Reposted by ThiagoSholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 1hToday I'm posting a new video! This case report includes AI generated images. Despite being apparently fabricated with OpenAI tools this paper is already suggested by ChatGPT as evidence to be considered for off label treatment of an autoimmune disease. youtu.be/G9KHwXNIJyk 052
Reposted by ThiagoJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Days before Brazil's election, Meta briefly blocked President Lula's campaign page from running political ads and removed an Instagram profile behind a viral video on Flávio Bolsonaro. Both decisions were reversed, but raised public concerns. Brazilian investigative journalist Laís Martins reports.techpolicy.pressOn Eve of Brazil Elections, Meta Content Moderation Decisions Raise QuestionsTwo recent moderation decisions—while later reversed—have raised concerns about the company's policies and practices, writes Laís Martins. 24632
Reposted by ThiagoCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWaycnyti.msDid Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work. 892122873
Reposted by ThiagoSholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I'm posting a new video about a team of ophthalmology researchers in Germany who scribbled on their figures! t.co/X2U6zCw9pn 1259
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com Question /thought. I'm getting increasingly more common "peer" reviews that are basically LLM regurgitation.(biomedical field) And looks that the editors take those aberrations on board. What would be the solution? 292
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Another day, another peer review full of LLM-generated "reviews". (Full of nonsense, and also violates the norms of the journal) There's no reason to submit a manuscript for publication anymore... #academicsky #episky 051
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 21/09/2026www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I think @epiellie.bsky.social, @pwgtennant.bsky.social and @statsepi.bsky.social will enjoy this paper. #episkysciencedirect.comNatural experiments of herpes zoster vaccination: Quantifying the implied vaccine effectiveness against dementiaRecent natural experiments conducted in Wales, Australia, and Canada found a lower risk of all-cause dementia among individuals eligible for live-atte… 161
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 13/09/2026#angrybirds Not a birder, but I have this one in the gallery. bsky.app/profile/alan... 010
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I have discovered that my institution is negotiating an "enterprise" license to one of those LLMs... At the same time, it says that, to save costs, redundancies are necessary.... #academicsky 000
Reposted by ThiagoKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class. 1526875
Reposted by ThiagoAlias Messier @amampersand.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Last week, I provided students with my Reasons to Hate AI mini comic, & now you can have it, too. Thanks to @nsousanis.bsky.social for suggestions & so many for the accumulated info, esp. @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social , @dairinstitute.bsky.social. 518271
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 04/09/2026medicresai.com/fellowship This looks like AI slop for Academia. Directly from Claude prompts #academicsky #episkymedicresai.comMedicReS | Advancing Medical ResearchDesign, analyze, and publish stronger medical studies with AI tools, expert collaboration, and end-to-end research support. 020
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Academia. What would be "Evidence of Esteem, External Visibility & Professional Activities" in a job application? Are they awards? Interviews with the media? #episky #AcademicSky #ScienceSky 210
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 29/08/2026www.anthropic.com/news/expandi... ... Oldest strategy ever? Give something for "free", so people can get dependent on a wasteful technologyanthropic.comExpanding our support for scientistsAnthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. 000
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Remember to sign and share! We already passed 4,000 signatures 13425
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 26/08/2026God... Description of an assistant professor position with "desirable criteria" of "use of genAI to do research." 010
Reposted by ThiagoTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk You can add your name👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comOpen letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio... 7420202
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I was thinking in the "associated with" type of paper, and maybe those strange "hierarchical models"(cesar Victoria) (not mixed models) makes sense in this context. For example, the model 1) with only age/sex (not confunded by anything).. 1/n #episky 210
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"Some points need to be addressed: 1. Causal language throughout the manuscript - "Effect" and direct causal phrasing still appear in several places and should be softened to association-based language:" peer review comment of an article I'm collaborating.... ffs #episky 000
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My partner had a job interview and received the most ludicrous feedback about the use of genAI (the interview specifically mentioned Gemini /Claude). Specifying Claude as "agentic AI". This was for an admin job / not for vibe code the shit out. 1/n 270
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 19/08/2026" Statins reduce hospital admissions but increase overall healthcare use " - www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/statins... This headline is confusing... the paper shows a decrease in use per person-time... Any thoughts? @pwgtennant.bsky.social @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social @georgiatomova.bsky.social #episky 100
Reposted by ThiagoKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/08/2026Please sign @goodlawproject.org's demand for a public inquiry into the media's role in Jason Arday's death -> goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...goodlawproject.orgJason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law ProjectCommission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death. 27637
