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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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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 · 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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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Well then please post it here if you do end up finding a better tool! 😄

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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

You did use the pro version? The difference in usefulness vs the free version was huge for me. (Writefull I also didn't like.)

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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It sounds a bit like you're looking for something like grammarly or writefull? As in, an actual editing software instead of a general purpose genAI thing? At least a while back, I found grammarly (pro) really helpful in sharpening my (academic) writing.

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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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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

That will exclude a very large number of actors from "the future", no?

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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 · 28/11/2024

Their data and statistical analyses are made publicly available by the way; this should make for great applied #aiethics / #aifairness teaching material!

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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

So we're now giving bright young people the best education we can offer (on public money), so that they can go out into the world and become professional AI trainers. Nice. #aiethics

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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

(In case anyone actually *wants* to read academese instead: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...)

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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If you missed the previous installments in this series, go read those as well; they are all excellent (and frightening, since this kind of approach is becoming more and more widespread): www.lighthousereports.com/series/suspi...

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SUSPICION MACHINES Archives - Lighthouse Reports

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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

(Also, yet another 'excellent' example of how *not* to build a welfare distribution algorithm [if at all]. As if we needed another one of those. Sigh.)

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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Next, I am expecting fiery debates with other scholars pointing out that their definition of fairness is incompatible with ours. 🔥

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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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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Interesting. Since this has been around for a while, has it gained any traction among AI / ML folks so far?

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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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Eike Petersen @epet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I for one appreciate that you didn't do the YouTube video because I would never have watched that and thus would have missed out on this excellent thread! 😄

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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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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

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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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