Parisa Rashidi
@parisarashidi.bsky.social
Scientist, Medical AI Researcher, Humanist
Founding Co-director of @UF_IC3 Center and director of @UFiHealLab
#AI4Health
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Founding Co-director of @UF_IC3 Center and director of @UFiHealLab
#AI4Health
Opinions my own.
She/her.
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He wasn’t just censored. They altered his responses to NYT questions on his publication
Egregious.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...
Egregious.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...
Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. | CNN
Dr. Kevin Hall joins The Lead
www.cnn.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
He wasn’t just censored. They altered his responses to NYT questions on his publication
Egregious.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...
Egregious.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...
Isn't it wonderful that AI is auto-generating my commit messages? Took away all the guilt of not including enough details!
April 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Isn't it wonderful that AI is auto-generating my commit messages? Took away all the guilt of not including enough details!
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We're very excited to introduce TAPNext: a model that sets a new state-of-art for Tracking Any Point in videos, by formulating the task as Next Token Prediction. For more, see: tap-next.github.io
April 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We're very excited to introduce TAPNext: a model that sets a new state-of-art for Tracking Any Point in videos, by formulating the task as Next Token Prediction. For more, see: tap-next.github.io
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Google just open sourced a Python Agent Development Kit @ github.com/google/adk-p...
Native Streaming and #MCP support out of the box 👀
github.com/google/adk-s...
Native Streaming and #MCP support out of the box 👀
github.com/google/adk-s...
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Google just open sourced a Python Agent Development Kit @ github.com/google/adk-p...
Native Streaming and #MCP support out of the box 👀
github.com/google/adk-s...
Native Streaming and #MCP support out of the box 👀
github.com/google/adk-s...
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2 important papers @nature.com today indicate the potential for A.I. to improve diagnostic accuracy and overall clinical performance for patient management and interactions
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
April 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
2 important papers @nature.com today indicate the potential for A.I. to improve diagnostic accuracy and overall clinical performance for patient management and interactions
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
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Meta just dropped Llama 4 on a weekend! Two new open weight models (Scout and Maverick) and a preview of a model called Behemoth - Scout has a 10 million token context
Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
The Llama 4 herd: The beginning of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation
We’re introducing Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, the first open-weight natively multimodal models with unprecedented context support and our first built using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architect...
ai.meta.com
April 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Meta just dropped Llama 4 on a weekend! Two new open weight models (Scout and Maverick) and a preview of a model called Behemoth - Scout has a 10 million token context
Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
Best information right now appears to be this blog post: ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
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This doesn't look good, folks
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This doesn't look good, folks
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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These cuts would be catastrophic for the humanities and for communities around the country - you can contact your reps to oppose these cuts here: p2a.co/DdtlGIT We should be increasing resources for humanities scholarship and programs, not cutting them! 🗃️
April 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
These cuts would be catastrophic for the humanities and for communities around the country - you can contact your reps to oppose these cuts here: p2a.co/DdtlGIT We should be increasing resources for humanities scholarship and programs, not cutting them! 🗃️
It is hard enough to recruit one qualified researcher. Even if the next administration tries to reinstate all these offices, it would be a tall order to find and recruit all the qualified researchers again, they already have moved on.
The HHS Friday evening DOGE www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.
www.cbsnews.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It is hard enough to recruit one qualified researcher. Even if the next administration tries to reinstate all these offices, it would be a tall order to find and recruit all the qualified researchers again, they already have moved on.
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Discovery of a new class of natural antibiotics with a new mode of action to address antimicrobial resistance, a major unmet need
@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A broad-spectrum lasso peptide antibiotic targeting the bacterial ribosome - Nature
A new lasso peptide antibiotic exhibits broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, is unaffected by common resistanc...
www.nature.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Discovery of a new class of natural antibiotics with a new mode of action to address antimicrobial resistance, a major unmet need
@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is catastrophic for pancreatic cancer patients
March 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is catastrophic for pancreatic cancer patients
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🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding.
Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇
Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇
March 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding.
Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇
Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇
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NEW: Trump canceled grants funding cancer and Alzheimer’s research at Columbia University.
DOGE then listed the millions of dollars from those terminated grants on its “savings” page.
My story for @notusreports.bsky.social
www.notus.org/health-scien...
DOGE then listed the millions of dollars from those terminated grants on its “savings” page.
