Adrian Holme
@adrianholme.bsky.social
Writer, educator, maker. Art, science and technology, Illustration Research, Journal of Illustration, 'It's Freezing in LA!' contributor.
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"The benefits [of risky play for children] are so broad in terms of social, physical, mental development and mental health, I don’t think we can underestimate the value"
go.nature.com/3Yfyv9r
go.nature.com/3Yfyv9r
Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of wild, free play
Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents.
go.nature.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"The benefits [of risky play for children] are so broad in terms of social, physical, mental development and mental health, I don’t think we can underestimate the value"
go.nature.com/3Yfyv9r
go.nature.com/3Yfyv9r
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Pleased to partner with Philip Morris on our “healthy smoking in schools” initiative
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Pleased to partner with Philip Morris on our “healthy smoking in schools” initiative
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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
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When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
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“If we hide in our separate silos, opposing only certain kinds of bigotry, or supporting liberty only for certain kinds of people, we will all lose.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
When free speech becomes weaponised and tribal, everybody...
Protecting expression for one’s own side, while censoring others, serves neither liberty nor safety
observer.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“If we hide in our separate silos, opposing only certain kinds of bigotry, or supporting liberty only for certain kinds of people, we will all lose.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Don’t confuse drama with impossibility.
Lotteries generate winners by design; repeat wins are rare for individuals but unsurprising across a huge player base and many draws.
I've written about exactly this in How to Expect the Unexpected: uk.bookshop.org/list...
5/9
Lotteries generate winners by design; repeat wins are rare for individuals but unsurprising across a huge player base and many draws.
I've written about exactly this in How to Expect the Unexpected: uk.bookshop.org/list...
5/9
Kit Yates' books
By buying my books here you are supporting local bookshops around the UK. Thank you very much.
uk.bookshop.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Don’t confuse drama with impossibility.
Lotteries generate winners by design; repeat wins are rare for individuals but unsurprising across a huge player base and many draws.
I've written about exactly this in How to Expect the Unexpected: uk.bookshop.org/list...
5/9
Lotteries generate winners by design; repeat wins are rare for individuals but unsurprising across a huge player base and many draws.
I've written about exactly this in How to Expect the Unexpected: uk.bookshop.org/list...
5/9
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The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
CDC accepts ACIP’s hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies
The CDC also said if a baby is not receiving a birth dose of vaccine, the initial dose should be administered no earlier than 2 months of age.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The CDC has endorsed ACIP’s decision of revoking universal access in USA to hepatitis B vaccines at birth. The policy had been in place for 34y and was changed despite no new evidence emerging of any risk of vaccination. #HealthPolicy 🧵
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If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?
Super flu' wave hits hospitals in England with no peak yet
Numbers in hospital rise by more than 50% in a week as NHS faces 'worst-case scenario'.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?
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🎯 The evidence is clear: Having a clear vision and including Indigenous & local knowledge leads to better outcomes for both society and nature's contributions to people.
IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🎯 The evidence is clear: Having a clear vision and including Indigenous & local knowledge leads to better outcomes for both society and nature's contributions to people.
IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment: https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
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🚨PHD Opportunity 🚨
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Mathematics PhD – System dynamics modelling of services for children with complex health needs at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Mathematics PhD – System dynamics modelling of services for children with complex health needs at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🚨PHD Opportunity 🚨
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Half-heartedly following the Your Party debacle you become aware that the 'left' constantly issues tests of ideological purity, elevating issues that, while not unimportant, are very far from most people's concerns, thereby sabotaging itself from the outset.
December 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Half-heartedly following the Your Party debacle you become aware that the 'left' constantly issues tests of ideological purity, elevating issues that, while not unimportant, are very far from most people's concerns, thereby sabotaging itself from the outset.
Excellent summary of where we appear to be going now in HE... www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Excellent summary of where we appear to be going now in HE... www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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You might have missed yet another attack on DEI and universities in the US - this time cutting out 38 universities from the US Diplomacy Lab
youtube.com/shorts/pC33H...
youtube.com/shorts/pC33H...
Only one kind of person is allowed to do diplomacy now
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
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December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
You might have missed yet another attack on DEI and universities in the US - this time cutting out 38 universities from the US Diplomacy Lab
youtube.com/shorts/pC33H...
youtube.com/shorts/pC33H...
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🧵How much should the NHS worry about this winter's flu wave?
You may have seen this alarming headline on the BBC website today...
I think it's too early to make this claim and the data does not support it.
I think it will be a bad flu season but no evidence to think worse than previous yrs
1/8
You may have seen this alarming headline on the BBC website today...
I think it's too early to make this claim and the data does not support it.
I think it will be a bad flu season but no evidence to think worse than previous yrs
1/8
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🧵How much should the NHS worry about this winter's flu wave?
You may have seen this alarming headline on the BBC website today...
I think it's too early to make this claim and the data does not support it.
I think it will be a bad flu season but no evidence to think worse than previous yrs
1/8
You may have seen this alarming headline on the BBC website today...
I think it's too early to make this claim and the data does not support it.
I think it will be a bad flu season but no evidence to think worse than previous yrs
1/8
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What can researchers do if they suspect that their manuscripts have been peer reviewed using AI?
go.nature.com/49Lk3Nk
go.nature.com/49Lk3Nk
Major AI conference flooded with peer-reviews written fully by AI
Nature - Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
go.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
What can researchers do if they suspect that their manuscripts have been peer reviewed using AI?
go.nature.com/49Lk3Nk
go.nature.com/49Lk3Nk
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Koko Kondo, one of the few surviving victims of the Hiroshima nuclear blast, has spent her life providing a firsthand account of the destruction that obliterated her community.
Suddenly, in the era of Trump, those values and that peace are under threat.
Suddenly, in the era of Trump, those values and that peace are under threat.
A Hiroshima survivor reflects as Trump considers unleashing a new nuclear age
Koko Kondo was 8 months old when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on her city. Her lifelong journey to forgive but never forget just got more complicated.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Koko Kondo, one of the few surviving victims of the Hiroshima nuclear blast, has spent her life providing a firsthand account of the destruction that obliterated her community.
Suddenly, in the era of Trump, those values and that peace are under threat.
Suddenly, in the era of Trump, those values and that peace are under threat.
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Refuge isn’t weakness. It’s an investment. And the returns are human, immeasurable, and generational.
Britain once understood that. It can again.
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Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Refuge isn’t weakness. It’s an investment. And the returns are human, immeasurable, and generational.
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
Britain once understood that. It can again.
8/8
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New reflections from me about the challenge of countering disinformation when the state itself is distributing it
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November 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New reflections from me about the challenge of countering disinformation when the state itself is distributing it
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-erosio...
christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-erosio...
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"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
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November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."
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Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.
go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
go.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.
go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
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The inside story of COVAX, started in January 2020, and led to 2 billion doses of Covid vaccines given in 146 countries, with 2.7 million lives saved. FAIR DOSES, by
@drsethberkley.bsky.social
A clip from our Ground Truths conversation today
Link to full: erictopol.substack.com/p/seth-berkl...
@drsethberkley.bsky.social
A clip from our Ground Truths conversation today
Link to full: erictopol.substack.com/p/seth-berkl...
November 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The inside story of COVAX, started in January 2020, and led to 2 billion doses of Covid vaccines given in 146 countries, with 2.7 million lives saved. FAIR DOSES, by
@drsethberkley.bsky.social
A clip from our Ground Truths conversation today
Link to full: erictopol.substack.com/p/seth-berkl...
@drsethberkley.bsky.social
A clip from our Ground Truths conversation today
Link to full: erictopol.substack.com/p/seth-berkl...