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Marcel Salathé
@marcelsalathe.bsky.social
EPFL Professor, Co-Director EPFL AI Center, digital epidemiologist, CH++
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"You cannot binge on vegetables on your healthy day and then eat unhealthy the rest of the week" @marcelsalathe.bsky.social

EPFL researchers have found that it’s not only what we eat, but how consistently we eat it that plays a crucial role in gut health. 🥗🔬

👉 actu.epfl.ch/news/ai-nutr...
AI nutrition study finds "five every day" may keep the doctor away
In a new study using AI and machine learning, EPFL researchers have found that it’s not only what we eat, but how consistently we eat it that plays a crucial role in gut health.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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@marcelsalathe.bsky.social talks with Adrian Cabrera de Luis, CEO of MailMaestro.
They talk about how “seed-strapping” fuels profitability, why small AI teams beat giants, lessons from consulting, startups & fast tech shifts.

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5DZJ...

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August 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Babak Falsafi joins @marcelsalathe.bsky.social to break down the true energy cost of AI ⚡️They talk GPUs, data centers VS cloud computing VS supercomputers, and why AI’s environmental impact is bigger than you think but also solvable.
🎧Tune in shorturl.at/qs3OQ
or here: shorturl.at/pwrKj
Conversation with Babak Falsafi, EPFL
Inside AI · Episode
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July 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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What if we could design proteins like we generate images or text? Stef van Grieken and his company Cradle is doing just that and that could change the world beyond drug discovery...

🎧 Listen to the fully story on our podcast, Inside AI
open.spotify.com/episode/6Uhi...
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June 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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New paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections. The policy increased faculty exits-particularly among high-performing researchers. Also, there were no productivity gains among incumbents. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Fight or Flight: The Impact of Post-Tenure Evaluations on Faculty Productivity and Selection
This paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections at public universities. Using a diff
papers.ssrn.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Characters in search of a better author. Whether you like AI or not, these are genuinely funny. But note that the humor is provided by the human prompter.
Google Veo3. All of this is AI generated.
We are so cooked.
May 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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In this new #InsideAI episode, @marcelsalathe.bsky.social chats with Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable. They talk about LLMs & product acceleration, security in AI coding and scaling in Europe’s startup scene.

Tune in here on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2FOh...

#AI #LLM #Startups #TechEurope
May 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Specifically, I experienced censorship in the reporting of our research because of agency concerns that it did not appear to fully support preconceived narratives of my agency’s leadership about ultra-processed food addiction.
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Both may take years to recover from
2) Trump has had the same impact on economic uncertainty as a global pandemic.
April 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Our cover this week.
April 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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New #InsideAI episode just in! 🎙️
@marcelsalathe.bsky.social and @bunnech.bsky.social have a conversation at the intersection of life and computer sciences.
They discuss how AI can transform personalized treatment and smarter diagnostics. 🦠🔬
🎧Tune in: open.spotify.com/episode/3sPB...

#AIforhealth
April 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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March 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Almost a year of avian influenza in cows. No clues on how this started, no signs of abating, concerns about adatation and some speculation about why here and not in europe www.science.org/content/arti...
Mysteries surrounding cow flu have scientists concerned about future outbreaks
One year after the first infections were reported, it's still unclear how H5N1 virus jumped into U.S. cattle—and why it keeps doing so
www.science.org
March 26, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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1/3 Krasse Desinformation in der @woz.ch: «[…] konnte die Covid-Impfung für jüngere Menschen gewichtige Nebenwirkungen haben. Das Risiko einer Herzmuskelerkrankung war für einen geimpften Sechzehnjährigen etwa gleich hoch wie jenes, schwer an Covid zu erkranken.» 🤢

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March 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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How immoral and unscientific: Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children by Russia.

Yale public health researchers spent years collecting and synthesizing data for the initiative, known as the Conflict Observatory.
Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children
Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Today is one of those sobering days where we Swiss citizens are reminded that we have no say in who our executive leaders will be.

A real oddity in Switzerland, where citizens otherwise enjoy enormous democratic rights, including referenda and popular initiatives.
March 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Graber’s shirt — which directly copies the style of a shirt that Zuckerberg wore onstage recently — says Mundus sine caesaribus. Or, “a world without Caesars.”
At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt | TechCrunch
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked on stage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun.
techcrunch.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
March 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Just a quick reminder, if Russia ceased firing there would be a cease fire
March 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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NYT: Ralph Baric and Ian Lipkin raise the alarm on new paper where Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists experiment on ANOTHER coronavirus that can infect humans under inadequate biosafety precautions.😫

“could have significant risks for people worldwide”

Gift link:
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Opinion | Recent Virus Research Should Raise Alarm (Gift Article)
Research with pandemic potential needs the utmost precautions.
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March 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Zelensky under fire at the White House - © Chappatte in La Tribune Dimanche, Paris 👉chappatte.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today, there was a meeting with the leader of the free world in the White House.

Donald Trump was also there.
February 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
February 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM