the early years
Our analysis finds that AI is powering a wave of digital technology aimed at supporting children and parents in the early years
www.nesta.org.uk
August 27, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Happy to share a new report on innovation trends in early-years digital technologies!
Our @nestauk.bsky.social study points to a burgeoning ecosystem of tech and AI that could enhance the way we support child development.
www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...
#tech #children #parenting #childcare
Our @nestauk.bsky.social study points to a burgeoning ecosystem of tech and AI that could enhance the way we support child development.
www.nesta.org.uk/data-visuali...
#tech #children #parenting #childcare
Curious to try out Bluesky! I'm overall quite excited about open social networking protocols and interoperability so happy to support this experiment and seeing what happens 👀
August 27, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Curious to try out Bluesky! I'm overall quite excited about open social networking protocols and interoperability so happy to support this experiment and seeing what happens 👀