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Martin Kaiser

@mymkaiser.bsky.social
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Haemato-oncologist and myeloma researcher; genetics, imaging and more for patient-centric care. Vice-chair UK NCRI Myeloma Trials. EHA European Affairs. Interested in access and HTA. Academic nomad.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/09/2026
As Alex notes in this thread, AI doesn't "democratize" science. Rather, it compels scientists to rely on anti-egalitarian means of directing their attention.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Seems bad when the people in charge of overseeing our nukes say shit like this.
Brandon Williams, Under Secretary of Nuclear Security @ENERGY and @NNSAnews Administrator:

The era of primarily emphasizing Stockpile
Stewardship is over.
Going forward we will be defined primarily as an organization focused on weapons production.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Currently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, #Dutch cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.” — @modacitylife.bsky.social in book #CurbingTraffic
Teens riding bikes on Copenhagen bike infrastructure. #LetKidsBike #LetKidsWalk
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026
Dave Eggers, on NPR's Wildcard with Rachel Martin: www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...
"This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them to express themselves. But I say like you are one of one unprecedented in the history of human evolution. There's only one of you. …There's never been you in Ever, and there never will be another one of you. So to give your voice to a machine, to say 'speak for me, I'm going to be silent and I'm going to tell a machine to express myself or to tell my narrative,' is such a crime against yourself.

"It's so dystopian, beyond anything I could do in a dystopian novel— and I did a lot; I never saw this coming— would be an entire generation tempted and too many of them acquiescing to the the silencing of their own voice in favor of a bland unthinking machine to voice their souls.

"But if you can tell them, 'even your roughest drafts, even your most disjointed seeming thoughts are going to be valid; and your voice is essential; the human chorus is incomplete without your voice; and I'm going to listen to whatever you say, even the rough drafts, whatever; I want those; I want to see it all," then we can make sure that that they're heard and that they feel like there are humans out there that want to hear that voice and not the machine processed voice.

"…Good lord, we're at a really scary time, you know, but every adult has to be that person. Every teacher, every parent has to be the one saying, 'Do not do this.' Your voice is the only thing that you have naturally. It's the one thing that nobody can replace. So let's hear your truth. Even if it's raw, even if it's unpolished, even if it doesn't come in the five paragraph essay or whatever. Like, let's let's have it straight from you."
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
the fundamental misunderstanding of how AI works is so infuriating there are never going to be small in-house LLMs. Anyone who tries needs to buy massive data sets of stolen shit from dubiously legal vendors to make it work even passably. AI is getting worse bc they're being stopped from scraping
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"McDonald’s, Wendy’s, White Castle, and Taco Bell have also tested or used AI in drive-thru ordering in recent years. Taco Bell quickly decided to retreat from the strategy after it found the public really liked messing with the AI by doing things like asking for '18,000 cups of water, please.'"
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.” www.404media.co/software-dev...
404media.co
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Every day I wake up confused by how we managed to let AI slop destroy everything this quickly and I know the answer is because it‘s just an extension of so many other ills but it‘s a cancer fed by ignorance
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
'“The hallucinations were a disaster. I lost so many hours of work,” said an entrepreneur from Germany. “When I notice AI errors it’s because I’m well versed in the topic . . . but I wouldn’t know if the topic was alien to me, would I?” said a military worker in Mexico.' www.ft.com/content/e074...
ft.com
AI hallucinations haunt users more than job losses
Anthropic’s survey of 80,000 Claude users provides detailed snapshot of how people are using technology
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.
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Martin Kaiser @mymkaiser.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Very few things seem to lead to public disquiet at the moment. One wonders whether the below may. Panem et circensis.
A screenshot of a tech magazine describing PS6 delays because of memory shortagesA screenshot of a tech magazine describing hard drive shortages for 2026, 2027, 2028
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
'Empirical data and the theories that make sense of them are the twin pillars of scientific progress. When one pillar is raised much higher than the other, they cease to be good pillars.' www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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On the balance of knowledge - Nature Reviews Immunology
Ruslan Medzhitov shares his thoughts on the balance between generating data and developing theories in immunology, with a focus on exploring the rules that govern complex systems.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Provocative! Not all scientists will want to hear this. I agree with many points. In parallel to emphasis on better communication, I hope we’ll begin conversations about maintaining integrity. asteriskmag.com/issues/13/th...
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The Fight For Slow And Boring Research—Asterisk
As federal research funding shrinks, scientists are looking to other sources of support. Can they learn to sell their work without selling out?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It’s a matter of time before Tesla automatically generates non-consensual images of people in revealing clothing as you drive past them.
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X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t
It’s still easy to get Grok to edit photographs of real people into sexualized poses, despite X’s updated restrictions.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I know the proliferation of references to non-existent papers, powered by genAI, is getting less surprising and shocking but it doesn't make it any less potentially corrosive to the scholarly knowledge environment.
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Martin Kaiser @mymkaiser.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Are 'unexpected' early relapses really unexpected in #myeloma ? Or a sign for need for wider implementation of and access to already diagnostic tests? Challenging the concept of functional high-risk myeloma through transcriptional and genetic profiling url: ashpublications.org/blood/articl...
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Challenging the concept of functional high-risk myeloma through transcriptional and genetic profiling
Key PointsTrue functional high-risk MM is very uncommon when comprehensive clinical and molecular profiling is applied.High-risk GEP with standard-risk gen
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/11/2025
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/11/2025
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
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Martin Kaiser @mymkaiser.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Real-world data is a hot topic with medical regulators and payers in oncology. Here is our analysis comparing a change in induction regimens in multiple myeloma in a public healthcare system, using real-world MRD measurement. www.clinical-lymphoma-myeloma-leukemia.com/article/S215...
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Evaluating the real-world value of daratumumab addition to multiple myeloma induction therapy by real-world minimal residual disease assessment and extended genetic profiling
Daratumumab, bortezomib, thalidomide, and dexamethasone (Dara-VTd) is the current standard of care in Europe based on the CASSIOPEIA study, which demonstrated improved depth of response and progressio...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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Martin Kaiser @mymkaiser.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Very nice reflection on risk and personalisation of medicine in context of regulation www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Sir David Spiegelhalter: Regulation in an age of personalised medicine
The internationally renowned expert in the calculation and communication of risk and statistics, Sir David Spiegelhalter, discusses the concept of a ‘preference zone’ to frame the demands of safety, e...
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 04/10/2025
Doesn’t sound ideal. "We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says. www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says
The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"Researchers recruited to work in the UK have to fund a £1,035 annual immigration health surcharge, which must be paid in full in advance, as well as up to £1,519 in visa fees. For a family of four, the upfront costs can total almost £30,000."
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Houlston Lab, ICR @houlstonlab-icr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🧬 Some promising novel candidates for therapeutic inhibition included: • BAFF-R and CD39 in HL • CD25 in MM • CD27 in CLL • CD80/86 in DLBCL • CCR2 in FL and MZL
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Houlston Lab, ICR @houlstonlab-icr.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We are excited to announce our latest publication in #BloodCancerJournal of our Two-Sample MR analysis to investigate causal relationships between 446 immune cell traits and 6 B-cell malignancies 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #cancer #genetics #Bcell #bloodcancer #drugdiscovery #MR
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Mendelian randomization of immune cell phenotypes to discover potential drug targets for B-cell malignancy - Blood Cancer Journal
Blood Cancer Journal - Mendelian randomization of immune cell phenotypes to discover potential drug targets for B-cell malignancy
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Funny how this hypothetical talk of "optimizing" never considers traits like kindness, decency, generosity of spirit... It's always "what does my baby need to get ahead?"
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Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere @trfetzer.com · 25/03/2025
Great comment by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com -- I shared some reflection at the start of the year. To me a revaluation of social status is necessary and potentially a reconfiguration of social organisation away from occupational silos. www.trfetzer.com/generational...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Peto's Paradox—that cancer does not increase with body size of mammals—was wrong. A new, comprehensive study of 263 species documents higher cancer prevalence with increasing body mass. Some large animals (e.g. elephants) have some built-in genetic adaptations www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org
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No evidence for Peto’s paradox in terrestrial vertebrates | PNAS
Larger, longer-lived species are expected to have a higher cancer prevalence compared to smaller, shorter-lived species owing to the greater number...
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Martin Kaiser @mymkaiser.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
A pleasure to do this British Society of Haematology podcast on advanced imaging in myeloma for earlier diagnosis and morbidity prevention with Dr Ceri Bygrave. open.spotify.com/episode/1JAq...
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Advanced imaging for earlier diagnosis and morbidity prevention in multiple myeloma: A British Society of Haematology and UK Myeloma Society Good Practice Paper
The BSH Guidelines Official Podcast · Episode
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The inverse correlation between articles bemoaning the existential plight of the German economy, and its stock market, is a wonder to behold
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Martin Kaiser @mymkaiser.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Amazing historical quote in the Economist: 'In part owing to the East German government’s industrial policy in the 1980s, ..., the region (Saxony) has become Europe’s largest maker of microelectronics' Fantastic DLF podcast on similar topic ('Neuland') www.economist.com/finance-and-...
economist.com
Can Germany’s economy stage an unexpected recovery?
The situation is dire, but there are glimmers of hope
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
China wants in on the pedestrian and cyclist crushing game too.
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Why this China-made BYD Shark pickup is drawing attention in the global truck market
BYD has not announced plans to sell the Shark in the U.S., but it has entered countries such as Mexico, where GM, Ford and Toyota sell pickup trucks.
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
If there's something we don't understand I assume transposons are responsible unless proven otherwise
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Nah, it was dumb as balls. Congress relabeled French fries "freedom fries" because they were mad at France for not joining the war. The justification for attacking Iraq was that they had aluminum tubes. The war had a slogan and the slogan was "Let's Roll!"
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
So many replies like this
An article from The Onion featuring a humorous headline about an SUV shopper's preference for safety in accidents: “Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident”. The image shows a smiling woman driving an SUV.
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Myeloma Society @myeloma-society.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
This session should be considered required viewing for anyone who takes care of myeloma patients -- Audience Member reacts to High Risk Disease session #IMS24
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Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Friendly reminder
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