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 14/08/2026FFS, BBC has a stupid far-right fetish www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... They keep interviewing people in the middle of the day (stupid selection bias, and present it as "the people") Even the page (preview..."share joy") On the page: "What do Nigel Farage's constituents think of his re-election?"bbc.co.ukNigel Farage's Clacton voters share joy at his by-election winThe Reform leader wins the by-election he triggered, and wins more votes. 111
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I woke up hopeful that I would have a good surprise from the people of Clacton-on-Sea.... But not. 000
Reposted by ThiagoThe Journal of Infectious Diseases @jidjournal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Early Transcriptional Signature in Chikungunya Predicts Chronic Arthralgia and Reveals Deficient Antiviral Response ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 bit.ly/4xalUnh 011
Reposted by Thiago404 Media @404media.co · 10/07/2026ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.404media.coAI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research FindsChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters. 728278
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 07/07/2026After llms, a lot of times when I m checking someone else code and I see "implementations" from scratch, for example PS matching with caliper using crazy loops instead of MatchIt from @noahgreifer.bsky.social . It makes the work so much harder, because the new func probably has some flaws #rstats 181
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Why?!? Why!? "To adjust for baseline confounding a pseudo-population was generated using propensity score overlap weighting. This created an emulated trial scenario ...." For the description ... it even doesn't account the time varying charact. of vax (GBM - PS) #episky 010
Reposted by ThiagoClare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Come work at Ouroboros University! Where our students submit work produced by AI to be graded by profs using AI. And check out our metrics!! We are highly ranked by AI for all the incredible research papers our profs churn out using AI! H/T @wiringthebrain.bsky.social #IWantNoneOfThis #ResistAI 083
Reposted by ThiagoKristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 25/06/2026New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-... 1520769
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Epi survey. What is your opinion about "hierarchical models" (not a random effects model) - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9126524/? It is the idea of building sequential models from "distal to proximal" variables #episky #rstats 1/npubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govThe role of conceptual frameworks in epidemiological analysis: a hierarchical approach - PubMedConceptual frameworks provide guidance for the use of multivariate techniques and aid the interpretation of their results in the light of social and biological knowledge. 152
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Great article! also the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comWorship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote workLeaders have displayed diverging reactions to remote work, with some supporting it and others resisting it. Surprisingly little research has examined … 042
Reposted by ThiagoMattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 15/06/2026#statsmeme? (Prompted by a conversation with a student who's double majoring in stats-econ and said that stats courses make more sense to him) 23911
Reposted by ThiagoArguably @arguablymag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026“The truth is that ministers have not the faintest clue what to do”. @gsoh31.bsky.social writes on the quiet collapse of Britain’s universities and why so few people seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...arguably.ukThe quiet collapse of British universitiesOne of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away 1117
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 04/06/2026 causal meditation folks. Help! I have a scenario in which Rcde / Rpnde / Rtnde are <1, and Rpnie/Rtnie >1 (way weaker than the direct ones). It's VAX (exp), infection (med), and MACE (outcome). I m struggling to interpret this. #episky #rstats 131
Reposted by ThiagoJustin Mason @jmason.org · 28/05/2026Also this www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/the-cos...friendsoftheearth.ieThe cost of data centre growth in Ireland: Households paid an estimated €715 million more in electricity billsIreland’s current approach to data centres is increasingly a cost-of-living issue 297
Reposted by ThiagoMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Spotted in San Diego. “WE THE STUDENTS DO NOT WANT THIS AI IS MORE HARMFUL THAN HELPFUL” 2471125
Reposted by ThiagoJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Taxing the rich: it's good. #mapoli www.raiseupma.org/news/dor-fai...raiseupma.orgDOR: Fair Share Revenue Up 20% Over First 10 Months of FY26, Already Exceeding $3 Billion — Raise Up MassachusettsTax on Million-Dollar Earners Continues to Exceed Revenue Projections, Proving Fears of Millionaire Flight False BOSTON – The State Department of Revenue yesterday certified that Massachusetts... 222964
Reposted by ThiagoNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about. 5136701193
Reposted by ThiagoOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 21/05/2026I can only suggest to start noticing it as a first step. Time to stop the typical weird and gross habit of the whole world citing very specific USA scholars, when they never even read our work properly let alone cite it, but certainly benefit from it. Honestly, start ignoring these people. 3/ 0221
Reposted by ThiagoNature Medicine @natmed.nature.com · 14/05/2026News & Views: New data reveals that a past #tuberculosis diagnosis increases the risk of death up to 14 years later regardless of treatment outcome, which should prompt urgent prioritization of global prevention efforts.dlvr.itThe ghost of tuberculosis past - Nature MedicineThe analysis of the 100 Million Brazilian database reveals that a past tuberculosis diagnosis increases the risk of death up to 14 years later regardless of treatment outcome, which should prompt urgent prioritization of global prevention efforts. 043
Reposted by ThiagoRoss Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 1553892981
Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Looking at a paper, it appears that the Table 2 fallacy (on steroids) was rediscovered by environmental epidemiology. Contrafactual of multiple variables. Where is @cameronpat.bsky.social preaching the word? #rstats #episky 060