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Eike Petersen

@epet.bsky.social
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Medical AI / AI ethics. DE, previously DK. Father of twins, a dog, and a cat.

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NEJM AI @ai.nejm.org · 22/01/2026
Perspective by Eike Petersen, PhD, and Frank Ursin, PhD (@frank_ursin): Against Disease Classification: Toward Continuous Disease Assessment in Precision Medicine nejm.ai/4aL3npB @epet.bsky.social @frankursin.bsky.social #AI #MedSky
Figure 1. Disease Classification AI versus Continuous Disease Assessment AI.
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NEJM AI @ai.nejm.org · 15/01/2026
A new Perspective challenges the widespread use of disease classification in medical #AI, arguing that reducing continuous disease complexity to discrete classes fundamentally misrepresents pathophysiology and limits precision medicine. nejm.ai/4aL3npB @epet.bsky.social @frankursin.bsky.social
“AI development must move beyond reliance on easily available target labels and instead focus on identifying clinically useful information....” 

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“Against Disease Classification: Toward Continuous Disease Assessment in Precision Medicine” by Eike Petersen, Ph.D., and Frank Ursin, Ph.D.
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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🚨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-...
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Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging
MICCAI 2025 Workshop
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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚀 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! 🌟
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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...
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Decapitation Strike (December)
Preserving America from Trump's Appointments (updated)
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 18/01/2025
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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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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. 🧵
Milton MAYER’s book: They thought they were free.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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
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Monthly Skype a Scientist Support Squad
Help us increase our monthly donations by $1000/month
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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
If I were looking for a job right now, this would be *very* high on the list
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Oliver Marsh does tech policy @olivermmarsh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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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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...
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AlgorithmWatch @algorithmwatch.org · 11/12/2024
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.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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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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.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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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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.
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Steffi Lemke @steffi-lemke.de · 04/12/2024
Reperaturcafes können jetzt Förderung beantragen. Sie leisten einen ganz wichtigen Beitrag für Verbraucherschutz und Umweltschutz zugleich.
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DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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. 🧵
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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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.”
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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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.
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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
✅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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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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. 🧵
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Melanie Ganz @melanieganzben1.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
🌟 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!
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Reto Knutti @retoknutti.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Über das ganze letzte Jahr war jeder einzelne Tag ein Rekordtag in der globalen Ozean-Oberflächentemperatur. www.bbc.com/news/science...
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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.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 08/05/2024
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/...
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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
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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
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
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
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Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
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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
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Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia
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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
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Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds
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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
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Climate Psychology Alliance of North America @climatena.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
“Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and fertility itself.” newrepublic.com/article/1811...
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The Climate Crisis Is Already Transforming the Family
Environmental and existential threats have changed parenting and fertility itself.
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Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Call for papers for a conference on AI and climate I organise! philtech.univie.ac.at/ai-and-the-p...
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AI and the Planet in Crisis Conference
AI and the Planet in Crisis Conference
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Özden Terli @terliwetter.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Sagt einfach nicht, es hätte Euch keiner gesagt. Es wird krasser. Es ist Physik. t.co/GN3UW6kx3A
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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
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PropofolPrinzessin @propofolium.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Werde ich wählen. Es ist Zeit.
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Jonas Schaible @beimwort.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Ich wollte mir das nochmal ansehen. Habe in unserem Archiv nach Texten in Spiegel, Zeit & Z. Online, SZ, FAZ, Taz, Welt & W. Online und Bild mit "Migration" gesucht, die Daten (nicht immer exakt auf den Tag möglich) bestmöglich in die gleichen Zeiträume überführt, normalisiert und... this happened:
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
The new Ground Truths is on a very concerning prospective study out today 2 big firsts: —Micro/nano plastics found in majority (58%) of patient carotid artery atherosclerotic plaques —Their presence carried a 4.5-fold increased risk of major adverse outcomes erictopol.substack.com/p/theres-pla...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/02/2024
As a climate reporter I'm constantly asked what gives me hope and my honest opinion is nothing. I don't operate off of hope. I operate based on what's morally correct.
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Scientist Rebellion @scientistrebellion.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
In two hours! Register now
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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Anpassung an den Klimawandel ist aus einer ganzen Reihe von Gründen sehr viel schwieriger als Klimaschutz. Eines der größten Probleme: verschiedene Effekte können sich gegenseitig aufschaukeln. Eine solche "Polykrise" wäre sehr viel schwerer zu bewältigen als einzelne Katastrophen für sich genommen.
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Artensterben, Ökosysteme, Klima: Eine Krise kommt selten allein
Klima, Ökosysteme, Wasser: Zukünftige Krisen könnten sich gegenseitig verstärken
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Sebastian Seiffert @sci-ffert.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Kinder zu haben, verlangt klare Haltungen zu finden: Wer ist dein Liebling bei Paw Patrol? Was ist deine dritt(!)liebste Farbe? Und was kannst du tun, um eine für deine Kinder monströse Zukunft abzuwenden? Ja, auch ich würde mich dem gerne entziehen. Es verdrängen. Doch Passivität ist nicht neutral.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Bemerkenswert: Deutsche Wirtschaft fordert "parteiübergreifenden Schulterschluss der demokratischen Parteien" zum klimaneutralen Umbau der Wirtschaft ("Transformation"). Dafür ist eine Lockerung der Schuldenbremse notwendig. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...
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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Seeking scientist volunteers! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic✨ about your research? I need collaborators for this spring's cohort of SciComm & Comics art students! Please share widely. bit.ly/sciencecomicscollab
Flyer advertising a need for scientists volunteers. "Call for scientists! Want to collaborate with an art student on a comic about your research? Learn more and sign up by Feb 1st." Simple cartoon heads are wearing hats that are designed to look like items symbolic of different scientific disciplines: an aromatic ring, a crystal, an ammonite, and a paramecium. Link: bit.ly/sciencecomicscollab
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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
📣It's time to sign up for Skype a Scientist 2024 We match scientists w/classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & more for conversations about science! We have a growing list of scientist volunteers. We'll match you for FREE virtual Q&As! Sign up here: skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a brief how-to image that says "Talk to your scientist!
Pick a category of science your group would like to talk about (e.g. marine biology, chemistry, astronomy)
Get a match via email
Discuss your class's needs with your scientist, and pick a time to chat". It's light blue and dark blue and has a little test tube, DNA strand, and microscope and our logo
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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Thinking about picking up a print newspaper or magazine subscription again. 😱 What are the best weekly/monthly/quarterly outlets with slow, deep, thoughtful long-form #journalism? (I'm in the EU - doesn't have to be euro-centric but should not be all US politics either.)
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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
Are there any scientific fields / societies / (big) conferences that take their responsibility in the unfolding climate disaster seriously, as in: demonstrating willingness and (urgent) intent to change how e.g. conferences are run? (Think flying around the world multiple times a year.) #AcademicSky
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/01/2024
Cheap renewables are necessary, but insufficient: you still need policies to reduce demand, incentivise clean energy and regulate / phase out fossil fuels In short: the free market sucks, even when the conditions look 'right' for transition. Government intervention is required - and a lot of it
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