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Sergio Graziosi
@sergiograziosi.bsky.social
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Former (molecular) neurobiologist, now software developer (@eppicentre.bsky.social). Science junkie, evidence seeker, naïve philosophaster, music lover.
Getting more and more radical as I grow old.
Also at: @GraziosiSergio@social.esmarconf
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
This connection isn’t articulated often enough.
That is why care has transformative power beyond health. To be truly listened to – to be recognized not as a case but as a person – can change not just how one experiences illness, but how one experiences oneself and the world. It can foster the capacity to care for others across differences, to resist hatred and violence, to build the fragile social ties upon which democracy depends. By contrast, when medicine is reduced to data and transactions, it not only fails patients and demoralizes doctors. It also degrades democracy itself. A system that alienates people in their moments of deepest vulnerability – bankrupting them, gaslighting them, leaving them unheard – breeds despair and rage. It creates the conditions in which authoritarians gain traction.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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perfors.net
Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.
Slide is titled: You don't need to use LLMs. Science is a process of collaborative meaning making, by which we try to understand the world Even if AI were perfect, we rely on it at our peril — it is not science if we (i.e., humanity as a whole) do not understand and cannot recapitulate all parts of it I very, very rarely use LLMs myself. You can give yourself permission not to. Don’t FOMO yourself into it Conclusion: Don't rely on something you don't understand and can't control If you must use LLMS: 1. Treat them like you would an intern: only use them for things you can easily and thoroughly check 2. Make your process as robust as possible 3. Be aware of your own (human) cognitive biases
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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flawlessangel.bsky.social
anyway racism, nostalgia & absurd tech is what we already have now & it's just fascism
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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uk.theconversation.com
Medication-overuse headache is a well-documented phenomenon – but the good news is it’s often reversible.
Could pain medication be causing your headaches?
Medication-overuse headache is a well-documented phenomenon – but the good news is it’s often reversible.
tcnv.link
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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msentropy.bsky.social
We’re in dark times already, but the stakes are growing exponentially day by day.

So it’s a good time for a reminder for all of us: performative vs. effective solidarity approaches.

Everyone needs this reminder, especially when we already “know” - the heat of the moment can make us forget.

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October 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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cassandrascomplex.bsky.social
WE SHOULD LISTEN.
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Oct 24
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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eppi-reviewer.bsky.social
#EPPI-Reviewer new (major) release:
Version 6.17.0.0 adds a new system to create prioritised lists of items to screen, as well as other improvements to screening systems.
Also extends the list of supported LLMs, adding Llama and Mistral.

All details: eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default....
Latest Changes (30/09/2025 - V6.17.0.0) - Forum announcements
eppi.ioe.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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4refugeewomen.bsky.social
📣 Scapegoating people seeking safety in the UK won’t fix inequality, housing shortages, or the NHS.

The Government must acknowledge this.

We’re proud to join over 100 orgs calling on the Govt. to unite communities.

We need compassion, not division.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary
A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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4refugeewomen.bsky.social
The comments made by our Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, are deeply harmful, concerning and misleading.

There are many reasons why claims are 'last minute' - we know this from our work over the years supporting hundreds of refugee women.

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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’
Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PM’s ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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misterabk.bsky.social
As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.
September 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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jamesgdyke.info
It's not just that there are lots of racist extremists on X (there are) or attempts to 'interact' with them are doomed to failure (they are), it's that your participation on the platform further enriches the racist extremist Elon Musk and amplifies his agenda. Why cannot people understand that?
jackmcgovan.bsky.social Jack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · Sep 15
No matter what #Musk says or does, many on the left continue to post on and pay for X, a clear example of how progressive movements are beholden to the narrative that we don't have to change anything at all about our lives to achieve our political goals.

I wrote about why that's bad in July ⬇️
X reveals a weakness in left-wing rhetoric
Good principles mean nothing when you materially support a fascist propaganda machine.
www.sower.world
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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lisabortolotti.com
#philsky #EpistemicInjustice #YouthMentalHealth #edusky #projectEPIC
hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social Hearing Voices at Mind in Camden @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social · Sep 12
Do you work in school settings? With the help of @lisabortolotti.com & several members of Voice Collective, we created a little resource to help school staff know a bit more how they can help students who open up about hearing voices (as well as our info if more support/information is needed!)
A bright background with circles and other shapes of different colours. It reads 'Understanding hearing voices: A short guide for school staff' Hearing Voices and related experiences are more common than you think. We know there's a lot of stigma around voices, so if we open up to you, please take time to listen and be kind. Key points: Don't panic, Listen, don't judge, Offer compassion, Involve us in decisions around what would help, Be curious, don't be afraid to ask questions. Created by Chris, Hannah, Oliver and the Voice Collective Team at Mind in Camden in Collaboration with Project EPIC. Contact:hello@voicecollective.co.uk. A QR code takes you to www.voicecollective.co.uk. Page 2 How you can help... Listen actively, use the same language about our experiences as we do and reflect things back to us to check our understanding. Don't dismiss or invalidate the experiences we have trusted to share with you. Different things work for different people - collaborate with us in figuring out what would be helpful or unhelpful. If we don't know what would help, try to offer concrete options we can choose from and try. Try not to view us differently, we are still the same person we were before we told you about our voices. Remember our strengths and capabilities, as well as our struggles. With support, we can still achieve a lot. Be open and transparent. It's ok to not be sure how to best support us, but please explain to us what next steps are and involve us in making decisions about us. Ends with logos for University of Birmingham, the EPIC Project, Mind in Camden and Voice Collective.
September 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
2. The craven appeasement of powerful lobby groups, which, in the absence of a moral compass, have been able to steer this government any way they want. 2/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot
Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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sriucl.bsky.social
Research Spotlight: Exploring what life is like for families when their baby is in hospital. This co-production study in Mexico by @rosamendizabal.bsky.social will help inform future infant and family development programmes. #coproduction
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...
Image credit: Solen Feyissa via Unsplash, a close up of a mother with darker skin holding a newborn close to her chest, with her finger ove the baby's hair, covered by a blanket.
September 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
sergiograziosi.bsky.social
Stefano Benni wrote things that, when I was a teenager struggling with everything, gave me the courage to focus on becoming me.
Fuck received wisdom, fuck the rules, fuck small minded teachers, fuck comformism.
Think for yourself, make mistakes, find your own way.
Now he's dead and I'm heartbroken.😢
September 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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elhopkins.bsky.social
I can’t highlight the importance of this research enough. It clearly shows that children must not be in school with covid infections. Schools must treat this like TB and remember there is no current cure for long covid.
September 9, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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elhopkins.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Long COVID: a clinical update
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and lead to sever...
www.thelancet.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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pwr2dppl.bsky.social
Mental illness: I don't want to do anything

Mental wellness: I want to do nothing
August 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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emma-briant.co.uk
It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism
The president is embodying the type of big government that right-wing politicians and thinkers have been warning about for a century.
www.theatlantic.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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ndevitomd.bsky.social
If it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. Perhaps one of the most contorted takes I have ever read from the Atlantic.

This is the merger of corporation and state under the direction of an individual- it defines fascism.
emma-briant.co.uk Dr Emma L Briant @emma-briant.co.uk · Aug 26
It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism
The president is embodying the type of big government that right-wing politicians and thinkers have been warning about for a century.
www.theatlantic.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM