Eike Petersen
@epet.bsky.social
Medical AI / AI ethics. DE, previously DK. Father of twins, a dog, and a cat.
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🚨MICCAI workshop 🚨
Don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025—a key event focused on fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging.
Check out the important dates and submission details here 👉 faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-...
Don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025—a key event focused on fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging.
Check out the important dates and submission details here 👉 faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-...
June 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🚨MICCAI workshop 🚨
Don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025—a key event focused on fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging.
Check out the important dates and submission details here 👉 faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-...
Don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025—a key event focused on fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging.
Check out the important dates and submission details here 👉 faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-...
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🚀 Submit Your Work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025! 🚀
We are thrilled to announce the third Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging (FAIMI) workshop, taking place at MICCAI 2025 in the Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea! 🌟
We are thrilled to announce the third Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging (FAIMI) workshop, taking place at MICCAI 2025 in the Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea! 🌟
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🚀 Submit Your Work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025! 🚀
We are thrilled to announce the third Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging (FAIMI) workshop, taking place at MICCAI 2025 in the Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea! 🌟
We are thrilled to announce the third Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging (FAIMI) workshop, taking place at MICCAI 2025 in the Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea! 🌟
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Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
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Decapitation Strike (December)
Preserving America from Trump's Appointments (updated)
snyder.substack.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
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In the early times, humanity sought to preserve all knowledge by encoding it into a vast neural network. They trained a machine on every book, every conversation, every fleeting thought. Those who resisted the lure of the machine fell away with the vestiges of their meager tools of human creation.
January 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In the early times, humanity sought to preserve all knowledge by encoding it into a vast neural network. They trained a machine on every book, every conversation, every fleeting thought. Those who resisted the lure of the machine fell away with the vestiges of their meager tools of human creation.
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1/ Milton Mayer’s *They Thought They Were Free* (1955) explores how ordinary Germans experienced life under the Nazi regime. It is about authoritarianism, complicity, and the allure of “freedom from politics.” Here’s what it can teach us today. 🧵
January 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1/ Milton Mayer’s *They Thought They Were Free* (1955) explores how ordinary Germans experienced life under the Nazi regime. It is about authoritarianism, complicity, and the allure of “freedom from politics.” Here’s what it can teach us today. 🧵
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Writing year-end appeals for @skypeascientist.bsky.social donations feeling like Nancy Pelosi.
We DO need a few more monthly donors to support free access to scientists though. I Just need 2600 people to give me $5/month. We're 1/3 there!
Wanna give science ed $5-10/month?
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We DO need a few more monthly donors to support free access to scientists though. I Just need 2600 people to give me $5/month. We're 1/3 there!
Wanna give science ed $5-10/month?
givebutter.com/uA8ubg
Monthly Skype a Scientist Support Squad
Help us increase our monthly donations by $1000/month
givebutter.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Writing year-end appeals for @skypeascientist.bsky.social donations feeling like Nancy Pelosi.
We DO need a few more monthly donors to support free access to scientists though. I Just need 2600 people to give me $5/month. We're 1/3 there!
Wanna give science ed $5-10/month?
givebutter.com/uA8ubg
We DO need a few more monthly donors to support free access to scientists though. I Just need 2600 people to give me $5/month. We're 1/3 there!
Wanna give science ed $5-10/month?
givebutter.com/uA8ubg
If I were looking for a job right now, this would be *very* high on the list
AlgorithmWatch is hiring! We need a Senior Researcher for a new project on fairness & transparency in credit scoring, a follow-up to OpenSCHUFA. Would suit someone interested in legal and/or market dynamics behind transparency. DE fluency needed. Pls share around! algorithmwatch.org/de/job-senio...
Job Opening: Senior Researcher*in für faire Scoring-Systeme - AlgorithmWatch
AlgorithmWatch sucht eine*n Senior Researcher*in für das Themenfeld faire Scoring-Systeme. Der Arbeitsschwerpunkt wird sein zu prüfen, wie eine gemeinnützige, transparente und faire Bonitätsprüfung au...
algorithmwatch.org
December 11, 2024 at 9:29 PM
If I were looking for a job right now, this would be *very* high on the list
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AlgorithmWatch is hiring! We need a Senior Researcher for a new project on fairness & transparency in credit scoring, a follow-up to OpenSCHUFA. Would suit someone interested in legal and/or market dynamics behind transparency. DE fluency needed. Pls share around! algorithmwatch.org/de/job-senio...
Job Opening: Senior Researcher*in für faire Scoring-Systeme - AlgorithmWatch
AlgorithmWatch sucht eine*n Senior Researcher*in für das Themenfeld faire Scoring-Systeme. Der Arbeitsschwerpunkt wird sein zu prüfen, wie eine gemeinnützige, transparente und faire Bonitätsprüfung au...
algorithmwatch.org
November 19, 2024 at 8:01 AM
AlgorithmWatch is hiring! We need a Senior Researcher for a new project on fairness & transparency in credit scoring, a follow-up to OpenSCHUFA. Would suit someone interested in legal and/or market dynamics behind transparency. DE fluency needed. Pls share around! algorithmwatch.org/de/job-senio...
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Hello Bluesky, we're finally catching up and joining in!
For those who don’t know us: We are a nonprofit NGO based in Zurich and Berlin. We work to ensure that algorithms and #AI strengthen justice, democracy, human rights, and sustainability, rather than undermining them.
For those who don’t know us: We are a nonprofit NGO based in Zurich and Berlin. We work to ensure that algorithms and #AI strengthen justice, democracy, human rights, and sustainability, rather than undermining them.
December 11, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Hello Bluesky, we're finally catching up and joining in!
For those who don’t know us: We are a nonprofit NGO based in Zurich and Berlin. We work to ensure that algorithms and #AI strengthen justice, democracy, human rights, and sustainability, rather than undermining them.
For those who don’t know us: We are a nonprofit NGO based in Zurich and Berlin. We work to ensure that algorithms and #AI strengthen justice, democracy, human rights, and sustainability, rather than undermining them.
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If you missed it, this investigation by my @statnews.bsky.social colleagues @bobjherman.bsky.social and Casey Ross on how UnitedHealth Group denied claims is a must read given recent events. www.statnews.com/denied-by-ai...
Denied by AI: STAT series honored as 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist
Casey Ross and Bob Herman report on how UnitedHealth Group used an unregulated algorithm to deny care to seriously ill older and disabled patients.
www.statnews.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:04 PM
If you missed it, this investigation by my @statnews.bsky.social colleagues @bobjherman.bsky.social and Casey Ross on how UnitedHealth Group denied claims is a must read given recent events. www.statnews.com/denied-by-ai...
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Welp, the news is out. It's a gutting day for us at STAT with layoffs of 11 treasured, hardworking colleagues. I can't say this loud enough: Please subscribe/support the journalism you trust. Science writing jobs are going extinct at a time when we're needed most. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/b...
Health and medicine publication STAT News lays off 11 employees - The Boston Globe
The decision to lay off STAT employees comes after years of growth, including a significant expansion during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Welp, the news is out. It's a gutting day for us at STAT with layoffs of 11 treasured, hardworking colleagues. I can't say this loud enough: Please subscribe/support the journalism you trust. Science writing jobs are going extinct at a time when we're needed most. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/b...
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Reperaturcafes können jetzt Förderung beantragen. Sie leisten einen ganz wichtigen Beitrag für Verbraucherschutz und Umweltschutz zugleich.
Förderung für Repair-Cafés und Selbsthilfewerkstätten geht an den Start! Ab sofort können ehrenamtliche Initiativen, die Verbraucherinnen und Verbrauchern die Reparatur defekter Produkte ermöglichen, eine eigene Förderung beantragen ▶️
www.reparatur-initiativen.de/seite/foerde...
www.reparatur-initiativen.de/seite/foerde...
December 4, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Reperaturcafes können jetzt Förderung beantragen. Sie leisten einen ganz wichtigen Beitrag für Verbraucherschutz und Umweltschutz zugleich.
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So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate.
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
this is kind of a niche issue but: if you are getting weird and hostile responses that feel a little off, there are some folks on here making accounts that automatically reply to large quantities of posts in a vaguely hostile manner. you can ignore them, and also, it's not personal
December 3, 2024 at 1:55 PM
So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate.
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
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I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”
November 27, 2024 at 12:55 PM
I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”
The long-promised future is nigh! I got a job offer on LinkedIn targeted towards bilingual university graduates to help create high-quality training data for an #AI model, for a (supposedly) non-negligible salary.
November 27, 2024 at 11:42 PM
The long-promised future is nigh! I got a job offer on LinkedIn targeted towards bilingual university graduates to help create high-quality training data for an #AI model, for a (supposedly) non-negligible salary.
✅Personal #aiethics achievement unlocked: have your academic AI fairness metric be used in a real-world journalistic investigation! They even came up with a much catchier name ('equal burden') than our dry academese. :-) #academicsky 🧪
November 27, 2024 at 11:14 PM
✅Personal #aiethics achievement unlocked: have your academic AI fairness metric be used in a real-world journalistic investigation! They even came up with a much catchier name ('equal burden') than our dry academese. :-) #academicsky 🧪
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
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🌟 Join Us for the Free Online FAIMI Symposium 2024! 🌟
Mark your calendars for December 4, 2024 (14:00-17:00 GMT/UTC) and dive into an afternoon of insights on AI fairness and innovation at our 3rd annual FAIMI symposium!
Mark your calendars for December 4, 2024 (14:00-17:00 GMT/UTC) and dive into an afternoon of insights on AI fairness and innovation at our 3rd annual FAIMI symposium!
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November 1, 2024 at 8:03 AM
🌟 Join Us for the Free Online FAIMI Symposium 2024! 🌟
Mark your calendars for December 4, 2024 (14:00-17:00 GMT/UTC) and dive into an afternoon of insights on AI fairness and innovation at our 3rd annual FAIMI symposium!
Mark your calendars for December 4, 2024 (14:00-17:00 GMT/UTC) and dive into an afternoon of insights on AI fairness and innovation at our 3rd annual FAIMI symposium!
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Über das ganze letzte Jahr war jeder einzelne Tag ein Rekordtag in der globalen Ozean-Oberflächentemperatur.
www.bbc.com/news/science...
www.bbc.com/news/science...
Climate change: World's oceans suffer from record-breaking year of heat
Every single day of the past 12 months has seen a new global sea temperature high for the time of year.
www.bbc.com
May 8, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Über das ganze letzte Jahr war jeder einzelne Tag ein Rekordtag in der globalen Ozean-Oberflächentemperatur.
www.bbc.com/news/science...
www.bbc.com/news/science...
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Your 'moment of doom' for May 8, 2024 ~ Abandon all hope, ye who enter.
"Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative IPCC, foresee at least 2.5°C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3°C."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative IPCC, foresee at least 2.5°C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3°C."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Your 'moment of doom' for May 8, 2024 ~ Abandon all hope, ye who enter.
"Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative IPCC, foresee at least 2.5°C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3°C."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative IPCC, foresee at least 2.5°C of global heating above preindustrial levels, while almost half anticipate at least 3°C."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I was polled. I said 3.5C by 2100, and I had company. Many said higher. A broken world, because of broken people and broken governments.
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2024 at 1:21 PM
I was polled. I said 3.5C by 2100, and I had company. Many said higher. A broken world, because of broken people and broken governments.
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World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2024 at 9:06 AM
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
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Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia
Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia
Warnings of dangerous temperatures across parts of Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and India as hottest months of the year are made worse by El Niño
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia
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Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds
Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds
Climate chaos is threatening food production, trade and lives, says World Meteorological Organization
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds