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Sara-Jane McAteer

@sarajanemcateer.bsky.social
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Public Contributor in Health Research - special interest in AI through the lens of EDI Long time awareness raiser of type one diabetes symptoms to reduce DKA at diagnosis (@brightside1974) Own views 🦋

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Sara-Jane McAteer @sarajanemcateer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-ea...
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Dad's petition to stop children like Lyla dying from type 1 diabetes
Lyla from Hull had several symptoms of type 1 diabetes, but was not given a urine test or finger prick and died that night
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Sara-Jane McAteer @sarajanemcateer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Covid inquiry report 😢 youtu.be/Y-lI_tgQMMk
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Jamie Lawson - Wasn't Expecting That [Official Video]
YouTube video by Gingerbread Man Records
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🧵1/ Big changes are coming for the occupational group now termed physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs) in England. Our new @bmj.com piece (@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social & me) unpacks the implications of the Leng Review, commissioned by @wesstreeting. Here are our thoughts. 👇
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Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk · 08/07/2025
📢 Open Letter to UK Govt: we're urging Keir Starmer, Peter Kyle & @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to prioritise critical AI literacy for ALL. It's time everyone had access to learning that supports them to choose how they want to engage with AI. Read here: connectedbydata.org/blog/2025/07... #AILiteracy
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Open Letter to the UK Government - Prioritising AI Literacy for All Citizens
On 9th June the Prime Minister announced a skills drive on AI focussed technical/functional skills for students and workers, with the announcement centred on industry collaborations, and economic impa...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
After a recent court order, OpenAI is now required to retain the very data many of its users believed to be most private. This introduces serious privacy risks, especially for vulnerable users like victims and survivors of domestic violence, Belle Torek writes.
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For Survivors Using Chatbots, ‘Delete’ Doesn’t Always Mean Deleted | TechPolicy.Press
Many survivors may assume that AI platforms and chatbots offer common privacy protections, but these are not guaranteed, Belle Torek writes.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
👀 Who's been using AI to write health policy? MAHA = GIGO 🧪 #healthpolicy via @duncanrobertson.bsky.social
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
On top of everything else, AI is a narc
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/05/2025
For a few hours yesterday, Elon Musk's chatbot responded to questions by randomly mentioning "white genocide" in South Africa. @alibreland.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social investigate the strangest day yet on X.
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The Day Grok Told Everyone about ‘White Genocide’
What in the world just happened with Elon Musk’s chatbot?
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Nature @nature.com · 07/05/2025
A generative AI model has been let loose on an entire nation’s health records for the first time go.nature.com/4jI9Z9M
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Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records
Researchers fed an artificial-intelligence model called Foresight anonymized data from a huge swathe of patients in Britain’s NHS.
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Sara-Jane McAteer @sarajanemcateer.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Only “old ladies” apparently…🙄 At what age does one become one 🤔
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a woman is standing in front of a window with her hands up and says `` oh , my gif '' .
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a window with her hands up and says `` oh , my gif '' .
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It appears that this indeed was the plan.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 07/05/2025
The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rates, but others have expressed concern about the fact it is trained on millions of health records
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Concerns raised over AI trained on 57 million NHS medical records
The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rates, but others have expressed concern about the fact it is trained on millions of health records
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 08/05/2025
Putting air filters in classrooms seems to reduce student sick days by more than 10 per cent.
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Air filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10 per cent
Putting air filters in classrooms seems to boost student attendance, which may be due to them reducing levels of air pollution, pollen, pathogens or all three
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
FWIW, I went out chatting to voters in Runcorn several times. Yes some mentioned immigration, but more spoke about the winter fuel cuts and they were very pissed off about it.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/04/2025
AI-written text is baked into software that millions, if not billions, of people use every day, Victoria Turk writes. How will it influence how we communicate with one another?
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The Great Language Flattening
Chatbots learned from human writing. Now, it’s their turn to influence us.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
And, yes, people who are good at maths puzzles are really talented but gov also needs people who can do scenario planning and strategy and understand how to implement things effectively. You can't just do the maths then hope for the best.
arlier this year Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister's chief of staff, launched an "Al ideas" competition in Whitehall.
His aim was to find the brightest and best from the civil service and beyond to help deliver Keir Starmer's promise to "rewire" the state.
It was reminiscent of Dominic Cummings's efforts to bring fresh thinking to Downing Street
- although McSweeney prefers to talk about
"disrupters and innovators" rather than "misfits and weirdos".
The sifting process was surprisingly easy. Only 10 of the 1,500 officials who took part in the contest passed the maths test. They have been invited to a hackathon in No 10, where they will tackle a range of real government challenges. The successful candidates will join a new cadre of 20
"innovation fellows",
', external tech experts
brought in to join the Downing Street data science team, known as "10 DS".
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New guidance on use of AI scribing tools has now released. - gives a good overview - outlines benefits but there’s no link to evidence base of these benefits!! - no acknowledgment of the downsides & mitigation - lots of expectation on staff but some of this could (should!) be embedded in the tech
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The FBI is arresting judges. We just blew through Constitutional Crisis and into fascism.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
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Is generative Al introducing new stereotypes to different languages and cultures?

That is part of what we're finding. The idea of blondes being stupid is not something that's found all over the world, but is found in a lot of the languages that we looked at.

When you have all of the data in one shared latent space, then semantic concepts can get transferred across languages. You're risking propagating harmful stereotypes that other people hadn't even thought of.
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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The genesis of this scandal was in the aftermath of last big NHS reconfiguration & Public Health England made a decision to axe quality peer review checks on test centres. Concerns by experts were ignored in 2013...a warning from history as the next big change is on the horizon.
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work #AcademicSky #EduSky
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Reminder: according to JRR Tolkien, a Palantir was a tool that, when men became weak and corrupted by power, became an instrument facilitating evil, corruption, the collapse of the West and the rise of an unspeakable dictator.
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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," Mr Marks wrote in a resignation letter, obtained by multiple US media outlets, referring to the agency's new leader Robert F Kennedy Jr.
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
‘I do not represent the big bosses at the top. I represent the people at the bottom, the individual men and women …’ Nye Bevan, House of Commons, 28 April 1944
A man in a suit looks at the camera
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝗽. Elon Musk: “Rigorous adherence to truth is the only way to build safe Al.” Grok: “Musk's pattern-whether it's about immigration, elections, or social issues-shows he'll often signal-boost stuff from shaky sources if it fits his narrative or gets a reaction.”
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Sara-Jane McAteer @sarajanemcateer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
www.linkedin.com/posts/leo-an...
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Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology: Insights From a Multidisciplinary… | Leo Anthony Celi | 10 comments
Knowledge, our understanding of truth, is purely based on experiences and observations; there is no such thing as “ground truth”. How we see things… | 10 comments on LinkedIn
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When we first suggested there was a problem, they called us a “social media rabble”. Now the Royal College of Physicians has come round to our concerns. New statement: www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med... Vote for @drasifqasim.bsky.social for President
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RCP publishes submission to the independent review of the physician associate profession (the Leng review)
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Labour MP condemns his party's 'devastating' benefit cuts Chris Webb, the MP for Blackpool South, has told Sky News the benefit changes are "not what any of us stood on" during the general election news.sky.com/story/new-la...
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Labour MP condemns his party's 'devastating' benefit cuts
Chris Webb, the MP for Blackpool South, has told Sky News the benefit changes are "not what any of us stood on" during the general election - and he warned the measures could make his constituents wor...
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Sara-Jane McAteer @sarajanemcateer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It was great to be involved in this research published today and to be acknowledged in the report 👍 osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/...
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Statistics in Personal Decision-Making
Statistics in Personal Decision-Making
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
💥Sources confirms that PIP reform WILL need a vote in parliament order to change the assessment criteria. Some changes will be very hard for Labour MPs to bear - it will mean only the most severely disabled, who routinely need help with washing and toilet use can claim.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...
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Sara-Jane McAteer @sarajanemcateer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Tim Durrant @timdurrant.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? Why brief no 1 on Monday if you're going to do no 2 on Thursday?
A news story from 10 March saying "NHS England to cut workforce by half as Streeting restructures"Today's BBC live report: "Starmer scraps NHS England to bring health service back under 'democratic control'"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Quite and there are a lot of questions unanswered. Actually scrapping NHSE will require legislation to undo the 2012 reforms. I thought there were merely cutting it so as to avoid that.
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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
BREAKING: Prime minister announces govt will abolish @nhsenglandldn.bsky.social "I have absolutely no intention of wasting time with a big costly reorganisation" - @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social told me in Dec 2023. Clearly the temptation - and perhaps his frustration proved too much
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Rose Penfold @rosespenfold.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Delirium is an underrecognised risk factor for future dementia...sometimes preventable, and perhaps treatable if we prioritise research in this area @amaclullich.bsky.social @proflizsampson.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/health/...
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The overlooked cause of dementia that doctors can prevent
We are advised to cut risk of dementia through exercise and eating healthy – but are never warned to try to avoid an episode of delirium while in hospital, although it is linked with a three-fold high...
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Oh…….. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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NHS England to cut workforce by half as Streeting restructures
The health secretary will shrink NHS England’s workforce to save money and avoid ‘duplication’
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
It never was about "free speech" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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Sara-Jane McAteer @sarajanemcateer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Pinched from the other place 🌻
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The Miraculous Life of Shane DiGiovanna The 27-year-old Ohioan has not let his rare genetic condition prevent him from having a rich life. But Trump’s second administration is creating new risks to his fragile health.
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The Miraculous Life of Shane DiGiovanna
The 27-year-old Ohioan has not let his rare genetic condition prevent him from having a rich life. But Trump’s second administration is creating new risks to his fragile health.
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 07/03/2025
I just had a horrifying realization about Elon's grand plans here. They're going to do a join on a several different data sets with different collection latencies, data quality practices, etc. They're going to act like all the data is perfect, the schema all match, there are no special cases...
It wasn’t immediately clear why DOGE sought the health agency’s database. But Musk’s team has expressed interest in recent days in checking personal tax records against federal benefits, grants and student loans — a measure that could enable it to link together traditionally siloed government systems to search for duplicative or wasteful payments.
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Sara-Jane McAteer @sarajanemcateer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Pinched from the other place 🌻
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
6/11 🗣️ Patient feedback was crucial! Two lay commentators on our review emphasised the importance of patients knowing whether they are being seen by a doctor or an associate, highlighting the need for clear scopes of practice.
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Sara-Jane McAteer @sarajanemcateer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I am happy to have been given the opportunity to provide a public review of this research. bsky.app/profile/tris...
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Dr Hema Chaplin @hemachaplin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
📢Do you or a family member have #KidneyDisease, #HighBloodPressure or #Diabetes? 📒 We would like to hear about what information you have received about your #kidneys - what was good & what could be improved! 🔗https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/phase-1-patient-survey 🙌Thank you!
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 03/03/2025
Blood donor who saved the lives of 2.4 million babies dies
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Blood donor who saved the lives of 2.4 million babies dies
The world's most prolific blood donor, whose plasma saved the lives of more than 2.4 million babies, has died in Australia.
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Wowzers!
Tweet sequence on X.
Geoffrey Hinton: I think Elon Musk should be expelled from the British Royal Society. Not because he peddles conspiracy theories and makes Nazi salutes, but because of the huge damage he is doing to scientific institutions in the US. Now let's see if he really believes in free speech.
Elon Musk: Only craven, insecure fools care about awards and memberships. History is the actual judge, always and forever. 
Your comments above are carelessly ignorant, cruel and false.
That said, what specific actions require correction? I will make mistakes but endeavor to fix them.
Mar 2nd pm
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