My story for @notusreports.bsky.social
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The Trump Administration Cut Cancer and Alzheimer’s Research Funding at Columbia University
His administration terminated a $5 million grant to the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center — and listed the exact dollar amount among DOGE’s “savings.”
www.notus.org
March 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
NEW: Trump canceled grants funding cancer and Alzheimer’s research at Columbia University.
DOGE then listed the millions of dollars from those terminated grants on its “savings” page.
My story for @notusreports.bsky.social
www.notus.org/health-scien...
DOGE then listed the millions of dollars from those terminated grants on its “savings” page.
My story for @notusreports.bsky.social
www.notus.org/health-scien...
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Please pay attention to what is going on with the deportation mess. Individual rights are being trampled so ICE can make quota.
1/ For many Americans, deporting violent gang members will sound like a good idea, constitutional niceties be damned. They are the perfect group of people for a government test case. joycevance.substack.com/p/deportatio...
Deportations: It's not where it starts, it's where it ends.
Just ahead of the hearing scheduled for 5 p.m.
joycevance.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Please pay attention to what is going on with the deportation mess. Individual rights are being trampled so ICE can make quota.
🚀 Our latest paper presented at #SIGCSE2025. @snsie.bsky.social, my postdoc, has developed NeuRL, a no-code, web-based platform for real-time exploring of neural networks and reinforcement learning (RL).
🔗 neu-rl.netlify.app
📜 paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Here's a brief overview 🧵👇
🔗 neu-rl.netlify.app
📜 paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Here's a brief overview 🧵👇
March 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🚀 Our latest paper presented at #SIGCSE2025. @snsie.bsky.social, my postdoc, has developed NeuRL, a no-code, web-based platform for real-time exploring of neural networks and reinforcement learning (RL).
🔗 neu-rl.netlify.app
📜 paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Here's a brief overview 🧵👇
🔗 neu-rl.netlify.app
📜 paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Here's a brief overview 🧵👇
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I regret to announce that the meme Turing Test has been passed
LLMs produce funnier memes than the average human, as judged by humans. Humans working with AI get no boost (a finding that is coming up often in AI-creativity work) The best human memers still beat AI, however. arxiv.org/abs/2501.11433
LLMs produce funnier memes than the average human, as judged by humans. Humans working with AI get no boost (a finding that is coming up often in AI-creativity work) The best human memers still beat AI, however. arxiv.org/abs/2501.11433
March 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I regret to announce that the meme Turing Test has been passed
LLMs produce funnier memes than the average human, as judged by humans. Humans working with AI get no boost (a finding that is coming up often in AI-creativity work) The best human memers still beat AI, however. arxiv.org/abs/2501.11433
LLMs produce funnier memes than the average human, as judged by humans. Humans working with AI get no boost (a finding that is coming up often in AI-creativity work) The best human memers still beat AI, however. arxiv.org/abs/2501.11433
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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A relentless attack on universities proceeds
March 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A relentless attack on universities proceeds
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My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
christinapagel.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
My latest post is now out.
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook.
This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must!
christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
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The reckless termination of grants at NIH continues
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
March 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The reckless termination of grants at NIH continues
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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I just shared a new article, "The State of Reasoning Models", where I am exploring 12 new research articles on improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs (all published after the release of DeepSeek R1): magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
The State of LLM Reasoning Models
Part 1: Inference-Time Compute Scaling Methods
magazine.sebastianraschka.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I just shared a new article, "The State of Reasoning Models", where I am exploring 12 new research articles on improving the reasoning capabilities of LLMs (all published after the release of DeepSeek R1): magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
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This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
March 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...
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Here's the handout for my "Cutting-edge web scraping techniques" workshop at #NICAR2025 this morning github.com/simonw/nicar...
Plus some extra notes on the custom software I built to support the workshop: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/c...
Plus some extra notes on the custom software I built to support the workshop: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/c...
Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR
Here's the handout for a workshop I presented this morning at [NICAR 2025](https://www.ire.org/training/conferences/nicar-2025/) on web scraping, focusing on lesser know tips and tricks that became po...
simonwillison.net
March 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Here's the handout for my "Cutting-edge web scraping techniques" workshop at #NICAR2025 this morning github.com/simonw/nicar...
Plus some extra notes on the custom software I built to support the workshop: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/c...
Plus some extra notes on the custom software I built to support the workshop: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/c...