iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.

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Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival

Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books

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Stefan Marciniak @profmarciniak.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Happy 78th Birthday to the NHS 🥳 Nye Bevan’s vision of universal healthcare became reality on 5 July 1948 "Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community"

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Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

37 degrees in London for three days is it? YIKES. Time to review the Shade the UK list of ideas again to see if there’s anything further I can do on the flat. (Main thing is getting at least a temporary canopy up over the sunny patio, I suspect) So many ideas: www.shadetheuk.com/overheating-...

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Overheating Adaptation Guide for Homes — Shade the UK

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Something really joyful about having someone really well informed explain a thing you'd never have guessed was so interesting...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026

Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Listening to Radio 4 this morning horrified by way they are normalising far right talking points in Belfast. Such a relief to hear @naomilong.bsky.social speaking to the truth that this is unjustifiable racist violence. I wish England had such smart, clear, courageous leaders at the moment.

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Because phones are omnipresent when kids are struggling they’re often struggling through their phones. This makes the phone feel like the source, even though it’s often just the medium through which existing problems travel. medium.com/@nbrody_5108...

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OMG Someone Just Asked Me About The Anxious Generation Again

Let me describe a surprisingly semi-regular occurrence for scholars who study communication and technology. You’re at school pickup or…

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Glad to see the BMA giving a clear message about how unworkable the new EHRC code of practice will be for health services and its likely impact on trans people's ability to access safe and dignified care www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

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STATEMENT: EHRC code of practice for services, public functions and associations

We are concerned about the impact this exclusionary guidance will have on trans and gender diverse people

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is a vg paper, worth reading if your job involves digitising services. It doesn't mention it specifically but it crystallised a useful metaphor for me: digitised services turn personal relationships into data entry, which has the result of making us more lonely

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

NHS data should be driving innovation & improvement – it’s an amazing resource We just published the sequel to our 2021 "Road to Hell" paper on using NHS data for research... things are worse! Buckle up for a long 🧵about *how COMPLETELY mad* system is for accessing NHS data for research 1/20

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is a great read: really interesting connections between the things Joshi learnt and the wisdom needed to engage effectively with health disinformation more widely.

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is a really interesting read from a UK perspective. Good to be reminded that these issues are international, and push back on suggestions that a privatised model is any kind of solution. It lays out how the financial pressures in the US system drive up long bed waits.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

“A city with all the right enemies” - delightful column this:

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The return of Londonophobia

Reflections on an ancient prejudice

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 18/04/2026

I hesitate to say it, but Janan is right. London rocks, in part because it pisses off all the right assholes The return of Londonophobia - as.ft.com/r/53682c03-1...

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The return of Londonophobia

Reflections on an ancient prejudice

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This is such a joyful read. Simultaneously nostalgic and inspiring.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

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Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?

No. No it can't. Come on, now.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

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How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Love this advent calendar thread, now made perfect by including the definitive Scrooge on Christmas Eve. Annual rewatch in our house was last night.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Does global rise in diagnosed #neurodivergence reflect an increased awareness or does it indicate something else? The 62nd Maudsley Debate, chaired by IoPPN’s Francesca Happé, aims to tackle that question. #MaudsleyDebates

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Delighted that @maudsleynhs.bsky.social's Clinical Informatics Service has been shortlisted for @rcpsych.bsky.social Digital Team of the Year. More about our team, supported by @maudsleycharity.bsky.social here www.maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/c...

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Clinical Informatics Service

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The responses to this are just what I needed on a Monday morning. Some things are getting better!

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 12/08/2025

City Hall has triggered a high air pollution alert for Tuesday 12 August as hot weather is expected to increase pollutant levels. We're urging Londoners to look after themselves, stop their engines idling, and refrain from burning wood or garden waste.

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I re-read this every year and am always glad I did.

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I learned a great deal from this (very long) thread, definitely worth a read to try and understand what the new pope might mean (inc that this US pope won't/shouldn't please JD Vance and his ilk)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Woooooooo ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Someone’s done it - archived the entire datasets of the US CDC before the orange toddler could destroy them. #episky #medsky #academicsky

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Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

As someone who’s worked with, on, about NHS data, I can’t emphasise enough that it is far far from a carefully curated, nationally complete and ready to use data set. I keep reading otherwise sensible sounding pieces that comment on the uh-mazing data we can straightforwardly exploit.

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Dana M. Lewis @danamlewis.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

AI can make errors when integrated into healthcare systems. ...but so do humans. We don't have good processes to correct these errors for humans or AIs. Some thoughts based on three different clinical encounters as a patient, where my clinician(s) used AI - or not. bit.ly/42bkqwG

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A Tale of Three Artificial Intelligence (AI) Experiences in Healthcare Interactions

AI tools are being increasingly used in healthcare, particularly for tasks like clinical notetaking during virtual visits. As a patient, I’ve had three recent experiences with AI-powered notetaking to...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Seems like it is a day to reissue the @britishacademy.bsky.social report from 2012 on the efficacy of league tables in the public sector and especially to flag this point: often the level of statistical uncertainty involved renders them meaningless www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...

The second issue is that the uncertainty surrounding any given ranking is very large, and in many important cases so large that no statistically meaningful comparisons can be made, nor can useful user choices be sustained.

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Still growing thread full of advice worth think about... so much that I'm going to have to read it in stages.

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Kate Polling @katepolling.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Really useful article on how to think about making clinican interactions with AI useful and avoid turning clinicians into 'liability sinks'. Look forward to seeing more coming out of this project.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

A quick thread on schools and phones. I'm quite in favour of older kids having phones and managing their own social relationships/travel/finances and learning about how to be good digital citizen. Seems sensible and useful preparation for more independence and autonomy.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

It is my conviction that people who understand, at a fundamental level, what computers can and cannot do, are less susceptible to AI hype.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

This is a great piece of writing, and shocking because - if this is our big debate, our big issue, that people are just asking “questions” about - we should be hearing this argument all the time, from the other side, as a mainstream take. That’s who was crowding the streets. Speak for those people.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Late #DigitalFriday entry (hey i was trapped in a train with the heating stuck on 🥵) - reminder that if you want functional, AI free google searches, you can have them at udm14.com

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&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

If you know of verified fundraisers for amenities, community centres and businesses destroyed by fascist twats in the last few days, please drop them here for a boost. 👇👇👇

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

FUPS data came up today. It means imperfect data but little chance of getting anything better. F = flawed U = uncertain P = proximal (proxy) S = sparse We need to learn to act with FUPS data. Paper here on how: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Using flawed, uncertain, proximate and sparse (FUPS) data in the context of complexity: learning fro...

The use of routinely collected data that are flawed and limited to inform service development in healthcare systems needs to be considered, both theoretically and practically, given the reality in man...

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